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Hebron settlers file complaint against Palestinian who filmed execution

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bentzi Gopstein, far-right settlers and followers of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, have filed a complaint with Israeli police against Emad Abu Shamsiya, the Palestinian videographer who captured the execution of an incapacitated Palestinian suspect in Hebron.

Ben-Gvir is a lawyer who defends Jews suspected of vigilante attacks including the killers of the Dawabshe family. Gopstein is founder of the state-funded anti-miscegenation movement Lehava, and has called for churches to be burned.

In their letter to the police, they claim that Abu Shamsiya’s presence during the killing is no coincidence, but was coordinated with the alleged attack in order to capture damning video.

They write: “In our opinion the accumulation of cases and their number raises questions and it would be quite naive to think that we might be talking about a coincidence. It deserves to be checked and examined, is there coordination, between certain elements of those who carry out offenses and those who are present on the spot exactly at the same time? Under these circumstances, we ask you to order an opening of an investigation against Abu Shamsiya, and make a clarification also about the actions of B’Tselem.”

Ben Gvir and Gopstein allege the attackers and Abu Shamsiya somehow foresaw the execution and plotted accordingly. This would be laughable if it didn’t have serious implications. Abu Shamsiya has already received death threats from settlers.

This letter comes as a new video has surfaced showing Elor Azraya, the soldier who killed Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif in Hebron, shaking hands with far-right leader Baruch Marzel while al-Sharif’s body was being removed from the scene. Ben-Gvir has also served as Marzel’s attorney.

Ha’aretz reports:

The video, which was also recorded by a B’Teselem fieldworker, shows the soldier walking behind his company commander as the two walk away from the body of Abed al-Fattah al-Sharif, as other soldiers were covering it and lifting it on to a stretcher.

The soldier is then seen approaching a rescue worker and briefly speaking with him. Marzel approaches the two, and is seen shaking hands with the soldier who shot Sharif, who in turn pats him on the arm. In other photos taken by foreign press agencies, the soldier is seen smiling alongside Marzel.

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You can’t make this stuff up.

“in their letter to the police, they claim that Abu Shamsiya’s presence during the killing is no coincidence, but was coordinated with the alleged attack in order to capture damning video.”

Yup, pretty sneaky these camera toting antisemites.They just cannot be trusted to keep their lens shut.

The top photo of the grinning duo reflects the most deeply depraved of Israel. Why, they appear proud of it, too!

I thought that I couldn’t be more sickened, but I am. The very nasty settlers and zealots Daniella Weiss and that evil crone Anat Cohen must be having a ball.

Thanks for all of your diligent coverage of this latest war crime, Dan.

From Haaretz:

“… The soldier claimed in his military police investigation that he shot Sharif because he feared for his life. He also said during the investigation “I carried out the shooting while the terrorist was alive. I did so because I felt in mortal danger.” His attorney, Ilan Katz, said during a hearing last Friday at the Jaffa Military Court that the shooting was carried out in accordance with the military’s open-fire procedures.

On Sunday, Army Radio reported that the military investigation found that the soldier told one of his friends that the “terrorist needs to die” for stabbing another soldier. Despite the latter’s efforts to calm him down, the soldier then shot the Palestinian. Attorney Katz denied this statement, but declined to comment on further details.

It has been clarified to the soldier in his investigation that he is suspected of murder. Operational Affairs Attorney Lt. Col. Adoram Riegler said during the hearing that it constitutes “suspicion of very grave offenses.” Court justice Lt. Col. Ronen Schur determined that the investigation material “indicates a reasonable suspicion that the suspect fired unlawfully under the circumstances, and that this shooting might have led to the death of the terrorist, who at the time remained lying on the ground after he was shot earlier.”

A poll published by Channel 2 News on Saturday showed that most of the public (57 percent) believed that there was no need to detain and investigate the soldier, compared to 32 percent who supported it. Forty-two percent of respondents defined the soldier’s behavior as “responsible,” 24 percent believed that it was a natural reaction to a stressful situation, 19 percent said it constituted a deviation from orders and 5 percent defined the shooting of the wounded assailant as murder – the offense the soldier is suspected of. More than two-thirds of the respondents had reservations about IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s decisive statements against the shooting, while 21 percent sided with them.

The mother of the soldier suspected of the murder wrote to Ya’alon on Sunday. “I am the mother of the soldier that you sent on a mission to protect the country’s citizens and you have abandoned him. A mother who sent her son to protect the country and its citizens, and the establishment reciprocates by firing back and silencing his voice. I am the mother of the 19-year-old boy who is standing alone in front of the political and military leadership and can’t take it on.”

“Bring us the boy back, bring us our lives back. Remember and don’t forget that you stood in my son’s place, only in the room of Abu Jihad, and confirmed the kill of a despicable terrorist and murderer,” she wrote, referring to Ya’alon’s part in the 1988 assassination of a senior Fatah leader. “On Thursday my son also stood against a murderous terrorist, but the tables have turned and the terrorist who came to murder became a Righteous among the Nations and my son became the murderer. Have we gone crazy?!””  

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Israel’s been “crazy” for a long while now……

… In their letter to the police, they claim that Abu Shamsiya’s presence during the killing is no coincidence, but was coordinated with the alleged attack in order to capture damning video. …

Hard evidence of an execution of a non-Jew by a Zio-supremacist Jew is not evidence of an execution of a non-Jew by a Zio-supremacist Jew, it’s evidence of a “Pallywood” plot to make a Zio-supremacist Jew look bad.

Interesting.

Zio-supremacist Jews believe they are entitled to do unto others acts of injustice and immorality they would not have others do unto them. That illusion won’t last forever and they seem to be doing their damnedest to shorten its lifespan.