Six months from now, if you bring up Moussa's name on this blog, you'll get Zionist trolls claiming that he didn't exist, was killed by Palestinians, etc.
If anything good comes out of this sad and infuriating story, and the shooting at a prisoner revealed last week, then it is that it finally gets the non-violent protests against the wall into some Western media. Not the New York Times, of course - no mention of the murder on their site right now - but at least the British papers.
Col Borberg said he told the soldier only to motion with his rifle to frighten the Palestinian, Ashraf Abu Rahma, according to an Israeli army investigation.
Israel suspends shooting colonel
BBC 'News'
29 July 2008
The Colonel may have been put through a lie-detector test in order to determine wether he gave an order to wave a gun in the direction of his Palestinian hostage, or to shoot them.
A lie-detector test was required rather than, say, basic human reasoning skills - how does waving a gun about frighten someone who is blindfolded, the article doesn't say.
Not only is such a blindingly obvious fact beyond the IDF, but its even beyond the ever faithful BBC corporate journalist, whose report is straighfaced and seemingly serious.
This would be laughable, if it wasn't such a serious concern - threatening to shoot prisoners is still a war crime, which the BBC journalist doesn't bother to mention either, ho-hum!
all the best JSF!
ps
A real cracker from the boffins at Media Lens -
What are British troops doing in Afghanistan? The BBC reveals all
Posted by the Editors
30 July 2008
Perhaps some of you have already come across the blogger Mona, a.k.a. Rebellious Arab Girl, a Palestinian living in Canada. I thought the latest post was rather poignant. It reminds me of the people behind this 60 year conflict.
By the way, the New York Times now has an article on the killing of Moussa. In typical I. Kershner - style, it points out that "the [p]rotests in Naalin against the barrier have become increasingly violent recently" and that "two Israeli police officers were wounded by stones thrown by protesters on Tuesday, [...] one was in danger of losing an eye", according to an IDF spokesperson. (I guess it's a boy for an eye now?)
Then there's this nice paragraph:
"Israel started building the barrier in 2002 with the intent of preventing Palestinian suicide bombers from reaching Israeli cities. Consisting mostly of wire fence but also, in parts, of high concrete walls, much of the barrier, which is about 57 percent complete, has been constructed on land east of the 1967 boundary, inside the West Bank, leading Palestinians to characterize it as a land grab."
So Israel's professed intent in building the wall is taken at face value, while it is (only) "the Palestinians" who "characterize it as a land grab"? Good work, agent Kershner.
"Israeli troops wounded nine Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in a clash with stone-throwing protesters at the funeral of a 10-year-old boy killed a day earlier, Palestinian medics said.
They said the Israelis had shot the protesters with rubber bullets. A 21-year-old Palestinian was hit in the head and doctors described him as brain dead."
And there's this on Ynet:
"According to the residents, Border Police officers pulled up by the youth's home and shot him at close range while the latter was standing in his yard.
The clashes at Naalin continued intermittently throughout Wednesday and well into the night. Muhammad A'mira, who said Younis was his neighbor, told Ynet: "We were standing in the courtyard shared by both our houses and were watching the clashes. Younis wasn't involved in it in any way.
"All of a sudden a jeep pulled up next to us. We looked at the jeep, and then towards the youths who were rioting, to see what was going on. And then there was a gunshot and Yusuf, who was standing next to me, just fell to the ground.
"The soldier had just fired from a slit within the jeep, barely 20 feet away. I didn't understand where it had come from and why it happened. The confrontations were a fair distance from us, there was no reason for this shooting.""
Now I know this looks bad, but i think it's important we all remember that accusing the Israeli army of deliberately targeting civilians - let alone children - is a despicable anti-semitic revival of the ancient blood libel. Even if done unintentionally. You know who you are, you bunch of simplistic demonisers.
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