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Video: Israeli sniper kills Palestinian protester in Hebron

This video captures the moment an Israeli sniper shot a bullet into the heart of Nader Mohammad Edrees, 40, during a protest in the Bab az-Zaweya area of Hebron on Friday. Doctors performed heart surgery but were unable to resuscitate him. He was pronounced dead hours later.

The video appears to show that Edrees posed no risk at all to occupying Israeli forces. Also note the brave older man near the end of the video waving a green cardboard rocket on his arm, in apparent support for Hamas’s actions in Gaza, right in front of soldiers’ guns.

 Nader Mohammad Edrees, 40, shot in the heart by Israeli military forces (photo: Ma'an News)
Nader Mohammad Edrees, 40, shot in the heart by an Israeli sniper (photo: Ma’an News)

Edrees was buried today in Hebron.

Edrees was one of three Palestinian men killed in separate protests in the last few days being held in locations across the occupied West Bank where Israeli military forces open fired with live ammunition.

Ma’an News reports at least 50 Palestinians were injured by shots of live ammunition rounds. The International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC)reports that along with being shot by the live rounds, gas bombs and concussion grenades were also used to disperse the demonstrators. 

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been demonstrating in the last month, in solidarity with their people in Gaza, many of whom have been slaughtered in massacres by the Israeli military.

 

 

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What would Adorno Horkheimer say?

“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children,” she said. “But we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.” Golda Meir / CBS Bob Schieffer

” To understand — and ultimately confront — the outbreak of contemporary Jew-hatred, a sociological theory provided by two German Jewish philosophers carries great explanatory power. Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) argued that post-Holocaust Germany was contaminated with “Guilt-defensiveness anti-Semitism.”

In short, they argued, many Germans sought to purge their guilt by blaming the Jews for the Hitler movement. The Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex captured this outlook in one sarcastic, ironic sentence: The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/behind-europe-anti-semitic-slurs-article-1.1891349#ixzz39wProIWk

How very brave. But yeah, being the most moral army in the world, what choice have you got?

@- Annie,

Who shot the close-up of the rifle at the beginning of this clip?

I ask, because no Palestinian would be allowed near an IDF marksman and his team [s/he would be very dead].

It would be a funny skit if people were not being killed for protesting, or simply for being there–that guy with the greed cardboard rocket wrapped around his arm?

most moral army at it again

At what point does intafada become acceptable?