Posted:
05 Oct 2015 04:33 PM PDT
Image:Israeli
occupation forces (IOF) shot and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in Bethlehem afternoon
Monday.
by
Richard
Silverstein
UDPATE:
About twelve hours ago, a third Palestinian youth was murdered by Occupation forces.
This new killing happened near Tulkarm. Ronnie Barkan reported to
me there were a total of seven attempts to lynch Palestinians in the past
24 hours.
Watch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=_jd6pplowWM
Israel is not a normal country. It is not a western
country. It is not a democratic country. It is a country seeped in
blood. A country where the hounds bay for fresh blood. The blood
of Israeli Jews and Palestinians. Yesterday and the day before it was the
blood of four Jewish settlers murdered in the Occupied Palestine. A
couple driving their car through the West Bank were shot to death and two
rabbis associated with ethnic cleansing group, Ateret Cohanim, were stabbed to death there. Today,
it is the blood of a Palestinian teenager, Fadi Alloun, hunted like a dog by an
Israeli mob who suspected him of stabbing a Jewish settler teen, who’d been attacked near
the Old City in Occupied East Jerusalem.
The stabbing happened in the Musrara neighborhood and the stabbing
happened near the Damascus Gate, which are in the same general vicinity.
Electronic
Intifada published this deeply disturbing video which shows a mob of
mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews pursuing a lone Palestinian man and shouting
repeatedly, “shoot him, shoot him.” Then police sirens are heard.
The video clearly shows the police car, the officer exiting it
pointing his weapon and killing the Palestinian. The officer never says
anything to the victim beforehand. He doesn’t tell him to stop. He
doesn’t identify himself. He shoots first and then asks the crowd whether
the dead boy stabbed someone. Another Israeli responds: “He hadn’t
yet succeeded [in doing so].” This is a different translation than the
one offered by EI, which claims the bystander responds negatively (“The Israeli
youth answers that Alloun did not”). This individual clearly believed the
Palestinian intended to stab someone. But it seems equally clear he had
no proof or evidence to support this. At no point does any Israeli
bystander in the video say they saw the victim do anything suspicious.
When
the police murderer asks if there are any stabbing victims here, a bystander
says, No. After the shooting, several bystanders shout in a triumphant
manner: YES! They add: “Death to Arabs” as a sort of victory chant. While
another asks: Why?
I
do not see any mass celebration. Though of course Israelis approach the body
and treat it with contempt and disdain because they suspect the victim was a
terrorist.
The
police version of this incident is a total fabrication, as is this Jerusalem Post report: Police
spokeswoman Luba Samri said the [Israeli] victim was taken to hospital in
moderate condition and that police “saw the terrorist holding a knife, shot and
neutralized him.”
No
Israeli in the video says the victim has a knife. The policeman doesn’t
say he had a knife. The Israeli who approaches the body and kicks it over
doesn’t say he’s found a knife. That makes this report an outright lie.
But I bet you’ll find a photo of a knife in the Israeli media like the
one found at Hadil al Haslomoun’s murder scene in Hebron last week.
We
are descending into the maelström–blood lust in which Jews and Arabs kill each
other on a whim. Based on the flimsiest of rumors. This is not a
country. This is the Hatfield and McCoys. Vengeance for vengeance’s
sake. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
This
is not civilization. This is worse than anarchy or chaos. It is the
end of sense and reason. The end of whatever it is that makes us human.
Instead, we are become ravening beasts.
This
is Israel.
Any of you who defend or support such a state thirsting for blood, watch
this video and see what you are supporting. And do not seek to minimize
this incident. Do not say it is the product of a hooligan mob
unrepresenative of the rest of the country. This mob IS the country.
The country has collapsed into brutality and murder. It is
sickening.
I
say repeatedly after the murders of Israeli Jews that I oppose such violence by
Palestinians. But no one should be fooled into having any sympathy for
the settler enterprise. These people have stolen Palestine. They are thieves. They
are usurpers. You cannot be innocent and be a settler. It does not
mean you deserve to die in front of your children. But it means that you
are guilty and your crimes cannot be swept away.
As
for the East Jerusalem attack, it occurred in the Old City’s
Muslim Quarter. This is where the rabbis who were murdered lived.
They lived there as part of Ateret Cohanim’s ethnic cleansing project,
seeking to rid the Holy
City of its Muslim
population. Ateret Cohanim supports the rebuilding of the Third Temple.
It supports the razing of the Haram al Sharif. In effect, it
supports religious holy war.
There
people are not innocent. They are not civilians. They are warriors
for the settler god. I did not use a capital “G” because they do not
fight for any God I know or worship. They are idolators.
They
worship at the altar of hate. They worship a false god. As long as
they rule Israel
(and they do, believe me, they do) the nation is on the road to destruction.
Who
will stop this? When will the world step in and say enough to the
insanity? How many dead will it take? 35,000 Palestinians have died since 1948 in wars with Israel.
How long before another 35,000 die? Will the United Nations, EU and
American presidents wait until we have another Rwanda
or Sarajevo in the Holy
Land? Do 800,000 have to die?
Is this
what draconian Yahweh wants?!
(read the their Tanakh and you will know)


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