Another charming act of violence by Israel’s crazed, illegal settlers.

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The fanaticism and atavism of Israel’s illegal Hebron settlers knows no bounds. Although the presence of all Israeli settlers is illegal, unjust and inherently violent, most settlers can be termed as “economic settlers.” They live in, says Ma’la Adimin not out of religious zealotry, but, rather, due to the subsidized housing made available by their government to encourage “facts on the ground.” Thus most settlers never come in contact with Palestinians. They live in secluded hilltops and in a reflection of the apartheid matrix that exists the settlers drive on Jewish-only roads. These settlers do not attack Palestinians due not only to being removed from them in isolated settlements, but most would not even care to if they could because although they may [and most probably do] hate Palestinians, it takes an incredibly vulgar kind of person to go around attack people.

But the illegal settlers in Hebron are a different bread. Hebron is a small settlement of 400 mostly Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Jews [by contrast, the hilltop settlement of Ariel is home to 25,000]. Hebron settlers live on the land, which they term Judea and Samaria, out of religious conviction. This conviction is based on the supremacist and racist belief that the Jews are God’s “Chosen People” and that God is in the realty business and gave the land to the Jews. They refuse to share the land with the Palestinians not only in rejecting Palestinian statehood, but rejecting just the presence of any Arabs on the West Bank. The small community of 400 led by Kahanesque Rabbis has been terrorizing 140,000 Palestinians for years. How is a community so small able to attack with impunity over a 100,000 people? Because the 400 occupiers are backed by 5000 well-armed Israeli occupation troops.

Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying power is supposed to protect the native people. But Israeli occupation troops not only engage in their only assaults against Palestinians, many Israeli occupation troops share the same fundamentalism of the illegal settlers, but the troops are often idle are M16-wielding illegal settlers attack, and sometimes kill, Palestinians and destroy their property.

The settlers routinely attack Palestinians with the stated goal of making life so miserable for them that they simply live. Although Palestinians have not left Hebron, the city center has been turned into a ghost town due to attacks and property-destruction of crazed illegal settlers.

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has even started a project to document the attacks against Palestinians by giving them cameras to record the actions of the settlers. Documentation is quite extensive and includes an assault with sticks by several face-covered illegal settlers against a woman in her 70s.

Israeli troops themselves recently experience first hand the violence of the settlers. Dressed as Arabs, several Israeli troops walked into the Hebron settlement and were immediately kicked and beaten up. Of course, when the illegal settlers attack Israeli troops they are held accountable, but when the attack Arabs, even kill them, rarely if ever are illegal settlers prosecuted; and even then sentences are quite lenient.

And the sadism of the illegal settlers cannot be separated from that of Israeli occupation troops, who are even more cruel and their violence more wide-spread. Palestinians at checkpoints are routinely beaten up and made to wait for hours in an effort to humiliate them.

During Israel’s most recent assault on Gaza, which massacred over 900 Palestinians of whom over 400 were children, occupying Israeli troops left their fecal material in the floors, refrigerators and washing machines of Palestinians. They left hateful graffiti all around. These soldiers were encouraged by state-sanctioned Rabbis to show no mercy to Palestinians, because God had given the land to the Jews and the Arabs were intruders with no rights to the land of “Israel”. As the occupation continues, as does the degree of Israeli violence. Israeli soldiers are more sadistic than ever.

But now back to the settlers, and picking up from my opening sentence:

A Palestinian teen was injured when an Israeli settler rammed her with his car near the southern West bank city of Hebron on Thursday morning.

Local sources said the settler fled the scene before Israeli military and police arrived at the location.

Hind Alemor, 15, sustained cuts and broses and was moved Hebron city hospital for treatment, medical sources reported. She comes from the village of Yatta near Hebron city, the sources added.

When a Palestinian [Arab-Israeli] accidentally killed an Israeli girl in a car accident, it was actually called “terrorism” by the Israeli press. And then there were the riots and attempted lynching of an Arab by Israelis because the Arab-Israeli dared to drive into a Jewish town during Yom Kippur [when traffic is in effect banned].

Will Israel charge this illegal, thus settler with terrorism? Don’t hold your breath.