Two Israeli extremists were convicted Tuesday on charges that included incitement, arson and sedition. Avigdor Eskin and Damien Pakovitch were found guilty of placing a pig’s head on the grave of Islamic leader Izz a-Din al- Kassam, torching the Jerusalem offices of the Dor Shalom peace movement and planning to put a pig’s head on the Temple Mount. Sentencing is scheduled for a later date. The judge wrote in his verdict that if the Temple Mount plot had succeeded, it could have led to war with the Muslim world and perhaps even to the destruction of Israel.
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