The consulate obviously was working with the police to some degree. If not, the police would not be standing up for them on this.
Secondly, we never asked Israel or western powers to help us get land back or to help facilitate this or anything else in any way back in the 40’s or in 1967.
Third, law enforcement and those working with them should not have people in Ferguson throwing bottles and rocks at them - this is unacceptable behavior.
Nor should Israeli's be brandishing clubs to use against these people over in Israel or throwing objects at them when they are investigating claims. That is a mob mentality - and it is unacceptable everywhere - and the defense of “they shouldn't have been there in the first place won't cut it.”
Or will we have one mentality regarding how we want law enforcement and those working with them to be treated in this country and turn around and say that that law enforcement and those working with them can be treated another way in Israel. That is not a reasonable, rational nor logical approach.
We must hold Palestinians, Israeli and American citizens to the same standards.
No Israeli police or IDF was notified in advance. And we did not help the Israelis take the west bank. They did that in the 67 war.
And no, I do not draw any sort of equivalence between the Israelis and the so called “Palestinians”.
But you sure seem to be hot to stand up for the Koranimals.
Interesting. Not often we see conservatives on the side of the PLO.
For Bonus points, why are American personnel armed in Israel? If that was needed, then what is actually called for is IDF or police going with them.