Palestinian kills teenage girl in Israeli settlement

[MariaThinks]

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Source: Times of India

JERUSALEM: A Palestinian fatally stabbed a 13-year-old girl inside her home in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, before guards shot him dead, the military and hospital officials said.

A member of the response team that killed the assailant was also wounded in the incident, said an official from the Kiryat Arba settlement, near the city of Hebron.

Over the past eight months, Palestinians have killed 33 Israelis and two visiting US citizens in a wave of street attacks, mostly stabbings. Israeli forces have shot dead at least 198 Palestinians, 134 of whom Israel has said were assailants. Others were killed in clashes and protests.

An Israeli military spokesman said the girl was attacked in her bedroom. Hospital officials in Jerusalem said she died of her wounds, giving her age as 13. Israeli media reports identified the suspected attacker as a 17-year-old Palestinian from a village near Kiryat Arba.

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Palestinian-kills-teenage-girl-in-Israeli-settlement/articleshow/52991624.cms

[Ken Burch]

1. No excuse for doing that. n/t.

[forest444]

2. None at all.

But lest we forget, the same applies to this:

[LanternWaste]

4. You should send those pictures to the girl's family. They may take comfort in your precious salt for

You should send those pictures to the girl's family. They may take comfort in your precious salt for their wounds.

[MariaThinks]

5. This is horrible.

[7962]

6. Yeah, because civilians used by terrorists as shields dying is the same thing

as crawling into a teenagers bedroom and stabbing her to death.
But you can go ahead and side with the cowards who use childrens playgrounds to launch rockets. Free country

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

8. Well put . . .

. . . but, ultimately, a waste of breath, I'm afraid, because, in the end, the "moral equivalence" Jew-haters aren't even trying to sell "moral equivalence."

For them, it isn't: "Killing Israelis = bad / Killing Palestinians = bad." Not really.

No, for them, it's simply: "Killing Jews = good." Period.

[JudyM]

13. +1. Nt

[MariaThinks]

9. Its not the same thing. But the horror seeing innocent people getting killed doesn't go away

But I agree, they are not the same thing.

[lark]

10. One has knives, the other has helicopters and grenades.

Tell me where the power lies? What this kid did to a 13 year old girl was totally heinous and it's awful that there's this level of hate. I feel for the child's family, they lost her and there's no fixing that. But, she's living on stolen land, against international law, her parents put her in danger. How would we feel if our land was stolen, our ability to work stopped and we were bombed constantly. Do you think we might hate the aggressor who stole our land, do you think this might fester and be exhibited in horrible ways years later? Until Israel gives back the land they stole, or seriously changes the situation by allowing freedom of movement and giving the Palestinians some dignity, the hate will continue to spiral and people will continue to be slaughtered indiscriminately.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Most Americans are living on stolen land

So you should be taking the same position regarding that. Are you?

[Ash_F]

16. An unconscionable crime, but today Native Americans have citizenship.

In modern Israel/Palestine, we have a situation where 6 million people control the lives of another 3 million who are largely disenfranchised.

[DavidDvorkin]

17. Citizenship is nice, but it doesn't do much to undo the crime

For that matter, large numbers of Israeli Arabs have citizenship, too. How much does that mean?

Would the posters who defend (because that's what they're doing) the murderous actions of Arab terrorists because of historically stolen land be as quick to defend an American Indian who committed similar crimes against non-Indian Americans, using the same justification?

[Ash_F]

18. Citizenship is vital, not nice.

Yes to the second part.

[7962]

7. The "excuse" you'll be given is that terrorists dont have tanks & jets

And even if that was a valid excuse, then why not attack military targets instead of a girl in her bedroom?
Because these are not normal "people"
Watch how this attack will be celebrated by the terrorists instead of condemned

[villager]

3. You would absolutely hate for one side or the other to run out of reasons to keep killing each other

What a relief the cycle will continue, now....

[uppityperson]

11. This is a duplicate thread, posted earlier in LBN here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141504864

[giftedgirl77]

14. Hmmm, wouldn't have happened if they hadn't had their land

stolen. Do you just expect ppl to not exact revenge for being forcibly removed from their homes, land, & livlihood?

[MariaThinks]

15. i think that's the argument trump is using. And your lack of regard for a murdered jewish girl

is bigoted. Had I said that about muslims, I would have been attacked as a racist.

[mcar]

19. Locking

Dupe of this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141504864