Jewish Settlers Voilence Caught on Film - Political Fever

Comrade Joe · #1 (**permalink**) 06-15-2008, 12:36 PM

Bravo for groups like this. The good people of Israel be it a minority or not are the most important people in bringing an end to the atrocities on both sides. They are the ones who can bring attention to what goes on and with their help there is only so long the Israeli authorities and international community can ignore what is happening the causes of it.

In the short term i do worry when Israel says they are investigating an incident as it usually means nothing will happen.

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Footage from a video camera handed out by an Israeli human rights group appears to show Jewish settlers beating up Palestinians in the West Bank.

An elderly shepherd, his wife and a nephew said they were attacked by four masked men for allowing their animals to graze near the settlement of Susia.

The rights group, B'Tselem, said the cameras were provided to enable Palestinians to get proof of attacks.

A spokesman for the Israeli police said that an investigation was under way.

So far, no-one has been arrested.

For the past year, B'Tselem has handed out video cameras to Palestinians as part of its "Shooting Back" project.

The BBC has been given exclusive access to the footage of this particular attack, which happened earlier this week. The date and time on the camera footage shows that it is Sunday afternoon.

Over the brow of the hill walk four masked men holding baseball bats. To the right of the screen, in the foreground, stands a 58-year-old Palestinian woman.

Thamam al-Nawaja has been herding her goats close to the Jewish settlement of Susia, near Hebron in the southern West Bank.

Within a few seconds, she, along with her 70-year-old husband and one of her nephews, will be beaten up.

As the first blows land, the woman filming - the daughter-in-law of the elderly couple - drops the camera and runs for help.

Mrs Nawaja spent three days in hospital after the attack.

Returning to the small Palestinian encampment close to the red-roofed houses of Susia, she stepped slowly and unsteadily out of the minibus.

A dark stain showed through the white gauze covering her broken right arm. Her veil was lifted gingerly away from her lined face. A bloodshot eye and intersection of scars revealed a fractured left cheek.

"The settlers gave us a 10-minute warning to clear off from the land," she told me, her voice a tired, cracked whisper.

She and her husband had stood their ground. It is at this point that her voice grows louder.

"They don't want us to stay on our land. But we won't leave. We'll die here. It's ours," she added.

Indeed, the rest of the world regards Jewish settlements in the West Bank such as Susia, as illegal, built on occupied territory.

Those settlements have been a large part of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis for the last 41 years. The daily confrontation is not often caught on camera. That, now, is beginning to change.

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | 'Jewish settler attack' on film

mlurp · #2 (**permalink**) 06-15-2008, 02:42 PM

And what about the soldier Hamas is still holding Joe? And newer video on that?

Comrade Joe · #3 (**permalink**) 06-15-2008, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by mlurp

And what about the soldier Hamas is still holding Joe? And newer video on that?

You're like a broken record. If you have nothing to say on a threads topic don't say anything.

How you can equate a combatant being held with civillians being attacked on their own land is beyond comprehension. Grow up old man.

mlurp · #4 (**permalink**) 06-15-2008, 03:35 PM

Here a hero for you Joe. And Joe that crap of where I can post or what I can post doesn't work in a free society! Suck it up and go on!
Rice criticizes Israel on West Bank settlements By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writer
37 minutes ago

Rice criticizes Israel on West Bank settlements - Yahoo! News

JERUSALEM - Israel's persistent building of Jewish homes on disputed land undermines the U.S.-backed attempt to write an Israeli-Palestinian peace draft this year and invites questions about Israel's motives, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.

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Using exceptionally harsh language, the visiting U.S. envoy said Israel must understand the pall its actions cast over talks and on the confidence of the United States, European nations and others that Israel is bargaining in good faith. She said the Jewish state has apparently picked up the pace of housing expansion since President Bush inaugurated negotiations with a splashy summit at Annapolis, Md.

"We should be in a position of encouraging confidence, not undermining it. No party should be taking steps at this point that could prejudice the outcome of the negotiation," Rice said following meetings with Palestinian officials in the West Bank.

jafar00 · #5 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 05:07 AM

A few pesky vid cams are not going to stop the "settlers". They are seriously dangerous extremists.

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