Screaming Palestinian Kids Paid to Provoke Soldiers on Camera
November 6, 2012 14:41 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories:
1. Good news for the family of Marla Bennett, an American student killed in the 2002 Hebrew U. bombing. Canada froze Iranian assets so the family can claim a $13 million US judgment. The National Post explains:
Further, Judge Lamberth ruled: “Iran has continuously provided material support to and sponsorship of Hamas and its members so that they may undertake terrorist attacks like the one in this action.”
Iran and the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security were ordered to pay Ms. Bennett’s parents and sister $12,904,548. Winning that case, however, was the easy part. Collecting the money has proved challenging.
“The plaintiffs have not been able to enforce the U.S. Judgment against Iranian assets in the U.S.,” wrote Judge Allen. The family has turned its attention to Iran’s assets here.
2. Trying to provoke an IDF response in front of news cameras, Palestinians send screaming kids at soldiers. YNet explains the story behind the latest video making the rounds online. We’ve seen this before. The junior jihadis should be home doing their homework . . .
A senior IDF source told Ynet that intelligence indicates that pro-Palestinian activists pay Palestinian children from Nabi Salih and the nearby villages to confront the soldiers.
The weekly protests in the areas used to involve hundreds of people, but over time the numbers have dwindled to just a few dozens. According to the officers, the majority of protesters are foreign pro-Palestinian activists.
3. A Turkish court began the trial in absentia of four IDF commanders for their role in the Mavi Marmara raid. The BBC writes:
Nearly 500 people who were on board the ship during the raid are expected to give evidence.
The Israeli embassy in Ankara has called the trial a “unilateral political act with no judicial credibility”.
Prosecutors seek 18,000 year sentences. The Republic of Turkey should last so long.
Iranian Atomic Urgency
• Israel and Iran hold ‘positive’ nuclear talks in Brussels
A handful of officials from both Israel and Iran are involved in the two-day event, ostensibly in their capacity as private citizens, in what was billed as an academic seminar.
• Channel 4”s Dispatches aired its inside look at a Tel Aviv think-tank’s Israeli-Iran war game exercise.
• Whoda thought? The granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — the godfather of the Iranian revolution — somehow got around Iran’s web filters to set up a Facebook account with the maximum 5,000 followers allowed. The Washington Post rightly notes of Naeimeh Eshraghi’s Facebook page:
If it were up the Iranian government her grandfather founded, Eshraghi would of course not have the opportunity to get to know any layers of society through Facebook. It’s a reminder of the impossibility – maybe even absurdity – of web censorship that such a public figure as Khomeini’s granddaughter would so openly discuss her use of an officially banned Web site that’s also remarkably popular. It’s just assumed that you circumvent the filters.
• Quote of the Day:
“What can we do . . . the planes were flying in the dark with their lights off.”
Sudan’s Defense Minister, Major General Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein answering why radar systems didn’t deal with aircraft (presumably Israeli) bombing a Khartoum weapons factory. Hussein’s name rings a bell . . .
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suzette ross
10:12 pm
Nov 06, 2012
That is the saddest thing……that such hate and violence coming from children that should be
home with loving parents. Teaching them how to love not to hate. The patience of the IDF is commendable. How many cameras were there?????? When you think of all the trouble spots in the world and the thousands dying…..they think this incident is more news worthy.
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Anthony L
6:21 pm
Nov 07, 2012
As expected the BBC is today ( November, 7) using a still from the screaming kids video as an (irrelevant) illustration to a story on its web-site about a Palestinian protester. The still implies that an IDF soldier is about to strike screaming kid #1 from the film.
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Dan
8:31 pm
Nov 10, 2012
So kids are harassing the military, that acts as the police, and concentrates it’s efforts upon the arrests and harassment of Palestinians. Don’t get much of these reports in the West and especially not in the USA with its extremely biased reporting.
Have you seen the videos of Israeli kids in Palestine as the settlers take over? Kids throwing rocks at Palestinian people and children. Having to protect the Palestinians who have lived there for generations with wire mesh because the Israeli parents don’t stop the kids (obviously support them) and the |Israeli only arrests those Palestinians that retaliate.
I guess not!
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ralph
7:58 am
Nov 21, 2012
Remarkable patience of the IDF soldiers !
Shame on the those children an their parents .The “preparation” of future “martyrs ” has begun.
Would like to know where from are the reporters ,since when were they at this place and who
sent them there . It happened several times that foreign media are in place ready to film before an incicident is provoked by activists in order to “show” the “brutality” of IDF.
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