In 2001 Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords made a pilgrimage to Israel that she has called a turning point in her life. During that same year, Israeli forces killed 103 children, 31 by head shots.
In the last ten years the IDF has killed at least 255 Palestinian children using head shots. In 2009 the UK Telegraph asked a Sinai physician about the nature of these shootings:
"'I can't precisely decide whether these children are being shot at as a target, but in some cases the bullet comes from the front of the head and goes towards the back, so I think the gun has been directly pointed at the child.'"
If the only victim of the Tuscon shootings had been a congressperson who could always be counted on to support Israeli war crimes, the concept of karma would be much easier to apply.
Nine year-old Christina Taylor Green among the other victims seems the most tragic loss.
"It is equally tragic to read of nine-year-old Akaber, killed by Israeli gunfire to her head while riding in her uncles car to get medical stitches removed, and of the 29 other nine-year-olds killed by Israeli forces in the past decade, eight of them by Israeli gunfire to the head...
"But there is hope that Gabrielle Giffords is going to survive
"Let us pray that she recovers fully, that she is able to return to Congress, and that she then works to prevent others including Palestinians from being shot in the head.
Alison Weir: Shot in the Head
In the last ten years the IDF has killed at least 255 Palestinian children using head shots. In 2009 the UK Telegraph asked a Sinai physician about the nature of these shootings:
"'I can't precisely decide whether these children are being shot at as a target, but in some cases the bullet comes from the front of the head and goes towards the back, so I think the gun has been directly pointed at the child.'"
If the only victim of the Tuscon shootings had been a congressperson who could always be counted on to support Israeli war crimes, the concept of karma would be much easier to apply.
Nine year-old Christina Taylor Green among the other victims seems the most tragic loss.
"It is equally tragic to read of nine-year-old Akaber, killed by Israeli gunfire to her head while riding in her uncles car to get medical stitches removed, and of the 29 other nine-year-olds killed by Israeli forces in the past decade, eight of them by Israeli gunfire to the head...
"But there is hope that Gabrielle Giffords is going to survive
"Let us pray that she recovers fully, that she is able to return to Congress, and that she then works to prevent others including Palestinians from being shot in the head.
Alison Weir: Shot in the Head