Posted on 08/07/2005 3:34:25 PM PDT by dervish
ISRAELI Arab leaders have called on the Government to refrain from investigating the lynching by Arabs of an Israeli soldier who shot dead four Arabs, including two women, on a bus last Thursday.
Knesset member Mohammed Barakei warned that protests could erupt throughout the Arab sector if an investigation is carried out into the soldier's killing.
A security official in the Israeli Arab town of Shfaram, where the shootings occurred, said the soldier, Eden Natan Zada, had been beaten to death by the mob after he had been subdued by police and handcuffed.
But Mr Barakei denied this, and said the crowd had attacked Zada to prevent him from continuing his shooting rampage.
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Northern police commander Dan Ronnen said security forces would examine all aspects of the incident, including the lynching.
He said more than a dozen of his officers had been injured by stones and bottles as the crowd struggled to get at the soldier and that petrol had been poured over some of the police, although it was not ignited.
"Our people have identified criminal elements who took advantage of the situation to attack policemen," he said. "We have no option but to investigate."
Israel rushed more than 1000 police reinforcements to the Galilee hills following the killings for fear widespread rioting would break out in the area, where most of Israel's 1 million Arabs live. In rioting that erupted in the area five years ago following the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada in the West Bank and Gaza, 13 Israeli Arabs were shot dead by Israeli forces, leaving resentments that are still unhealed.
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What year is this again ? They're debating a investigation . Jeeeeeees !!!!
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Ask the Arab Israeli leaders if that's what they want the Israeli security forces to do next time they capture someone trying to murder their people. It is one thing if the perp is in the process of killing, it is entirely something else after he/she's in custody.
If the mob killed the perp while he was killing then good for the mob. Otherwise they're just barbarians.
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There is video showing him being beaten to death after his hands have been tied.
Imagine the uproar if IDF captured a suicide bomber and stomped him to death after tying him up!
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WHO give rat*** what if Israeli arabs riot
"Let 'em riot. Then open fire."
That's what the ragheads understand.
LOL. May you be wrong, but I suspect you are right.
See "Killer's last moments [Arab photographer captures Shfaram terrorist moments before lynch]": http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1458778/posts
Love your ID; it honors two great American heroes.
My response would be:
"Thank you for the warnings. I'll be sure the riot police have enough ammunition."
ditto......
Neville Sharon. Good one.
Sharon has caught the "Rabin disease." Time to make way for Bibi.
"But Mr Barakei denied this, and said the crowd had attacked Zada to prevent him from continuing his shooting rampage."
They did the right thing to kill this terrorist.
Do we have any independent (non-Muslim) data on what happened? Do we know with certainty that this guy went nuts and started randomly shooting, as opposed to recognising a known terrorist on the bus?
Not from what I've read, the police already had him on the ground, if the mob attacked him to prevent his further
rampage, why were his hands tied?
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