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<p>Maan News Agency | Sept 19, 2011</p>
<p>JERUSALEM (AFP) &#8212; A prominent settler rabbi on Monday slammed so-called &#8220;price tag&#8221; acts of violence against Palestinians and the Israeli army, saying they undermined Jewish presence in the occupied West Bank.</p>
<p>&#8220;We condemn the actions termed &#8216;price tag&#8217; against the IDF [Israeli army], mosques and innocent Arabs,&#8221; says a petition penned by Rabbi Yaakov Medan, one of the heads of the Har Etzion yeshiva, or Jewish seminary, near the southern town of Bethlehem.</p>
<p>&#8220;These deeds are totally unacceptable from a moral and national perspective, and endanger the entire settlement movement in Judea and Samaria,&#8221; it reads, using the biblical term for the West Bank.</p>
<p>Hardline settlers have adopted what they call a &#8220;price tag&#8221; policy under which they attack Palestinians and their property in response to Israeli government measures against settlements.</p>
<p>Israeli troops and police this month demolished three homes in the settlement outpost of Migron, spurring a wave of attacks against Palestinian property, including an attempt to torch a mosque.</p>
<p>Unidentified vandals also attacked vehicles at an Israeli military base near Ramallah, slashing tyres and spraying them with the words &#8220;price tag&#8221; and pouring sugar into fuel tanks.</p>
<p>Medan is one of the most prominent national-religious rabbis in Israel and has been an outspoken opponent of the 1993 Oslo Accords.</p>
<p>&#8220;We wish to strengthen the IDF in its actions against this atrocious lawlessness, that undermines the basis of our existence here,&#8221; Medan wrote, urging settlers to do everything &#8220;to prevent such deeds&#8221; and expose those behind them.</p>
<p>&#8220;This mode of action &#8212; harming innocent people, burning mosques &#8212; cannot be tolerated,&#8221; he told AFP.</p>
<p>&#8220;I understand their frustrations and resentment but they have crossed all the red lines,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>So far, Israeli police, who are responsible for all settler-related issues, have questioned several people over the attacks but no-one has been arrested.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are here to stay and can live with most of the Arabs in peace and good neighbourly relations.&#8221;</p>
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