The article was written in response to the arrest of a 37 year old Floridan turned Israeli who was arrested for murdering two Palestinians and injuring three others over a span of twelve years. Jack Yaakov Tietel, the suspect, told police that he murdered two Palestinians in 1997 as revenge for the onslaught of Palestinian suicide bombing attacks.
Tietel lives in Shavut Rachel and is married with four children. If he really is a murderer, as the evidence shows, he deserves to be in prison. In the article he is described as a “militant right wing Jewish settler.” What does settler have to do with the rest? However, other settlers do not deserve to be painted with a bad image because of a couple of people.
“Teitel is what we call an autodidact,” says a senior Israel security official, speaking on condition of anonymity. “He bought the materials for these homemade bombs by himself and added pretty sophisticated devices to activate it.” In 2000, police say, Teitel smuggled 10 weapons into Israel from the U.S in a container, and concealed them in several hides around his home. In another sign of his caution, on the night of his arrest on Oct. 7 in Jerusalem, police say he was posting leaflets while wearing gloves and a balaclava (to prevent identification), and carried a loaded gun in his pocket. By this time, security sources say, he had been under the surveillance of the Shin Bet, following a two-year investigation of an attempted bombing that slowly accumulated clues pointing to him as a suspect.”
While it is clear that he worked alone, the author shows anti-Settler biases. Loaded phrases in the article include:
Teitel worked alone, way below the radar of the Shin Bet security service, which monitors extremist activity among Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
Despite the fertile ground of extremist ideas among the Jewish settlers on the West Bank
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