And as they have repeatedly demonstrated, they will go to any length to disrupt peace negotiations that may lead to a Palestinian state, even if it means killing their fellow Jews. Thus, the homes of Israelis who have criticized illegal settlements have been bombed, and fliers have been distributed in Jerusalem offering hundreds of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills a member of the Israeli advocacy group Peace Now, which favors dismantling the settlements as part of a peace plan with the Palestinians. As a settler leader told The New York Times in 2008, the Jews must decide “whether they
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