Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Lest we ever think that simply opposing Hamas grants one the moral high ground:

"Around 1:30 a.m., the Israeli police, border police and military forces evacuated an illegally built home near Hebron that housed Noam Federman, a well-known activist of the far right in the area, and his family.

In the ensuing violence one police officer was believed to have broken a leg and was taken to the hospital, two teenage girls tried to burn police vehicles, a dozen Palestinian vehicles were vandalized, and a Muslim cemetery in the area was spattered with paint, a police spokesman said."

In the United States, vandalizing a religious or ethnic cemetery like this would count as a hate crime. And no, this action can't be re-described as an assertion of sovereignty by the radical settlers. It is intimidation, vandalism of the worst kind - indelibly a hate crime.

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