Israeli settlers bind Palestinian teacher to pole and club him in Samu'

[subsuelo]

Hebron – Ma'an – A mob of Israeli settlers attacked 30-year-old Midhat Abu Karsh, a Palestinian teacher from the southern West Bank village of As-Samu' south of Hebron on Saturday.

Abu Karsh was hit in the head with sharp objects before he was dragged to a nearby settlement outpost where he was tied to an electricity pole.

Eyewitnesses affirmed that four Israeli settlers struck Abu Karsh with clubs until his head began to bleed. He remained tied to the pole until an Israeli patrol came and untied him in order to administer first aid. Shortly after, Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances evacuated the teacher to the 'Alya Hospital in Hebron.

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[Mr_Jefferson_24]

1. Gotta love those Israeli settlers, bless their little hearts...

...here the fun loving pranksters are beating a 58 year old Palestinian woman and her husband for herding goats on their own land too close to an illegal Israeli settlement.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=F52RamyDCPI

[subsuelo]

13. Let's send them some more money to show our support n/t

[Shaktimaan]

15. who, settlers?

We don't send the settlers any money. No American funds go towards settlement building or anything like that. It's against the law, in fact. No US aid can be used beyond the '67 borders and the US has actually reduced loan guarantee amounts equal to the amount Israel was spending in the territories to express displeasure at their policies.

[azurnoir]

16. No e don't send them money

but I have read here that a good number of the settlers are American expats. Maybe we just export our zealots

[Dhalgren]

2. This is just the way

"good" Israelis treat Palestinians. It happens everyday, all over occupied Palestine. No one seems much to care; even other Arabs look the other way. But let's have all our politicians - even the Democratic ones - come out publicly in support of the Israeli oppression of Palestinians! And for GOD'S sake, let's not take any option off the table when addressing how horrible the MUSLIMS are; but Israel's treatment of the Palestinians? Well, the Palestinians have it coming, right?

:puke:

[notfullofit]

4. They say he was responsible for setting the fields on fire

snip...

'According to sources within the settler community, Palestinians came close to Asael and began burning fields. They also said that they would investigate the complaints Abu-Kirash submitted.

"Asael men summoned the police and army, and meanwhile they managed to catch the man responsible for lighting the fire, tied him and then called for the army," the sources said.'

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999100.html

[azurnoir]

5. Are you trying to justify the settler actions?

And before you claim you did not say anything like that your choosing to post an excerpt from an article already posted speaks quite clearly

[notfullofit]

6. There are two sides to every story.

No insinuations here.

[azurnoir]

7. Even so it still does not

allow the settlers to take the law in their hands, that is what the police and IDF are for.

[cali]

11. that old chestnut. Actually, it's not iron clad.

Were there two sides to the story about the Nazi persecution and slaughter of Jews and others? No? Whatever this disgusting mob may have "thought" about the culpability of the Palestinian teacher, they had no right whatsoever to engage in vigilante justice. They brutalized him. Vile.

[LeftishBrit]

12. I agree; as I said below, they should have called the police if they suspected a crime

Even if one takes THEIR word for what happened, what they did is still disgusting. I hope they are locked up for a long time.

[Purveyor]

3. If they had only tied him to a 'cross' how biblical it could have been...eom

[henank]

8. Nice little antisemitic trope

you've posited there. The Jews do crucifixion. Yeah right. You'd better read up your Old Testament again.

[LeftishBrit]

10. What a creepy remark.

I HOPE that you are not invoking the 'Christ-killers' meme, but are simply implying that Jewish religious-righties might support application of harsh OT biblical laws. But the OT biblical laws, though sometimes advocating brutal punishments by modern standards, do not mention crucifixion. This was a Roman punishment, not one instituted by Jews or other indigenous groups of the time.

[LeftishBrit]

9. Disgusting...

I read the other article too, but if they thought he'd committed a crime, they should have called the police.

[Scurrilous]

14. Too easy on settler crime

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"In the early days of Israeli occupation in the territories, Jewish settler leaders promised a life of "coexistence" with the Palestinian population, and they even employed Palestinian laborers in construction and service jobs.

In recent years, as radical elements in the settlements and outposts have proliferated and become more powerful, the coexistence approach often seems to make way for a violent struggle that aims to deprive the Palestinians of their land.

Jews who presume to be upholding the duty of settling the land openly discuss their intention of making the lives of Arab residents a misery and pushing them out of what they call Judea and Samaria.

In the last four weeks, the media have reported a series of grave incidents, most of them in the Hebron Hills area.

Four Palestinians from the village of Khirbet Sussia were beaten by masked settlers while herding their sheep. One of them, a 57-year-old woman, was hospitalized. The Be'er Sheva Magistrate's Court released two suspects in the assault to house arrest.

Last week Palestinian police sources reported that two improvised mortar shells, bearing the legends "Sharon 1" and "Sharon 2," were fired from the settlement of Bracha to the village of Burin, near Nablus.

Last weekend a Palestinian from the village of Samua in the southern Hebron Hills complained that he had been beaten by a group of settlers from Asael. Police who found the man tied to a post in the settlement took him to the hospital for treatment and arrested one of the settlers.

Most offenses against Palestinians are not reported at all because in many cases the victims do not bother to call the police or file a complaint against the attackers."

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