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Boy run over by settler says attacked 'on purpose'
Ali Waked
Published: 09.10.10, 12:12
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1. 4 camera people +rock throwers
rachel ,   chutz4 now home soon   (10.09.10)
hummmmm. (not counting the actual camera person) looks like it was going to be an attack on israeli cars...these things happen to kill people. i imagine the driver(s) just wanted to get free.
2. ooops. he is wearing a disguise
rachel ,   chutz4 now home soon   (10.09.10)
AND got up after he was thrown down! Look at the pictures CLOSELY!!!!
3. so innocent.....NOT
rachel ,   chutz4 now home soon   (10.09.10)
4. Reasonable Bahaviour ...
Moderate Jersey Jew ,   New Jersey, USA   (10.09.10)
after watching this video and reading a few related articles, imho, there is nothing wrong with the driver's behavior. The driver's response seems reasonably defensive, even fearful panic reaction, and not at all intentionally malicious beyond self-defense.
5. YNET - stop forcing a "possible" version which is so clearly
Sane Israeli ,   Israel   (10.09.10)
groundless. There is not second version - the boy was in the middle of the road, he deliberately covered his head, he was throwing stones along with his friends, he was trying to create a provokation in front of the cameras. THIS IS THE ONLY VERSION based on objective pictures! YNET is trying to discredit the driver by mentioning that he is a "Settler", becasue we all know that "settlers" are not people. YNET must stop this kind of not-so-subtle spinning of the truth, and the implementation of possible doubt where no doubt exists!
6. Unbelievable
John   (10.09.10)
Isn't that you standing in front of the car, wearing a black hood, raising your arm at the car throwing rocks? Yet, you say you were on the sidewalk, wanting to move out of the way. Leave it to the Palestinians to somehow BS their way through this one.
7. Don't throw rocks at cars
Alex ,   Finland   (10.09.10)
8. 11-year olds should not be on the street throwing stones
Suzanne   (10.09.10)
Period.
9. Boy run over
Arthur ,   Houston   (10.09.10)
This was a provocation, how come an Aljazira cameraman was there to take pictures?
10. he was not trying to hit them
bob ,   sydney, australia   (10.09.10)
he was clearly trying to swerve away from these masked, terrorists in training. that was his mistake!
11. Yeah right
Samsung ,   Australia   (10.09.10)
It's not like he ran straight at the car with a stone in his hand. He was walking on the sidewalk minding his own business!
12. now we have their names and can put his dad in prison
Anna M Sedda ,   italy-Rome   (10.09.10)
for leaving a youth minor without custody and committing act against people life like terror gangs...The boy shoul be charged with assolt without a reason and put in "reformation institute " ro reform his behavior...Has simple has that...
13. let me see if i understand correctly
mike ,   israel (formerly usa   (10.09.10)
boy's memory: "I had just left the Friday prayers at the neighborhood's protest tent when I saw a car speeding towards me" what actually happened: "I had just left the Friday prayers at the neighborhood's protest tent -[when i decided to stand in the middle of a busy street with my face covered while blocking the way of a moving car directly in front of me and threw stones at it repeatedly]- when I saw a car speeding towards me" without a doubt this boy suffers from a severe case of the stupids. and he's lucky because cases of people who have the stupids this severely often proves to be fatal.
14. Eh, Toro!
Gideon Reader ,   USA   (10.09.10)
When planning on romancing a bull, it is necessary to consider "getting the horn". In places other than Israel, "masked rocks chunking" at a moving vehicle, can get one, regardless of age, a facefull of small metal projectiles, which travel at very high speed, prefaced by loud noises. And so it goes. The older car driver will be annoyed, but be alive. The little **rick who now hallucinates and has a new scar, will live to harrass Jews another day; NOT learning from this "teachable moment", and (he) will probably be taken out like last week's trash by an IDF unit a few years from now.
15. Still relevant
Daniel   (10.09.10)
"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us." Golda Meir, 1957
16. prosecution for his father under Int. childrean law
Anna M Sedda ,   Italy   (10.09.10)
it would be that he supposed to take care of his minor kid and he did not...Instead the boy was letf on the street and not at school whre he should be...So yes prosecute the boy's family and the boy himself....he should know that cannot kill without going free in this world.......He should also pay damage to the car...
17. Boy run over in Silwan
Lazerbenabba ,   London, England   (10.09.10)
In the father's statement that his son was merely on the sidewalk; then please tell me where is the road, for it clearly shows on the convenenient video(thank you Al Jazeera what a coincidence) that the boys were in what I believe to be a road, but there again Arab perceptions are often skewed so that black is white and victims become perpetrators. Unfortunately, stone throwing by these youngsters is their version of Tag and too often they get away with it. By the way you may be interested in the take that the BBC news channel took regarding the incident. The presenters and a talking head professed horror at the car driver running down these poor litte kids who were merely throwing a pebble and what is the world coming to. I can assure you that if this had occured in London where I live and a driver swereved to avoid a stone thrower and with all our CCTV coverage the thrower would have had no sympathy and would probably had a restraining order placed on him, but there again Israel must be chastised for every thing, justified or otherwise.
18. just when I thought this couldn't get any funnier...
Rob ,   UK   (10.09.10)
... I am proved wrong by the pallies' breathtaking capacity for lying yet again! hey kid, give me your address and I am more than happy to give you a free demonstration of the actual meaning of being deliberately attacked.
19. and now th UN "terrorists rights commitie"
uri ,   tel aviv   (10.09.10)
will tell how israelies are bad.
20. so many pictures of a sudden inccident, cameras from where?
JO   (10.09.10)
something looks fishy here. A video and a lots of angle pictures. Also the way the children where dressed, masked, it does not look innocent. With such commotion this is not an unlikely happening but I would not blame the driver entirely for almost hitting one of the children, been in accidents before, not so clearcut and easy to avoid when confronted like this. Was this engineered somewhat??
21. Boy run over....
Froi ,   Philippines   (10.09.10)
How many versions of the truth can there be? Countless if we listen to any partisan no matter which side he takes. Good thing the video cam was invented, pathetic liars can shame themselves no end.
22. Beware, YNETNEWS !
FO ,   Belgium   (10.09.10)
The Al Zajeera video shows clearly a deliberate frontal attack of two young boys against the car. The driver did what he has to do, to escape. The car sutained already dammage. So Ynetnews, beware, don't create a new hoax. The "Al Dura" affair was enough. It costed 5.000l lives. 4.000 Arabs and 1.000 Jews.
23. to frame settler leader, Israel's security let him down
observer   (10.09.10)
isn't that the most sound explanation.
24. To: John at No. 6
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (10.09.10)
Well, thjat's the "Palestinian" way. They twist and embellish the story, and then repeat it so often that it becomes their "truth." How else do you think so many "Palestinians" claim to have lived in Israel for tens of generations? Now you understand how they came to own vast fruit orchards and acres of olive groves -- in a barren and despoiled land that was nothing until the Jews came and reclaimed it. If the truth doesn't meet their needs, they spin it. They always have; they always will.
25. Are these clowns serious?
Keevs4u ,   Jerusalem   (10.09.10)
there is video evidence that this kid is standing in the middle of the street throwing rocks at the car! give the kid a band-aid and send his rock-throwing butt back to school where he should have been in the 1st place. H.N.I.C.
26. stone throwers
RC ,   USA   (10.09.10)
If the boy was in a mosque before the incident like he states, then by his actions I can only guess that he was praying to Allah to help him stone and hurt a Jew and become a Palestinian hero in his neighborhood and the cleric was probably inciting him to do the deed. As for the parents, they probably follow the Palestinian philosophy that children are like gold mines and should be exploited. Why wasn’t the boy in school studying, oh wait I forgot, hate and violence against Jews is what some Arab schools teach. If any judge, soldier, or police came under a rock attack while transporting their children, they would most likely try to drive out of the situation also, I do not think anyone in their right mind would just stop and wait to get hurt or killed by the stone throwers. What a coincidence that all those camera people just happened to be there.
27. I saw the video
Capt. Haddock ,   USA   (10.09.10)
The boys clearly had rocks in their hand. They had planned stoning all along. You can see the other boys also throwing rocks....they all had rocks in their hand. As a non-Jew/Israeli, I would not have braked. Had someone been in front of my car throwing rocks I would have taken him out and asked questions later. Rocks can blind, maim and even kill. These boys better learn a lesson in life.
28. :: Wow!
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (10.09.10)
It is truly amazing to see so many Ynuts try and justify a Hit and Run incident!
29. This spin is better than "Man bites dog"!!
Eran ,   Singapore   (10.09.10)
For some of you its Political Correctness gone mad.
30. To 28 Thats funny, had this been N. Ireland
The Dude   (10.09.10)
With a prominent Unionists being stoned by loyalists yobs, this wouldn't even get a hiccup. Hell, in LA during the riots, if someone was blocking the streets you ran over them even if they weren't directly attacking your car. It is truly amazing to see even one Pnut try and justify an attempted ambush!
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