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Middle East Israel debates branding settler price tag attacks 'terrorism'

So-called price tag attacks on Palestinian property by West Bank settlers and their supporters have surged this year. Israel wonders if it should call the attacks 'terrorism.'

By Correspondent / June 17, 2013

Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

Frustrated at their inability to stem a spike in violence against West Bank Palestinians by Jewish settlers with so-called "price tag" attacks,  over the weekend Israeli law enforcement authorities came within a whisker of getting permission to treat the attackers like terrorists.