Israeli police raided the offices of a right-wing pirate radio station. Authorities said the move was conducted to prove that Arutz-7 was not operating from a ship outside the territorial boundaries of Israel, as it claims. The move infuriated members of the country’s settler and nationalist camps, who claimed that it was done to retaliate for a decision by Jewish settler leaders to launch a public campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a U.S.-proposed plan to carry out a 13 percent further redeployment from the West Bank in return for security guarantees.
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