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Israeli West Bank settlers have been claiming a price tag -- tag machir, in Hebrew -- for the Israeli government actions against what they consider their holy right to be lords of the land. And the victims are usually Palestinians.
Usually, this price tag takes the form of burning or cutting down olive trees or throwing stones at Palestinian-owned cars.
But this weekend they raised the bar, setting fire to a mosque and korans in the village of Kafr Yassouf. They also daubed racist graffiti on the building.
Remind you of any one from about, oh, 70 years ago in Europe?
The Israeli government has to catch the perpetrators swiftly--although I notice that the murderer from the Tel Aviv gay club is still wandering free, and settler terrorist Yaakov Teitel also roamed free for many years, so I don't have much hope.
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