US calls Israeli Squatter attacks on Palestinians ‘Terrorism’; Israel says ‘only vandalism’

Juan Cole 05/03/2014

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Israel police challenge US ‘terror’ findings (via AFP)

Israeli police on Thursday challenged Washington’s inclusion of Jewish extremist attacks on Palestinians in a global terror report, saying such incidents could not be likened to militant attacks. For the first time, the State Department’s 2013 Country…

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Press TV: “US report sees Israeli attacks on Palestinians as “global terror threats” ”

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page