JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that he was flabbergasted by a homemade video posted on the Internet that shows a Jewish settler in the West Bank town of Hebron repeatedly insulting a Palestinian woman as a soldier stands calmly by.
"I saw the tape and I was ashamed... such arrogance and brutality cannot be tolerated," Olmert said in a statement.
The video which runs several minutes and was posted on the Ynet news site, shows a young female settler yelling at a Palestinian woman and repeatedly calling her "sharmuta" (whore) while an Israeli soldier looks on.
"A situation in which a young Jewish woman uses such language toward a Palestinian is quite simply shameful. I felt awful that a soldier was present and did not intervene," Olmert said.
The Israeli woman in the video "is a public disgrace" to Israeli settlers and "I expect them to clearly disassociate themselves from her actions," he added.
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