Settler council: Peace talks with Palestinians perpetuate terror

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The Yesha Council of Settlements on Friday said that Israeli cooperation in the efforts to create a Palestinian state were to blame for the attempted terrorist attack on the West Bank settlement of Beit Haggai earlier in the day.

A knife-wielding Palestinian infiltrated Beit Haggai Friday morning, and was shot dead by local security guards, preventing his apparent plan to carry out a terror attack, according to the Israel Defense Forces. One Israeli civilian was lightly wounded in the incident.

"The pressure being applied on Israel to help establish a state for these terrorist organizations only encourages the terrorists," Yesha Council leaders said in a statement on Friday.

"Immorally, and outrageously, comparing the threat of a nuclear Iran to the pioneering settlement operations in Judea and Samaria affirms the criminal actions of the terrorist organizations," said Yesha Council spokesman Yishay Hollander.


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1079062.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. They would say it, wouldn't they? They're a big threat to peace themselves.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

2. Boy is there going to be a huge showdown in Israel someday...

Some call it "civil war."

[bemildred]

3. Well, I find it instructive and amusing to read what they have to say now and then.

I was trying to imagine some Palestinian "youth" thinking to himself: "Aha, the US is pressuring Israel to take their boot off my neck, this is the time to go get killed in a knife attack on a heavily armed settlement to show I'm being encouraged."

[Howardx]

4. it seems unlikely doesnt it?

we'll never know.

[bemildred]

5. It's a mystery.

You have to intuitively grasp these things, reason just won't do the job.