US Ambassador Sees Separate Justice for Israelis, Palestinians

The New York-based group said in a report released on Tuesday that businesses should stop operating in, financing, servicing, or trading with settlement-related “activities that contribute to and benefit from an inherently unlawful and abusive system that violates the rights of Palestinians”.

“The more settlers feel vulnerable to such brutal attacks, their influential leaders would increase their pressure on the government to more sharply separate Palestinians from settlers”, Ofer Zalzberg of the International Crisis Group think tank said.

Israel says the violence is the result of a Palestinian campaign of lies and incitement.

Since the start of October, Palestinian stabbings, car-rammings and shootings have killed 25 Israelis and a US citizen.

Netanyahu promised that police would find the attacker and bring him to justice.

The BBC also failed to report many prominent details regarding the brutality of the attack. Jerusalem and Washington also clashed this past week when the USA ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro said that Washington was “concerned and perplexed” by Israel’s settlement policy which he said raised “honest questions about Israel’s long-term intentions”.

Just last week, a 34-year old Palestinian man was shot and wounded by the Israeli military in the same area, after allegedly attempting to bypass the checkpoint to sneak into Israel. Some 146 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, of which 101 have been identified by Israel as attackers.

The Israeli military said the move would be reviewed on a daily basis and was necessary to maintain security.

The administration of US President Barack Obama has condemned Israel’s planned land grab in the occupied West Bank.

Following the attack in the settlement of Otniel, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli troops sealed off the area and intensive intelligence work, using local contacts and electronic surveillance, led troops to the local Palestinian village of Yatta, some three kilometres from the attack.

The 200 settlements are considered by most of the world to be in violation of worldwide law, although Israel disputes this.

“We call for the full application of worldwide humanitarian law in the occupied State of Palestine, including global responsibility towards the full implementation of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people”, Saeb Erekat, PLO Secretary General, said in a statement.

The ambassador’s statements have significant fueled the battle of those seeking Israel’s demise, giving more than an air of legitimacy to many bogus allegations leveled against Israel by the PA (Palestinian Authority).