Arabs in Iraq dragged the bloody bodies of two American soldiers from a damaged army vehicle and pummeled them to death with concrete blocks, Sunday, according to witnesses. The scene was one that many in Israel have seen one too many times.A crowd of Arab youths dragged the American soldiers' bodies out of the wreckage and beat them with concrete blocks, the witnesses said. "They lifted a block and hit them with it on the face," Younis Mahmoud, 19, said.
Another teenager, Bahaa Jassim, said some looted the vehicle of weapons, CDs and a backpack. "They remained there for over an hour without the Americans knowing anything about it," he said. "I ... went and told other troops."
Television video showed the soldiers' bodies sprawled on the ground as U.S. troops took control of the area. One victim's foot appeared to have been severed from his body.
The images are sending shockwaves across the US, but Israel has unfortunately had plenty of experience with Arab brutality. Almost two years ago, Ya'acov (Kobi) Mandell and Yosef (Yossi) Ish-Ran, both 14, were discovered inside the Haritun Cave in Nahal Tekoa, a few hundred meters from the community, with their heads smashed in by rocks. Local Arab shepherds had stumbled upon the boys as they hiked and brutally murdered them beyond recognition.
At the very beginning of the Oslo War, First Sgt. Vadim Norzhich and First Cpl. Yosef Avrahami, who had been called up for reserve army duty as drivers only a few days before, were apprehended by Palestinian police after they mistakenly entered PA-controlled Ramallah. They were brought to PA police headquarters in the center of town, where a violent mob of Palestinians stormed the building and tortured the soldiers to death, mutilating and defiling their bodies beyond recognition.
A gleeful Arab man displayed his bloodied hands from the window of the police station and was caught on camera and has become a symbol of opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian terror-state.
(It was the Lynching at Ramallah when the Intifada first began. The pictures are just as horrible. But the minds that could DO this are beyond redemption.)
No disrespect but, I really don't think they have to learn it.