But surely he's a man of principle?
Which leads us to the events in Hebron over the last few days. If you don't know, the Israeli courts have finally deemed fradulent, the take-over of a building in Hebron. Though it's actually that the Israeli govt has finally decided to act on the theft of the building.
It's hardly a new story- extremist settlers use fraud and deception to steal Palestinian owned buildings and take them over, throwing the Palestinian occupants out onto the street.
Anyway, the belated action to remove the illegal squatters has had the settler-terrorists up to their usual tricks. Here's the summary,
- shooting at Palestinian civilians. 3 wounded
- assualting Palestinians
- burning Palestinian cars, vandalising property and Mosques
- burning down Palestinian houses
- one event especially stands out; masked settler-terrorists tried to burn down a home with 20 people in it
- calling IDF soldiers "Nazis"
- and especially noteworthy, a soldier of Ethiopean descent was called a "nigger".
What did our fearless critic of terrrorism amd extremism think about this? Our hero found that it,
frustrates me
And the twin actions of, on the one hand enforcing Israeli court rulings, and on the other of an anti-Palestinian pogrom, don't,
fill me with pride
Yeah, take that violent extremists! You're as bad as...as.....applying the rule of law!
After taking such a brave stand against his fellow religious-nationalist fanatics, Dave does, understandably, back-slide a little in comments.
That these fine people could be described as "fanatical" in the media leads Dave to call this,
slander
He then gets a bit confused and seems to suggest, with masterful understatement, that Hebron is in Israel,
I also abhor the idea that places in Israel should be Judenrhein
Removing Israeli settlers in Hebron as per an Israeli court ruling is 'abhorent'. And the anti-Palestinian pogrom is 'frustrating'.
Don't call him Aussie Dave Bigot for nuthin'!
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