By all means, let’s keep giving these guys more settlements

Grotesque:

A one-and-a-half year-old Palestinian infant was burned to death and three of his family members were seriously wounded late Thursday night after a house was set on fire in the village of Douma, near Nablus.

According to reports, settlers were those who set the house on fire after targeting it with firebombs and graffiti. The Israeli military called the attack “Jewish terror,” while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials echoed the claim, vehemently condemning the attack.

At roughly 4 am Friday morning, two masked men arrived at two homes in the village of Douma, not far from the settlement of Migdalim. They spray painted graffiti reading “revenge” and “long live the Messiah” in Hebrew, breaking the windows of the homes and throwing two firebombs inside. One of the two homes was empty at the time, but there was a family in the second: the child that died, Ali Saad Daobasa, his father Sa’ad, mother Reham, and 4-year-old Ahmed.

If it was, in fact, settlers who did this, then somebody ought to ask Netanyahu about the incongruity of “condemning” an attack like this while repeatedly giving the settler/squatter community what it wants, which is more illegal settlements. Both sides may have blood on their hands in the Israel-Palestine conflict, but only one of those two sides keeps getting rewarded for its terrorism.

This attack took place on the same day that an ultra-Orthodox man stabbed 6 people in Jerusalem’s annual Gay Pride parade. That man, Yishai Schlissel, had apparently just gotten out of prison after doing a 10 year stint for committing exactly the same crime in 2005 (he only stabbed three people in that one). It remains to be seen what the Israeli government will do about its (apparently burgeoning) homegrown terrorism problem.

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