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HadassahSukkot
20th November 2006, 05:02 PM
For Israeli cattlemen, it's the Wild West all over again with rustlers, land disputes and fence cutting all combining to challenge police, frustrate the cattlemen and occasionally leading to more serious violence, including the September incident when Amir Angel was shot following a long property dispute.
On Sunday, even as police announced the arrest of five suspects in the shooting attack directed at the Jezreel Valley cattleman, Angel's family and national representatives of the industry said the situation was out of control and the police weren't doing enough to stop it. Haim Dayan, head of the Israeli Beef Cattle Organization told The Jerusalem Post Sunday that lawlessness directed against cattle growers was a growing phenomenon.

[more at link] http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378436042&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


this is very interesting... in a weird and wacky kind of way..