"Price Tag" attacks.

Religious extremists in Israel are accused of striking again, this time burning a West Bank mosque.  What's that saying, "an eye for an eye leaves plenty blinded." *

Good thing we Americans can still see clearly, eh?

"At one o'clock we heard screaming from the people of the village and realized the mosque was on fire. More than 300 people awoke and we managed to put it out," said Abdul Karim Sharaf, mayor of Jaba village, where the attack occurred.

"After that we saw the writing, racist writing," he said. "This is great injustice clear to the world."

An Israeli police spokesman said investigators were "looking into the possibility that it was a 'Price Tag' attack" - referring to retribution settlers say they will exact for any attempt by the Israeli government to curb Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack, calling the assailants "intolerant and irresponsible lawbreakers" and said they would be brought to justice.

But the spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas criticized the Israeli government's record in prosecuting "Price Tag" attackers, who have set fires in mosques in the past and damaged Israeli military installations in the West Bank.

"Condemnation is not enough. He must stop this aggression against our places of worship and people by holding those who perpetrate these acts accountable," Nabil Abu Rdaineh said.
According to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, the vandalizing of the mosque in Jaba was the 10th time since 2009 that settlers scrawled hostile graffiti or attempted arson on places of worship in the West Bank.

Though Israeli authorities made arrests in a few of the cases, there have been no prosecutions for the crimes.

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Scrawled in Hebrew were the words "Ulpana War", referring to a neighborhood in a West Bank settlement where Israel's government is to dismantle five apartment houses deemed illegal under Israeli law because they were built on privately-owned Palestinian land.

Palestinians and the World Court consider all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank illegal. Israel, which captured the territory in a 1967 war and cites Biblical and historical links to the area, disputes this.

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* It's akin to that "No Justice. No Peace" chant that periodically goes up, no?

Say, do they grow apples in Israel, and understand how one bad apple can cause the spoil of so many others in the box?  You got to sort properly, or else you end up losing the whole batch.