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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians, including plans to beef up Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. 

Israel has been doing this since 1948 when the terrorists of the Stern Gang went on a killing spree throughout Palestine, well before the state of Israel was established. 

Now Netanyahu, who should be jailed for corruption? He wants to go in harder into the West Bank against Palestinians who are trying to protect their homes. 

I don’t support one side or the other, when it comes to one side shooting and bombing the other, even though Israeli settlers on the West Bank can obtain weapons and shoot Palestinians, just like the Stern Gang did back in 1948, when the British left them to it. 

Paul Brecht, Evans Head

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