This post is about 2 children, each violently attacked recently and each victims of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Above is a photo of 6-year-old Musab al-Sarahneh. He was shot in the eye by Israeli forces who opened fired in a refugee camp south of Hebron last week. He lost his right eye. It was reported by Ma’an News on Thursday and picked up by The Palestinian Chronicle and a site called USMessageBoard. According to the family the attack occurred while the boy was a passenger in the family’s car returning from a visit to his uncle’s house.
Above is a photo of Noam Glick, a 9 year old Israeli girl who was attacked outside her home in the illegal West Bank settlement of Psagot, near Ramallah, yesterday evening. Glick was playing in her yard when she was attacked by a hooded assailant. While it is still unclear whether she was shot or stabbed with a knife police say the attack on the child was a “probable terrorist attack” but they are “not ruling out the possibility of other motives.”
The attack was reported throughout Israel as well as several US MSM sources including Los Angeles Times, New York Times, AP via USAToday, Huffington Post and countless other news sources around the globe.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack on Glick heinous and hateful and pointed an “accusatory finger at the Palestinian Authority.” The Jerusalem Post reported Palestinian incitement was responsible for Psagot incident as well as AFP who added “he held the Palestinian leadership responsible even though the attack took place in an area of the occupied West Bank under full Israeli control.” The Jerusalem Post:
“The events of the past month may lead to an escalation in the West Bank,” Shamni told Army Radio.
“It’s very difficult to determine if this is the start of an intifada,” he continued.
“However, we have here the evidence of three separate events. We need to look at them.
This attack came after two separate incidents in the last 2 weeks, of Israeli soldiers killed in the West Bank. Also there’s been an escalation of incursions by Israeli military forces into refugee camps in the West Bank resulting in the death of several Palestinians, including youths, which precipitated the soldier’s deaths. None of those incidents were included in what the Jerusalem Post characterizes as the “three separate incidences” that may have lead to an escalation of violence. However, Jodi Rudoren reporting for The New York Times included these attacks in her coverage of events today.
Israeli forces have killed several Palestinians in overnight raids in the Jenin and Qalandiya refugee camps in the West Bank in recent weeks, heightening tensions around the nascent talks.
Some initial and many followup reports on Glick’s attack included information about the recent ‘peace talks’. Rudoren mentioned several right-wing Israeli politicians who oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state “seized on the shooting to call for a halt” in negotiations.
“We’ve returned to a situation in which talks with the Palestinians equal murderous terrorist attacks,” Uri Ariel, Israel’s housing minister, said in a statement. “This situation cannot be allowed to continue.”
As an aside, none of the reports mentioned lots of Israeli politicians simply do not want 2 states. And as we mentioned earlier today, it was reported last week Israeli negotiators are refusing to even talk about the borders of a Palestinian state. From Haaretz weekend roundup prior to the child’s attack:
[A]n absolute majority of Likud MKs and ministers do not currently support an agreement with the Palestinians. If Netanyahu should decide to split from his party in the wake of a breakthrough in the talks, he will not have the backing of one-third of the faction, as Ariel Sharon did in November 2005, but two or three MKs at most. On a good day.
For some reason, the attack on 9 year old Glick offered an opportunity for the media, as well as Israeli politicians, to revisit the peace negotiations. And the assault that took 6 year old Musab al-Sarahneh’s right eye? Not worthy of even a mention in the western press. Why? Because they are all to common, and Palestinian life is not valued here like Jewish life.
Musab wondered: “Why did the Israeli soldier shoot me? I lost my eye, and I am still so young for that.”
Little Noam Glick is probably wondering why she was attacked too.
This article is more about Robbins’ double standards than anything else.
Robbins can’t tell the difference between a deliberate attack on a child and an incident in which a child is inadvertently injured. And of course she offers no explanation for why soldiers shot at the car in which the Palestinian boy was travelling. There had been some trouble for reasons unclear and it seems that this unfortunate boy was caught up in the fray.
in Al-Khalīl/hebron Palestinian man, Abed Sider and his 3-year-old niece assaulted and hospitalized by Israeli soldiers last Tuesday 2nd of October. http://palsolidarity.org/2013/10/palestinian-man-and-his-3-year-old-niece-assaulted-by-israeli-soldiers/
hardly gets a mention on the web let alone mainstream media.
yet this girl Noam Glick is everywhere.
was she shot or stab?
the LA Times says she was wounded in the shoulder
while
the NYT says she was shot in the chest
the Jerusalem Post says she was lightly wounded
while both the Huff. Post and USA Today says she was seriously injured
something stinks to high heavens here.
Israel, is desperate to start something or anything that it can term the “start of the intifada” that would give rise to bringing the current talks to a halt. Maybe the Palestinians could stop being so charitable with those robbing them and give them a real intifada since Israel appears to be close to declaring it. Either way, Israel won’t be giving them anything from the talks. The smell hasn’t abated from the alleged killing of the 2 Israeli soldiers.
Palestinian child deaths are accidents, deeply regretted, won’t happen again, Israel most moral army etc
Any attack on a Jew is of course laden with ancient hatred and anti-Semitic by its very nature, systematic etc
Palestinians are pawns. Jews are high value media fodder.
@Mayhem. We all know that the IDF often shoots at Palestinians for no real reason, only to be a-holes, and then say afterward it was because of ‘security reasons’ or some such other excuse. We’ve heard it all before, Mayhem.
My enlightenment came after listening to International Public Radio some years back, and during broadcasts of Israel Public Radio, hearing Ariel Sharon (who is not amongst the living or amongst the dead) say Israel had the “most moral army in the world bar none”. Well, I don’t know about you, but as soon as someone wants to claim morality for themselves or some group to which they belong “I would put my hand on my wallet” and the other on my gun.
What we see is that Jews are no different from anyone else, no more moral, no kinder, not more honest, or decent, just people, and not chosen, and some are first class jerks, to be nice about it, and you Mayhem seem to be in the last group.