Last Updated | March 25, 3:07 p.m.
AN ISRAELI SOLDIER was arrested on Thursday after a rights group published clear video images of him shooting a wounded, immobilized Palestinian suspect in the head following a knife attack in the West Bank city of Hebron earlier in the day.
The graphic, distressing video was posted online by B’Tselem, an Israeli group that provides cameras to Palestinians to help them document human rights abuses in the West Bank territory that has been under military rule since Israel first occupied it in 1967.
As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, the video was recorded just after another soldier was stabbed and moderately wounded at a checkpoint in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron’s Old City, and two Palestinian suspects were killed, including the one who was shot in the video.
According to Ma’an News Agency in Bethlehem, the dead men were identified by the Palestinian health ministry as Ramzi Aziz al-Qasrawi, 21, and Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, 21.
In a statement accompanying the video, B’Tselem explains that the video recorded by “Emad abu-Shamsiyah, a Hebron resident, shows al-Sharif lying on the road injured, with none of the soldiers or medics present giving him first aid or paying him any attention at all.”
About 18 seconds into the clip, al-Sharif can be seen clearly moving his head as he lies sprawled on his back. Ninety seconds later, an Israeli soldier cocks his rifle, steps forward, and fires a single shot at the wounded man from point-blank range. Moments later, a clear trail of blood can be seen streaming from the man’s head across the pavement.
Witnesses: Israeli soldier opened fire on, killed Palestinian from point-blank range https://t.co/xJui5EO0Fj pic.twitter.com/1yhqOOHwgP
— Ma'an News Agency (@MaanNewsAgency) March 24, 2016
Several Palestinian and Israeli observers were struck by the fact that no one around the soldier who fired the shot seemed to treat the incident as unusual — suggesting that such extrajudicial killings of suspected attackers have now become “routine,” as critics have charged.
Absolutely horrifying. People around the executioner simply carry on, as if they didn't just witness a murder https://t.co/kLNjjKK750
— Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) March 24, 2016
Israel will try to distance itself from the execution today in Hebron but reality is unnecessary use of lethal force has been commonplace
— Yousef Munayyer (@YousefMunayyer) March 24, 2016
Asked to comment on the video evidence, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, confirmed in an email to The Intercept that the army took it to be genuine. “The IDF views this incident as a grave breach of IDF values, conduct, and standards of military operations,” he wrote. “A Military Police investigation has commenced and the soldier involved has been detained. All of the soldiers involved will be investigated as will the orders given.”
The soldier, who was later identified as a medic — and could be seen at the start of the B’Tselem clip helping the wounded soldier into an ambulance — reportedly admitted killing the prone suspect during his subsequent interrogation by investigators, but claimed that he only did so because he feared that the man might have been about to detonate a bomb.
The soldier’s name was not used in the Israeli media, but his supporters online, calling him a hero, drew attention to what appears to be his Facebook profile. That account, in the name of Cpl. Elor Azaria, includes several photographs that closely match the appearance of the soldier seen in the video, as well as a recent commendation of his service from the army.
The Israeli soldier Elor Azraya who was caught on tape executing a Palestinian attacker will be put on trial pic.twitter.com/TaYfMyTpTh
— Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) March 25, 2016
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a rights activist outside Tel Aviv, pointed out that the soldier’s Facebook activity included liking the accounts of The Shadow — a rapper who organized groups who beat up anti-war protesters during Israel’s 2014 Gaza offensive — and three far-right politicians: Baruch Marzel, Avigdor Lieberman, and the current justice minister, Ayelet Shaked.
“Marzel gives out free pizzas to soldiers who kill attackers on the scene,” Tsurkov told The Intercept in an interview. His slogan, “eliminate a terrorist, get a pizza,” rhymes in Hebrew, she explained.
The medic’s supporters also pointed to video clips recorded earlier in the incident that appeared to show al-Sharif was able to move slightly. One clip, published by Israel’s Ynet News, showed the wounded man rolling over from his side onto his back, under the close watch of a soldier.
That video, however, also appeared to show that none of the other soldiers standing near the wounded suspect at that stage seemed at all concerned that he might be wearing an explosive vest.
In another clip posted online Friday, one of the soldiers milling around just before the shooting could be heard saying, “He might be booby-trapped. Be careful not to touch him until the sappers arrive.” Still, the B’Tselem video clearly shows that more than a dozen soldiers, medical workers, and armed settlers walked casually past the wounded suspect in the minute before the shooting.
After al-Sharif was killed, settlers, police officers, and soldiers, including the medic who fired the shot, remained within close proximity of the body, talking and checking their phones.
Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images
Similarly graphic still images and a second video posted online suggested that the other suspect, al-Qasrawi, was also shot in the head.
Ayman Odeh, the leader of the Joint List of predominantly Arab parties in Israel’s parliament, wrote on Twitter: “Israel has turned in recent months into a place in which executions are carried out in public with the encouragement of cheering mobs.”
B’Tselem, which has repeatedly raised the alarm about the shooting of wounded suspects, said the authorities were to blame for excusing previous incidents that were less clearly documented. “Extrajudicial street killings are the direct consequence of inflammatory remarks made by Israeli ministers and officials, augmented by the general public atmosphere of dehumanization,” the group wrote.
The rights group, and another called Breaking the Silence, which documents the excessive use of force by Israel’s military in the occupied territories, has been heavily criticized in recent months by officials and Israeli nationalists for supposedly undermining the state by pointing out abuses.
In the aftermath of Thursday’s incident, the Haaretz correspondent Barak Ravid observed that this unfiltered view of what goes on in areas of the West Bank controlled by Israel’s military made it quite clear why such rights groups were needed.
"Anybody who wonders why we still need Breaking the Silence (shovrim shtika)
should just watch this video" #Hebron https://t.co/lGNWlYBhIx— Marian Houk (@Marianhouk) March 24, 2016
As another Israeli journalist, Mairav Zonszein, noted, before video of the shooting came to light on Thursday, prominent settlers in Hebron were photographed mocking activists from Breaking the Silence by dressing like them for the Jewish holiday of Purim.
Israeli Hebron settler Itamar Ben Gvir & Lehava head Benzi Gupstein dress up as @BtSIsrael members | @activestills pic.twitter.com/dgwkg9uky8
— Mairav Zonszein (@MairavZ) March 24, 2016
Israeli soldiers are in Hebron in large numbers to protect several hundred Jewish settlers who live in the center of the city of nearly 200,000 Palestinians. Last week, the Israeli columnist Gideon Levy suggested that American legislators who support Israel’s occupation of the West Bank should visit the city to see the appalling circumstances imposed on its Palestinian majority. “I’ve never met an honest human being who went to Hebron and didn’t come back shocked,” he said.
Top photo: Israeli soldiers carried the body of one of two Palestinians shot dead after a stabbing attack in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday.
Israelis claim to be victims of genocide & they are doing the same thing to palestineans. 1st in double standards
These people claim to be victims of genocide & so many movies are made about the holocaust. But see now who is doing exact same thing to palestinians, worst hypocrites of all time.
How do you say “I was in fear of my life” in Hebrew? It roughly translates to: “I thought he was going to detonate a bomb.”
But I guess if you treat an entire swath of society like animals for multiple generations, and promote an aggressive military policy over that same length of time, it’s not surprising that the folks involved in those military operations would begin to treat their lives as throwaway.
Israel is securing its Lebensraum. No different from you-know-who.
How do you say “Sieg heil” in Hebrew?
Please don’t compare the current (indeed absolutely despicable) Israeli policies to what Hitler did. This incident here is a catastrophe, but there’s no need to make a comparison with the Third Reich again.
Horrible!! And, yet, the United States remains silent. It seem to me that no matter how many are killed we remain silent… Now when a Palestinian attacks an Israeli it gets massive media coverage and the Politicians act as one voice to condemn the incident. WHY!?!?
do these jews think behavior such as this is going to stop them from getting knifed? do not be surprised or outraged when some of your women and children are killed as a reprisal to this reprisal killing. it will be interesting to see how many jewish lives are lost due to this medic’s actions.
Hearts of Darkness on the rise in the world – on all sides of all conflicts.
Footnote to story, Juan Cole, today:
http://www.juancole.com/2016/03/israeli-squatters-issue-death-threats-against-videographer-who-filmed-execution-of-palestinian.html
Every time I read news about Israel the South Africa Apartheid regime comes to my mind. Israel is the new apartheid regime, it need to be stop the same way the world stop Apartheid South Africa: Boycott.
The comments here insisting that this cold blooded killing was somehow justified are quite reminiscient of the assertions made about the numerous recent killings by the police in the US of African Americans. Apparently there are very vocal residents in both Israel and the US who believe both countries have now become police states where the police or occupying soldiers can do anything, including cold blooded murder, and face no consequences. I believe in free speech, which includes my right to say such comments are reprehensible. The Israeli soldier in this video and the American police who do similar things are murders, plain and simple, and should face all the normal consequences that such murders face in countries where the rule of law prevails.
And somewhere in Hell, a smiling Heydrich turns to Himmler, “See? They learned their lessons well.”
This a request to ALL reading this post and commenters at this site, PLEASE watch the following documentary if not already seen ( before it disappears from you tube because of whatever reason )….. and the article before that by Prof Jensen for whom I have high regard. Thank you.
</IThe Occupation of American mind
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-israels-public-relations-war-in-the-united-states/
and the documentary…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_VRZN9_jBA
he deserved it
shoot them on site..when it looks like they will be coming to stab then open firs
only way to get it into there heads is to kill them
hey jerry, do us all a favor and take your illiterate az back to school and take an english 101 class
The Israeli Soldier’s Killing of a Supine and Wounded Palestinian Assailant Is Almost the Same As Leading Israeli Prisoners into a Shower That Turns out to Be a Poisonous Gas Chamber
The only difference is the Palestinian was allegedly guilty of slightly wounding another Israeli soldier in a knife attack. Does that justify killing the Palestinian attacker as he lay defenseless on the ground?
Israel should be given a reasonable amount of time to prosecute the offending soldier and any of his superiors who authorized and/or ratified such killings, up through the Israeli Cabinet apparently as a result of their now public statements about the killing.
Upon Israel’s default to obtain a just result consistent with World Humanitarian Law, the offending soldier and any of his superiors who authorized and/or ratified such killings should be prosecuted at the International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague. Maybe they are not guilty, but they should be held accountable by review performed by an appropriate body.
Otherwise, Israel is acting no different than the Nazis: the unjustified killing of weaker people, in this case a wounded defenseless Palestinian.
You can’t help but wonder if some of the other recent killings of Palestinians by Israelis occurred under the same or similar circumstances as shown in the current video. If Israelis have decided to act like Nazis SS with regard to the Palestinians, they should be held accountable. It doesn’t do Israel any good to create World doubts about Israeli bona fides. The video as it stands is powerful propaganda that Israelis are acting in contravention of the laws enforced by the World’s International Criminal Tribunal, acting just like the Nazis that the World held accountable on behalf of the Jews. Inappropriate action by Israeli soldiers and their superiors needs to be condemned by Israel and/or the World.
nazi = zionism. It has been written that the word nazi comes from the word ashkenazi. The bigger picture lending credibility to this is that there is in israel a racial division between ashkenazi jews and the sephardic jews. Add to that the possibility that the ashenazis were into banking for germany from the treaty of versailles in ww1 and may have backed hitler because the same racial divide in israel today. There is also something about the ashkenazis not being of the original 12 tribes of israel.
Given the predatory kill to steal land and racism of the zions and motto of the mossad, it makes sense that there is a obvious pattern of relationships and cohesive continuity of events that goes way back.
I continue to be shocked by the history of the NAZIS as even today footage that was not shown for years is being released and to see the Israeli’s duplicating the cold-blooded killing’s is somehow even more shocking because I wonder; have they turned into the same inhuman people as the Nazis?
There is another writing that the ashkenazis, who maintain a racist separation from the sephardic jews, may have backed Hitler (it’s a bankster thing) to eliminate sephardic jews. This scenario involves khazars and the the khazar empire and the 12 tribes of israel and a directive by adolf hitler to the jewish people to go to Palestine in the early 1930’s.
If true, U.S. will/has become its enemies too. Fighting fire w fire means this right?
Israel is a terrorist country and US is a state sponsor of terrorism!
What is more outrageous than this strait forward murder on tape of a wounded man (not an enemy anymore) are some dreadful comments I have read here. The small remaining group of holocaust survivors, in their nineties, are appalled by this murderous behavior of Israeli military because is it exactly what they witnessed from NAZIs in WWII. Every Jew was considered a threat to national security of Germany back then adult or child, man or a woman, old or young, healthy or wounded.
Jews walking on the street (not on a sidewalk, since it was punished by death or beating) in their cities they grew up, often were shot while trying to take their hats off (as required by law) while passing a German civilians or military “misunderstood” as a attempt of an assault, by a bandit or terrorist as they precisely called it in their reports and in the media, and a language form Germans used as they testified to the police. None of that was truth, as so many of those alleged knife attacks by Palestinians are; many of them are pure fabrications and provocations.
In fact those few attacks on German military SS or administration that were perpetrated by Jewish resistance were effective in their objectives but they always resulted in copycat propaganda and deaths of hundreds of innocent Jews accused of attacks inspired by media hysteria.
A Jew that happened to be shot and not instantly killed was lying on the street sometimes for hours while police and military investigated and interviewed German witnesses. German children were poking still alive man or woman with sticks, spit on them, or shout profanities, investigating officers were stealing from pocked of the victim, and if suspected of carrying a bomb they him blew up with a grenade. For adults rushing on the street to doing their business, reading their newspapers about another terrorist attack in Germany, dying on a pavement human being was invisible. After that, if still alive, the Jew as shot in the head and collected by a garbage truck.
This was what Jewish holocaust survivors eye witnessed or heard from eyewitnesses and now they are being threatened, punished and social services denied or cut to keep them silent about Palestinian holocaust in their last months or years of witnessing collapsing of humanity of too many Jews, exactly what they eyewitnessed 70 years ago in Europe.
Now, many of them are protesting the new holocaust of Palestinians confined to ghettos like Jews in Warsaw ghetto, an entity, a fully dependent statelet (like Gaza), recognized by only Hitler as a Jewish independent state, designed to be in a state of permanent starvation, crisis, economic depression and slow death. And when Jews raised up for one thing and one thing alone namely their human dignity in 1943 with knifes, clubs, hunting rifles they met with this same abhorrent response as I am reading here, namely just do not try to kill Germans and you gonna be fine.
The leader of Jewish ghetto uprising M. Edelman under pressure from communist authorities in eastern block to emigrate after 1967 ME war, refused to resettle to Israel exactly because he condemned Israeli state for how it treated Palestinians and for their wars and provocations min ME.
He chose to stay under communist regime rather them become Israeli citizen. This powerful message never reached any Jew in Israel or US where he was blacklisted and threaten by MOSSAD with death if he wouldn’t shut up.
Suffering from nightmarish Stockholm syndrome, Israel recreated a NAZI state in the Holy land. The same type of amalgamates of modern enlightened Fascism and Theocracy that almost exterminated Jews in Europe, with its rational dehumanization of a segment of the population (now Palestinians, then it were Jews “rationally” and even “scientifically” dehumanized). The plans of extermination of Jews was called instilling European values and culture in those savages that can’t be reason with and will always continue their conniving, devilish ways, I am paraphrasing NAZI political platform. Just change Jews to Palestinians and European to Israeli and here is, updated current Israeli political platform of all political parties.
I myself do not support HAMAS or ABBAS or any current leader of Palestinians, they all should resign and mainstream secular Palestinians should take charge since this old Palestinian corrupted clique are much more contributing to the problem then to any kind of peaceful solution and only fuelling extremism on both sides but what Israel, that hardly can be called a Jewish state, and its dehumanized robots i.e. conscripted soldiers are doing is nothing less than abhorrent, directly from NAZI playbook.
The Israeli government and all political elites are tainted by war disease and all Israeli oligarchs are making profits of death and destruction and hence should be removed from power an imprisoned for war crimes against Palestinians and economic crimes and pauperization and exploitation of Israeli citizen pushed into perpetual war and existential dependence on US imperial power. if we want to have any hope for political solution and preserving lasting peace.
What we are witnessing is deterioration of basic human morality, social order and steady economic collapse throughout globalized world and the same we can say about corporate governments or observe in the media everywhere, in India, China, Europe or in the US, seemingly local, specific entrenched in history conflicts are nothing but representations of the same pains of US imperial globalization as generations before witnessed when it was British, Spanish or Roman globalization of imperial powers with deadly consequences of denying sanctity of human life everywhere. Underlying all the Imperial political strive is a question of humanity, nothing else.
Bravo, sir. I applaud your courage and honesty. The world would be better off with more persons like yourself. Thank you.
I cannot thank you enough for your deep, thorough, well reasoned, highly moral and deeply felt words.
sad and difficult to watch. knives vs guns. the point of laws and security in communities is to make it easy on security forces to have a gun vs knife scenario. its a makes the security job easier
with the help of israeli intelligence, they find those and seek those of intellectual capacity of bomb making. they are dangerous to communities.
eventually, as many advocates say, abuse of power is always present. especially if you only have a high school education impulsive and a military background. the person with such power and pro choice authority, will find a way to abuse his authority. their philosophy is always true ” do first, think later.” and the consequences? problems of any adolescent.
the army had obviously had the advantage. the person was already subdued.
if the army is used to help the state by making it more prosperous by aborting people. (isis economy), its budgets and resources for the state are tarnished and a devaluation of currency should be in placed. israeli politicians should advocate sanctions on its own self. its disturbing. and, an economy based on this notion, is an economy based on murder of many to benefit those deem fit live in the state.
Your voice is valuable as is the voice of all others. I would like to see an “I AGREE” clicky thinger for everyone’s voice post on this board. We are not alone. Thank you for voicing out.
Human Rights Watch reports death threats against the Arab man who filmed the video, and that the Israeli military has intimidated him and pointed out that he and his family are now in danger from Jewish terrorists:
I can imagine this exact conversation taking place in the 1930s between the Gestapo and a German citizen of Jewish descent. But now it’s 2016. And the Internet is here. Human beings are unbelievable.
Thanks Mona.
I think they need lots more cameras in the West Bank. That’s really the only way for Palestinians to mitigate their oppression. It seems the Israeli government still cares about PR a bit.
If you changed the location and uniforms, the worldwide outrage would be deafening.
I guess I am missing something. With the increase in suicide bombings, wasn’t the soldier just doing his job by killing the stabber, before he triggered a concealed bomb? These days, anyone who commits an act of terror should be presumed to be a threat to be carrying a bomb, and should be taken out to prevent further loss of life. This will force the underlying political issues to be solved in a negotiation rather than with further violence.
Yes, you are missing obvious signs. You missed the fact that the soldiers were casually standing right next to the stabber for several minutes. Even turned their backs to him. They allowed emergency crews to drive past the stabber. When the attacker moves and is clearly still alive, the soldiers are not in a hurry to shoot him. That is not how people behave if they have any suspicion of being near explosives. Notice that I’m not questioning your intelligence. Having watched the video, I could not come up with a better excuse either.
Oh, I don’t think you are “missing” anything at all. No, I think you read about the absurd claim by the soldier’s lawyer that his client thought the immobilized, severely wounded Arab man might have been wearing a suicide vest. (Or did this come to you as a hasbara talking point in email?)
Nevermind that suicicde bombing hasn’t been done there in many years, and that the knife attackers don’t do it. Or that the soldiers had been casually milling about for many minutes before the execution. Or that no one in the military made this claim; it was put forward by the guy’s lawyer.
You want to hurt someone and you have a knife in you pocket and a bomb around your belly. Which are you gonna chose for the most effective harm? Assumed you’re willing to sacrifice your life as a suicidebomber.
Yeah…I would take the knife…for sure.
This whole thing…this story…this world is insane.
You want to hurt someone and you have a knife in you pocket and a bomb around your belly. Which are you gonna chose for the most effective harm? Assumed you’re willing to sacrifice your life as a suicidebomber.
Yeah…I would take the knife…for sure.
This whole thing…this story…this world is insane.
Prison for many many years to come. The ONLY reson he could not be sent ot prison for a short time instsed is IF the man was already dead & I thought he moved meaning he was not dead. Having said the above, let’s remember how many innocent people all over Israel are killed in cold blood as well, it does not make it right but it is happening all the time.
Problem: Israeli soldiers killing those who tried to kill them.
Solution: don’t try to kill Israeli soldiers.
Perhaps you want to investigate a little further. Why do some wish to kill Israeli soldiers?
Sadly, your comment has no context.
However, by your logic, if a Palestinian did not TRY to kill a soldier with a KNIFE, no Palestinian would be killed by a BULLET.
How do you then explain 199 Palestinians dead against 28 Israelis dead between October and November of 2015??
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2015/10/mapping-dead-latest-israeli-palestinian-violence-151013142015577.html
Well now Rodger, the problem is WHY Gazans seek to kill Israeli soldiers. I’ll just quote Moshe Dayan from a eulogy for an Israeli soldier he gave in 1956:
Israeli Jews are still turning into their homesteads the land and villages in which Palestinians and their forefathers have lived. Gazans now are penned up in the open-air prison Israel has made of that strip of land.
The clear-eyed (and monstrous) Dayan understood that no people would passively accept what Zionists did and do to the Palestinians. Including executing them as they lay immobilized on the ground.
you’re the greatest, Mona. When i was born, i received a guardian angel or i would have died. That angel stayed with me all my life. I was fiercely independent and resented “the intrusion”. But alas, i was shown the ways of evil persons who attacked me. I did not want to fight fire with fire. I was baptized. And now i see what he/she sees (my angel is a she).
Before that, i simply figured people did bad things or even became bad. Now i see there really is evil about the planet. It’s all about the health and disease of the will.
The will of God entitles every human being to life support. The gift of free will entitles everyone to earned comfort to live free and clear unemcumbered. We must and shall own all our life support resources.
Always delighted to read your postings. You are a real champion of life and equality and i thank you.
Rodger Lodger
Reality:
http://www.countthekids.org/
Since the year 2000 and as of late 2015, for every Jewish Israeli child killed by Palestinians, 16.5 Palestinian children have been killed by Jewish Israelis. Since then, scores of more Palestinians, mainly children, have been killed by the Israel occupation forces and the illegal settlers.
Regarding the plight of Palestinians under occupation:
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c85b-Palestine-Dignity-in-the-face-of-cruelty
Morning Star (UK)
March 4, 2016
Palestine: Dignity in the face of cruelty
By Richard Burgon, MP
Problem: Oppressed Palestinians defending themselves from those who kill them.
Solution: Don’t try to kill Oppressed Palestinians.
And so it goes…
It’s not at all surprising that someone attacking soldiers would get killed. But that’s beside the point. At issue is whether an incapacitated combatant can be summarily executed. The answer to that is a resounding no. They absolutely cannot be summarily executed, per the Geneva conventions.
As far as conscript armies go, I have no doubt IDF training is among the best in the world. So when we see soldiers standing with a relaxed posture right next to a wounded attacker, it means they have verified the attacker no longer has hidden weapons or explosives. Call me a cynic, but I’d like to know what were the soldiers’ orders in this situation. Were they told to guard the area and make sure the attacker bleeds to death slowly? There is really no middle ground here. Either you help a neutralized wounded enemy, or you may as well execute him to end his suffering.
My heart goes out to the Palestinian people and the horrific abuse that they have to endure because NO ONE HELPS THEM! Shame on Isreal, USA and any and all other countries that allow or promote this murderous impisonment that these people have to bare. Why are the Palestinian people being abused? What did they do so wrong to get this continuous imprisonment and apartheid treatment?
And now, as expected, the gentleman who captured the horror on camera is being threatened by settlers!!
http://khamakarpress.com/2016/03/25/israeli-settlers-threaten-palestinian-who-filmed-hebron-execution/
Prophetic comments by five eminent Jews:
Then Secretary of State for India and the British cabinet’s only Jewish member, Lord Edwin Montagu’s response to Prime Minister Lloyd George following issuance of the 1917 Balfour Declaration: “All my life I have been trying to get out of the ghetto. You want to force me back there.”
Senator Henry Morgenthau Sr., renowned Jewish American and former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 1919: “Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history….The very fervour of my feeling for the oppressed of every race and every land, especially for the Jews, those of my own blood and faith, to whom I am bound by every tender tie, impels me to fight with all the greater force against this scheme, which my intelligence tells me can only lead them deeper into the mire of the past, while it professes to be leading them to the heights. Zionism is… a retrogression into the blackest error, and not progress toward the light.”
Asked to sign a petition supporting settlement of Jews in Palestine, Sigmund Freud declined: “I cannot…I do not think that Palestine could ever become a Jewish state….It would have seemed more sensible to me to establish a Jewish homeland on a less historically-burdened land….I can raise no sympathy at all for the misdirected piety which transforms a piece of a Herodian wall into a national relic, thereby offending the feelings of the natives.” (Letter to Dr. Chaim Koffler Keren HaYassod, Vienna: 2/26/30)
Albert Einstein, 1939: “There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people…. Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.”
Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, 1944: “The concept of a racial state – the Hitlerian concept- is repugnant to the civilized world, as witness the fearful global war in which we are involved. . . , I urge that we do nothing to set us back on the road to the past. To project at this time the creation of a Jewish state or commonwealth is to launch a singular innovation in world affairs which might well have incalculable consequences.”
Reality: Zionism is racism. Zionism is theft. Zionism is fascism.
Israel: 67 years of trying to pound a square peg into a round hole.
Bottom line: Foreign Jews had as much right to Palestine as Irish Catholics or Mexican atheists, i.e., none whatsoever.
People around the world, including Americans, especially youth, and righteous Jews everywhere, are growing increasingly disgusted with and enraged at Israel. It is only going to get much, much worse for Israel. All so predictable.
murder? is that what i’m supporting by paying taxes? I remember the uss liberty attack , this society/ culture is sick in the head.
He might have a bomb strapped to him, why take a chance with your life. Soldier did his job. The only lesson here is not to stab soldiers at check points. A dead terrorist, nothing more.
Since when is attacking soldiers of an occupying army terrorism? (And if you think my question is controversial, you are obviously not thinking clearly or rationally.)
Levy, Hass and some other journalists bring to the world’s attention what Israeli govt does not want the world to know… often with gag orders, foolishly, as Israelis can always get info from other sources.
Levy questions why the ambush and shooting of Palestinian kids??
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.710748
Video clip which he discusses but there is no link…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPHsyIGMZjs&feature=youtu.be
This is I guess a daily occurrence and hence nonchalant attitude of the soldiers!
Gee maybe the downed Muslim just tried to murder people with a knife. I guess he will not be jumping up and knifing anyone any time soon. Leave the Soldier alone.
Mordeci
You missed your calling. You would have had a very successful and much lauded career serving Germany’s Third Reich.
Playing the Hitler card. The strongest proof of a lack of ideas. Maybe his friends think it’s clever.
Rodger Lodger
“If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck….”
Also, its you and your fraternity of zealous Zionist hasbarats who actually play “the Hitler card” without justification.
So, would it be ok for you if a Palestinian knifed a lone Israeli soldier grievously and another Palestinian came to his aid, a third Palestinian would tell him, leave him alone to die. He will not be then shooting anymore Palestinian children in the head!!
His brothers and cousins, and some not yet born, will be knifing, bombing and trying to kill Israeli’s until the gross oppression ends. This is human nature.
Israel postures as The Only Democracy™ in the Middle East. One that has The Most Moral Army™.
The facts, including videos such as this one, are destroying those lies.
“Israel has turned in recent months into a place in which executions are carried out in public with the encouragement of cheering mobs.”
“The Shadow — a rapper who organized groups who beat up anti-war protesters during Israel’s 2014 Gaza offensive — and three far-right politicians: Baruch Marzel, Avigdor Lieberman and the current justice minister, Ayelet Shaked. ”
His [Baruch Marzel] slogan, “eliminate a terrorist, get a pizza,” rhymes in Hebrew, she explained.
“extrajudicial killings of suspected attackers have now become routine”
Illegal occupation, humiliation, theft of land, homes, lives and we wonder why there are stabbings.
Then we witness more of Israel’s horrific justice system.
Hope people are sharing this story.
I hope the brave person who took and posted that video is taking steps to protect themselves, or hide or something, because I’m sure the IDF is planning a retaliatory raid of kidnapping, brutality and destruction on that very neighborhood right now.
Yep, God’s Chosen People move with equal ease in both executing the injured and cutting nuclear deals with apartheid South Africa.
Would you care for some white phosphorous with your theocracy?
War & Peace
It is in human nature to love peace, stillness and silence. Aggression and violence are the dark side of that nature. Peace lies within our heart and is the condition of our higher consciousness, and is a distraction from pure consciousness.
Inner and outer war, are indicators of the lack of realization of peace within the heart, where the higher consciousness resides. World peace will follow when individuals discover their own inner joyful peace.
Turn away from chaos, you experience order. Peace is a by-product of an individual’s discovery of joy and tranquility.
From “Spectrum of Reality” by Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri (Slightly modified)
I’m just as critical of Israel as you are, but unless you have evidence the smiling soldiers are directly smiling about the deaths and that is what they were talking about when the photo was taken, or have some other evidence around this, the photo accompanying the story is misleading and unsubstantiated and just discredits The Intercept’s journalism. Fact based journalism extends to photos; nowhere in the story does it say “Soldiers were witnessed laughing and smiling in reference to the killings they were part of as they carried away the bodies.” It’s really like your photo editor is working against you. on’t be afraid of a photo retraction if it’s unsubstantiated.
What a pathetic attempt at rationalizing cold-blooded murder.
But then then that’s what Israelis do …
Well and truly stated!!
Go directly to israel. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
Jews do not “live” there, they occupy that land, but Mackey gets the correct message across in his stenography.
Solid. Brand. Development.
The genius behind a brand of adversarial journalism which contains a minimum of adversarialness is monumental. To be inclusive, with the ability to not offend sensitive young minds, yet staggering, with an ability to sink directly to the bottom of an intellectual cesspool with graphic carnage, is the sign of resolute control.
Simply stated, a lack of formal training should never be a hindrance to the desire or ability to provide oversight. Resoluteness is the surest way to compensate for any shortcomings and it is integral to brand consistency.
live
VERB
2. make one’s home in a particular place or with a particular person:
“I’ve lived in Hebron since we built our house here illegally.”
synonyms: reside in · have one’s home in · have one’s residence in ·
One lives in a country or territory; you occupy land when the gun barrel is your only hope of staying there. Mackey is implying hey, they just live there …. Jews in Hebron are occupiers, backed by the full weight if the Indiscriminate Death Forces of Israel.
I expected macroman might pick that nit …
If that were true, the soldier would’ve been arrested on the spot. If video had not emerged, are we to believe there would’ve been any consequences?
Grave breach of IDF values = We got caught
IDF values would be to have been demonstrated by preemptively and summarily executed the soldier because it was clearly likely that he would have killed.
The IDF morons being the symhumans incubated at Dimona using proprietary GMO style re-gening, are incapable of “rising above” human depravity. Their gene program does not allow their diminished brains to develop any sense of feeling. Moreover, killing other persons produces the endorphins in their system.
If this is part of knife intifada or as one put it below “jew stabbing” free for all; then killing this guy even 1 hour later prevents him from re-entering the fight. It’s disgusting isn’t it; because it looks like premeditated murder, won’t there be some logical reasoning formulated to excuse it? If you show up to fight or cause harm to others no matter who you are or where you are, you’re risking your life.
Lastly, I want to shout out to Rav Amnon Yitzhak who recently mentioned that knife intifada is rooted in Israel’s lack or failure to observe kashrut. He stated that in kosher killing of animals the knife must be long and razor sharp in order that the animal not suffer.
Arguably then, we all just witnessed a non-kosher kill.
Funny thing is, these dual-citizenship soldiers are serving-out their required military duty in Israel, and will probably go on to acquire a law degree and become practicing attorneys in the U.S.
The dual citizenship isn’t actually a factor, since illegal aliens have the legal right to become lawyers in the U.S. also. The only people who aren’t allowed to become lawyers are people like Matthew Hale who hold the wrong beliefs … that way when the others argue about free speech in front of the Supreme Court, everybody present understands that what they say isn’t what they mean, and what they mean isn’t what they say.
Which brings us to a conundrum: does a soldier who shoots an incapacitated terrorist in the head have the appropriate moral character to practice law in the U.S.? Well, it was outside the country, he was just following orders (even if they have to be given sometime next week), and of course Jews can’t be racist. So I’m thinking the odds are good. :)
Or they go to the U.S. and open tactical / active shooter / in general I wanna be a military bad ass but don’t wanna join the military training to public and private clients.
The problem with people making generalizations about Israel is that it is B’Tselem bringing these videos to us. Not BDS or even the Palestinian Authority. There really are liberals in Israel, and we should recognize that just as not all Americans are to blame for the carnage in El Salvador and Nicaragua, these Israelis are not to blame for this. They have said “not in my name” and I am inclined to believe them.
Now what we need is for Democrats (here’s looking at you, Hillary) to stop saying they’ll have sex with Netanyahu and start letting B’Tselem, a group that approximately no American has heard of, get up on the stage with them.
‘I did the right thing’: IDF soldier on fatal shooting of injured Palestinian stabber
Published time: 25 Mar, 2016 10:52
https://www.rt.com/news/337172-idf-soldier-stabber-no-remorse/
Netanyahu lied again. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon – both of whom come from inside the ranks of the IDF – said that the shooting does not reflect the army’s values, the Jerusalem Post reported.”
Really the murder does reflect their values or it would never have happened. Or the soldier would have been arrested on the spot and the other zionistas horrified. Instead the murderer is called a hero, gets cheers, prbly an award.
Israel is a lot like NAZI GERMANY now. And the zionistas are back to attacking America like before – USS Liberty where 34 American service persons were murdered. Now the zionistas want to imprison Americans for protesting against them.
People can avoid the armed revolt against government gone bad when they can instead occupy the courts and currency production.
really?
If the truth makes you look bad it’s not the truth’s fault.
Bernie Sanders Delivered A Killer AIPAC Speech … In Utah
The pro-Israel group wouldn’t have liked what he said.
03/21/2016 08:11 pm ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-aipac-israel_us_56f072eae4b09bf44a9e34a1
PREPARED REMARKS
Sanders Outlines Middle East Policy
MARCH 21, 2016
https://berniesanders.com/sanders-outlines-middle-east-policy/
Like wallstreet thieves, AIPAC is attempting to SET A TRAP so that Iran gets a nuke so that the zionistas can force America to carpet boom Iran. Then the predatory zionistas can point to the U.S. as the dirty worker holding the bag.
THIS IS HOW EVIL OPERATES. JESUS WOULD DISAPPROVE OF AIPAC.
Note that Sanders doesn’t expose the influence of Israel on “US foreign policy”.
read: petras.lahaine.org/?p=1820
Vivek Jain: Note that you are either a lousy liar or a lousy researcher
Sanders supports this genocide.
Sanders’ Written Remarks to AIPAC
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2016/03/sanders-written-remarks-to-aipac.html
Netanyahu sez 1000 wrongs make a right. That is his ratio. He said it. They teach children to hate and kill palestinians. They don’t call it ethnic cleansing and the court that convicted Milosevich is too cowardly to demand Netanyahu and Cheney.
China knows what to expect of the murderous zion thieves and their supporters – they have no illusions. China will push their will until the u.s. makes a false move and china, in my opinion, will blow the u.s. bases nearby into dust. Their navy is far bigger than the u.s. navy.
so that ISIL can recruit so that israel can cry a thousand tears and demand bigbro u.s. for mo-money and fight their wars.
The murderous zionistas put this offense out there to make targets of all Americans. They are the ones who make ISIL attack. The sooner America cuts all ties with the zionistas the safer and richer and nicer America will be.
It’s truly a sad state of affairs when you can’t even go Jew-stabbing without having to worry about getting shot. Shameful display.
Is that how the justice system works for ALL in Israel?
The soldier committing the extra-judicial killing also committed a criminal act, therefore he also deserves a bullet to the head.
And so on, and so on, and so on…..
Would the Palestinian terrorist have done anything different had his role been reversed with the soldiers? When non-state actors, such as Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas incite random murders of civilians and soldiers, they are not bound by the 1949 Geneva Conventions governing the conduct of warfare. Every U.N.nation-state member, including Israel, has an “inherent right to individual, or collective self-defense,” as recognized by Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.
As Israel has no death penalty statute, every killing, irrespective of whether committed by an Israel, or a Palestinian, is an “Extra-Judicial Execution.” The term has become devoid of any meaning, as it is equally applicable to all killings. If the soldier in this instance had done anything wrong, it was wasting ammunition; Fine him $1.25 for the round he unnecessarily fired into the terrorist and let it go at that. The Palestinian would have done no differently, had he been armed with an M-16 and the soldier was lying on the ground wounded!
You can always tell about people who dont accept Jesus as the savior. Jesus the medicine for broken souls. Jesus the healer. You can always spot the devoids who seek revenge at the price of their own souls. You can always spot the depraved who lack an ounce of sympathy for the plight inflicted upon them by arrogant thieves.
Zionistas will say to all children, “sorry you piece of shet, you are on my land that God gave to me thousands of years ago and if you dont get off it i will shoot you to pieces.”
You can always spot the devil’s followers.
The (supposed) words of Jesus about how people need to
treat each other are very, very good, but the
worship of Jesus is very very bad. Jesus the man is a
good role model, but Jesus the god,
just like every god ever created by mankind
is a source of divisive and predatory corruption.
When and if humans ever grow beyond their faking “belief”
in gods, then they may realize how their “faiths” are lies which
keep them from seeing that we are all one family and that
the gods should take care of themselves without any
help from the humans who keep using gods as excuses for
horror and domination over other humans and the environment.
Christians often ask the question: “What would Jesus do?” Would Jesus advocate stabbing civilian non-combatants, or would he recognize the right of every individual to self-defense against aggressors? Jesus gave his life to take on the sins of others as his obligation to redeem them; he did not advocate taking the lives of others.
In 1947, when the U.N. enacted the partition of the British Mandate into two states, “one Arab and one Jewish,” in the language of UNSCR 181, Israelis accepted the decision, but Palestinians, driven by an arrogant, greedy, self-centered sense of entitlement to “all the land between the river (Jordan) and the sea (Mediterranean),” rejected compromise and as a consequence lost land in a series of futile wars. They could regain most of that land, if they so choose, by negotiating peace in exchange for its return. The “occupation” continues, as Palestinians prefer it to a solution which would give them a state, as part of a two-state solution. Under International Law, dating from the Roman Empire, Israel as the victorious belligerent of the 1967 “Six Day War,” may retain captured land until possession is modified by peace treaty. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uti_possidetis
“What would Jesus do?” As the “Prince of Peace,” he would mediate a peace treaty between Palestinians and Israelis, providing each people with a secure and independent state of their own!.
Pure hasbara crapload.
“What would Jesus do?”
He’d pick up one edge of that shitty little country called Israel and flip it over …
nuf said,
Obviously, you are not a Christian, but just another anti-Semitic bigot.
Jesus Christ never advocated violence and would advocate negotiations as an alternative to violence in the Holy Land!
“Would the Palestinian terrorist have done anything different had his role been reversed with the soldiers?”
It’s your question Mike, now answer it with proof and while you’re searching wonder why you would distract attention from the content of the article and video. Your justification for murder, saying the victim would have done the same, is about as valid and rational as voting for Trump or Cruz.
“Extra-Judicial Execution”? Summary Execution or better yet Murder would be more apt. Perhaps the soldier could be extradited to the West Bank for trial and we could test your theory.
PS The round shot into the wounded man fatally murdering him didn’t cost Isreal a cent since the US provided $2 billion in arms sale in 2015 .
Are non-state actors immune from military/police response when the Palestinian Authority, or Hamas incites its youth to stab civilian non-combatants? The single terrorist who murdered U.S. citizen Taylor Force, also attacked about a dozen Israeli civilians before he was neutralized. Every nation-state has the right and obligation to protect its citizens from terrorists. As non-state actors, Palestinians are not bound by the 1949 Geneva Conventions and nation-states combating non-state actors are not bound by them either. If the Palestinian “Rules Of Engagement” provide “kill them all and let God sort ’em out,” then there is no reason why Israel shouldn’t do likewise. The 1949 Geneva Conventions, governing the conduct of warfare, are limited to nation-states which are parties to the Conventions. There is an old Marine Corps adage about “Payback,” which cannot be repeated here in its entirety, but in essence, “what goes around, comes around!” As the aggressors, Palestinians may choose their own “Rules Of Engagement,” but when those same “R.O.E.” are applied against them, they have no right to complain!
More hasbara.
Neat trick. Who wiped Palestine off the map and now claims Palestinians are no longer state actors?
Fucking Israel.
nuff said,
Have you seen any Palestinian maps of the Middle East? They show only Palestine in the land which was apportioned to Israel by the U.N. in 1947, under UNGAR 181, providing for two states, “one Arab and one Jewish” in the language of the Resolution. Palestinian terrorists call for “One Democratic State,” but there has been only one since 1948. If they do not want other democratic states, which would be exclusively theirs and Palestinian majority ruled, they need not have them. The Palestinian territories have been occupied since 1948, first by Egypt and Jordan and then since 1967 by Israel. If they wanted an independent state, they could have it by negotiating peace with Israel in exchange for most land captured since 1967. But as they refuse to do that, the “occupation” continues, per International Law. See: http://en.wikipedia/org/wiki/Uti_possidetis
When a nation state kills, it definitely is different to ordinary individuals committing murder, and most people understand that intuitively. In the US, there are dozens of murders every single day. Yet, if the state were to kill one person, it would be news, particularly if the killing has no clear justification.
It’s because nation states have powers and responsibilities that ordinary people do not.
Jose,
Article 51 of the United Nations Charter recognizes the right of all U.N. nation-state members to an “inherent right to individual, or collective self-defense.” Every nation-state has the right and obligation to protect its civilian population.
Israeli Soldier Filmed Executing Wounded Palestinian Man
By Dan Cohen
Excerpt:
Execution as a religious commandment:
Jewish religious leaders in Israel have also expressed support for summary executions of Palestinians.
Two weeks ago, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said that it’s a “mitzvah” (religious commandment) to kill armed Palestinians.
Prominent religious Zionist rabbi and head of Machon Meir yeshiva Uri Sherki said in January that there is an “obligation for Jews to kill terrorists before they kill us.”
Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu said on the Galei Yisrael radio station in October, “It is forbidden to leave a murderer alive.”
Eliyahu and Rabbi Benzion Mutzafi have both called for police and soldiers to be put on trial if they do not execute Palestinian assailants on the spot.
Rabbi Ben-Tzion Mutzafi told his students, “It is commanded to take hold of his head and hit it against the ground until there is no longer any life in it.”
Public support for executions
A poll by the Israeli Democracy Institute found broad public support for the summary executions. 53% of Jewish Israelis support killing alleged attackers on-the-spot, even after their arrest and when they no longer pose a threat. In addition, Israeli civilians have incited soldiers and police to execute Palestinians on-the-spot. This can be seen in the killings of Fadi Alloun and Bashar Massalha.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-soldier-filmed-executing-wounded-palestinian-man/5516336
Latest Peace Index: Israelis Are “Tense But Not Hysterical”
Arab Israelis, however, say they are quite frightened
November 5, 2015
[Excerpt]
Punishing Perpetrators
Jewish Israeli and Arab Israelis do not see eye-to-eye with regards to how to punish those who carry out attacks based on a nationalistic background.
Destroying Homes: While 80% of Jewish Israelis believe Palestinian homes should be raised if the home owner or a family member carries out an attack, only 53% agree that a Jewish Israeli’s home should be raised if the home owner or a family member carries out an attack. (Some 77% of Arab Israelis disagree that Palestinian homes should be raised; 67% also oppose raising Jewish homes.)
Level of Punishment: The majority of the Jewish public (70%) feels the punishments Israeli courts levy on terrorists are too light. As is expected, the majority of Arab Israelis (60%) feel these punishments are too heavy.
A majority of Jewish Israelis (53%) also said they agreed with the statement that “any Palestinian who has perpetrated a terror attack against Jews should be killed on the spot.”
(cont.)
http://en.idi.org.il/about-idi/news-and-updates/latest-peace-index-israelis-are-tense-but-not-hysterical/
This is Israeli insanity full blown. I did not say Jewish insanity! What the citizens of Israel practice is not the Jewish Religion, but their deep remembrance of the Holocaust! They remember their hate of the other, and the Palestinian people have become their nemesis because of this insane and totally irrational, filled with unreasoning and fear! The hate of those in fear is terrible to watch isn’t it. We just witnessed it. That soldier should be quartered in front of his mates for his heinous actions against another human being while in a position of power. All people in positions of power like this should be destroyed immediately!
They learned this from Adolf himself. Their directive is “If Adolf can do it to us, we can do it to others”. Morons do not have the capacity to rise above. That’s the problem when you have self-righteous morons with big egos.
God rejects Israel.
No photographs or videos from the scene show knives or any bladed instruments and look at Qasrawi’s body in various photos and how the blood has spread from it. At some point he has likely been turned around and dragged because the blood would have flown uphill and his position changes from laying on his stomach to being in his back.
This is a common occurrence. But usually it’s not caught on video, or not captured in an unambiguous, non-grainy manner. Palestinian witnesses report murders such as this with some frequency, but Zionists overwhelmingly dismiss them as liars and believe Israel’s denials.
Only where, as here, international outrage is induced by a clear video going viral does Israel actually punish the perpetrators.
PLEASE write to your congressional leaders and DEMAND accountability from the Israeli govt. Israeli govt breaks every possible law with impunity thanks to US Sec Council veto and makes new laws as and when…..and has the gall to demand $5B instead of $3B it is currently receiving….. enough is enough.
Thank you.
Like spitting in the ocean to reduce salinity thereof
I can understand your scepticism very well… considering how the elected officials function. HOWEVER, there ARE some elected officials who are concerned about various issues affecting I/P conflict and specially shooting of Palestinians.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congresswoman-suggests-withholding-aid-to-israel-over-shooting-of-two-palestinian-teens_us_55db8b01e4b0a40aa3abdd3b
Also, she wrote a letter to Sec Kerry ( signed by some of her colleagues ) demanding accountability from Israeli govt.
http://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/letter_to_secretary_kerry_from_19_members_of_congress
Nothing will change if citizens do not demand of their elected officials what is right. It may take time to change things but imho, one has to continue even if it seems hopeless.
I’ve only witnessed this kind of nonchalance by military personnel in the face of murder, in movies. Guess who the bad guys were in those movies.
Vital reporting that risks being discredited by the accompanying photo – smiling Israeli soldiers seems to defy journalistic fact-based reporting that The Intercept in committed to. Don’t hinder your own reporting with mismatched photos, don’t provide skeptics or critics with an invitation to undermine the validity of the story.
Israel….. a disgusting, criminal terrorist state that embraces acts of aggression and mocks dissent. Not the only one in the world by far, but the one the West is responsible for and has the power to change.
Of course, the reason this doesn’t happen is because it is a client state of the US, more specifically concentrated US wealth. Also, the countries most supportive of its crimes are the settler colonialist societies guilty of the same in their barbaric pasts…. the US, Canada, and Australia.
Fascinating that a theocracy that appropriately says about the Holocaust “never again” adopts so enthusiastically major principles of the Third Reich. Goebbels would be so proud. Orwell would be crying.
I’m so sick of this shit.
since rich Jewish people and businesses control United States politicians the governments of many country’s don’t have the guts to cut Israel off of the well fair payments made to them every year and tell them to stop there genocide tactics of taking over the Palestinian lands that were agreed upon after UN. negotiations but Israel being a terrorist state all most as bad as ISIS.will never agree until forced to by the US. and other powerful countrys.
AIPAC loves this stuff. They are looking for a candydate they can support. The zionista in florida who supports killing for land back that little sucker who lost his prezi bid. Lucky for them they got another nutjob who wants to carpet boom places.
Americans have been forced into wars by fraud and have then been forced to swallow a celebration of sorts. This is “WIFE BEATING” at its finest. You have a captive population catching the helsinki syndrome and worshipping the wealthy who have robbed them of value, homes, jobs, everything. If you can think of a more twisted scenario, do tell.
The video clip and the images made me feel sick…. though it is nothing new for the IDF. This is their daily routine….
They feel threatened by a Palestinian who is blindfolded and whose hands are tied behind his back and they will still shoot him… why? ….. only they know…. fortunately, though outrageous, at least the Palestinian got shot in the foot and not in the head…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7516477.stm
These israelis are actually the cast-out lilliputions from long ago. They were born with very tiny brains and everything scares them. Unknown to the general public, the site of Dimona is more than just nukes to threaten the planet with. The israelis breed soldiers there in tubes and radiate them so that their systems are stunted and cannot think for themselves. It is a huge moron breeding facility. These morons are trained in synagogs to hate and kill palestinians.
I am sorry about your comment.
Israeli soldiers were not monsters…. THE STATE has created monsters out of them…
Military service is an “OBLIGATION” in Israel. Many have refused to serve in oPTs and even gone to jail. However, this obligatory military service has taken a major toll on these young soldiers. Thousand have gone away to India and drugged themselves to forget all the horrors they saw and committed and overdosed themselves. What happened in Jenin in 2002, the world may not know for sure but soldiers who were there, surely knew. It seems like forever, they have been made to do horrible things and they have carried them out ( sounds awful ). And our govt can not be excused from its share of blame for allowing the iIraeli govt to continue doing it.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-11-14/news/0311140182_1_young-israelis-jewish-state-cafe-in-tel-aviv
Everybody commits war crimes, even the most enlightened regimes.
Of course, this doesn’t excuse the present behavior. Soldiers everywhere must adapt to the new reality of ubiquitous smart phones with cameras. The correct protocol is to take custody of the suspect and place them in an ambulance with no windows. The captive is declared dead on arrival at hospital.
This may seem like a technical objection, but protocol exists for a reason. If the IDF wants to keep training US police forces, they’ll have to pay a bit more attention to public relations.
I hope that no one takes this as a criticism of the IDF, as I might one day wish to visit the campus of the University of California.
Love it..“I hope that no one takes this as a criticism of the IDF, as I might one day wish to visit the campus of the University of California.”
… and if the U$AF has already *accidentally* bombed the nearby ambulances (as is usually the case – duck! if y’all are from Médecins Sans Frontières), what’s the protocol then?
How clever of the zionistas. Besides their authorship and expertise in genocide and stealing land, they are also very good at hijacking public universities in America without having to pay for them. Clever little fokkers arent they.
The irony is that the morons can attend the universities they hijack but it doesnt really make them any smarter, or wiser, or nicer, or anything at all. So sad. But, what can you expect from people who believe that killing Jesus was just another justice?
So much for the fiction of the “world’s most moral army”. Not that anybody believed it anyway, but it makes for good propaganda and this sort of stuff puts a little temporary news cycle dent in that myth.
But the Israel system of civilian or military justice won’t do much if anything to this guy. Maybe some administrative punishment, lose a rank, maybe if the political heat gets really hot a week or couple months in stockade. IDF doesn’t really hold its own accountable and the Israeli civil “system of justice” isn’t much better if the object of a crime is Palestinian.
Tragic, inhumane and immoral. To bad the Israelis can’t see their fear of their brothers and propensity to wildly overreact and subjugate a peoples is going to be their undoing. If not the demise of the entire State of Israel. About the best they can hope for is to end like Apartheid South Africa did, with truth and reconciliation commissions and a redistribution of land. Short of that Israel will eventually go out in ignominy. Probably take everybody else on the earth with them is my guess given the Samson Option.
Always struck me as interesting that 0.2% of the world’s population would ever consider taking down the entire world with them if they were ever seriously threatened again. Not sure what’s moral about that idea. Must have something to do with the idea of being “chosen”. Doesn’t strike me as overly moral. Sort of strikes me as the logic of “if for whatever reason somebody was intent on killing me and my entire extended family, it would be okay for me or a family member to unleash a biological plague on the planet guaranteed to take 99.9% of the world’s population with us.”
Weird logic and morality.
We can look forward to these IDF imbeciles coming to America to help clean up cities that have been prepared for takeover by poisoning the inhabitants. They will work well with the wallstreet thieves who will file papers to condemn the homes for habitability. The imbeciles will then enter the homes and shoot the inhabitants for not having already vacated, like they did in NAKBA. Lucky for wallstreet these morons will follow orders so easily. Morons (imbeciles) dont need a conscience and were not given that brain part when they were manufactured in Dimona. If you havent heard about this, it’s the new patented line of GMO Human.
They are also doing this in San Diego. Their hope is to introduce a modifier into the GMO food to make the newborn population more “what can i do to please you sir” oriented. You know, service jobs.
The LA Times said that you can hear a voice saying “This terrorist is still alive, this dog.” The non-reaction from the other soldiers is just disgusting, what a bunch of despicable cowards. Every soldier that witnessed it and did nothing should be held responsible as well.
You realize the Palestinian just attempted to murder their friend… you have the gall to call them cowards? What would you know about war, you keyboard warrior
Yep, you heard right (gasp!). If my good buddy was stabbed, I would not take out my rifle and shoot an incapacitated person in the head. I truly hope you aren’t a member of our armed forces. My guess is you aren’t.
Some nighttime reading for you
UN Convention on this topic:
This applies to militias and organized resistance movements.
Palestinians are treated as less the human.
Their deaths are are hardly noticeable.
Israel, the only colonial power left?
This is what Israel has been doing to Palestinians for decades, one shot in the head after another after another after another…..eventually they’ll all be gone.
“they’ll all be gone.”
Perhaps, but I think Philistine is just a label. It’d be interesting to DNA test everyone involved to see who was related and not. An argument has been that it is really just Jews and Arabs in Israel, then you have Hashemites ruling over Arabs in Jordan… then there’s Syria, who did not want them at all (thinking War of the Camps, I think).
To get back to they’ll be wiped out: it’s interesting to note that DNA could find certain things like a Cohen marker buy you would not be “jewish”; wouldn’t it be interesting to find the remaining “lost tribes” according to myth and then find that they were killing ea. other.
Nevertheless, the actions are disturbing to view; but more likely just a commonplace occurrence or reality for people who do security workanywhere in the world.
The exemption that Israel gets from the U.S. over human rights violations is out of control (though similar to the exemptions that Saudi Arabia gets). Compare that to Cuba, where President Obama made a point of lecturing extensively on the need for Cuba to release political prisoners – what about extrajudicial murder in Israel, and the much larger numbers of political prisoners there?
It’s not just human rights – the exemptions given on the Israeli nuclear weapons program are equally outrageous. Israel has little option but to come clean on their nuclear weapon program and its historical development; yet various bureaucrats with a long history in the French and American nuclear weapons programs are strongly opposing this because doing so would reveal the extent of their own involvement and collaboration with the Israeli nuclear weapons program – and there’s also the issue of Israel’s covert cooperation with the apartheid-era South African nuclear weapons program.
While the U.S. government prohibits its employees from discussing the Israeli nuclear weapons program, according to U.S. law foreign aid to Israel is illegal because:
“The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 was amended by the Symington Amendment (Section 669 of the FAA) in 1976. It banned U.S. economic, and military assistance, and export credits to countries that deliver or receive, acquire or transfer nuclear enrichment technology when they do not comply with IAEA regulations and inspections.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symington_Amendment
There is no good rational argument for allowing Israel to go on refusing to submit to IAEA inspections; everyone knows they have such weapons, and all the hysteria on the issue from neocon holdouts in the U.S. media doesn’t change that fact. If Iran can accept such inspections, Israel can as well.
And what about US political prisoners?