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RIOT AT FUNERAL OF ISRAELI SETTLER
Jewish settlers rampage while "braced" Israeli forces apparently let it happen. Since the gun toting and violence prone settlers are on occupied land, whether "illegal" or "legal," why not call them SETTLER-TERRORISTS?
By MAZEN DANA IN HEBRON
The Independent
20 January 2003
JEWISH SETTLERS rampaged through the West Bank city of
Hebron yesterday, smashing the windows of Palestinian homes and setting cars ablaze as they prepared to bury a settler killed by Palestinians.
The violence came nine days before Israel's elections, which the Likud party of Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister, is likely to win. Israeli forces in Hebron braced for possible rioting by settlers during the funeral procession of Natanel Ozeri, 34, killed by Palestinian gunmen on Friday at his home in an illegal outpost near the city.
Israeli media reported that Mr Ozeri was a member of the outlawed anti- Arab Kach movement and had been jailed for rioting during the funeral of another settler in Hebron in July. Kach seeks the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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