{"id":12726,"date":"2011-11-09T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=12726"},"modified":"2011-11-09T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:44:23","slug":"knesset-speaker-on-jewish-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/knesset-speaker-on-jewish-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Knesset Speaker on &#8216;Jewish Terrorism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/jacob-heilbrunn\/jewish-terrorism-6139\">Via Jacob Heilbrunn<\/a>, speaker of the Israeli Knesset Reuven\u00a0Rivlin\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/world_now\/2011\/11\/israel-palestinians-settlements-peace-now-threats.html\">speaks out against price-tag attacks<\/a>, in which extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank attack Palestinians and their property out of anger towards the dismantling of illegal Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is not a &#8216;price&#8217; or a &#8216;tag,&#8217; this is terror,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/DiplomacyAndPolitics\/Article.aspx?id=244795\" target=\"_blank\">he wrote<\/a>. &#8220;These villainous criminals who harmed houses of prayer, fields, homes and property belonging to Palestinians, are Jewish, and this is Jewish terrorism that should be called nothing less.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So-called price-tag attacks increased markedly towards the end of the summer &#8211; as <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/cook\/2010\/08\/02\/israeli-settlers-step-up-price-tag-policy\/\">this report<\/a> shows &#8211; and began to get what little international attention it did get last month, when the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/10\/11\/un-urges-israel-to-curb-settler-attacks\/\">U.N. urged the Israeli government to curb the violence<\/a> and harassment against Palestinians. The latest harassment has cropped up in response to<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203733504577024292182828390.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\"> indications from Netanyahu that some settlements will be dismantled<\/a>, even though Israel simultaneously announced <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2011\/11\/01\/citing-unesco-tragedy-israel-announces-settlement-expansions\/\">other settlement expansions<\/a> in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Jacob Heilbrunn, speaker of the Israeli Knesset Reuven\u00a0Rivlin\u00a0speaks out against price-tag attacks, in which extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank attack Palestinians and their property out of anger towards the dismantling of illegal Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory: &#8220;This is not a &#8216;price&#8217; or a &#8216;tag,&#8217; this is terror,&#8221;\u00a0he wrote. &#8220;These villainous criminals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12727,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions\/12727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12726"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}