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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"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,"
Yes, we do. The terrorist killed 4 and critcally injured many others.
Independent source is the people on the bus, bystanders and police officers.
Good thing they stopped him or it could have been worse.
I cant verify that they tieds his hands, but if they did it was the right thing to do so he could not kill more innocent people.
Maybe he recognised the real killers of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
Which is why I had the question "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,"
Again: do we have eyewitness reports from non-Muslim sources as to what actually happened?
Shades of Rodney King!!
No, seriously, are you stupid? did you not read the article?
Push them into the sea or the desert, as the case may bge..
Does that preclude an investigation? I think not.
Carolyn
I wonder just where the "Arab" evolved from.
We were not present. But according to witnesses, the people had to subdue him to stop him from killing more people. I think they did the right thing.
What the Arabs see it Israel surrendering on all fronts. Why shouldn't they threaten violence if there is an investigation? It may work.
They did. He was on the bus in their town when he opened fire killing 4 Arabs and wounding many more. He was trying to get another clip in his gun so he could kill more Arabs. A passenger on the bus got the gun away from him and the people outside thought the passenger was the perp and started to beat him. Then they found out it was the Israeli and the crowd beat him to death.
They didn't need to lynch him. He was already dead. The Israeli was a member of the IDF and quit or got booted out because he was freaking out over the coming pull out, so he took it out on the Israeli Arabs.
I would have to agree with you, sheik yerbouty.
It does not preclude an investigation.
What does your post have to do with a group is Israeli citizens saving the government the cost of a trial?
Your story is not true.
He was alive and in custody.
See #32
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