Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Update to shooting deaths at Beitunia (must read) [View all]shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)Ive been around wrong enough to know how these things go:-
1) Dismiss Palestinian eyewitness testimony about shootings out of hand
2) There's video? Well, it must have been faked.
3) It wasn't? Well it must have been selectively edited.
4) They've released the whole video? Ah, um, LOOK OVER THERE!!!
5) NO REALLY!! LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!
6) Hamas Hamas Hamas blood libel Hamas Hamas Hamas
7) How many people were killed in Syria? Huh? And why are you concentrating on these two Palestinians? Thats singling out Israel don't you know....
8) Claim that Israel couldnt have killed the Palestinians because their rifles wouldnt fire live ammo (false), or because they didnt have a vantage point (false) or because there was no blood (false)
9) Claim that the Palestinians were never shot and never died and that their funerals were faked, although they were open casket funerals and by golly, they must be very good at lying very still for a very long time...
10) Claim that the Palestinians were killed in an elaborate conspiracy scheme whereby they were both shot dead by the ambulance driver en route to the hospital
11) No, really: http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/nadim-nawarah-was-shot-in-leg-by-rubber.html
12) Dismiss any finding of fact by any tribunal or court as biased, as well as any Israeli admission of guilt, or any testimony by Israeli soldiers themselves (eg Breaking the Silence)
13) Hope and pray that youve muddied the waters enough for causal observers, at least until the next dead Palestinian comes along. Rinse and repeat.