Haaretz: ‘At the height of olive harvest season in the West Bank, came a deluge of reports of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, journalists and even European diplomats. Among the most widely-reported stories was an attack on Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine.’

And: ‘Although attacks by masked settlers against Palestinians have become commonplace in the West Bank, Levine's case brought more international attention than usual to the scourge of Jewish terrorism. She is a member of several classes that one would assume to be protected: an older woman, a Jew, a member of the media, an American citizen, a longtime resident of Israel.’

Also: Bibi’s office said that ‘we will not allow disputed incidents to be exploited to demonize the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.’

Army and politicians enabled the settler violence. And Bibi is willing to destroy everything in order to get re-elected.

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