Terrorist acts against Palestinian civilians committed by Israeli colonists clearly point to “a religious war”
By As’ad Abdul Rahman, Special to Gulf NEWS
Under the watchful eyes of the Israeli military occupation, colonists in Palestine are conducting their criminal acts against Palestinian civilians with absolute impunity. The so-called “price taggers”, who usually leave their racist graffiti on the walls of burned mosques and vandalised Palestinian properties and farms, are exacting a price from Palestinian civilians “for staying put in the ‘land of Eretz’ or Israel.”
These make the most notorious Israeli gangs in Palestine. In fact, the “price taggers” are conducting their terrorist activities not only in Palestine — occupied in 1967 — but also against the Palestinians of 1948 who hold Israeli citizenship. Uprooting olive trees, destroying cars, preventing Palestinian farmers from reaching their farms and orchards and burning Islamic houses of worship have become routine sufferings in the lives of Palestinians of 1948 and the Palestinians of 1967.
Such terrorist acts against Palestinian civilians committed by Israeli colonists, educated and brainwashed in Jewish schools, clearly point to “a religious war” being conducted against Palestinian Muslims and Christians in the territories of historical Palestine under the auspices of the Israeli government who has turned a blind eye by completely ignoring these racist and criminal attacks aimed at forcing Palestinians to leave their homeland. However, these activities have led to an uproar in Israel with unprecedented criticism in the media, pointing to the government’s connivance with the colonists’ actions and calling for their indictment in Israeli courts of law.
Under the title ‘The Danger of A State within A State’, Israeli journalist Shai Golden, wrote in Haaretz that “the reasons behind the heinous activities of the [Jewish] fundamentalists in Israel, especially the [colonists], are the weakening of the institutions of the State that are responsible for enforcing the rule of law and are failing in their duty which would ultimately lead to the deterioration of the very legal structure of the State”. He asked the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, whether he would “strike with an iron hand against the criminal activities of the Israeli [colonist] gangs or whether he would only condemn these activities with words without enforcing accountability?”