Arsonists torch Jerusalem mosque

Israeli police said on Wednesday that arsonists had torched a mosque in central Jerusalem.     

Hebrew-language graffiti at the site suggested Jewish extremists were responsible for the attack on the unused building.      

One piece of graffiti read "Kahane was right" - a reference to the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, an extremist who argued that Palestinians should be expelled from Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.     

The Israeli military said vehicles were also torched and hate graffiti was spray-painted in the West Bank town of Nablus and Qalqilya.     

The incidents came just a day after Jewish radicals broke into an Israeli military base in the West Bank, damaging vehicles, setting fires and slightly injuring a senior commander.     

The growing brazenness by the extremists has prompted calls for a clampdown.     

There have also been allegations that the government hasn't acted more effectively against the extremists after two years of attacks on mosques and more recently, military bases.

AP