Journalist Dan Cohen reported what he saw at a meeting in support of the soldier who was filmed shooting the Palestinian who was lying on the ground.
Tonight's town hall in support of Hebron soldier who executed an immobile Palestinian ended with a mob chanting "Kill the leftists!"— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) March 29, 2016
I worry that such a terrible thing could occur at any time.
Journalist David Sheen reports that the soldier who shot the Palestinian is a devote of Rabbi Kahane.
Over the course of the weekend, it emerged that the Israeli soldier who killed Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif is, unsurprisingly, an avowed racist and Jewish supremacist. In 2014, the soldier wrote on Facebook “Kahane was right,” a reference to Meir Kahane, the late leader of Israel’s far-right, and his call to ethnically cleanse Israel of non-Jews in general and Palestinians specifically. During Israel’s assault on Gaza that summer, which took the lives of over 1000 Palestinian civilians and over 500 Palestinian children, the soldier condemned Prime Minister Netanyahu for not being forceful enough, writing on Facebook, “Bibi, you faggot, what’s the deal with the cease-fire? Fuck them up! … Kill them all."What a terrible situation.
In a second video of the Hebron incident that was released by West Bank settler paramedic services, the group’s director, Ofer Ohana, is overheard screaming, “The terrorist is still alive, that dog… He’s still alive, come on, someone should do something.” Less than two minutes later, the soldier, an army medic, shoots and kills al-Sharif. When Ohana released the video to the press, it had already been edited to include an onscreen text message rejoicing in a coded call to commit genocide of non-Jews: “Our dear soldiers merited to annihilate Amalek.” (March 28, 2016.)
Only political solutions can put an end to this terrible violence that afflicts the Holy Land.
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