Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumIsrael Calls a Man Its Soldiers Killed a "Terrorist": Until They Realized He Was an Israeli Jew
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33081-focus-israel-calls-a-man-its-soldiers-killed-a-qterroristq-until-they-realized-he-was-an-israeli-jewWhen he was fatally shot by the IDF, says the paper, he was believed to be an Arab terrorist. As it turns out, he was not an Arab Palestinian but rather an Israeli Jew. Upon learning this, the terrorist designation was officially and immediately rescinded:
Only after the man was neutralized was it made clear that he was a Jew from Jerusalem, police concluded. . . .
ZAKA rescue and recovery chairman Yehuda Meshi Zahav, who was at the scene, said he also initially thought the suspect was an Arab terrorist.
When I arrived with the ZAKA team at the site of the supposed terrorist attack, it seemed to be a standard current terrorist attack, a stabbing attempt, and the terrorist was apprehended, he said.
I wanted to cover the body in a black bag [reserved for terrorists]. After I was asked to take care of the body I saw that he was a Jew, and that it was mistake to speak of a terrorist. I immediately notified the police and we switched to a white ZAKA body bag.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)that seems to have been dropped, but it does call into question the veracity of similar stories that we hear so frequently
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)The police can still mow you down at will with the most minimal of excuses and the greatest impunity. They may mow down minorities far more often, but irritate them or trigger their paranoia and they'll kill anyone.
shira
(30,109 posts)....& try to take their weapon, there's a very high chance you get shot.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)'I thought he was reaching for a gun.'
'I feared for my life.'
'He attacked me'.
'He tried to get my gun.'
Funny how often they never find those imaginary guns, or how there are so few witnesses to any such attempts, apart from other police.
shira
(30,109 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I don't believe ALL police lie. Or even that all who do are deliberately lying. Sometimes they're just blinded or imagining things due to their own fears and racial biases.
shira
(30,109 posts)What do you think would happen if you ran to any police officer in the world with knife in hand about to stab him/her?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)shira
(30,109 posts)....out of the ordinary.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)for the knife now that he is Jewish.
They are a bunch of racist liars. But anybody paying attention knew that before this incident.
malaise
(268,980 posts)OK then you racist scumbags
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)malaise
(268,980 posts)Sickening indeed
Mosby
(16,306 posts)Of Jews in Jewish law.
That's why the ZAKA group exists, to make sure halacha is followed for deceased Jews.
Hence the different colored bag.
malaise
(268,980 posts)Damn I hate every single religion