perhaps he was being threatned or forced , and felt he didnt have a choice . or perhaps its too difficult to belive the israelies are too stupid to fake the tape thay are always trying to prove how fair thay are thay would have arrested the guards if thay had thought them guilty.

why aren't you passing out sweets? your son is probably on his 14th virgin by now up in heaven with muhammed atta and sadaam.

"We need to remember that there were many invaders (in this land) and they all disappeared". Right, and one of those invaders is the Arabs, who are also going to disappear.

Oh give me (give all of us) a break. I try to avoid coming down too hard on the moronicness of Arabs. But do they really believe that those police videos were fabricated? Do the police really even need to fabricate those videos?? I think maybe I'm the moron here that I even am responding to this stupidity of the shooter's father. Mr. Khatib, wake up and smell the kaki, you're son was a terrorist!

B"H It is perfectly understandable why a father would want to persue every angle of innocence for his son. He is grieving. It should be looked at positively that the father did not want his son acting as a terrorist and he also wants a full investigation which is also positive. He is working with the system in his grief. As to the quote, the extremism mentioned is purchasing houses; on a level of 1 (not extreme) to 10 (extreme), I would put that house purchase at about a 2. I can see how the father is grieving, but I do not see facts that support his version of what occured. The guard still seems innocent from the limited information I have so far. Quote: According to Mahmoud Khatib, it is significant that the incident took place next to the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva which he said is housed by "extreme people who try to take over Muslim Jerusalem by buying houses."

mohammad Al-Dura

The Israeli cops have a tough job making a cup of tea let alone doctoring film. Besides that if they could,they would frame a rightist Jew and not an arab. Besides that,mazal tov to the khatib family.One less anus at the next family gathering.

The family said he would never do such a thing. The video clearly shows him taking the gun and shooting at the guard. Now they say he was shot while on the ground, helpless, and they have witnesses to prove it. What it proves is that most Pals are complicit in the propaganda that comes out of Pallywood. There are little or no innocents ( except for the children who are not given a choice ) from this cynical death culture called the PA. The father will bring out his sons friends who will say what is expected ( lie ) and Israel will show the video of his death. Then his father will say it was doctored. The end result we be the Pals will consider him a hero murdered by the evil empire and most people will know he caused his own death in a failed attempt to be the new "poster boy martyr" for the Pals to rally around. See photo of Khatib geared for western media consumption. Nice try boys but it didn't work, this time! Submitted for your approval...or not Mark from Georgia

a) to lie b) never admit wrong-doing c) blame the Jews d) all the above. And the answer is.... d.

They are "citizens" of Israel yet refer to Jerusalem as "Muslim." Even if you make peace with the Palestinians you will still have these dangerous people to deal with and they are not fenced off.

...for so many reasons...!

Who cares what his father says. This is the same kind of crap we get in the U.S. when guys who have multiple arrests and are on probation or just out of jail, shoot someone. Their family quickly describes them as angles and always says it is the fault of the police.

even the father of the dead shahid said so and i bellieve him because he will not lie believe me and aslo i investigrated and found that no planes flew into the building in new york it was all fabricated film footage by hollywood and the zionist believe me we neve did not terrorist action, never it is all a lie by the zionist and the soviets believe me

Go down the list... The Six Day War, the 9/11 attacks, al-Dura, the Jenin "massacre", the Gaza beach explosion, even Darfur; now this. It's always the Jews, the Mossad, the Americans, the Zionists. Never the Muslims or the Arabs. They can always find "eyewitnesses" who belie irrefutable evidence. The evidence is always "doctored", or "faked". Give it a rest. No one believes you any more. I know Aaron (#3) was being sarcastic referring to this scumbag "up in heaven". But we're all confident he, like Atta, and Arafat, and Sadam, is nowhere near heaven.

There are some people who live in a different reality from the rest of us. For these people, facts need to be tailored according to their deeply held beliefs. Anything that happens to contradict their beliefs needs to be explained away. Facts are created or manipulated to support their beliefs and to tell their story. We have people who believe that 9/11 was caused by Bush&Co., that the moon landings were faked, and that Elvis is alive and well somewhere. People have paid good money to read these stories. I've never understood if the perpetrators of these tales are so deluded as to actually believe the stories they tell, or if they're fully aware that they tell lies?

it is wonrg, always, to publish stories about families in their moment of grief. they should be allowed their privacy at a time when they are neither thinking nor looking their best, to just grieve, without cameras and reporters and spotlights. publishing such stories, whether about arabs or jews or anyone else, just for the sake of selling newspapers, or to propagandize for "the cause", is a completely unethical abuse of those in mourning and should not be allowed. clearly, sheikh raad salah is trying to exploit the situation for his own political benefit, but no less so than the israeli newspapers who have decided to carry this story.

Just by publishing this nonsense you add credence to it. This is not responsible journalism.

Every thing real against them is Fabricated. Ever thing that is fabricated by them (for others) is real! And they expect world to trust them!???

No dust cloud! I also believe the Men in Black movies are real. Look at our Politicians. They must be from another world. In fact Noahs ark was just a space ship - were all from mars. This explains the two creation stories and why the Bible doesn't mention dinasoars. I think the Los Angeles riots were staged and that the beating was really a white stunt man pretending to be on drugs. Would you like my expert opinion on the shooting video? Maybe the media will put me on stage like this guys family memebers.

What happened to the Arabs of Shefaram who lynched the Jewish terrorist, Nathan Zada? Why were they not tried for murder? What goes on here? A Jew kills an Arab in self defence and is accused of murder and Arabs murder a Jew and go free? Where is justice? I don't expect justice from the father of the dead Arab but I do expect justice from the State of Israel. A State which does not bring criminals to justice is as good as a murdering state. Justice is by the state and applies to everyone.

i understand by the amount of belive me.s you feel more convincing well it may work in gaza in the moskes but not here, you cant cry out fake when it suits and when israelie tv puts out damaging footage on the israelie army its real, i belive the father is doing what he feels is wright for the memory of his son and in his circumstances i may have done the same. but belive me belive me belive what you see is what you get sorry ill buy another ballon tomorrow.

These people are the world's biggest deceivers and have no moral integrity whatever and no rights to live west of the Jordan, since they lost those rights long ago through their treachery. I say take their land whenever possible and throw them the hell on the other side of the Jordan. Jimmy C. and Rosalyn can get Habitat busy building homes for them over there.

One more word out of this man and his house should be demolished. He's making too much noise for someone who knew nothing. He is also paving the way for a large payout from the government. He is going to wait a long long long time.

I was going to respond, but not worth time.

There is a tape. A guard is shot, an Arab dead, dozens of people wounded. What do these primitives expect to learn. Simple proof that the rotten fruit do not fall far from the deformed tree. No matter how hard Israel tries Palestinians are unwilling and incapable of accepting reality, and will remain primitive haters and ignorant medieval fascists, when it comes to Jews, and other non-moslems.