Jewish terrorism is a “cancer” that Israel is lenient in tackling, Israel’s Shin Bet chief said. “Understand that a Jew who carries out terrorism is ultimately much more of a cancer in the nation than an Arab who carries out terrorism,” Yuval Diskin said in a recent closed-door briefing to army cadets, a recording of which was aired this week by Israel’s Channel 10 television.
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