This Haaretz editorial is necessarily direct towards the seeming unwillingness of the Jewish state to control its radical Jewish fringe:
The time has come to cease the vague characterizations and call a spade a spade. We are not dealing with “marginal groups,” “extremists who have gone out of control,” and other attempts at verbal acrobatics that are designed to paper over a harsh reality. For a long time now, settlers in Hebron and other areas of Judea and Samaria (and East Jerusalem) have engaged in unruly behavior whose only goal is to violently threaten the Palestinians while undermining Israel’s sovereignty. By any official standard recognized worldwide, this is terrorism that sows fear and disrupts the proper management of a state.
Compare this with the hysteria on conservative blogsites that tut tut over the alleged relativism of leftist commentators. Its sickening but they sheet over editorials such as this. Pathetic.
The settlers are an arm of the israeli state. indistinguishable.
How can one expect the head to cut off its limbs.
and what is this judea and samaria bullshit?
why does Haaretz kowtow to officialdom.
The acceptance of the oppressor’s language means that the war against the oppressor is half lost already.