Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: MIDEAST:  'Palestinian Life is Cheap'

Gli hanno sparato sette volte nel giro di un ora...
Purtroppo molti prendono gusto ad avere potere di vita e di morte su 
altri esseri umani quando una certa ideologia li autorizza ad averlo.
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MIDEAST:  'Palestinian Life is Cheap'
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Mar 24, 2010 (IPS) - In early February, 41-year-old Fayez 
Ahmed Faraj, a father of nine from the city of Hebron, 30 miles south of 
Jerusalem, in the southern West Bank, was shot dead in his home town by 
Israeli soldiers after he allegedly tried to stab one of them.
After a preliminary investigation the Israeli military authorities 
stated that the soldiers had acted in self-defence and had used the 
necessary force.
The media subsequently reported that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) 
soldier who shot Faraj dead had acted within reason.
But further investigation by Palestinian and Israeli human rights 
organisations, and eye-witness reports, dispute the official version of 
events.
Questions have been raised and doubts expressed about the circumstances 
surrounding the shooting.
"This is not the first time that Israeli security forces have shot to 
kill when their lives have been in no danger. We have recorded many such 
incidents," says Shawan Jabarin from the Palestinian human rights 
organisation Al Haq in Ramallah.
"There seems to be a deliberate policy often to kill following the 
smallest provocation. Palestinian life is cheap for the Israelis," 
Jabarin told IPS.
According to eye-witnesses and paramedics following a possible verbal 
altercation with the soldiers Faraj was shot seven times in the course 
of an hour even as he lay on the ground seriously wounded and barely 
able to move.
The witnesses further claim that not only did the Israeli soldiers fail 
to arrest Faraj but they deliberately framed him by taking a knife from 
a nearby military jeep and threw it on the ground next to the dying man 
after they had shot him. They then took photographs for "evidence".
Paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent (PRC) also state that when 
they tried to evacuate the critically injured man to hospital they were 
held up at gunpoint by Israeli soldiers.
The hospital the paramedics were trying to reach was only a few hundred 
metres away from where the shooting took place. Time was of the essence 
as Faraj had lost copious amounts of blood.
One of the paramedics, Eid Abu Munshar, told Israeli human rights group 
B’tselem that one of the Israeli soldiers entered the ambulance and 
pulled the intravenous drip from Fayez’s arm.
Later an IDF officer ordered Faraj to be transferred to an IDF jeep. He 
was then placed in an intensive care ambulance where he waited another 
critical half an hour.
None of these subsequent details made media headlines with the exception 
of the investigative journalist Gideon Levy from the Israeli daily 
‘Haaretz’ who decided to investigate further.
Further complicating the issue was the fact that several weeks earlier a 
Palestinian policeman had stabbed an Israeli soldier to death in the 
West Bank and many believed this to be a copy-cat killing.
Levy’s report raised several other questions regarding the murky 
circumstances and confusion surrounding Faraj’s death.
After speaking to Faraj’s employers and family he established that Faraj 
had little motivation to carry out a stabbing attack.
He was one of the few Palestinians in possession of a security permit to 
both enter Israel and sleep overnight something that a Palestinian 
deemed a security risk by the IDF would never have.
Faraj had been employed by the same Israeli company for 15 years in Tel 
Aviv where he worked as a shoemaker and was described as a happy guy. He 
had Israeli friends, spoke Hebrew fluently and was economically well off.
He was not an Islamic ideologue and as his brother explained to Levy if 
Faraj had wanted to attack Israelis he had plenty of chances to do so in 
Tel Aviv.
B’tselem, too, was not satisfied with the previous conclusions drawn and 
wrote to Israel’s Judge Attorney General asking that the case be 
thoroughly investigated
"The circumstances of the incident, as they appear from B'Tselem’s 
investigation, contradict the announcements issued by the army," said 
the group’s website.
Al Haq, meanwhile, raised the following issues. Fayez was unarmed; the 
soldiers opened fire on him on three separate occasions; and in the 
aftermath of the shooting, an Israeli soldier took a knife from his own 
pocket and threw it down beside the victim.
A military investigation is currently underway. However, Jabarin is 
sceptical of the results.
"What is particularly problematic for us is that when the Israeli 
military or settlers attack Palestinians under dubious circumstances and 
these cases are brought to the attention of the relevant Israeli 
authorities very few are opened and even fewer lead to a conviction," 
Jabarin told IPS.
Lior Yavne from the Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din which 
helps Palestinians to lay charges against Israeli attackers in the West 
Bank concurs. "Less than eight percent of cases opened result in any 
conviction."
"In many instances the police allegedly either ‘lose the paper work’ or 
‘can’t identify the perpetrators’. This is not a problem they seem to 
have when investigating Palestinians accused of crimes against 
Israelis," Yavne told IPS.
(END)
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50769
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[Megaphone]
The Foreign Ministry itself is now pushing the idea, urging supporters 
of Israel everywhere to
become cyberspace soldiers "in the new battleground for Israel's image."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378505678&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

 altri esseri umani quando una certa ideologia li autorizza ad averlo.
per esempio, il c.d. ministro degli interni del governo golpista di
Gaza, privo di ogni legittimazione democratica, ha reintrodotto la
pena di morte
http://tinyurl.com/ye28lqj

נחום ha scritto:
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indovinate un po' di quali accuse si serve per liberarsi degli avversari
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/03/25/1011368/hamas-to-execute-collaborators-with-israel