Caught on tape: Palestinian hurls brick at car

[shira]

A teacher was on her way home to the West Bank settlement of Karmei Tzur on Tuesday when she found herself the target of a rock salvo that smashed her windshield.



"I saw crowds on my left and on my right," Weiss recalled. "I knew that something was happening, but I had to continue driving because I didn't see any cops of soldiers in the area."

Luckily, Weiss said, her car is armored, but even so "the windshield was shattered and the exterior was dented in several places. They were throwing bricks, not stones."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4193717,00.html

Of course, this non-violent form of popular resistance is not newsworthy according to the western press. Imagine a picture capturing settler youth (encouraged by their parents) throwing bricks at passing Palestinian cars. I wonder if the mainstream western press would find such a story newsworthy in any way...



What's disgusting is the media collusion behind these rock throwing incidents. A dozen or more journalists somehow "know" something bad is about to go down. They're somehow in the right place at the right time to capture scenes that paint Israelis in a dark light, but never Palestinians.

[Daemonaquila]

1. The simpler explanation

is that many of us do not find it either shocking, or even troubling, that an oppressor population that has gone from being the target of genocide to committing genocide is being targeted in this way. If you're on the side taking political prisoners, razing homes and businesses, denying travel, work, and education, shooting kids for minor acts of resistance, destroying crops, taking the best available land, and generally crushing an entire people, expect a few bricks.

[holdencaufield]

2. Yea... she had it coming. NT

[shira]

4. Of course, you don't find the above photo troubling at all...

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Israeli civilians are therefore legitimate targets of terror attacks.

It's not at all troubling that Palestinian children are being encouraged to murder Israeli civilians.

Lastly, it's not troubling that journalists collude in all this.

Thanks.

[oberliner]

6. Wow this is off the charts

"an oppressor population that has gone from being the target of genocide to committing genocide"

Good stuff.

[DonCoquixote]

7. True. but

The Palestinians sadly are not one bit better, and they would be doing all of that to the Israelis if they had the chance, as that is what Islamic regimes tend to do, never mind what Mohammed said about killing civilians. In Isreal and Palestine, the jews read the torah and the Muslims read the torah the way the folks in the Bibel belt read the Bible, whichever gives me the excuse to kill to get nwhat I want is fine.

[Ruby the Liberal]

11. I am glad you don't find attacks against civilians to be "troubling".

That speaks volumes as to your humanity. Good to know.

[parkia00]

5. Unfortunately all too common...

Jewish and Palestinian children being taught to hate and used as a tool.

[Scurrilous]

8. Looks like the unsaid agreement to hew to the old I/P guidelines...

...has been tossed at...excuse me..tossed out the window.

[King_David]

12. Thanks for the timely rules update.

[azurnoir]

14. yep and in anticipation of that a certain website has modified its postings

about DUers too don't want to be called out or anything ya know

[Behind the Aegis]

22. So true...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11345159

[azurnoir]

9. EU condemns demolitions in Silwan

The local missions of the European Union condemned on Friday the demolition of several structures of the Maada Community center in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem.

"The EU missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah condemn the demolition of several structures of the Maada Community Center in the neighbourhood of Silwan (East Jerusalem)," a statement said.

The center, with its cultural and educational activities for youth and women, plays a vital role in the community of Silwan, one the most sensitive neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem, the statement said.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=461312

[DUIC]

10. You cannot really see the hate in the throwers eyes

But, no doubt, with years of indoctrination he believes that he is somehow "in the right" to commit violence and terrorism.

[Igel]

13. Yup.

Hearkens back to the days when the oppressor population was the Arabs and they wanted to keep down the uppity Jews.

The only thing missing is power. Then again, I'm not at all sure that the Jewish woman in the picture feels like she's triumphantly oppressing the Palestinian, nor that the Palestinian feels truly humiliated at the oppression of being compelled by some sort of Jewish mind control to try to commit murder. Still, when necessary we define "power" in order to achieve our political goals, so in this photo the woman has all the power and the rock-thrower is powerless. By definition.

[azurnoir]

15. I guess the cameras stopped rolling when IDF arrested the suspects huh?

don't want that caught on tape. doesn't make the right impression poor oppressed Israeli (Jews) against those all poerfull Palestinians

[DUIC]

16. You did not buy the Gaza Flotilla footage that showed the IDF being attacked

In fact, I am surprised that you didn't argue that the woman intentionally drove into the rock that two kids were playing catch with.

[azurnoir]

17. quick change of subject so I guess that the arrest part isn't available for public viewing or some

[DUIC]

18. Maybe the little terrorist eluded arrest and capture to strike again

[azurnoir]

19. Perhaps you need to read your link more closely

it says IDF arrested the suspects or are you stating IDF is incompetent or simply arrested the 'slowest 'Arab?

[shira]

20. It's obviously a war crime to arrest these kids, so what do you propose? Should they be allowed...

...to do this daily w/o fear of being stopped or arrested?

[shira]

21. Video of incident

Interestingly enough, these youth are deliberately looking for Jews to throw rocks at. Not just Israelis in general. Israeli Arabs are not the targets.

&feature=player_embedded

[holdencaufield]

24. Driving While Jewish NT

[shaayecanaan]

25. Residents of Karmei Tzur assault Palestinians while soldiers look on...

The settlement this lady was returning to is Karmei Tzur, an illegal settlement of about 700 people next to Hebron, a city of some 130,000 Arabs. About 26% of the settlement consists of land stolen from Palestinian individuals. The Israeli government concedes that the land will need to be returned to the Palestinians in the event of a peace settlement.

B'Tselem captured this video of Karmei Tzur residents throwing stones and abusing Palestinians who were demonstrating whilst Israeli soldiers look on passively.

I do this not to excuse any action by any individual but to provide some context to the OP, whose author tends to hold a fairly bilious view of Arabs.

http://www.btselem.org/settler_violence/20111029_beit_omar_settler_assault