Order in the Wild West
Haaretz Editorial
The pictures from Amona were difficult. The violence carried out by the rioters, deliberately and intentionally, even crossed the blurred and dangerous borders the settlers have established in previous clashes with the police and the army. The police officers who came to implement the evacuation order were received with insults, and were hit and attacked by a barrage of rocks and pieces of metal. Many were wounded. All endangered their lives in carrying out the assignment.
The settlers' arguments that the police treated the "protesting" youths violently is scandalous. The settler leaders were the ones who promised that "blood will be spilled," encouraged the youths to entrench themselves on the rooftops and prepare for a violent confrontation, and committed themselves to avenging the "disgrace of Gush Katif."
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