Recent confrontations between hard-line West Bank settlers and Palestinians, surrounding the evacuation of Hebron's so-called House of Contention, are likely to entangle Israel in a religious confrontation with Muslim communities the world over, a senior security source told Haaretz this weekend.
The violence included the desecration of Muslim cemeteries in Hebron and anti-Muslim graffiti on mosque walls in the city, as well as around Qalqilya and Ramallah.
Civil Administration officers in the area quickly washed off the graffiti, before pictures of it could be obtained by the Qatari news station Al Jazeera.
Such a broadcast would have reached homes throughout the Arab and Muslim world, and could have sparked a major conflagration, the source said, recalling the wave of demonstrations in 2005 and 2006, following a Danish newspaper's publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
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My Comment: All this commotion over one house!!! Imagine if you go about removing a large settlement.
Sigh .... this is not going to be easy.