State-Enabled Terrorism

The ghastly attacks on mosques on the West Bank and most recently in Israel proper as well are horrifying enough. But that they are sometimes conducted with the tacit acquiescence of the Israeli police and military makes them something more disturbing. The attack on Palestinians and Israeli peace activists by settlers in Anatot recently was particularly unnerving. We've run the video before, but it's worth refreshing your memory:

One of the terrorists has been identified as a local police investigator. A complaint has been filed. Here is Bob Wright's interview with one of the peace activists attacked that night:

Here he explains how hard it is to get any police response to fundamentalist violence out of control. And the violent settler "price-tag" movement is gaining strength in Israel proper now as well.