Rabid settler bites cop!
Israeli settler bites policeman over moratorium
(AFP) – 1 day ago
JERUSALEM — Refusing to muzzle his criticism of Israel's temporary settlement moratorium, an Israeli settler took matters into his own teeth and bit a policeman to mark his outrage,
a newspaper reported on Monday.
Eighteen-year-old Ephraim Haikin, a student at a Jewish seminary in the hardline settlement of Yizhar in the north of the occupied West Bank, was apparently doggone mad during a November 26 rally against the moratorium.
An Israeli court found him guilty of "aggressing a civil servant carrying out his duties" and damaging public goods by slashing the tyres of a police jeep, the Haaretz daily said.
The youth was sentenced to a month in prison and three months community service, it said.
The settlers of Yizhar are among the most hardline in the West Bank and are doggedly opposed to a 10-month limited moratorium on new housing starts that Israel imposed in November after months of US pressure.
THE FALSIFICATION OF HISTORY HAS DONE MORE TO IMPEDE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THAN ANY ONE THING KNOWN TO MANKIND. ~ ROUSSEAU
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