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"Professor Zeev Sternhell on Friday said the pipe bomb attack at his home late Wednesday, believed by police to have been perpetrated by right-wing extremists, was a sign that settler violence was spilling over the Green Line into Israel proper.
The left-wing activist and Haaretz columnist told Israel Radio that "there are two populations in the (Palestinian) territories and there are two systems of law, and if settlers are allowed to beat Palestinians, to uproot their orchards and demolish their houses - why shouldn't this happen across the Green Line?"
The Green Line demarcates Israel's border with the West Bank as it lay before the 1967 Six-Day War.
Sternhell, an Israel Prize laureate, was lightly injured when a pipe bomb exploded outside his home in Jerusalem, in what police suspect could be a new campaign by right-wing extremists to target prominent left-wingers.
He said that he was sure that the attack had been perpetrated by a member of the extreme right. "It is possible that this was done by a lone crazy person, an organization or an entire settlement."
Sternhell also blamed apathy to settler violence for the bombing. "Society does not respond," he said during the radio interview, adding that when someone does in fact respond it is "positively or with a wink."
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