Israeli child seriously wounded in West Bank settlement shooting

Reuters
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http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-child-seriously-wounded-west-bank-settlement-shooting-202019977.html


JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A nine-year-old Israeli girl was shot and seriously wounded in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Saturday in what police said was a suspected Palestinian militant attack.

"Our suspicion is that this is a terrorist attack," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

Rosenfeld said the girl was shot while she was outside in the garden and that security forces were searching in and around the Psagot settlement, where the shooting occurred, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah.

Violence in the West Bank has risen in the past few weeks.

Last month two Israeli soldiers were killed in the West Bank in two separate incidents. Authorities said one was killed by a Palestinian who had lured him to his hometown and a second was shot in the city of Hebron by a suspected Palestinian sniper.

Four Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since July, when Israel and the Palestinians restarted peace talks after a three-year stalemate.

The U.S.-brokered negotiations had collapsed in 2010 over Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories that Israel captured in a 1967 war and which the Palestinians want, along with the Gaza Strip, for an independent state.

(Writing by Maayan Lubell; editing by Ralph Boulton)

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Palestinian terrorists are such monsters!

 

This is very unfortunate and sad that children have to be at-risk due to an ongoing illegal settlement and a civil war within very tight borders. But IMO, the brunt of international responsibility is on those who erected these borders and built these settlements to begin with. Far from an "Anti-Semitic" position, the President of the United States upholds the position that we should return to pre-1967 borders.

Israel's excuse? That the existence of the Settlements renders the 1967 map invalid, which is about as faulty of an excuse as one can possibly imagine. The settlements are not embassies, they aren't recognized homes. The Settlements are proof of conquest. No different then when the U.S flag hung over Philadelphia in the crucial battle of 1812.

I call for the return to the 1967 Map, as a mandate outlined by the U.N and thereby complying with International Law.

 

A "terrorist attack" on a 9 year old girl makes no sense to me.

 

It's more like collateral damage. I'm more than willing to bet the terrorist brigade engaged Israeli troops at or near the villages, in the shootout, one of the bullets hit the girl. Hell, wouldn't it be ironic if the shot that killed the girl ended up being from an Israeli gun? Opps.(I wonder if they've performed the autopsy yet).

War is savage, and war crimes by all sides should be expected. But I doubt the 9 year old was a "planned target".

 

I don't think she was killed.. critically wounded.

 

True, my apologies for jumping the gun.

 

http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=325987

Already one thread.

Do we NEED two?

 

And 72 dead in Nigeria's shopping center . Does ?
Same Muslim terror, different events.

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Pro Islamists do that often in this forum...

 

Really? How exactly is pointing your gun at a 9 year old girl and pulling the trigger collateral damage?

 

The parents of this child (assuming we can confirm she even exists), are entirely selfish and irresponsible.

This is their doing.

 

Because they allowed their children to be evil Zionists, right?

 

Really? They pointed a gun at a 9 year old girl and pulled the trigger?

 

At aged nine, I would hope this alleged girl is not fully contaminated by a racist ideology, so no.


They were certainly irresponsible and selfish invading lands that they do not belong on.

Hopefully they can learn to be less selfish in future and make better choices for the girl.

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I'm afraid their poor parenting and selfishness put their own daughter in danger.

They have to live with the fact that as parents, they have endangered their own daughter. Knowingly so. This makes them unfit to be parents.

 

Islam?

The Muslim conquerors and occupiers in the Levant?

I seriously doubt that Muslims will stop intentionally murdering children, they have been raping and murdering children since Mohammad.

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They have to live with the fact that Muslims hate Jews and intentionally murder children as a tactic of choice.

 

No.

They need to accept resp as poor parents, and not put their child in dangerous situations to fill their own selfish needs.

I only hope they learn to be less selfish.

 

No, but they chose to live in a newly created "war zone", the phrase often used by the zioinist supporters.

 

Spot on.

And only bad and selfish parents would choose to take their child into that.

It's their own doing.

They must have cared about their own selfish greed over their own child.

 

The Psagot settlement was created in the early 1980s (took over the land from an Israeli military intelligence outpost) and has been active in the Settlers movement (helped start at least one illegal daughter settlement that was closed down by Israeli authorities). There have been past violent incidents involving Psagot historically, but nothing for quite a few years now.

So attacking the settlement is barely a legitimate target (lots of military outposts in the same area) and attacking a child rather than an adult settler appears to me at least as definitely stepping over the line from fighting an occupying force to out-and-out terrorism.

P.S. JN, your poor taste in blaming the parents of the girl for her death rather than her killer hits a new low.

 

I am not a fan of the settlements but your hate for Jews seems to allow you to feel good that a 9 year old was shot. Good for you, the darkness of some people's souls is amazing to me.

 

She is not dead for heavens sake. One min she is, then not, then dead again, then not again.

Can you at least get that part right.

And of course it is her parents fault. Just as it would be my fault if I took a child into someone else's home, and a fight ensued between myself (the invader) and the homeowner.

There are two differences. One, I would not take my child into a danger zone. That IS bad parenting, I'm afraid.

Two, I would not rock up on someone else's land and nick it.

 

It all comes down to personal choice, you see.

Her parents did not HAVE to go to dangerous land that is not their land.

They chose to.

They were irresponsible in their choice.

That's what happens when you make irrational and selfish choices as a parent.

 

I wonder if it would be possible to post something more idiotic sounding than this?

 

So you are saying parents should be irresponsible and endanger their child, even though they did not need to?

 

I wonder what happens to kids who are constantly exposed to anti Jewish nonsense?

 

Hey, buddy, don't blame me for this girls parents bad choices.

They need to take personal and direct responsibility. Had they not invaded someone's home, their daughter would be just fine.

They chose to invade, and now look what their choice has done..