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June 18, 2008

Your tax dollars at work - Israeli settler violence

Also from the Brits comes a bit of news that we never seem to hear about over on this side of the pond - violence by Jewish settlers in Palestine.

Police have arrested two Israeli settlers on suspicion of assaulting Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank, after the incident was captured on video by a human rights group.

Footage of the attack, which was first aired publicly last week, shows four men beating an elderly shepherd and his wife with long wooden batons.

The 58 year old wife spent three days in a hospital with a broken arm and a fractured cheek bone following the assault.

Sadly, this was not exactly an isolated incident. Settler violence has been documented many times over the recent years. But our brave (sic) MSM apparently don't deem it newsworthy to an American population which indirectly underwrites Israel's settler policies with billions of taxpayer dollars annually.

Posted by Kevin at June 18, 2008 08:08 AM