Israel’s president called for placing dangerous settlers under administrative detention. “Sometimes in order to safeguard democracy, we have to use undemocratic means such as administrative detention,” The Jerusalem Post quoted Moshe Katsav as saying Monday after several Israeli officials received death threats attributed to right-wing extremists opposed to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Gaza withdrawal plan.
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