Report: Death threats for Israeli defense minister
(AP) — Army Radio says Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has received dozens of death threats since the government decided to slow construction in Jewish West Bank settlements.
Channel 10 TV has published the contents of one of those letters. The author threatens to "murder" Barak if he's "planning on destroying settlements in Judea and Samaria," referring to the West Bank.
The author of the letter, which reached Barak's office Tuesday, also threatens to kill Barak's children.
The threats are taken seriously in Israel. In 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist opposed to his peace moves with the Palestinians.
The slowdown was announced in late November under pressure from Washington, which hopes to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
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