In ordinary conversational language it doesn't sound so impressive, but the latest statement from Washington on the continuing violence and threats against non-Jewish Palestinians and their properties, which the state effectively supports by its inaction, represents a major diplomatic shift for the USA. For the first time, the State Department's 2013
Country Reports on Terrorism, published on 22nd April, included a reference
to a growing wave of racist anti-Palestinian vandalism, euphemistically called "price tag" attacks. The report, citing citing UN and NGO data, said, "Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers
against Palestinian residents, property, and places of worship in the
West Bank continued and were largely unprosecuted." But Israel police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said
the incidents were far from the global terrorist threats mentioned in the
report. "There's no comparison whatsoever between criminal incidents
with nationalistic motives and terrorist-related incidents,"Hate crime culprits are terrorists, says public security
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