[Alouette]

However, the Israeli press has reported many other incidents of Jewish settlers' unprovoked violence

While there have been a few instances of graffiti and vandalism, and some teenage fistfights, which I do not condone, most of the egregious atrocities are exaggerations and outright fabrications.

Yediot Acharonot and Haaretz are two leftist media outlets who can never pass up a chance to take a swipe at the settlers and the religious population. Jerusalem Post is more balanced, i.e. they will run a biased story but will issue a correction if they get enough reader feedback.

You can find stories of "settler atrocities" all over the Internet--the link you provided is from some leftist's homepage--long after they have been pulled from mainstream media.

Honest Reporting and Camera do a fair job of tracking bogus media stories bashing the Jewish communities in districts the Palestinians want for an ethnically-cleansed state. But even they can't always keep up with the sheer volume of bogus atrocity tales the fill the media 24/7.

[kenavi]

But even they can't always keep up with the sheer volume of bogus atrocity tales the fill the media 24/7.

You are saying that all serious settlers-atrocity tales, including the one I cited that allegedly the Knesset believed, are fabrications?

If a settler believes that the People of the Land have no right to be there, it is a small step for him to kill their sheep, attack their school children on the way to school, and yes, uproot their trees. (I have heard a stalwart Zionist Rabbi cite this as a common tactic in the war to assert control of the land.) I wish it were not so.