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Monday, July 13, 2009

Netanyahu offers key advisor role to settler leader

Ma'an
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a prominent resident of an illegal West Bank settlement [60-year-old Pinchas Wallerstein] a top position as an advisor, settler officials say...

Netanyahu’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, and other cabinet members are also settlers.

According to Reuters Wallerstein has conditioned acceptance of the post on Israel continuing to reject US President Barack Obama's demands to freeze all construction in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to the same spokesperson.

The same report states that in 1988, Wallerstein was sentenced to four months' community service after being convicted of "causing death by negligence" in the shooting of a 16-year-old Palestinian in the West Bank.

The settlers said that Wallerstein and a bodyguard shot at the teenager and other Palestinians who were throwing stones during a demonstration.

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Read a report about Wallerstein's involvement in land theft.
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