Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Israelis call her ‘Shirley Temper.’ Palestinians call her a hero.
The Washington Post ^ | December 19, 2017 | Ruth Eglash

Posted on 01/02/2018 12:02:03 PM PST by beaversmom

JERUSALEM — Israelis call her ‘Shirley Temper’ and say she epitomizes ‘Pallywood,’ or Palestinian propaganda attempts to discredit Israel. Palestinians call her a hero, for fearlessly standing up to those who enforce the Israeli occupation of their land and those who terrorize her village.

Her real name is Ahed Tamimi. And a video of her confronting or provoking Israeli soldiers — depending on how you look at it — has gone viral.

Again.

Tamimi, 16, is a well-known Palestinian activist from a well-known activist family. She lives in the village of Nabi Saleh, in the occupied West Bank, where weekly demonstrations have become common scenes of clashes between Palestinian stone throwers and Israeli troops. The villagers accuse Israel of expropriating their lands in favor of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish.

On Friday, the army said, soldiers were in the village to contain a riot involving some 200 people, including the Tamimis. Some of the rioters, the army said in a statement, entered a nearby house and continued to throw rocks at troops. Then, it said, Tamimi and some women exited and started to “violently provoke” the soldiers.

Tamimi, her wild locks swept up in a hair band, can be seen on film slapping and kicking a soldier, as another young woman captures the exchange on her smartphone.

On Monday night, after the video was highlighted by Israeli news media, Israeli forces arrested Tamimi and detained her mother, Nariman, the army said in a statement.

Bassem Tamimi, Ahed’s father, wrote on Facebook that soldiers raided his home, confiscating cellphones and computers and taking away his wife and daughter. He said he has not spoken to the women since. A court hearing has been set for Wednesday.

The father said that during the Friday clash, the soldiers shot a 14-year-old boy,...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahedtamimi; bassemtamimi; bassemtimimi; districtofcolumbia; israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; nabisaleh; narimangemini; narimantamimi; rutheglash; shirleytemper; tamimi; waronterror; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-65 last
To: Thank You Rush; Mr. Mojo
“”I just finished reading The Haj””

An excellent book....I’m due to read it again... Worth the time for everyone to read it.

Yes, a very good book. It gives an excellent history on this subject.

I posted a chapter of it on FR not too long back:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3594826/posts

61 posted on 01/02/2018 7:47:56 PM PST by beaversmom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: MuttTheHoople

Thanks...I’ll have to look him up.


62 posted on 01/02/2018 7:48:49 PM PST by beaversmom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Eleutheria5

Thank you for the on the scene account.


63 posted on 01/02/2018 7:51:14 PM PST by beaversmom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: beaversmom

Trivia : The guy who organized the Virginia paintball terrorists around 911 was Iraqi-American Imam Ali A. Timimi. He was also associated with Ft. Dietrich and the 2001 anthrax case Mueller was “investigating.”


64 posted on 11/06/2023 6:47:41 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: beaversmom

Another Tamimi:

Ahlam Tamimi, a Hamas terrorist and current resident of Amman, Jordan’s capital, who has been the subject of a US Department of Justice arrest warrant since 2016. On Aug. 9, 2001, Tamimi orchestrated the suicide bombing of the Sbarro pizza restaurant in downtown Jerusalem that claimed the lives of 15 people. Tamimi deliberately targeted the pizzeria during the lunchtime rush, where it tends to be filled with parents and children, causing more than 100 wounded in the attack as well.

Arrested by the Israeli security forces and sentenced to 16 consecutive terms of life imprisonment, Tamimi served just eight years. She was then released, along with more than 1,000 other convicted Palestinian terrorists, in the 2011 deal between Israel and Hamas that secured the freedom of Gilad Shalit, an Israel Defense Forces’ soldier who had been held captive for years in the Gaza Strip....


65 posted on 11/06/2023 6:53:41 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-65 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson