US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, in comments at the INSS conference, sharply criticizes Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians.
Shapiro praises the progress in the Duma terror attack probe, but says that Israeli authorities seem to turn a blind eye to settler violence against Palestinians, according to a report in Haaretz.
There are too many cases in which Israelis in the West Bank are taking the law into their own hands and are not investigated, Shapiro says, adding that it seems the country has two standards of law enforcement — one for Jews, and one for the Palestinians.
Shapiro says the US administration is “concerned and perplexed” in the face of Israel’s settlement policy, which, he said, raises questions regarding the country’s ultimate goals.
US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, December 9, 2014. (Matty Stern/US Embassy)
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