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Police raid right-wing radio station
NAOMI SEGAL
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
JERUSALEM - An Israeli police raid on a right-wing radio station has left the country's nationalist and settler camps fuming at the government.
Police said the actions against the offices of Arutz-7 in Tel Aviv, its studios in the Jewish settlement of Beit El, and a transmission facility near the West Bank settlement of Har Bracha were intended to prove that the station, which broadcasts from a ship off the Israeli coast, was not operating outside the territorial boundaries of Israel, as it claims.
The move, which was approved by Israel's attorney general, infuriated members of the country's nationalist camp, who claimed that it was conducted in retaliation for a decision by Jewish settler leaders to launch a public campaign against the prime minister and a U.S.-proposed plan to carry out a 13 percent further redeployment from the West Bank in return for security guarantees.
According to the Yesha Council, which represents settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the public campaign will include the establishment of a tent camp across from the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem that would be staffed by residents of various settlements.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, denied that he wants to shut down the station.
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