Prime minister backs settlers after minister decries violence

14 December 2021, 2:09 pm

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett joins other right-wing politicians in lashing out at Public Security Minister Omer Barlev for discussing settler violence with a top US official.

Amid a marked increase in attacks by settlers on Palestinians, Bennett says Israelis in the West Bank “are suffering from violence, every day, for decades.”

He urges the nation to thank the settlers, whom he refers to as the nation’s “defensive wall,” and to buttress them “with words and actions.”

“Every community has marginal phenomena, and every effort should be expended to deal with them, but you can’t tar a whole public,” he writes on Twitter.