You are no doubt going to hear a lot about the killing of a 17-year-old palestinian. So here’s what went down:
In response to being pelted with stones, a brigade commander in the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division shot and killed a Palestinian on Friday morning, the IDF confirmed.
Palestinian rioters began throwing stones at Col. Israel Shomer’s vehicle and in response, after firing warning shots he opened fire and killed one of them. The victim was identified as a seventeen-year-old named Muhammad al-Casba.
The incident took place near the West Bank village of Al-Ram which is north-east of Jerusalem, at a time of heightened security in the West Bank following a spate of terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. The commander was on his way to the Kalandiya checkpoint in between Jerusalem and Ramallah when his vehicle was attacked.
There were no injuries among the IDF personnel but a photo of the scene showed an IDF vehicle with a smashed windshield.
“The commander reacted exactly as expected given that the incident presented an immediate risk to life,” an IDF source said on Friday.
The source described the attack on the commander’s vehicle as an ambush that was planned.
Here’s a photo of the windshield:
The perpetrator was not trying to dirty the commander’s windscreen or inconvenience him. He was trying to kill him. This was attempted murder that could have become successful had the perpetrator not been neutralized.
The moral of the story?
Thanks to Deebo for the poster.
The way I see it, if he had given up his life to avoid his government getting bad press, it would have given the Arabs incentive to kill more Jews.
I prefer bad press to teary funerals.
Great article Aussie Dave
Israel is dealing with Arab barbarians.
Good article and posts about this.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/07/02/palestinians-ignite-fires-and-ambush-firefighters-with-stones/
Palestinians Ambush, Stone Israeli Firefighters After Igniting Fires in Jerusalem
July 2, 2015
Rocks? Boulders? No……the JP let’s us know that it was…..stones. You know, like the ones you skip across a lake.
So predictable.
Stones that you skip across a lake don’t makes holes in a jeep winshield like that. So predictable.
Uh…..that was my point Barney.
Neither of you were clear on that.
They might. It all depends on the speed at which the car is travelling.
BTW – a favourite method of breaking into a car is by using a plug to smash one of the windows.
Well, the kid has his 72-year-old vegan.
Today’s Yellow Hag Rag (nee Gray Lady) hit piece typical linguistic BS. Arabs “say” Israel “alleges” Uses all the techniques described here: http://www.camera.org/images_user/pdf/final%20monograph.pdf