The reports surrounding the reaction to Husam Duwayit's murdering of three people are at times confused. They are of course confused because what is happening at the moment defies a normal person's logic and is so indicative of some sort of orwellian 2+2=5 scenario. This is normal, of course, for a part of the world where everything is black and white, goodies and baddies, and divine right and newspeak form the language of the day. It would appear that the house where Husam Duwayit lived in East Jerusalem has been destroyed. However, despite the police investigation concluding that he acted alone, that is not enough for some thirty right wing Israeli settlers who are now trying to destroy a house in a West Bank village on the outskirts of Jerusalem, where twenty members of Duwayit's family live. Almost as reprehensible is the fact that there are hundreds of police on hand to protect these right wing nutters, "in case the protest turns violent"1, which I assume means; in case some intimidated, frightened little boy throws a stone back. When is the world going to waken up to this disgusting farce?
1 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999378.html
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