Huh?

Story here. From last week's New York Times. Requires registration.


JERUSALEM, July 18 — Israelis buried more victims of a Palestinian attack today as the nation grappled with police accusations that Jewish settlers had stolen army ammunition and sold it to Palestinians.

Five settlers, four of whom are soldiers, and a reserve army officer were arrested this week and are suspected of stealing and selling thousands of rounds of ammunition, the police said. The six men have denied that they intended to help Palestinian militants.

The arrests have caused concern in the army over rising weapons theft, and the case has stunned neighbors of some of the suspects in the West Bank settlement of Adora, near Hebron, where four people were killed in an attack by Palestinian gunmen less than three months ago.

As details about the case reverberated today, funerals were held for those killed in the ambush of an Israeli bus on Tuesday in the West Bank and for an officer killed in an ensuing firefight with the attackers. A woman wounded in the ambush died today, bringing the death toll in the attack to nine.


So, Israeli settlers sell ammo to Palestinian gunmen, who go out and slaughter folks who live in other Israeli settlements.

My head is spinning.