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Who's to blame for Jewish extremists' attacks?

• Russia Today

But can the stabbing and arson attacks be written off as just rare and random acts of terror committed by a radical fringe of the Jewish population?

Alvaro De Soto, a Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute in New York and former Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, believes the recent assaults have deeper roots, stemming from Israel's general approach to its long conflict with the Palestinians, and its policies regarding settlement in the occupied territories specifically.

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In an interview with RT, De Soto said that although the recent deadly arson attack may have been carried out by "certain youthful populators of the settlements… with a high degree of passion and hate," the perpetrators had likely been encouraged by the Israeli government's intransigence in coming to terms with the Palestinians to find a peaceful resolution to their differences.

He stressed that it was very important for Israel to deal with the present outbreak of violent Jewish extremism effectively "because it's doing a lot of harm, not just to the Palestinian victims, but also to the interests of Israel."


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