Israel president threatened over ‘Jewish terrorism’ comment

On Friday, arsonists set fire to two homes in the Palestinian village of Duma in the West Bank, burning a toddler alive. The suspects have yet to be captured, Xinhua reported. The terror attack was unanimously condemned by the entirety of Israel’s leadership and Parliament, drawing a sharp distinction from Palestinian leadership, which, following jihadi attacks, sometimes glorifies Arab terrorists as martyrs.

Critics say Israel doesn’t enforce the law when it comes to settlers because of the political power they wield in Parliament and because they are still perceived in some circles as Zionist pioneers who are settling the land like the vanguard settlers who established the Jewish state.

The security cabinet would seek to advance legislation that would fight terrorist acts of Jewish extremists and establish a ministerial committee to be headed by Defensce Minister Moshe Yaalon in order to come up with solutions to prevent such attacks from happening in the future.

It said the measures would include using “administrative detention”, under which detainees can be held for months or years without charges.

ESTRIN: In the West Bank, some 200 Palestinians marched from the village where the attack took place toward an Israeli intersection and clashed with Israeli forces.

Israeli officials claim Jewish extremist groups operate in small groups that are hard for informants to infiltrate.

“We are shocked by it, we condemn it fully, the entire Israeli government and all the citizens of Israel”. Ya’alon informed the Shin Bet intelligence agency that he approves using administrative detention to crack down on suspected nationalist extremists, officials said.

The masked assailants reportedly hurled Molotov cocktails through the windows, which were left open because of the summer heat.

David Harris, the executive director of the American Jewish Committee, wrote in a statement, “Setting ablaze the home of an innocent Palestinian family, of any such family, is frightening in its pure evil”.

Both homes caught fire. The child’s mother and 4-year-old brother are in critical condition at a hospital in Tel Aviv, while the father is being treated for third-degree burns at a hospital in southern Israel, according to AFP.

Pictures circulated by Palestinian media on the Internet showed a smiling, chubby-faced boy, named as Ali Dawabsheh. It was not really burning a whole family, not killing a baby.

“Continued failures to effectively address impunity for repeated acts of settler violence have led to another horrific incident involving the death of an innocent life”.