“What happened in Huwara was a pogrom carried out by law-breakers,” said Major General Yehuda Fuchs, who is in charge of the Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank. “We were not prepared for that many people, how they came, the scale, the force of the violence they used, and the planning they had carried out.” Fuchs’s concern, however, is not the pogrom itself, but the fact that clashes between illegal Israeli settler-colonists and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) would result in Israelis being killed and wounded. The message to Israeli society is that pogroms against Palestinians are acceptable, as long as there is no Israeli collateral damage in the process. Eight settlers were arrested for their role in the … Continue reading Israel isn’t anti-pogrom, it just doesn’t want Israeli collateral damage