Residents of the PA city of Beita in Samaria burned an effigy of a Jew last night, including a skullcap and long sideburns.
"The world is silent," commented MK Itamar Ben-Gvir (Religious Zionism) "Had this been done by Jews, the ISA would have dropped everything to focus on it. They are clearly biased."
Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, said that "These barbaric riots, which have gone on since the state decided to support the new village of Evyatar, prove just how strategically important that village is."
Rioters burn an effigy of a Jew near Beita.
''The Samaria Regional Council will continue to work with all its might together with the professionals to achieve recognition for Israeli settlement in the area, for the benefit of the people of Israel and the State of Israel. They will try to burn, we will continue to build, "Dagan stressed.
Matan Peleg, the chairman of the Im Tirtzu movement, said that "While the Palestinians are emulating Nazi demonstrations in Samaria, the government is preparing to build facilities for them, to issue more work permits, more building permits in Area C, more 'humanitarian' permits for family unification. No amount of distortion will change the fact that this is a murderous enemy, who, if only he had a chance, would do these things for real."
"The government must cease this policy of 'incentives' and demonstrate once and for all who is the sovereign power, and what the price will be for undermining that sovereignty," he insisted.
Zvi Sukkot, one of the founders of the nearby village of Evyatar in Samaria, which published the documentation of the burning of the doll, said that "This would be a headline in every paper anywhere else in the world. Here in Israel, no one wants to touch it."