Chicago Tribune:
Vandals set fire to the doors of a Christian monastery in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday and daubed pro-settler graffiti on
its walls in a possible retaliation for the eviction of families from
an unauthorized outpost.
The name of the
unauthorized Migron outpost, cleared of Israeli settlers following a
court order on Sunday, was scrawled on the well-known 19th century
Latrun Monastery, alongside the words "Jesus is a monkey" in Hebrew,
police said.
Israeli security officials had said they were worried Sunday's eviction
of 50 families from Migron, in another part of the West Bank near
Ramallah, might provoke more attacks by a vigilante settler group known
as "Price Tag".
The "Price Tag" name refers to
retribution some Israeli settlers say they will exact for any attempt by
their government to curb settlement in the West Bank, an area
Palestinians want as part of a future state.
The
group has targeted mosques and, less commonly, Christian churches,
regarding any non-Jewish religious sites as an intrusion on the land.
Boy, the Chirstian Zionists can pick some really good "friends." Illegal West Bank settlements are just that, Biblical claims or not. Vandalism is also just that. It would be better if the loony Christians, Jews and Muslims just fought amongst themselves and left the rest of us alone.
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