Look at what I said in post #42. It explains where I stand.
Obviously the police and the consulate were working hand-in-hand and the police, the Palestinian witnesses and the US consulate all agree on what transpired.
There needs to be respect for the police and the US Consulate working together on this. It was unacceptable for those Ferguson protesters who threw objects and vandalized buildings to do what they did. And this behavior by these Israeli’s in also unacceptable. And the defense that some posit that “The y shouldn’t have been there in the first place” would not fly in the US among law enforcement as a reason for them to try and stone them.
I certainly don’t think that anyone on one side should have an attitude of “Kneel before Zod,” but you can’t try to stone others, either - and that goes for Palestinians and Israeli’s.
“Obviously the police and the consulate were working hand-in-hand and the police, the Palestinian witnesses and the US consulate all agree on what transpired.”
As I say, I’m skeptical, because they might all three, the US consular people, the police and the palis, have a common agenda, to make allegations against the ‘settlers’ and they may have colluded. The police here often are adversarial to the ‘settlers’ and the incident might be fabricated. Then again, maybe not. Technically, I’m a settler, too. There are hot heads among ‘settlers’ who might do something like this, but mostly they are not so, and there are also fabricated incidents, Palis sabotaging their own olive trees, film being edited by NGOs, and the US is not above chicanery like this, either. I am skeptical of both sides’ stories.
not good form on the settlers part if they were clearly marked as diplomatic persons. However driving cars into Haredi areas late Friday can result in a rock or two.