Posted on 07/04/2005 7:56:43 AM PDT by Alouette
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| Witnesses and photos prove the supposed "lynching" of an Arab stone-thrower last Wednesday was staged. The wounded Arab himself says he was beaten by an IDF soldier, not the man the police accuse. |
| Arutz-7 has received photographic evidence proving the allegations of several witnesses to the incident, who claim journalists took an active role in coaching the wounded Arab stone-thrower to play the helpless victim.
Stage 1 - The Camera man [left] sets the stage, directing the Arab [blue pants] to lie down.
Stage 2 - Camera man telling Arab to lie down and play unconcious.
Stage 3 - After an impatient wait, the stage is finally set for the international and Israeli press to recreate the Medieval blood libel. The incident, segements of which were broadcast repeatedly on Israeli news channels, was condemned and used as a pretext for the IDF expulsion of the inhabitants of the nearby Ma'oz HaYam hotel on Gush Katif's seashore. A young man who wished to be identified only as "A.D." told Arutz-7 Monday that he saw reporters "go over to [the Arab youth in question] and tell him to lie down and act as if he was unconscious. Later on, he was taken out walking on his own, holding on to a soldier; all this talk of his being critically wounded is total nonsense. In addition, he was taken to a hospital in Gaza; if he was really critically wounded, they would have taken him to Soroka in Be'er Sheva." A.D. said he saw this same Arab "get hit in the head with a rock - and yet he continued to throw rocks, like a tiger, for the next 15 minutes!" In fact, media reports continued throughout the next day to report that he was still mortally wounded - though even Arab sources had admitted by then that he had "regained consciousness," was talking and felt fine. By Friday, the victim of the alleged "lynching" was reported to be "lightly hurt."Police announced Sunday night that they had caught an 18-year-old youth from the community of Nachliel - Shimshon HaCohen-Citrin - in the Binyamin region. They accuse him of being one of the three key people involved in the incident in which Jewish youths were filmed throwing rocks towards a supposedly critically injured Arab youth. Police are accusing Citrin of attempted murder and attacking police officers. Citrin's father, interviewed by Army Radio Monday morning, angrily accused the media of ganging up against his son for defending himself against Arab attackers. "The only lynch that has occurred is that perpetrated by the media against my son. This isn't the first time and it won't be the last. You haven't even examined the matter, and you're blaming Jews for things without any proof." The purported victim, Hilal Ziad Al-Majaydeh, said he did not remember being attacked by an 18 year-old civilian. Al-Majaydeh claims he was beaten by an IDF soldier and was knocked unconscious. One person who was on the scene told Arutz-7: "When I saw the newspaper reports the next day of what had happened, I simply felt violated. They describe it as if we all ganged up on this poor Arab. That's not what happened at all. What happened was that we were dancing and singing in a circle, as often happens in a new outpost and the like, and suddenly a gang of about 30 Arabs started smashing us with rocks. I ran away, like the others, and hid behind an army jeep. Suddenly, this youth - the one who everyone claims was 'mortally wounded' - came around from behind me and threw this big concrete block right towards my head. He almost killed me!" The Honenu legal organization, which has taken upon itself to provide legal assistance for those accused of anti-disengagement protests, is taking measures to fight the current anti-protestor climate. "Under the current public atmosphere," said one Honenu official, "with the media continually referring to the incident as a 'lynching' and with politicians calling forcefully for the police to 'mete out justice to the lynchers' and the like, we fear that the three suspects will be sacrificed unjustly. We are coordinating and gathering all the testimony that shows the whole incident was staged and blown out of all proportion."
Another person who was there, a teenaged girl, had this to say: "The Arabs were the ones who started throwing rocks, just like they've known how to do for the last 20 years. The media people who were there knew that this boy, the one who was 'mortally wounded,' came up to us and threw rocks - and so we threw back. It's interesting how someone who is critically wounded gets up on his legs and laughs with his friends and gets interviewed while he's critically wounded." As an aside, A.D. told of another provocation to which he was witness: "Another shocking incident occurred as well. I saw an IDF officer take some ninjas [small nail-and-spike contraptions], place them in front of the tire of his army jeep, and then call over some photographers to take pictures - as if to imply that Jews had put them there to puncture the army tires. When they finished taking pictures, I saw the officer take the ninjas away." The father of the arrested boy spoke with Arutz-7, leveling strong criticism at those in the nationalist-religious camp who immediately condemned what he called the "so-called lynching. Didn't they ever hear of the Jewish laws against accepting slander? They themselves lynched my son by sacrificing him and washing their hands of him." He further explained, "Violence is not a good thing, but it's not a bad thing. It's just like anything else that was created - it can be used for good or for bad. If someone comes to attack you and you use violence to protect yourself, then it's a necessary thing. That's the way it should be looked at. We know the world loves the Jews when they're weak and hates them when we're strong - but when we're strong, they respect us. I do not need the world's love or the leftist media's love - just their respect. If someone does not agree with an act that was done, the way to approach it is not to wash the dirty laundry in public. This is a boy who is the backbone of our family, whom his friends call the 'tzaddik,' and whose main occupation is sitting and learning..."
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I must be missing some context here. From the story, it sounds like the IDF and Israeli media are trying to frame one or more Jews for injuring a stone-throwing Arab. Why would they do that?
Whan they didn't know was the Israelis filmed the whole thing from the air.
One thing we know for sure, to the Arab culture there seems to be NO PROBLEM with LYING ABOUT ANYTHING ANYTIME.
Just remember that Nobel Peace Prize winner ARAFAT, need I say more?
Shades of John Kerry re-enacting his Vietnam exploits....
These ne'er-do-well hacks are showing themselves as the vermin scriptwriters they are, not as the journalist/reporters they claim to be.
Good people worldwide need to have MASSIVE subscription-cancellation drives as an automatic response to such calculated, depraved deception.
...with apologies to the HONEST scriptwriters and producers and others in the cinema biz!
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I find this more confusing than anything else.
So they will have an excuse to attack all anti-disengagement protestors as "Jewish extremist terrorists"
That makes sense. If this doesn't result in a true and lasting peace, and I doubt it will, then they are really going to be up a certain creek without a paddle.
FYI - re: this...Police in France have detained a woman who alleged she had been the subject of a shocking anti-Semitic attack.
The woman who made that charge wasn't Jewish, so I don't know which "side" you are referring to when you bring up that incident.
What's all this fuss I hear about Russian Jewelry? I don't know why anybody would want any of that stuff anyway. And....what's that? Jewelry? Oh, well that's different. Nevermind.
What's all this fuss I hear about Russian Jewelry? I don't know why anybody would want any of that stuff anyway. And....what's that? Jewry? Oh, well that's different. Nevermind.
I would love to see the IDF go public and say, "yes we shot him and will shoot anyone picking up a weapon against Israel."
The one things that is clear is the exploitation, by some, of the western weakness, primarily the American left to accept muslim war drama as real. After all, photos don't lie. Do they?
I am filing this right alongside the funeral corpse which fell off its platform and magically rose again and got back on, and the little terrified boy taken to a planned fire zone for the sole purpose of having him "killed" on camera.
There is a host of American and European useful idiots just waiting to be outraged by these staged dramas.
Unfortunately for me, muslims are so dishonest as a culture that, at this point, even if a true outrage is committed against them, I would dismiss it as cultural inclination to exploit outsiders as a weapon against their "perceived" oppressors.
In my universe, it is already clear who the oppressors and the occupiers and the killers are.
To justify the removal of Jews, and their settlements from where they exist. The general Israeli population (and the army) is split on whether to support the official government goal, or to support ( not evict )the settlers.
Due Process in Sharon's Israel
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Last update - 18:28 04/07/2005
Court extends remand for suspect in Muasi lynchBy Yuval Yoaz and Nir Hason, Haaretz Correspondents
The Be'er Sheva Magistrate's Court issued a seven-day remand extension Monday for Shimshon Sitrin, the settler said to be the ringleader of the mob that tried to lynch a Palestinian youth at Muasi beach in Gaza on Wednesday. Detectives belonging to the Southern District Police arrested Sitrin on Sunday after identifying the suspect, a resident of a West Bank Settlement, in Beit Shemesh thanks to the media's video footage of the incident. They then followed him to Jerusalem where they moved in to arrest him. Sitrin resisted arrest and managed to escape but was caught a few minutes later, still resisting and refusing to identify himself. Sitrin is the only suspect to be arrested more than four days after the incident, but police sources remained confident that the other suspects will be brought into custody soon. The bulk of the evidence against the suspects rest upon camera footage taken by the media at the site of the attempted lynching. Video crews taped several Jewish youths trying to lynch a Palestinian during an evacuation of Jewish disnegagement-foes that had illegally occupied a Palestinian house at Muasi beach. In the videos Jewish youths are heard shouting "lynch him, lynch him", and seen throwing stones. The Palestinian took a few direct blows to the head and lost consciousness. His life was saved thanks to a few IDF soldiers and journalists who took him to saftey. Over the last few days police have received a number of videos of the attack assisting them in the investigation. Remands of 6 youths involved in seizing Muasi home extended Supreme Court Justice Ayala Procaccia on Sunday extended the remands of six 13-year-olds who took part in seizing a Palestinian house in the Muasi area in the Gaza Strip last week. Their remands were extended until Wednesday afternoon. Procaccia ordered police to expedite the investigation on the incident as soon as possible, so as to avoid the extended detention of the youths. "This was a mass, violent incident involving a group of Jews seizing a building owned by Palestinians, throwing rocks at Palestinians and injuring at least one of them, and a refusal to adhere to the orders of security forces," Procaccia wrote. The judge added that the disturbance may have marked the beginning of additional violent disturbances that must be stopped. "The presence of children in detention for means of interrogation is a high price that they and their families are paying for the willingness of the initiators of the disturbances to use youths. The youths' parents have a heavy responsibility rush their children from the heart of danger and place them outside the ideological struggle that they are leading, which is a matter for adults," Procaccia wrote. |
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