Posted on 03/23/2009 10:36:46 AM PDT by SmithL
The parents of an American peace activist who was severely injured by Israeli forces at a demonstration in the occupied West Bank called on the Israeli government today to take "full responsibility" for the shooting.
Tristan Anderson, 38, was hit in the forehead by a high-velocity teargas canister fired by an Israeli border policeman in the village of Nilin earlier this month. The incident came after a demonstration against Israel's West Bank barrier, which as elsewhere has cut off a large slice of the village's agricultural land.
Since last July, four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in similar demonstrations in the village.
Anderson was rushed to the Tel Hashomer hospital in Israel, where he has already had three operations. He lost the sight in his right eye and doctors had to remove portions of his frontal lobe. It is not clear if he will survive, or how much brain damage he may have suffered.
His parents, Nancy and Michael, who flew out from their home near Sacramento in California to be at his bedside, said he remained in a "very critical condition" in a medically induced coma.
"We are horrified and overwhelmed," said Nancy Anderson. "We are scared and really still in shock. To shoot peaceful demonstrators is really horrifying to us. What we want to ask is that the Israeli government publicly take full responsibility for the shooting of our son."
She said no Israeli official, from either the government or the military, had contacted the couple since their son was hurt. "I don't carry any negative feelings towards the soldier who shot our son," she said. "All I feel is love for Tristan and fear for his recovery."
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Here’s a tip ... keep your sniveling kid at home next time.
He was probably standing near Palestinians throwing large stone. Why should Israel take responsibility for this guy’s stupidity?
Tip #2 - Don’t stand where a tear gas canister is about to be.
Thirty-eight years old!
What was his business model? Had he found a way to find job security as a full-time globe-trotting rabble rouser?
More like a bonking than a shooting.
Tear gas cannisters are not generally considered projectile weapons.
He got bonked.
He is probably still on his parents Health Plan and it is costing them a lot. That is why they are complaining. Hurry up and get them BambiCare.
You little dude is responsible for his own actions. Your first concern should have been when your child decided to become a ‘Peace Activist,’ instead of a Vet or a business man, or an engineer. You know a real job. Not a Marxist tool.
When it hit him in the forehead he thought, “damn, I should have had a V8”
Ditto. His @ss shouldn’t have been there in the first place.
Gee... just another example of liberals not wanting to exercise personal responsibility - always blaming others for their own screw-ups.
Word to the wise - don’t want to be treated like a terrorist - then don’t hang out with them.... seems pretty simple to me.
Maybe Tristan shouldn’t have stuck his nose in where it didn’t belong. I blame “Nancy and Michael” as much as Tristan himself.
Take a lesson from it, leftist morons.
High velocity teargas cannister? LOL
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Tristan’s major problem is he has parents that still think of him as a child at the age of 38.
Justice would be to kill her!
He got hit by a tear gas cannister. Cry me a river.
As I say on absolutely every post that mentions the ISM, I would have run over Rachel Corrie twice and if she was back today, I'd be first in line to do it again. I'd be FIRST IN LINE.
He’s lucky it wasn’t a bulldozer.
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