An Israeli security chief blamed a lack of vigilance for the failure to stop settlers from attacking Palestinian olive trees. At a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee session Tuesday where the recent vandalism of West Bank orchards was raised, the chief of the Shin Bet, Yuval Diskin, said there had been advance warning that radical settlers might carry out the attacks.
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