Middle East crisis: Top Israeli general speaks out against settler violence in the West Bank
Israel’s top general in the West Bank spoke out against settler violence in the occupied territory, a rare public denunciation of settler attacks on Palestinians from within Israel’s military establishment.At a ceremony appointing his successor, the retiring chief of the Israeli military’s central command, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox, said that “nationalist crime” had recently “reared its head.” (AP)