Israel Murdering Again.

[Beelzebub]

An historic incident, one of many no doubt, but an easy one to find.

And in light of the new murders by Israel - see next post:

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In the annals of Israeli terror attacks its one of the most memorable in a long line of such horrible incidents. Horrible not just because of the shock of the incident (then bus hijackings were unheard of). But for the trail of lies, collusion and cowardice perpetrated by senior Israeli officials to cover-up the murder in cold-blood of the attackers after they’d been captured.

It is known as the Bus (or Kav) 300 incident for the name of the bus line on which the hijacked vehicle ran. In April 1984, four Palestinians from Gaza took over the bus just after it left Tel Aviv. Eventually, Israeli forces stopped it and commandos attacked killing two of the militants. The remaining two were removed from the bus in handcuffs. Pictures of them were later disseminated around the world. Then Shin Bet chief Avraham Shalom commanded that they be killed on the spot. They were dispatched with blows to the skull from large rocks. No one at the time was aware that a photographer had recorded the terrorists alive and in handcuffs. When the Shin Bet reported that all the terrorists had been killed during the operation to free the bus, David Shipler told NY Times readers that the Israeli magazine, Hadashot had a photograph of one of the hijackers, Majdi Abu Jummaa being led alive off the bus.

In Israel, Uri Avnery’s HaOlam HaZeh, published a photo that blurred the face of the hijacker. Then all hell broke loose.

The Shin Bet chief tried to blame the IDF officer in charge of the operation. The State tried him and eleven others for the murders, but they were not convicted. Later, it turned out that Shalom had orchestrated the entire trial in order to protect himself and his staff.

Later, three Shin Bet deputies turned on their boss. They appealed to minister Shimon Peres, but he backed Shalom. The deputies were then forced out of the agency. One and a half years after the incident, they all turned to the State attorney general, Yitzhak Zamir, who opened an investigation against Shalom. But before he could prosecute, he too was forced from office after he refused to end it and was charged with jeopardizing national security. No one was punished.

Peres Shin Bet Chief Colluded to Cover-Up Murder of Palestinian Militants in Terror Attack Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam- ​

 

[Beelzebub]

For those who think that murdering suspects is the right thing to do, rather than detaining them, and putting them through a trial where the evidence (and lies) are tested for credibility, with the suspects able to defend themselves.

Murder is murder. Even if done by forces in the process of a criminal investigation.
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Another chapter has closed on the horrible cycle of killings and revenge murders that plagued the West Bank in the weeks before Israel launched Operation Protective Edge. A joint team of IDF, Shin Bet and Border Police cornered the two Palestinian boys and murdered them. I use the deliberate term “murder” though you will never see any Israeli source admit this. Here is what I wrote about today’s incident (two and a half months before it happened!):

There is one thing of which you may be certain: when and if they are found, they will be summarily executed. Of course, it won’t be presented to the media that way. The IDF never puts a bullet in a Palestinian from point blank range. It’s always: ‘the terrorist fired at soldiers who returned fire and killed him;’ or when told to surrender he fired a fusillade of bullets, which the IDF responded to, killing him.’

Here is the official statement announcing the murders:

[Israeli censorship] permits us to announce that after a joint intelligence operation of the Shabak, in collaboration with the IDF and Border Police, the hiding place of Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aysha, two residents of Hebron who carried out the kidnapping and murder of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Sher, and Eyal Yifrah, was located. There was an attempt to detain the suspects as a result of which there was an exchange of fire in the course of which the suspects were hit.

Note the use of the euphemism “hit.” They don’t even want to acknowledge they were killed. My Israeli source called it a ‘targeted killing.’ He says the force intended to liquidate them. It hardly mattered whether they fought back or surrendered.

Hebron’s Palestinian governor confirmed that the suspects were executed:

“It’s clear now the two martyrs, al-Kawasme and Abu Aysha, were assassinated this morning during a military operation in the Hebron University area. We condemn this crime, this assassination, as deliberate and premeditated murder,” he said.


Today’s Haaretz further confirms this account. Note the firepower brought to bear:

The Shin Bet said that the two suspects, Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisha, were hiding in a house in the West Bank. Israeli forces approached the house with an excavator vehicle and fired a rocket at the house, according to Palestinian reports.


You fire a rocket into a house to kill those inside. You bring an excavator to bury the victims alive. If there was a firefight as claimed it was the equivalent of a peashooter against an F-16. This was an execution. The state equivalent of a mob hit.

Israel’s foreign ministry hasn’t gotten the Shin Bet’s memo. The headline of its press release says the Palestinian suspects were “apprehended” and ...

Shin Bet Murders Palestinians Who Killed Three Israeli Youths Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-​

 

[Daniyel]

Tikun Olam?

 

[fanger]

A Trial may have found them not guilty what would that say about Noddy-yahoo's excuse for bombing Gaza?