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Israeli activists video police headbutting Palestinian woman
Ali Waked and Reuters
Published: 24.11.08, 18:33
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1. Thats how u make them understand!
Sweden   (11.24.08)
2. BT'selem...
Leonello ,   Jerusalem, ISRAEL!   (11.24.08)
...they dont defend the rights of the arabs, they are our cancer and they'll be treated as they deserve. You'll see....
3. B'Tselem
Ricardo Macher ,   KarneiShomron Israel   (11.24.08)
When somebody will have the guts to throw all this Jew haters to jail or better out of Israel?
4. GET DOWN QUICK, ANOTHER QASSAM ROCKET DURING THE CEASE FIRE,
56 QASSAMS 7 DAYS ? ,   ..............DACON9   (11.24.08)
5. SOB PALESTINIAN STORY OF THE DAY
(11.24.08)
I didn't see Ynet crying to high heaven when the police mistreats other Jews, like "settlers"?
6. Where is btselem in yesha?
Ephraim ,   NYC/Kfar Tapuach   (11.24.08)
Where are they during police brutality in Tapuach, and Hevron, and Amona and Gush Katif? Where were they when my friend got his testicles grabbed by a cop, and told that he would be raped? Not only do they not protest, they cheer on and celebrate when Jews are abused. Only arabs deserve pity and protection; Jews, and especially settlers, are untermenshen who deserve everything bad that comes at us.
7. so what
smith   (11.24.08)
police is police. we see this in the west a lot of time...
8. # 3 Ricardo, why jail? why not just throw them out?
(11.24.08)
B'Tselem procedure: Get "protesters" or "activists" to get in the IDF soliders' faces and hurl insults at them, demean them, push them, do everything possible to antagonize them....and then pull out the camera when they finally get one of these young Israeli boys to snap. These are 18, 19 and 20 yearolds surrounded by a mob of angry, yelling, insulting and potentially violent people. You can't expect them not to react. Everyone affiliated with B'Tselem should be exiled to Gaza.
9. Pretty lame
nr ,   los angeles, usa   (11.24.08)
There was a video of the duke out between the Armenian and the Greek orthodox a few weeks back and the police were slapping quite a few people there - what the deal - if BS's researchers didn't film it it doesn't count?
10. headbutt
marcel   (11.24.08)
Well done. Israeli use of headbuts, skunk odor sprays, waste and sewage sprays are asymmetric warfare that are effective against arabs who use tractors, female suicide belts, airplanebombs in luggage,rackets with rusty nails and ball bearings. Well done. Hand out the medals.
11. THANK U B'Tselem
ABED ,   JERUSALEM   (11.24.08)
what wrong whith ur eyes that police man is the victim .his helmet is scrached ?????
12. distgusting
yoni ,   jerusalem   (11.24.08)
ynet is a sick place. they now consider themselves the advocates of the anti israel btselem group. they publicize their videos and advocate their causes. absolutely sick. This is not news this is an army incident and only because it has been filmed and distributed by btselem does ynet push it to the front lines. there is plenty of real news out there to discuss why bring up a petty army disiplinary problem left wing swinging traitors boycott ynet now!!!
13. INTENSIFY THE PR - IDF IS MORAL
FLARES BRIGHT LIGHTS ,   TORONTO CANADA   (11.24.08)
I am mindful that is B'tselem, representing the tiny minority of civilized values in Israel that has again exposed the majority;s culture to the light of day. Menawhile, the IDF can ask their PR firm and their world wide instruments to claim that they are more moral than the poetry of love and protest - By Flares Bright Lights over Sabrilla and Shatilla - conveys.
14. wow ... you folks are quite sick
Taniar ,   FL   (11.24.08)
Ignore all the cultural differences and political facts, this is a man headbutting a woman. I hope you guys weren't expecting the woman to hand flowers to the people that came to knock her house down. Can you all close your eyes for five seconds and imagine what you would do if your house got knocked down? Think of all the complications. Now add a headbutt to it from a helmet. She could have been handcuffed and sat on the ground. Headbutting a woman is a self satisfaction in this situation.
15. Israeli continues its racist policies against us
Sami ,   East Jerusalem   (11.24.08)
East Jerusalemites by preventing us from having proper construction licenses, over taxing us with zero return in terms of road and infrastructure maintanence... Also the moment someone from East Jerusalem works for few years abraod, his residency is revoked and not allowed to come back to Jerusalem and even to the whole country. We are people under occupation, and I wish those people who never experience occupation to never experience it ever in their lives... This state is racist, and is trying to get rid of us in all possible means, but we will stay here, not leaving, not leaving, not leaving, steadfast until the day of judgment.
16. ONE MILLION CONGRATULATIONS FOR THIS HEADBUTT
(11.24.08)
17. EXACTLY WHAT ISRAELIS FORCES MUST DO . KOL HAKAVOD !!!
(11.24.08)
18. Read some from hamas charter to put things in perspective
Johnny ,   Stockholm Sweden   (11.24.08)
Hamas charter article seven (the end quotation): "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem)." Hamas charter article eight: "Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes." And B'Tselem were talking about headbutting? Idiots.
19. Does B'Tselem video tape Kassams? Mullahs preaching hate?
David ,   Boston, USA   (11.24.08)
how about the Hamas camps that teach killing? Do some real human rights work for a change!
20. #11 and #14 are VERY wrong
David ,   Boston, USA   (11.24.08)
No one is condoning it, what we are saying is having a Kassam fired at a border town in wrong. Teaching Gazan youth to hate Jews and blow themselves up is wrong. headbutting is wrong too, but its a single epsisode out of thousands and probably did not cause any damage. I dont condone it, but its hardly something that a human rights organization should be focused on....and before you say it, there are other instinces, but that are a fraction of the time, while the Kassams and Hamas schools of hate are the majority. Thats where the real problem lies. Thats why there will never be peace, because its with the majority of the Arabs, not the minority.
21. David from Boston....
Taniar ,   FL   (11.24.08)
How am I wrong to say that it is unforgivable for a man to headbutt a woman? I am not Jewish, nor a Palestinian, and not a Muslim. Simply speaking, violence from the police is never justified. Yes, Hamas is an organization that should not be. But Hamas' wrong doing should not be a justification to the violence coming from the Israeli police to the individuals.
22. These talkbacks are just foul....
Andy ,   ramat hasharon   (11.24.08)
I don't care how uncivilized our "neighbors" are. I don't care if they act like the murderous animals that they are sometimes. That is setting the bar too low. This is still unnecessary brutality and has no place in Israel. B'tzelem is 100% correct to document it so that it can be addressed and routed out.
23. Behaviour is wrong, but.
DAT ,   NYC USA   (11.24.08)
Unfortunately, abuse by Law Enforcement Authorities, either Police or Military, happen all over the world, in every country. Israel is bring the soldiers up on charges and making them answer for their act. That is all any country, can do, under the circumstances. Israel did not turn a blind eye, the soldiers are being charged.
24. So, what?
yossef ,   paris   (11.24.08)
Kuntar MURDERED a baby that way. Since then, he's become an arab "hero". Therefore, dear bethselem people: your one-sided "filth-column-like" investigations are not morally acceptable.
25. #15, not racist, but are you saying you don't like it?
KettleWhistle ,   israelforum.com   (11.24.08)
Then Great! You can always leave for greener pastures, the sooner the better. Put a diaper on your head, get on your camel and head out East! Don't let the door slam you on your way out.
26. #21 I don't know about your country but in Sweden...
Johnny ,   Stockholm Sweden   (11.24.08)
...the police has monopoly on using violence to resolve problems. Thats is their raison d'etre. We expect the police to use violence when necessary.
27. How dare they protesting a legal action?
rebecca ,   modiin   (11.24.08)
No Jews are allowed to protest the removal of people from their homes in Hebron or the west bank, but Arabs who protest a legal removal of a house - oh that's different, and their good friend B'Tselem is there for them
28. What???!!!
Uzziel   (11.24.08)
No vital organ damaged. After all the arabs USE the arab women like objects. Funny the arabs here complaining.
29. headbutt
ray stuart ,   zurich   (11.24.08)
If you look at this video closley you will see there is NO head butt and the woman is in no way injured The soldier seems to trying to calm the woman down ANOTHER biased part of reporting against soldiers trying their best to deal with a hostile situation Israel is here to stay no matter how many people wish to see the destruction of this small democratic country whose only wish ,by the majority of the population is to live in peace with their neighbours
30. KettleWhistle: Racism?
Observer   (11.24.08)
Your words proves the deep racism in the Israeli society. the Palestinian people are the native indigenous people of Palestine, and are the descendants of the ancient Semitic people who dwelled in this land since the eary history. The Palestinian peasants are attached to their land and are deeply rooted. In fact, they are more related to the ancient Hebrews than most of you do. The fact that the people in Palestine, and the Levant in general abandoned Judaism for Christianity is well documented. The majority of these Christians willingly or unwillingly became Muslim just like they did in many other places of the world. This is the fact, but you are choosing like many others to ignore it.
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