Their response has always been disproportionate, take this as a recent example:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...ng-palestinian
I'm fairly sure most of you won't go to the web page, so I'll quote some interesting parts here.
"...one settler stopped his car and opened fire on the Palestinians, although some accounts said the dead child was not one of the group of stone throwers..."
"We knew that he had been working on his family's agricultural field, and we found him there under an olive tree – lying on his stomach, with a bullet wound in his back."
"Last month a mosque in a Palestinian village near Nablus was vandalised, apparently by settlers. Earlier two settlers from Yitzhar, a rightwing settlement in the area, were injured by rocks thrown by Palestinians. In March two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead by Israeli troops in the village of Iraq Burin, also near Nablus, after a demonstration against a nearby settlement."
I'm sure there will a thorough investigation and the settler responsible will be caught, tried and sentenced appropriately....................... oh look there is a flying pig!
More information here:
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018697844
"A Palestinian child who was in the vicinity of some other youth who had been throwing rocks at a settler's car in the occupied West Bank was shot in the back and killed by an Israeli settler on Friday, while another child was shot in the head.""Ayssar Yasser al-Zaben, 16, from the Ramallah area of Mazra ash Sharqiya, died at the scene."
"According to reports, Zaben had not been throwing stones.
"Another youth, an unidentified 17-year-old boy, was hospitalized in critical condition with a gunshot wound to his head. The rock-throwing youth were reportedly taking part in an almost weekly demonstration over Israeli settlers trying to take over a Palestinian well near Nablus."
