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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 Alis father, Saad Dawabsheh, from burns suffered in the same fire. Most recently there was the death of Reham Dawabsheh, Alis mother, who succumbed to her wounds from the fire on September 6one 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 didnt experience was surprise.
As a long line of relatives filed into the mourning tents to mourn Reham Dawabshehs death, her father, Hussein Dawabsheh, told the Forward that the demise of his daughter, son-in-law and grandson the familys 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/
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)detentions so that the Israelis can pretend to take terrorism committed by Jews against Palestinians seriously.
If Baruch Goldstein had only managed to get himself into hiding, he'd probably be an MK these days.
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R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)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.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Just disgusting.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)The truth, again, hurts those that cannot defend it so, IMHO, the run with the wear-worn epithets of disgust.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)because they belong to the preferred caste and their victims did not is disgusting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effi_Eitam
The views of Kahane and Goldstein are well within the mainstream of Israel.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)The current government of Israel seems to be ideologically connected to the same right-wing extremism that motivated Goldstein. Ayelet Shaked, Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, Naftali Bennett and Miri Regev have all said some very outlandish things that would make them seem to view the killing of Palestinians in general as a positive thing. While Goldstein's demise and his wrap sheet would preclude him from becoming part of any Israeli government, I think that people like him are already in the current Israeli government.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Netanyahu never had any intention of even fining the terrorist monsters who burned that family alive.
Those monsters and Israel's government share the same agenda.
Baruch Goldstein would be proud of Israel's government.