Reading through the story, seeing pictures of masked gunmen in the funeral parade, I was expecting the denouement to be some big shootout between IDF and Hamas… Silly me, “hurling stones at a “very close range,”” and even that’s just an allegation from an entity with no history of morals or honesty.
Palestinians are refused Israeli work permits if a relative has been murdered by them or had their house demolished. Muhammad Sami al-Kasbah, with such a recent and compounded bereavement, would certainly be on the radar of Aman and other intelligence agencies, entering Israel ‘illegally’, two shots to the body and one in the head is not just overkill, its more like an execution calling card. Either way who’s counting, its not like anyones going to be held accountable is it.
What torment this poor boys family must be feeling, when I imagine someone being tortured and burnt to death like this it makes my skin crawl, but five minutes from now I’ll be doing something else and wont have to think about this awful crime again. For them having to picture it over and over must be hell. Life in prison for the ringleader wont make those images go away, but dropping the charges because of a fabrication of insanity will be a painful salt in the wound.
Roger Waters lyrics and music have been an inspiration to me for close to 40 years, I am so proud that the sentiment and courage of his thought provoking words have transcended his music into real world action.
Mr Veloso take a look, take the final cut.
Head of PR team on line one. A lofty sounding, yet beige and ultimately non-committal statement is surely being drafted, carefully worded so it doesn’t offend any concerned parties. I only know Winfrey from a couple of films, but I’m aware of her status as American TV royalty, and that status can only be maintained by playing the game, staying on script. She’ll probably get away with an apology for wearing Blood Diamonds, Israeli crimes will be ignored, just to mention them in any sort of negative light would be a step too far, courting the wrath of the US media monster and entertainment industry. Maybe I’m being too harsh, but ‘celebrity’ brings out the cynic in me.
Excellent strategy from Adalah-NY, “So, you’re vocally pro human rights and equality? Well lets see if you’ll back that up on an issue that’s deliberately ignored by the mainstream”.
It would be fantastic if I was wrong and she came out all guns blazing and denounced Leviev and everything he represents, but I just can’t see it.
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tree, if that’s the case then I offer Eva my apology for misunderstanding.
larick, I wish every young Israeli could pass through these turnstiles with someone they cared deeply for and experience, as you did, what it feels like to see them endure pointless discrimination, intimidation and humiliation. Maybe it would sew a seed of doubt, or at the very least encourage empathy.
The edit feature is repeating posts (this needs deleting).
Eva, that’s my point. Don’t you see any correlation or similarity between the mindless racism and grotesque suffering your dead relatives endured and the equally abhorrent and vindictive treatment of innocent Palestinians?
If your riposte is Jews under German rule suffered more I disagree, collective suffering isn’t quantifiable, its just wrong and cruel in each and every manifestation.
By English flag I assume you mean the Union Jack and not the St George’s Cross. Both of them are potent symbols for Neo-Nazi’s and other assorted racist scum here. For nearly 400 years they’ve both represented global subjugation, genocide and White Might over ‘uncivilized’ peoples everywhere.
As recently as 1968 the indigenous people of Australia were still categorized as flora and fauna, that same year the depopulation of the Brown inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago began and continued with barley a squeak from the press for 5 years. But there’s no need to look backwards to see Britain’s chauvinist legacy, its all around us, do you think Israel would have the same support if the ‘chosen tribe’ were all sub-Saharan Africans?
Take those flags, burn them, they’re equal to the Swastika in my eyes and I’d be glad to never have to see them again.
Shmuel, just before the flyover this year the church *erected a sign pleading “Love Thy Neighbor”, but it don’t make it so.
Seems like any knowledge we might of garnered from maxims, morality tales, sermons, bibles, papal encyclicals and even pure reason, gets easily trampled when it has to compete with the darker sides of our nature, greed, power, self interest, but I take you and your rabbis point, no harm in repetition.
*RoHa, another word with the power to allure?
Hi just thanks for the welcome and hello to the rest of you crazy Jews.