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An
Arab-Israeli man speaks on his mobile phone as he looks at the punctured
tyres
of his vehicle in the Arab-Israeli town of Abu Ghosh, west of Jerusalem
on June
18, 2013 (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)
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Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli prosecutors have charged two young Israelis with a racially-inspired attack in 2013 on dozens of Arab-owned vehicles in a village just outside Jerusalem, the justice ministry said on Monday.
During the
incident in June last year, the tyres of 34 cars were punctured and racist
slogans were scrawled on a wall in Abu Ghosh, an Arab-Israeli village west of
Jerusalem.
A statement
from ministry said Arye Pearl, a 21-year-old from the extremist settlement of
Yitzhar in the northern West Bank, was charged with vandalism of property and
cars with a racism motive at Jerusalem District Court on Monday.
The second
suspect, whose identity could not be divulged since he was a minor at the time
of the attack, was indicted on the same charges on Sunday at Jerusalem juvenile
court, the ministry said.
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An
Arab-Israeli man points to graffiti that reads in Hebrew "Arabs out"
(L)
and "assimliation" (R) a negative reference to Jews and non-Jews
mixing, on the
wall of a house in the Arab-Israeli town of Abu Ghosh, west of
Jerusalem on June 18,
2013 (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)
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According
to the indictments, the suspects scrawled Hebrew graffiti on a wall reading:
"Arabs out," and: "Racism or assimilation." Assimilation is
a negative reference to Jews and non-Jews mixing.
Abu Ghosh
is a village known for its good relations with Israel's Jewish majority which
tends to attracts hordes of Israelis to its restaurants famed for their hummus
and grilled meats.
Such
attacks are known by the term 'price tag' - a euphemism for
nationalist-motivated hate crimes by Jewish extremists aimed at Palestinian and
Arab property, but have also targeted non-Jews and occasionally leftwing
Israelis and the security forces.
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