Saturday, July 06, 2013

Zionism is always racism

" "The vandalism two weeks ago in Abu Ghosh is part of a growing phenomenon in Israel and the West Bank called "price tag" attacks. Initially, these acts of vandalism — spray-painting mosques, desecrating cemeteries, burning Korans, chopping down olive trees — were part of a campaign, assumed to be waged by Jewish extremists, to extract retribution for actions against Jewish settlements in the West Bank." "Israeli society is grappling with what to call the assaults. Are they "terrorism" or "hooliganism"? Or, as they are labeled now, "a criminal incident with nationalistic motives"?" "In a poll released this week by Israel's Channel 10 News, almost 60 percent of those surveyed agreed that the government "didn't really want to catch" price-tag attackers."