Murder of Three Settlers

A Times op-ed by "contributing op-ed writer" Ali Jarbawi begins, "the murder of three settlers in the West Bank has given Israel the excuse it was waiting for to set a huge military operation in motion." Even though two of the three Israeli boys reportedly lived within the 1949 armistice lines that marked Israeli's pre-1967 borders, the Times refers to them as "settlers," a terms that is usually reserved for those who live in territory that Israel retook in 1967. Strange.