Thursday, January 09, 2014

This is a gruesome war crime: the New York Times is outraged in this headline: "Palestinians Corner Jewish Settlers During Clash in West Bank"

Cornering Israelis is far worse than killing Palestinians, according to the standards of Western media.  So this is the headline:  "Palestinians Corner Jewish Settlers During Clash in West Bank".  And now some important details:  "But Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said they had come to uproot olive trees and clashed with Palestinians who confronted them in the fields among the villages of Qaryut, Jalud and Qusra....Hours later, the details of the confrontation remained sketchy. The Israeli military said the episode began when Israeli security forces removed an illegal structure in Esh Kodesh, an unauthorized Israeli settlement outpost in the northern West Bank.  That suggested that some settlers might then have set their sights on Palestinian property for retaliation, in line with the so-called price tag campaigns often carried out by extremist settlers.  A military spokeswoman said there was “mutual rock-throwing” between settlers and Palestinians in the fields, during which a number of the settlers were hurt. "  Notice "mutual rock-throwing" only hurt the settlers.  Palestinians don't get hurt from rocks.