Posted on 03/24/2009 7:04:08 AM PDT by La Lydia
JERUSALEM -- The parents of an American man severely wounded by Israeli troops during a West Bank protest have asked Israeli police to investigate, their lawyer said...Tristan Anderson, 38, from Oakland, Calif., was struck in the head by a tear-gas canister fired by members of Israel's paramilitary border police in the Palestinian village of Naalin on March 13. Mr. Anderson had joined a protest against Israel's separation barrier, which cuts off Naalin from 300 acres of olive groves. In the past year, four Palestinians were killed in Naalin by Israeli troops quelling weekly stone-throwing protests against the barrier, according to Israeli human rights group B'tselem....
His father, Mike, said Israel must “take full responsibility for the shooting of our son.” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Mr. Anderson's injury was “an extremely regrettable result of rioting.”...
Rights activists say Israeli troops often use excessive force in dispersing West Bank protests, and fire tear-gas canisters directly at protesters - using them as a weapon, rather than a means to disperse crowds. The Israeli military says stone-throwing poses a threat to troops, and several officers have been injured by rocks. The military said troops used permitted means of riot dispersal, such as tear gas, rubber-coated steel pellets and stun grenades.
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“The soldier fired the canister. Your son was standing in the way of his own volition. Tell him, next time, to duck.”
In My World, the moment you were born, they would rubber stamp your backside with: "WELCOME TO LIFE: Act like a moron and it may get you killed. This is your only warning."
never mind Obama voters do not have a sense of person responsibility
This guy apparently doesn’t work for a living. He was a veteran of the tree sitting protests in Berkeley, where enviro activists prevented trees from being cut down to make way for construction of a building. So his next protest act was to go to the middle east and protest against Israel.
What can you do with somebody who insists on putting himself in harms way.
Duh!
If you play with fire, you risk getting burned. Of course, this guy probably was much wiser than Rachel “Caterpillar Wrestler” Corrie.
They need to tell their other kids(if they have any) not to play in a war zone. Just remember him the way he was and move on...Case Closed.
He asked for it. He got it. I don’t think the Israeli army should be blamed or praised; they were just doing their job.
I have always found that NOT GOING TO PLACES WHERE THEY ARE SHOOTING AT EACH OTHER to be a sound policy.
Injured man's parents ask for probeI concur. This guy needs an anal probe.
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No question there will be a complete investigation. But his friends excuse, that Tristan wasn't one of the protestors throwing rocks, confirms that the demonstration was violent. Someone should have talked to him before the press got to him. Tear gas to break up a violent demonstration isn't excessive.
right between the eyes!
Absolutely. This is what happens when you fraternize with terrorists. I have ZERO sympathy.
I believe he already had a brain probe ..
I believe he already had a brain probe ..
Note to self, don’t use head as a bat.
The Israeli military said that on the day Mr Anderson was shot, some 400 rioters, “some masked”, had thrown “a massive number of rocks” at their forces. They said protesters had thrown firebombs, and directed burning tyres towards the forces, and that 73 personnel were injured in 2008 at or near Ni’lin.
Also, he reportedly "had taken part in peace demonstrations in Iraq before the US invasion in 2003, and in El Salvador and Guatemala." This wasn't a naive kid. He traveled around the world over a period of years to put himself in places of conflict.
Too bad the ambulance didn’t have a flat tire...
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