Israel is clamping down on Jewish terrorists

It is interesting to say that efforts should be more focus in the fight against extremism. According to The Economist, FIVE months after an arson attack in a Palestinian village killed three members of the Dawabsheh family, including the parents and an 18-month-old baby, two suspects were indicted by an Israeli court on January 3rd. A 21-year-old Jewish extremist was accused of setting the house alight and a minor was accused of having assisted him. Israel’s Shin Bet security service was certain from the start that the murderers came from a group of fanatical young settlers living on austere “hilltop” outposts in the West Bank. That it took such a long investigation, as well as 40 days of questioning during which the suspects were subjected to “special measures”—the euphemism used by Israel’s legal system for physical coercion or torture—is a sign of how difficult it is for Israelis to come to grips with anti-Arab racism within their society. “Special measures” are routinely used against Palestinian terror suspects; their employment against Israeli-Jewish detainees is unprecedented.