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By Ami Kaufman

|Published December 15, 2011

Solution for settler violence? I suggest the Mel Brooks approach

There’s something quite sad about how West Bank settlers are turning on their “creators,” the Israeli authorities who put them there and defend them on a daily basis.

Something very Frankenstein-ish about it.

Maybe the “creators” should try the Mel Brooks approach. A nice, big sed-a-give.

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Ami Kaufman was chief night editor for Haaretz, for the prominent Israeli financial daily Calcalist, and correspondent on Israeli affairs for 93.6 RAM FM, a joint Palestinian-Israel radio station. His interest in food and cooking led to culinary studies at the “Israeli CIA” (Tadmor, Herzliya) and a brief stint in the restaurant business. More…

Born in Tel Aviv, Ami lives in Bat Yam with his wife and two daughters.
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