After Arson Murders, West Bank Village Waits in Vain for Justice
Source: The Jewish Daily Forward
Over the past month and a half, residents of this tight-knit village in Israeli-occupied territory have oscillated between grief and anxiety.
First came the July 31 death by arson of 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsheh as the lives of his other family members hung in the balance; then the death of Ali’s father, Saad Dawabsheh, from burns suffered in the same fire. Most recently there was the death of Reham Dawabsheh, Ali’s mother, who succumbed to her wounds from the fire on September 6—one day after her 27th birthday.
The blaze, allegedly set by Israeli Jewish settlers, provoked outrage among the villagers, along with their grief. The words “vengeance” and “Long live the Messiah” were spray painted on the torched Dawabsheh family home, and an empty house nearby was set ablaze as well.
But for all that, one thing the villagers didn’t experience was surprise.
As a long line of relatives filed into the mourning tents to mourn Reham Dawabsheh’s death, her father, Hussein Dawabsheh, told the Forward that the demise of his daughter, son-in-law and grandson — the family’s other son, 4-year-old Ahmad, remains in critical condition from the same arson — was preceded by hundreds of lower-level attacks in recent years.
Read more: http://forward.com/news/321063/after-killings-west-bank-village-pleads-for-justice-so-far-in-vain/
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zionism that the apartheid loving right wingers in Israel has embraced.
So why should they do the responsible thing when bigoted inaction works so well for them now?
Sure, there are a few apologists that love to press their nose up the backside of Glick-style zionism while playing the plausible deniability game. But they're pretty easy to spot.
The truth, again, hurts those that cannot defend it so, IMHO, the run with the wear-worn epithets of disgust.
