A busy weekend in the Middle East for Israeli radicals. According to the AFP:

“Israeli settlers invaded Palestinian olive groves in the West Bank on Saturday and uprooted 200 trees, Palestinian witnesses said. The settlers from Yitzhar, near the northern city of Nablus, attacked the groves around the villages of Hawwara and Ein Nabus, the sources said. Late on Wednesday, dozens of Palestinian olive trees were destroyed in an attack near the city of Hebron in what local residents called an act of revenge carried out by settlers. Controversially, the Israeli military is only claiming “about 40″ trees were burnt and uprooted in the village of Shuweikeh, south of Hebron. The military and local residents said the attackers left Hebrew-language graffiti at the scene, including a spray-painted Star of David and the slogan “price tag”. More on this developing story here…

In more news, via Huffington Post, potentially the same group of radicalls torched a mosque in an Arab village in northern Israel early Monday:

“Graffiti spray-painted on the mosque’s walls suggested Jewish radicals were involved. About 200 residents of the village of Tuba-Zangria, Arab citizens of Israel, marched to a major intersection nearby with the intention of blocking the road in protest, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Some of the demonstrators set tires on fire and threw stones at police officers, who dispersed the crowd with tear gas, Rosenfeld said. No one was injured. Police were mobilized in the area to prevent further disturbances and were meeting with village leaders in an effort to defuse tensions, he added. No unrest was reported inside the village. Rosenfeld said a carpet was burned inside the mosque and interior walls were damaged. Copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, were also burned, Israeli media reported. Rosenfeld said the words “price tag” were spray painted on the building – reference to a settler practice of attacking Palestinians and their property in retaliation for Palestinian attacks and government operations against settlements.

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