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Price-Tag Attacks: Hate, Fear Come to Abu Ghosh

Israel’s lenient policy on settlers is to blame for the "price-tag" vandalism perpetrated by Jewish right-wing extremists in the Arab village of Abu Gosh, a symbol of coexistence.
Palestinians stand next to graffiti sprayed on a wall near their house in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem June 24, 2013. Graffiti was sprayed and tires were slashed on 21 cars overnight in Beit Hanina in what appeared to be another in a series of "Price Tag" attacks by suspected Jewish militants. Police opened an investigation. The graffiti reads: We will not remain silent in the face of the stone-throwing". REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX10YSG
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''Price tag'' activists acted yesterday (June 24) again. This time it happened in Beit Hanina. The inhabitants of this neighborhood in east Jerusalem discovered in the morning that anonymous hands had vandalized 21 cars and sprayed on the walls graffiti of the Star of David star and a slogan: ''We won't keep silent when stones are being thrown.''  

Less than a week before, on June 18, it happened to the inhabitants of Abu Ghosh. The residents of this peaceful and friendly village, situated in the Jerusalem corridor, found that during the preceding night “Arabs out!” hate graffiti and the like had been sprayed on the village's houses, and 28 cars were vandalized.

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