{"id":19600,"date":"2012-05-22T08:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T04:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=19600"},"modified":"2012-05-22T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T04:32:31","slug":"where-is-the-palestinian-ghandi-shot-in-the-head-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/showcase\/where-is-the-palestinian-ghandi-shot-in-the-head-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Palestinian Ghandi..? Shot in the Head Already"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday, May 19th, in the northern West Bank, outside the village of Aserra, a Jewish settler shot a Palestinian boy who was participating in a demonstration.\u00a0 Here is the picture of the assassin aiming his rifle and there is the picture of the boy after the bullet has hit its target.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE<\/strong>: Sheera Frenkel has spoken to the victim\u2019s family and\u00a0tweeted to me<\/a>\u00a0that the bullet entered by his cheek and exist by his ear.\u00a0 So by the grace of God it didn\u2019t enter his brain, though it easily could have.<\/p>\n

Pictures like this enrage me when I think of the inane questions of liberal Zionists like Gershom Gorenberg: \u201cWhere\u2019s the Palestinian Gandhi<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Gorenberg makes his living off asking numbskull questions like this when the answer is staring him in the face.\u00a0 The Palestinian Gandhi, Nemer Fathi, age 24, is pictured here soaking in his own blood.\u00a0 The question shouldn\u2019t be where is the Palestinian Gandhi. The question should be what will Gorenberg and the liberal Zionists do to stop the murder of the Palestinian Gandhis.<\/p>\n

When will they stop blaming the Palestinians?\u00a0 When will they recognize that the blame lies solely with Israel and that the timidity of the liberal Zionists allows their countrymen to continue to live under the illusion that they\u2019ve done enough for peace and that it\u2019s the Palestinians who haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

These settlers are terrorists, but their government will not bring them to justice.\u00a0 That is the crime.\u00a0 That is where the Gorenbergs of the world should focus all their energy.\u00a0 He should identity this settler and demand the police arrest him.\u00a0 He should bring his liberal Zionist friends to the settlement and knock on the man\u2019s door and make a citizen\u2019s arrest (if such a thing is possible).\u00a0 And if the police won\u2019t arrest him he and his liberal Zionist friends should camp outside the police station until they do.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s so much more appealing to blame Palestinians instead of looking in the mirror to see where the real problem lies.\u00a0 It\u2019s also appealing to smear critics like me by\u00a0calling me an anti-Zionist<\/a>\u00a0in the pages of American Prospect instead of dealing seriously with the criticism.<\/p>\n

Here is B\u2019Tselem\u2019s report on this incident.\u00a0 It makes clear that not only were police and IDF present at the shooting, that they did nothing to stop it.\u00a0 In fact, one shooter used a military issued rifle and was likely a soldier on leave and another was likely a police officer similarly off duty (or at least not in uniform):<\/p>\n

On Saturday, 19.5.2012, around four thirty in the afternoon, a large group of settlers descended on the eastern outskirts of the village \u2018Asira al-Qibliya, from the settlement Yitzhar. B\u2019Tselem volunteer photographers filmed the events from two angles. The video shows the settlers, some of whom were masked and armed, throwing stones at Palestinian homes, and fires beginning to burn. \u00a0One of the masked settlers was armed with a \u201cTavor\u201d rifle which is only used by infantry soldiers, raising the suspicion that he is a soldier on leave.<\/p>\n

Palestinian youths from the village soon arrived and threw stones at the settlers. A few minutes later, soldiers and Border Police officers arrived at the scene. During these moments, the video records the sound of several rounds of live ammunition being fired, but does not show its source.<\/p>\n

Around 5pm, a group of three settlers are seen standing with a soldier in front of the Palestinian youths, while all around there is mutual stone throwing. Two of the settlers seen were armed with M4 rifles, and one was armed with a pistol. One of the settlers is wearing what looks like a police cap. The video footage shows the settlers aiming their weapons at the Palestinians and firing.<\/p>\n

The firing injured village resident, Fathi \u2018Asayira, 24, in the head. He is seen being evacuated from the area by a group of youths. He is hospitalized in a stable condition in Rafidiya hospital in Nablus. About fie other Palestinians were injured by stones.<\/p>\n

The video footage raises grave suspicions that the soldiers present did not act to prevent the settlers from throwing stones and firing live ammunition at the Palestinians. The soldiers did not try to remove the settlers and in fact are seen standing by settlers while they are shooting and stone throwing.<\/p>\n

B\u2019Tselem wrote urgently to the Judea and Samaria Police requesting that those involved in the violent attack are arrested and prosecuted. Additionally, B\u2019Tselem wrote to the Military Police Investigative Unit (MPIU) requesting that a military police investigation is opened at once into the suspicion that the soldiers did not adhere to their obligation to protect Palestinians from settler violence, and that one of the attackers was a soldier on leave. B\u2019Tselem additionally requested that the soldiers are instructed to cooperate with the police investigation and identify the suspect in the shooting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here<\/a>\u00a0(and\u00a0here<\/a>) are the B\u2019Tselem videos of the assault on the Palestinians.\u00a0 Though B\u2019Tselem has demanded an investigation, we all know what the result will be \u2013 no result.\u00a0 A pro forma investigation in which the case will be dropped for lack of evidence or for lack of interest or for whatever reason the army and police choose.\u00a0 The reason: \u201cinjury while Palestinian.\u201d\u00a0 Now, our big, brave pro-Israel readers will come forward and remind us that Palestinians threw rocks and therefore what should they expect.\u00a0 But keep in mind that the settlers, according to B\u2019Tselem\u2019s statement, not only threw rocks first, but had deadly weapons and used them, while the Palestinians had none.<\/p>\n

While I do not support violence on either side, can anyone except the pro-Israel flacks not understand how homicidal behavior such as this is one of the single most incendiary elements of the conflict?<\/p>\n

Put yourself in the shoes of anyone who was at this incident.\u00a0 Or any Palestinian who sees the video.\u00a0 What would you think?\u00a0 What would you do?\u00a0 Ehud Barak already knows what he would do.\u00a0 He\u2019s already said publicly in one of his rare moments of truthfulness and candor that if he were Palestinian he would be a militant.\u00a0 Personally, I know that I would not be.\u00a0 But I do know that I\u2019d find other ways to resist:\u00a0 I do know that that could be me out there in the line of fire were I Palestinian.<\/p>\n

Once again, I say that these settlers are Jewish terrorists and that a State which permits their rampant violence aids and abets terror.\u00a0 The State is an accessory after the fact.\u00a0 I pray that sometime down the line the settler leadership and military and police commanders who stood by and did nothing while this attempted murder happened will be tried before an international criminal court for their reprehensible behavior.\u00a0 Like the militia leaders of Croatia and Serbia during the civil war, who were tried and convicted for their collusion with ethnic killers, these Israelis too are no less guilty.<\/p>\n

Know that the world will hold you accountable.\u00a0 That you do not represent Judaism as I and most Jews know it.\u00a0 That Jews with any moral sense renounce you just as most Muslims renounce Al-Qaeda terrorists.\u00a0 Any Jew or Jewish organization that does not explicitly renounce this\u00a0chilul haShem<\/em>\u00a0is not worthy of the support of anyone in the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Know you will be held accountable. That Jews with any moral sense renounce you just as most Muslims renounce Al-Qaeda terrorists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":19602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,83,119],"tags":[169,982,12955,2850,3041,18342,4662,1572,5333,18311,12960,111,18297,690,3870,2797,1059,270,580],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}