I was going to post on this myself,
Hurling stones and waving bats, some 40 students from a yeshiva in Nahliel, west of Ramallah, attacked a group of eight Palestinian workers congregating outside the West Bank settlement, wounding three of them. The wounded were taken to a Ramallah hospital.
Five of the settlers were arrested, including a 24-year-old counselor at the yeshiva who police suspect led what they called "the lynch-like attack."
but David has already said most everything that needs to be said much better than I could have. I found this bit particularly disturbing.
While police vowed to crack down on the assailants and do all they can to prevent contact between West Bank settlers and their Palestinian neighbors, they warned Thursday night that attacks on Palestinians would only continue as long as the disengagement looms ahead.
I'm as big an opponent of "the disengagement" as you'll find, but don't even dare try to use that as an excuse for this sort of disgusting behavior. Unless there's a lot more to this story than meets the eye (and there very well could be but it sure hasn't surfaced yet), it's totally irrelevant.
