The recent violence between the Jews and the Palestinians is exposing the propaganda and the deliberate manipulation that has been associated with the term terrorism or who a terrorist is.
Israeli media outlets report that two Israeli Defense Force (IDF) officers have shot dead an Israeli citizen. According to the Jerusalem Post, the man was killed near Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station after the officers mistook him to be a Palestinian terrorist.
The paper further reports that the man shouted “I am ISIS!” in Hebrew, and then lunged for one of the officer’s guns before he was shot to death.
Police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld later told reporters that the man has been identified as 28-year-old Simcha Hodedtov, a full-blooded Jew. He said Hodedtov initially drew the attention of the officers when he behaved erratically upon exiting an Egged bus across the street from the bus station.
“He was acting very suspiciously, and two IDF soldiers patrolling the area as part of Jerusalem’s heightened security suspected he may be a terrorist and asked him to present his identification, but the man said he refused to show it. When the soldiers began questioning him, he shouted ‘I am ISIS!’ and then tried to take a gun from one of the soldiers. Unfortunately, as a result, he was shot and killed at the scene”, Rosenfeld said.
Despite the fact that the killing was barbaric as the officers could have used a non-lethal means to neutralize the man, there is more to tell and learn from the actions and behavior of the Israelis when they realized the man was not who they assumed him to be.
Chairman of the Israeli Response Emergency Team (ZAKA), Yehuda Meshi Zahav who personally went to the scene of the attack said he also initially thought the suspect was a Palestinian terrorist.
“When I arrived with the ZAKA team at the site of the supposed terrorist attack, it seemed to be a ‘standard’ current terrorist attack, a stabbing attempt, and the terrorist was apprehended,” he said.
Chairman Zahav continued to say something very striking: “I wanted to cover the body in a black bag reserved for terrorists. After I was asked to take care of the body I saw that he was a Jew, and that it was mistake to speak of a terrorist. I immediately notified the police and we switched to a white ZAKA body bag.”
And a video posted by the Jerusalem Post which we cannot show due to its restricted nature, initially showed the victim covered with a black bag before he was later put into a white bag. The rescue team then carried him into a waiting ambulance as crowd still gathered at the scene.
Even before this incident, a security guard had shot an innocent Eritrean migrant after a bus station attack in the southern city of Beersheba. He was subsequently beaten to death by a mob who thought he was a Palestinian and for that matter a terrorist.
The Intercept holds that the recent events in Israel has confirmed the work of the NYU scholar, Remi Brulin who has documented that the discourse of terrorism is a meaningless concept and that from the start, it has been used for propagandistic purposes.
When they thought he was a Palestinian Arab, he was labeled a “terrorist,” and then soon as they realized he was an Israeli Jew, the label was instantly withdrawn for that reason alone, even though the conduct was the same. That’s the manipulative, malleable concept of “terrorism” in a nutshell.
Maybe Rudy Giuliani was right when he answered “It depends on who does it” after he was asked whether waterboarding was a torture or not. It is clear here. An Israeli is never a terrorist irrespective of what he/she does. But a Palestinian is always a terrorist. It is now time for you to start thinking and deciding for yourself.
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Amando Flavio: does it make sense to you that an Israeli soldier would INTENTIONALLY shoot to kill a non-violent non-terrorist? Or, let’s say, an Italian soldier intentionally shooting to kill an Italian or Moroccan citizen in Italy? If your answer is “yes”, then your perception is skewed.
Amando Flavio, let me explain what terrorism means: terrorism is INTENTIONALLY murdering innocent civilians. Israeli citizens are being stabbed every day because the Palestinian leadership is explicitly encouraging stabbing attacks.
Maybe one day, amando, when your son or daughter is murdered because they feel you don’t have a right to live here or there, or simply because of your ethnicity, then I think you will feel differently about the situation.
And let’s make it clear: this war is not about territories or occupation. The Palestinian leadership explicitly wants death to jews, period. And they sacrifice Palestinian lives to enrich themselves and sponsor more hopeless terrorism. As a jew, this is a war of survival. This is hitler. We will defend ourselves, and if yiu wish to identify with those who wish death upon jews, then so be it, we will destroy you too.
You’ve really sucked up all that delicious propaganda, haven’t you?
Fact – Israel was built on land stolen from Palestinians.
Fact – Netenyahu is insane enough to think that the Palestinians are to blame for the Holocaust.
Fact – Israel doesn’t want a two-state solution, it wants all the land it believes to be theirs.
Fact – The Palestinians aren’t going anywhere, and we aren’t going to let you kill them all.
The tide has turned, Zionist. Accept it and open yourself to a shred of humanity.
Dear Dan, on a general basis I agree with you on the understanding of the feeling of being threatened and therefor wanting to protect ones family and oneself. In this particular case, Amando pointed out that ‘Despite the fact that the killing was barbaric as the officers could have used a non-lethal means to neutralize the man, there is more to tell and learn from the actions and behavior of the Israelis when they realized the man was not who they assumed him to be…’ the overall question for me is how people are treated. How the angst has completely overtaken the life of Israelis and Palestinians. And how this angst creates tragic moments in our history like the killing of Haftom Zarhum and the Israeli that was shot by police (unnamed) and the many others on both sides innocent!. There has been too many over the course of the last year, Please remember the massacres of children and innocent man and woman in Gaza! Israel’s government has taken an outrages direction in dealing with the violence on both sides and throughout the overpowering dominance and stand it has taken has obviously caused more tension then there already is. Now I hope you all agree thats common sense and it applies to many situations of the past years (i.e. London riots, demonstrations etc) I am not just speaking from a perspective of an outsider. I have been to Israel and Palestine to research artistic and cultural practises on both sides. Because I still believe mankind is not born evil, but unfortunately turned in a long period like this conflict. We are weak when is comes down to survival .. on both sides people feel its all about survival.. the mood is really at its lowest. Now my approach is to give hope to children that not all adults are violent, because Israeli and Palestinian children are scared from the day they are born. I also must comment your comment ‘And let’s make it clear: this war is not about territories or occupation.’ I utterly disagree because I have been to Palestine and have with my own eyes and ears encountered horrifically violent and extreme encounters with Jewish settlers that occupy a house built by a Palestinian that was forced out with help of Isreali Police! I have seen it with own eyes and would like you to see this conflict as a never ending conflict if there is not a sign towards the Palestinians that what these extreme settlers do, is unexeptable. It really is about the questions of what is it to be human and what is it to be civilised and feel respect towards other humans. Seriously, if there was some sign of the government showing that these settlers are not allowed to speak and act violently .. the anger of Palestinians would shift.. and Palestinians have told me this. But anyhow until there is not a change in government there is no hope for this. So my final words are: I am looking forward to 2017 and hope that the people of Israel have had enough and will give a new government a chance to turn this endless violent stream of killings around!