tHAT IS THE MOREAL BEHIND THAT JUDGEMENT ! STUPID DECISION ! THORWING STONES TO FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ! :-) THE JUDGE IS GOING TO BE BEATEN UP WITH A JAW BONE SOON ! AND HE WILL ALOS HAVE TO PROTECTED BY THE iSARELI POLICE !

and r runing amoke with their own political opinions that cast heavy shadow on their judgment, some one needs to wake up in Israel before judge will reward people or teens who can hurt others. (drewing big A inside a circle).

... the time for him instead for making such a ridiculous gesture. The judge is not supposed to show any favouritism. From a maximum 20 years to nothing, when even the stone throwers family thought he was going to be found guilty. It is a very sad day for justice in Israel. :(

i'll bet that if i threw stones at palestinians homes or at them when they are out and about, they'd think i should be in jail. and if i told them my "ideology" compelled me to do it and i should not be punished, would they agree? no.

Jail the Judge by all means!!! How can the assasin of a kid get 9 years mximum, and a stone hurler 20 ?? Any explanation??/ how about rapers and abusive mothers???

I do not agree with the Judge that this boy should be let off the hook but 20 years! That is obscene, if someone was hurt that is another matter and is called assault. If property was damaged you can punish him for that but simply throwing stones would be a severe type of disturbance of the peace, and should carry a few months probation or a year in jail at the most.

to educate your children to NOT throw stones at peiople. Teach your children that what they see on enemy Arab channels is NOT always true. In fact, giver your children a proper education, so that they can learn BOT sides of the conflict (Jews have a legit claim to this land). Teach your children that if they are angry with the establishment they can peacefully protest and not take Hamas' example by murdering innocent civilians. THEN YOU BILL TREATED LIKE CITIZENS OF THE STATE AND NOT AS A FIFTH COLUMN!

The Judge was probably right to keep him out of jail - the kid would have become a full-fledged terrorist inside. Also, 20 years is a crazy sentence for stone-throwing, where murderers get away with less. On the other hand - this kid needs to be taught that violence doesn't pay - he should have been given community service working with terrorist victims.

If you do not know english well enough to case this parricular title in parenthesis then why use (rather risk) such an inflamatory title? My first insticnt was to call for the termination of whoever wrote it. Secondly, the article is so poorly constructed it is unclear what happened in the courtroom. Was it a clean cut aquittal based upon a lack of evidence? Surely there was some reason the judge admonished the prosecutor's office. What was the reason? The parents expressed amazement but not remorse IN SPITE of making a remark that was political in nature. Something is missing there--their son was acquitted and they are amazed, but also feel the court should understand that there are political circumstances--So, was he doing something or not? Were they reasoning it or not? The story is unclear. It actually makes the judge look like HE was political. I doubt it since, as your story confirms, this isn't how it usually goes along. So we will have to conclude the story has more holes than a slice of swiss cheese. It's baloney.

minor to violent riot, very high chances they will get hurt. bad parents.

Something constructive.

B"H Throwing stones is not exactly like throwing balls on the beach. An activity that is prohibited on most beaches by the way, because it is considered dangerous. A "protest" is marching with placards and shouting slogans, pointing fingers and blowing whistles, if you are really angry. Throwing stones is not "protest". It's aggravated assault and attempted murder, a potentially life threatening crime that shouldn’t be taken lightly nor encouraged! It is sad and telling that for the Arab being “treated like a human” means achieving the right to kill and injure Jews. The judge in the story evidently is incompetent and should be investigated by and relieved from the Justice Ministry’s payroll.

Why would you enclose this headline in parentheses? BTW, I'm a native speaker of English and both my parents were journalists. I've never seen a parenthetical headline.

Comments made by the boy's father: "let us feel like we really belong to the State of Israel" versus: "when you see children dying on television all day and an army destroying houses, it's not an easy feeling". Or in other words, I want to belong to the state of Israel, but I find it understandable to commit a crime to protest against Israel's right of self-defense, and punishing such crime is "racism". Well, you can't have it both ways, daddy-o! How can we accept you to be one of us, if you show apathy to our right to live here safely, and criticise our right for self-defense? As for the lawyer's comment, "protest is seen as nationalistically motivated" - well, the boy was committing a dangerous crime, risking an officer's life, in protest of Israel's war against Hamas. Do enlighten me dear lawyer, how else can you classify such act, if not "nationalistically motivated"?

As the arabs living in Israel showed during all the years of the existence of Israel their opposition to the Jewish State, they, and they alone, are the ones to be blamed if an Israeli government consider them as a fifth column and treat them as one. If they accept Israel as their home, compared to all the other Arab countries, Israel will continue to be a blessing to them as explained at : http://xrl.us/bi3hx

in courtrooms. Judges and lawyers are making a mockery of our laws. He was caught throwing rocks, then off to prison.The same with the hara-dim. Throw rocks and go to prison.

"This was the first time we felt we were being treated like human beings" First time, eh? I guess the right to vote and receive social benefits doesn't count. If he feels that strongly about it, he should move to Ramallah, where I am sure everything will be happy happy, joy joy, and he will get all the human rights he wants. Sure he will! Can't understand why he hasn't moved his family there already. This clown needs to learn how not to bite the hand that feeds him. The State of Israel doesn't need him. Probably doesn't want him. Why doesn't he just GO?

I just want him to get some stone on his head next time.Civilization and Humanity have nothing to do.Here in Europe the people says poooorrrr Palestinias they never says pooorrr Jews and this is because their speech are more powerful than ours. To the Judge poor Idiot the punishment should be fair and fit the crime act like this are only legitimate these kind of actions thus are WRONG.

this young man should be hitting the night clubs & discos of Nazareth like his jewish peers do in tel-aviv... but still, we gotta respect his choice to throw rocks at the the soldiers who occupy his land instead... some youths like to shake their booties, while others like to shake the world's rotten political reality...

well, they let the Palestinian Teen go this time and this shows that Israeli courts are forgiving and open minded and civilized, hope the Palestinian 'Teen' learns a lesson and becomes a civilized human being and if he wants to oppose someone he can do that is a non barbaric manner, criticize, object, fight for your rights but you don't have to harm others or throw stones at them like a barbarian to get your point across. To the Family of that Palestinian court lock your son up, and stop justifying crime because he see's violence on TV, I watch horror movies or thrillers and I don't go around murdering people. SICK PEOPLE.

why don't you shake the rotten system in your country jordan- throw some stones for a change to a democratic system and lets see what happens to you

This youth was not acquitted as stated in this article. He was condemned to work for public benefit and paying the damage.

This youths father is against discrimination, against ston throwing but understands his son's anger when seeing children die and an army destoying houses. We haven't seen any demonstrations against rocket shooting on Sderot in the Arab cities in Israel. Is this not discrimination ?

and F-16s, F-15s, cluster bombs, Markavas, NUKES!! are not deadly weapons?

maybe because its his land, home, house, LIFE!! i let me rephrase what you said in a clearer way "maybe he shouldn't bite the foot that squashed his neck while breaking in his house to give it to a settler that just arrived from God knows which corner of the world where he claims his great grand uncle's wife's father was half a jew therefore he is entitled to take the house of an arab no-body" I got excited when i first read your subject title "human rights" .. i thought wow, someone in NY supporting human rights of arabs in Israel, peh!! yeah right!!

Then there will be true peace and mutual respect.

Because human beings in civilized societies with rule of law take responsibility for violent actions and pay the price. Maybe 20 years is too long a sentence, but full acquittal encourages this violence-loving child and other like-minded children to throw more stones and behavior like savages again and again and again. As usual the Arab parents rationalize their son's decision to utilize violence, rather than condemning him for not seeking peaceful, civic ways of protesting policies he doesn't agree with. You have a disturbing mentality if you think getting away with violence will make you feel a sense of "belonging" to the state Shame the leftist worshipping judge who was too afraid to be considered "racist" by upholding justice.