The British sanctions and Israel’s response

I was not surprised when I heard the speech by Ed Miliband, the British foreign secretary, in which he announced that Britain would impose sanctions against settlers involved in acts of terrorism in the West Bank. The escalation of murderous acts of terrorism has become intolerable. There is no way to understand these crimes except as part of an organized effort by hundreds of Jewish settlers and many thousands of Jewish residents of the West Bank who support them to force the Palestinians to le