Guardian News: Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians listed as 'terrorist incidents' by US

Palestinians tackle a fire in a West Bank field they say was started by Jewish settlers. According to UN, violent attacks by settlers on Palestinians and their property has increased by almost 150% since 2009. Photograph: Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters

Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
Sunday 19 August 2012

Violence by Jewish settlers has been cited for the first time in a US state department list of "terrorist incidents", as Israeli political leaders condemned a string of recent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

The inclusion of assaults on Palestinian targets in the annual report on terrorism reflects growing concern in Israel and internationally that violence by a minority of Jewish extremists could trigger a new cycle of conflict and further damage the prospects of a peace agreement between the two sides.

"Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian residents, property and places of worship in the West Bank continued," said the Country Reports on Terrorism 2011.  It referred to "price tag" operations, meaning violence committed by radical settlers against Palestinians ...READ MORE 

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[for the report itself page 105, http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/195768.pdf ]