Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...settlers continued their tirade for 15 minutes or so, until two Israeli army jeeps arrived carrying eight soldiers. At that point, Hamad went outside. He asked one of the soldiers, "Protect us from this man." The soldier replied, "Get away. Go home." Hamad noticed that one of the settlers was moving toward his house, with a soldier flanking him on either side. Using his knee, the settler smashed in one of the glass panes on Hamad's front door while the two soldiers stood...
Hamad ran up to them, shouting, "This man is destroying my property! Arrest him!" The settler answered angrily, "If you don't like it, leave this country!" He then punched Hamad in the chest. Neither of the soldiers made a move to restrain the settler. Hamad's wife Raeda approached, and the settler struck her in the chest. Again the soldiers did not react. By then, about 25 neighbors had gathered and were beginning to seethe. The soldiers pointed guns at the crowd to subdue them...
...Afula. The killer, a member of the anti-Arafat Islamic movement Hamas, detonated his car bomb alongside an Israeli bus as passengers, many of them teenagers, were boarding. Hamas promised that the attack would be the first of five in retaliation for February's rampage by an Israeli settler at the mosque in Hebron. On Thursday, a Palestinian gunman from the Islamic Jihad group shot an Israeli dead and wounded four others near the southern town of Ashdod. Following a speech in Hebron by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday, the I.D.F. shot eight Palestinians with live and rubber bullets...
...many citizens, the most dismaying revelation came at the beginning of the hearings from Deputy Commander Meir Tayar, who heads the paramilitary border police unit in Hebron. Standing orders, he said, forbade security forces from firing on Jewish settlers under any circumstances. He explained that if a settler opened fire, instructions were to "take cover and wait for the clip to finish, then stop him in some other way, not by shooting...
Many Israelis were worrying almost as much about their country's behavior. Testimony has pointed to considerable official negligence. Security procedures were surprisingly lax at a shrine that has been a notorious flash point for tensions. Authorities did not take seriously the threat of settler mayhem, although warning signs were plentiful. And many were asking whether the security forces overreacted in the aftermath of the massacre. Before it is even completed, the inquiry is raising the specter of high-level resignations...