One sign that the official end of the "freeze" has in fact made a difference is this attempt by Israeli colonists to destroy a West Bank mosque. This one is in a small village near Bethlehem, itself hemmed in by ever-expanding "settlements", but its strategic inconvenience is that it is close to the illegal community of Gush Itzion. There already was a feeling that the hardline Zionists could do what they wanted while Netanyahu's administration was claiming, with little justification, to be exercising restraint in the spread of selective demolition and exclusive new building; now they will feel there is nothing, really, to stop them from repeating the behaviour of some card-carrying Germans in the Thirties towards their Jewish neighbours.
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