The Killing of Israeli Teenagers is Political, the Killing of Palestinian Teenager is Criminal
The difference between the treatment of the killing of a Palestinian teenager
and the three Israeli teenagers says everything you need to know about Israeli indifference to Palestinian life. The unspoken message if ‘they’ love death, we love life. racism as a
letter I wrote appears in today’s Independent.
now it emerges that a 15-year-old cousin of Muhammad’s, visiting for
the summer from the US, was the victim in video footage of a savage
beating by armed Israeli police. They kicked and punched him
relentlessly after he was cuffed and lying on the ground. He is
still under arrest, apparently without charge. – See more at:
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-07-05/four-families-grieve-one-is-under-assault/#sthash.aQeCasAu.dpuf
Dror Eydar, a columnist for Israel Hayom,summed this up in an article: ‘Murder of Israeli Teens Highlights Palestinian Culture of Death’
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| Murdered Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdair |
This racist attitude was first articulated by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir: ‘Peace will come when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us.’ (The Agony of the Promised Land (2004) by Joshua Levy, Ch. 23 “The Hope for Peace”, p. 187)
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The Result of Israeli bombing of Gaza – Netanyahu Knows Who the Killers of the Israeli Teens are. |
now it emerges that a 15-year-old cousin of Muhammad’s, visiting for
the summer from the US, was the victim in video footage of a savage
beating by armed Israeli police. They kicked and punched him
relentlessly after he was cuffed and lying on the ground. He is
still under arrest, apparently without charge. – See more at:
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-07-05/four-families-grieve-one-is-under-assault/#sthash.aQeCasAu.dpuf
‘in response to the kidnapping and killing of the Israeli teenagers, Israeli jets and helicopters launched dozens of air strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight on Monday, just hours after the bodies of three abducted Israeli teenagers were found in a shallow grave near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.’
The air strikes… came after the Israeli
prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu,
vowed the militant Islamist group Hamas, blamed by Israel for the kidnapping,
would “pay a heavy price”.
Of course there were no air strikes on the settlements where the killers of Muhammad Abu Khdeir are based. Such an idea is unthinkable to Netanyahu and his cabinet of killers.
At the Israeli teenagers funerals, which were effectively state funerals,
Netanyahu waxed lyrical: “I know
the pain of mourning; there is nothing worse than that,” he said standing
by the three coffins, each draped with the blue and white Israeli flag.
“The whole nation has witnessed your inner strength and that of the rest
of your family,” their children were “attacked by murderers who
violated the decree: ‘Never cast a hand on a child'”. Guardian 1.7.14.
teenager, he adopted a very different
tone. Nothing about casting a hand on a
child or the pain of mourning, after all Palestinians don’t mourn, they glory
in violence. Whereas Netanhayu knew the
identity of the killers of the Israeli teenagers, he didn’t ‘know yet the
motives or identities of the perpetrators. ‘We will bring to
justice the criminals responsible of this despicable crime whoever they may
be.” Guardian 1.7.14
It now emerges that a 15-year-old cousin of Muhammad’s, visiting for
the summer from the US, was the victim in video footage of a savage
beating by armed Israeli police. They kicked and punched him
relentlessly after he was cuffed and lying on the ground. He is
still under arrest, apparently without charge. – See more at:
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-07-05/four-families-grieve-one-is-under-assault/#sthash.aQeCasAu.dpuf and http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.603184
were politically motive, Hamas of course, but the killers of a Palestinian teenager
were criminals. They had no political
motive when they killed 16-year-old
Muhammad Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian teenager whose body was found on Wednesday,
July 2 in Jerusalem’s forest area.
response to the murder of a Palestinian teenager was much more measures: “Murder, riots, incitement, vigilantism —
they have no place in our democracy,”
Netanyahu condemns
murder of Palestinian teenager. The Times of Israel 4th July 2014
