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| Israeli Kach Militants Attack US Consulate,
Assault Security Guard |
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| Friday, July 19 2002 @ 05:36 PM GMT
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Palestine Chronicle Reporter
JERUSALEM: The
Israeli militant group Kach staged a riot outside the US Consulate
in Jerusalem Friday afternoon, attacking the Consulate and
assaulting a Consulate security guard.
The condition of the
security guard is unknown. Two rioters were held and questioned by
the Israeli police, according to the Israeli army radio.
The
riots were sparked in protest of what Kach calls America’s ‘biased’
and unjust intervention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Kach
supporters say that the US has no right interfering in Israel’s
domestic disputes.
Israel is the largest recipient of
American foreign and military aid in the world, currently 4 out of 5
American tax dollars that are spent on foreign aid go directly to
Israel.
Foreign aid’s estimates to the Jewish state varies,
while some put it around 3 billion US dollars a year, others say
that it reaches as high as 12 billion.
Meanwhile, the US
congress has pressured the Bush administration to withhold all aid
to the Palestinian Authority.
Israeli authorities are yet to
comment on the US Consulate assault.
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