Palestinian children look at a car owned by Palestinians that was set on fire overnight during clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. After the eviction of a disputed house in Hebron Thursday, settler youths rampaged in the town, attacking Palestinians and setting fire to property. Israeli defense officials say the military has been placed on alert in the West Bank to head off settler violence in wake of the evacuation of the building. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)From Yahoo News/AP:
JERUSALEM – Israel beefed up security throughout Jerusalem and the West Bank on Friday, bracing for new violence after the evacuation of a disputed West Bank building set off a rampage by Jewish settlers.
Police said they had placed a larger-than-usual deployment of 500 officers in and around the West Bank city of Hebron, the center of Thursday's unrest, and taken up positions elsewhere in the West Bank.
Police and soldiers also were on heightened alert throughout the West Bank, defense officials said.
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My Comment: All this violence because of a dispute over a house. If it is this bad because of a house, one can easily picture the uproar if all Jewish settlements in the West Bank are suddenly ordered disbanded.