Israëlische terreur wordt nooit bestraft

De Israëlische soldaat die op 5 october 2004 in koelen bloede zijn geweer leegde in het lichaam van een 13-jarig Palestijns schoolmeisje, en daarna verkondigde dat hij hetzelfde had gedaan wanneer ze 3 jaar oud zou zijn, werd op 15 november 2005 door een militaire rechtbank vrijgesproken. Kort daarna werd hij gepromoveerd tot majoor, en in 2006 ontving hij ongeveer 17.000 dollar aan schadevergoeding.

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Omdat Iman Darweesh al-Hams een Palestijnse was, een volk dat door Westerlingen over het algemeen als minderwaardig wordt beschouwd, zweeg Nederland - niet als onze minister van Israëlische Zaken Uri Rosenthal na de moord op de illegale kolonistenfamilie in Itamar vorige week. Maar dat waren joden, en dus het Uitverkoren Volk, of in het geval van Rosenthal: eigen volk.

"Onder geen omstandigheid is een misdaad als deze goed te praten. Nederland veroordeelt alle geweld tegen burgers en dringt er op aan dat de verantwoordelijken voor deze moord worden opgespoord en berecht."

Rosenthal, die namens Nederland sprak, verzweeg daarbij dat er voor vermoorde Palestijnen andere normen en maatstaven worden gehanteerd. Ook ontving de familie van Iman al-Hams geen condoleances van over de hele wereld, waaronder van Barack Obama, en het Midden-Oosten Kwartet. Nog nooit heeft één onschuldig Palestijns kind dat door Israëli's of door kolonisten op de Westoever vermoord werd verontwaardiging of boosheid gewekt bij Westerse politici, en zeker ook niet bij de Nederlandse. En vraag je ze waarom, dan is het de schuld van de Palestijnen zelf (blaming the victim) of "een betreurenswaardig incident". Incident? Jazeker, en zelfs wanneer er niet één, maar meer dan 300 Palestijnse kinderen in twee weken worden omgelegd door de Lunatic State. Dat was niet eens "buitenproportioneel".

De meest weerzinwekkende reactie op het doodschieten van Iman moesten we in de krant lezen. Journalist en Jeruzalemmer Ad Bloemendaal kopte in het Parool van 16 oktober 2004 'Israël: meisje terecht beschoten':

"Volgens het onderzoek bevond het meisje zich in verboden militair gebied, had ze een bom in haar schooltas kunnen vervoeren en is daarom terecht beschoten. Ook zou niet zijn gebleken dat de compagniescommandant het munitiemagazijn van zijn wapen in het lijkje heeft leeggeschoten, zoals enkele soldaten eerder verklaarden."

Uit Iman's lijk werden echter 17 kogels verwijderd. Op deze manier collaboreert onze zelfbenoemde "kwaliteitspers" met de schurkenstaat Israël, en wordt de onwetende lezer in de waan gehouden dat elke misdaad die Israël pleegt een daad van "zelfverdediging" is, of in het meest agressieve geval een "vergeldingsaanval". Het bericht is inmiddels van de website van het Parool verwijderd. Op dit weblog kunt u het nog lezen.

U hoeft geen beroep te doen op het geweten van een judeochristenpoliticus, want die geeft dan niet thuis. Die houdt er niet van om geconfronteerd te worden met het feit dat hij of zij een racist is. Die snappen zogenaamd nog steeds niet hoe het mogelijk is geweest dat er in Nederland drie keer meer joden naar de vernietigingskampen werden getransporteerd dan in België en Frankrijk tesamen. Ze vragen misschien nog stiekem vergeving aan hun god, vanwege hun misdadige zwijgen, om daarna de volgende dag weer mentaal verfrist de Israëlische terreur door de vingers te zien, goed te praten, en zelfs te promoten. Zoals de politici van ChristenUnie, en SGP, wiens oprichter, dominee Kersten, collaboreerde met de nazi's en o.a. joodse kinderen verraadde. Omdat hij de nazi's zag als instrument van hun god. De SGP heeft dat nog nooit veroordeeld. Integendeel, ze ontkennen het. (lees hier verder)

De Holocaust-monumenten en musea schieten momenteel weer als paddestoelen uit de grond, maar hoe minder men stilstaat bij de processen die de Holocaust mogelijk hebben gemaakt. En hoe meer misdaden Israël pleegt, hoe harder het antisemitisme!, anti-Marokkanen, anti-islam en anti-allochtonen geroep in Nederland aanzwelt. Terwijl de Anne Frank Stichting in haar laatste Racisme Monitor slechts 14 gewelddadige antisemitische incidenten rapporteerde - waarvan er slechts 2 door allochtonen werden gepleegd. Iedere buitenlandse diplomaat die Israël bezoekt wordt als eerste verplicht door het Yad Vashem Museum geloodst, maar wordt tegengehouden aan de grens van Gaza. Want Israël wil nooit buitenlandse pottenkijkers bij wat het uitspookt met de Palestijnen.

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Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinain schoolgirl
· Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified
· Defence says 'confirming the kill' standard practice

The Guardian | By Chris McGreal | 16 november 2005

An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday.

The soldier, who has only been identified as "Captain R", was charged with relatively minor offences for the killing of Iman al-Hams who was shot 17 times as she ventured near an Israeli army post near Rafah refugee camp in Gaza a year ago.

The manner of Iman's killing, and the revelation of a tape recording in which the captain is warned that she was just a child who was "scared to death", made the shooting one of the most controversial since the Palestinian intifada erupted five years ago even though hundreds of other children have also died.
After the verdict, Iman's father, Samir al-Hams, said the army never intended to hold the soldier accountable.

"They did not charge him with Iman's murder, only with small offences, and now they say he is innocent of those even though he shot my daughter so many times," he said. "This was the cold-blooded murder of a girl. The soldier murdered her once and the court has murdered her again. What is the message? They are telling their soldiers to kill Palestinian children."

The military court cleared the soldier of illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and perverting the course of justice by asking soldiers under his command to alter their accounts of the incident.

Capt R's lawyers argued that the "confirmation of the kill" after a suspect is shot was a standard Israeli military practice to eliminate terrorist threats.
Following the verdict, Capt R burst into tears, turned to the public benches and said: "I told you I was innocent."

The army's official account said that Iman was shot for crossing into a security zone carrying her schoolbag which soldiers feared might contain a bomb. It is still not known why the girl ventured into the area but witnesses described her as at least 100 yards from the military post which was in any case well protected.

A recording of radio exchanges between Capt R and his troops obtained by Israeli television revealed that from the beginning soldiers identified Iman as a child.

In the recording, a soldier in a watchtower radioed a colleague in the army post's operations room and describes Iman as "a little girl" who was "scared to death". After soldiers first opened fire, she dropped her schoolbag which was then hit by several bullets establishing that it did not contain explosive. At that point she was no longer carrying the bag and, the tape revealed, was heading away from the army post when she was shot.

Although the military speculated that Iman might have been trying to "lure" the soldiers out of their base so they could be attacked by accomplices, Capt R made the decision to lead some of his troops into the open. Shortly afterwards he can be heard on the recording saying that he has shot the girl and, believing her dead, then "confirmed the kill".

"I and another soldier ... are going in a little nearer, forward, to confirm the kill ... Receive a situation report. We fired and killed her ... I also confirmed the kill. Over," he said.

Palestinian witnesses said they saw the captain shoot Iman twice in the head, walk away, turn back and fire a stream of bullets into her body.

On the tape, Capt R then "clarifies" to the soldiers under his command why he killed Iman: "This is commander. Anything that's mobile, that moves in the [security] zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed."

At no point did the Israeli troops come under attack.

The prosecution case was damaged when a soldier who initially said he had seen Capt R point his weapon at the girl's body and open fire later told the court he had fabricated the story.

Capt R claimed that he had not fired the shots at the girl but near her. However, Dr Mohammed al-Hams, who inspected the child's body at Rafah hospital, counted numerous wounds. "She has at least 17 bullets in several parts of the body, all along the chest, hands, arms, legs," he told the Guardian shortly afterwards. "The bullets were large and shot from a close distance. The most serious injuries were to her head. She had three bullets in the head. One bullet was shot from the right side of the face beside the ear. It had a big impact on the whole face."

The army's initial investigation concluded that the captain had "not acted unethically". But after some of the soldiers under his command went to the Israeli press to give a different version, the military police launched a separate investigation after which he was charged.

Capt R claimed that the soldiers under his command were out to get him because they are Jewish and he is Druze.

The transcript

The following is a recording of a three-way conversation that took place between a soldier in a watchtower, an army operations room and Capt R, who shot the girl

From the watchtower "It's a little girl. She's running defensively eastward."

From the operations room "Are we talking about a girl under the age of 10?"

Watchtower "A girl about 10, she's behind the embankment, scared to death."

A few minutes later, Iman is shot from one of the army posts

Watchtower "I think that one of the positions took her out."

Captain R "I and another soldier ... are going in a little nearer, forward, to confirm the kill ... Receive a situation report. We fired and killed her ... I also confirmed the kill. Over."

Capt R then "clarifies" why he killed Iman
"This is commander. Anything that's mobile, that moves in the zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed. Over."

• This article was amended on 1 September 2010, to make explicit that the opening watchtower conversation is between three participants.