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Dawabsha family, july 31 2015 burned by settlers |
1 july 2018
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On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed,
And on Yom Kippur it is sealed. How many shall pass away and how many shall be born, Who shall live and who shall die, Who shall reach the end of his days and who shall not, Who shall perish by water and who by fire, Who by sword and who by wild beast… --U’Netaneh Tokef prayer Israeli settlers are the crème de la crème, the élite of the nation. They are stormtroopers of Judean revival. Just as kibbutznikim once represented the finest of IDF officers sacrificing their lives on the altar of Zion to save the nation, so settlers have now assumed that mantle. |
While the romantic notion of the young Israeli paratroopers gazing longingly upward at the Temple Mount in the famous 1967 photograph hid the reality of Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, at least it was based in part on some liberal notions, flawed as they might have been.
But the vanguard of Israel’s youth are no longer on kibbutzim or even in Unit 8200 or in the vaunted high-tech sector. Instead, they are in the yeshivot of Yitzhar, they sit learning the Torah of genocide at the feet of “rabbis” like YItzhak Shapira, Yitzhak Ginsburg, Dov Wolpe, and Dov Lior. They and Judeo-scum like them participated in the pulsa di nura which passed a sentence of death on Yitzhak Rabin, weeks before his assassination.
They appeal to a higher law than that of the secular state by organizing thousands of tag mechir attacks which burn down mosques and deface cemeteries. And just as Heine said that those who would burn books will end up burning people, so the settler youth have realized this dream. Back in 2015, they murdered almost an entire Palestinian family sleeping innocently in their beds. Only their tiny baby was spared, and he was rendered an orphan.
Though the Shabak had an informer in the midst of the terror cell, he betrayed his handlers and refused to divulge the evil plan. No one knows his identity outside the secret police precinct. But he was never charged with any crime.
Shabak and the Only Language it Knows
As is their wont, the Shabak thugs knew only one way to deal with terror suspects to obtain confessions: they beat the crap out of them. While such treatment is perfectly kosher for Palestinian suspects who are routinely tortured, the Supreme Court holds to more refined standards for Jews, even if they are terrorists. So the Court held last week that the confession of one of the murderers was thrown out because it was obtained under torture, while the confession of the alleged mastermind was upheld. There are five other members of the cell who we’ve barely heard from since the tragic event. Though named as suspects, they were never charged with a crime, let alone tried.
That’s because the Shabak treats Jewish terrorism like theater. It must be seen to be investigating it, without actually doing much of anything. It arrests the usual suspects and goes through the motions. One poor schlub is held up for public spectacle so the agency can pretend it’s rooting out a ‘scourge in the heart of Israeli democracy.’ He’s the sacrificial victim. Till the next tragedy, the next Palestinian massacre. Then a whole new set of terrorists show their ugly mugs to the nation and the process starts all over again.
I focus this post on the Dawabsheh terrorists because their followers really showed their true colors during the Court hearing I referred to above. As the grandfather, Hussein Dawabsheh, who has assumed responsibility for raising the orphan, Ahmed, strode into the courtroom to see whether justice would be done or perverted in his grandson’s case, he was met with the ‘cream of the Israeli crop.’ Settlers who screamed at him, as this video indicates:
Where’s Ali? No more Ali. He’s burnt. Ali’s on the grill.
Let’s remember that it was the good Rabbis Ginsburg and Shapira who wrote in Torat Ha-Melech that it was permissible to murder Palestinian babies because they would grow up to kill Jews. Duma is nothing but an extension of this execrable philosophy. In a democratic state they would be tried for inciting murder. In Israel they are officers of the state, employed by it to spew their hate.
To find a historical comparison to the human degradation of this incident, you’d have to go back to the Nazi death camps. There guards and commandants taunted the inmates and toyed with them, killing them on a whim or permitting them to live with the uplift of a thumb. There they gassed Jews and burned them, just like in Duma, the shame of it!
From Duma to Jedwabneh: Jewish and Palestinian Martyrs Sanctify God’s Name
Compare that to Jewish history, which is full of martyrs like the Dawabshehs, who endured immolation for the sanctification of God’s name, Kiddush hashem. There was Rabbi Akiva, who defied the Roman effect to cease teaching Torah. For his troubles, he was wrapped in a Torah scroll which was soaked in water around his heart so that he would endure longer, more excruciating pain as he burned to death. There were those Jews of the Inquisition burned at the stake and German Jews during the Crusades whose homes were burned to the ground with them entombed inside, or the Polish village of Jedwabneh, where hundreds of Jewish residents were herded into a barn by their Polish neighbors and set alight.
You see, we Jews have our own shahids, our own martyrs. All the more reason for shock and horror (that never comes) when so-called Jews do this to Palestinians. We have a Jewish name for this defilement of human life, hillul hashem, the desecration of God’s Name. It is perhaps the worst sin anyone could commit. Yet these Jews do it with joy and relish in their hearts.
These murderers should not be called Jews. They are brutish beasts. It’s difficult for me to even call them human. And what did the Israeli police do who gazed on as this matter unfolded? Nothing. They maintained their hands on their hips and their indifferent stares. It was all in a day’s work for them. A day’s work watching as the settler’s burned down the house that is the Israeli state, figuratively and literally.
Israel is a wholly owned subsidiary of these thugs. They own the governing coalition. They own most of the ministers. They run the show. As for the other Israelis who aren’t settlers? They’re onlookers. They’re the ones who slow down and gawk on the freeway as they pass a fatal crash. They’re glad it’s not them.
But it is them. The settlers are them. They are responsible for them. And they do nothing. It’s worth asking a troubling question: is this what the desperate eastern European Jews of the first Zionist Congress envisioned for their dream of a Jewish homeland as they sought to escape Russian pogroms? If they knew that their political descendants would boast about burning other human beings alive as part of the necessity of maintaining their Jewish state, would they have approved? Or would they have turned their backs in disgust?
And don’t get me started on American Jews. What do they do when they read these headlines? Nothing. They wring their hands. They say these youth are aberrations. They don’t represent Israel. Israel is revolted by them and renounces their crimes. Well, not exactly. Israel actually embraces their crimes. It just won’t come out publicly and say it quite that way. But it does.
But the vanguard of Israel’s youth are no longer on kibbutzim or even in Unit 8200 or in the vaunted high-tech sector. Instead, they are in the yeshivot of Yitzhar, they sit learning the Torah of genocide at the feet of “rabbis” like YItzhak Shapira, Yitzhak Ginsburg, Dov Wolpe, and Dov Lior. They and Judeo-scum like them participated in the pulsa di nura which passed a sentence of death on Yitzhak Rabin, weeks before his assassination.
They appeal to a higher law than that of the secular state by organizing thousands of tag mechir attacks which burn down mosques and deface cemeteries. And just as Heine said that those who would burn books will end up burning people, so the settler youth have realized this dream. Back in 2015, they murdered almost an entire Palestinian family sleeping innocently in their beds. Only their tiny baby was spared, and he was rendered an orphan.
Though the Shabak had an informer in the midst of the terror cell, he betrayed his handlers and refused to divulge the evil plan. No one knows his identity outside the secret police precinct. But he was never charged with any crime.
Shabak and the Only Language it Knows
As is their wont, the Shabak thugs knew only one way to deal with terror suspects to obtain confessions: they beat the crap out of them. While such treatment is perfectly kosher for Palestinian suspects who are routinely tortured, the Supreme Court holds to more refined standards for Jews, even if they are terrorists. So the Court held last week that the confession of one of the murderers was thrown out because it was obtained under torture, while the confession of the alleged mastermind was upheld. There are five other members of the cell who we’ve barely heard from since the tragic event. Though named as suspects, they were never charged with a crime, let alone tried.
That’s because the Shabak treats Jewish terrorism like theater. It must be seen to be investigating it, without actually doing much of anything. It arrests the usual suspects and goes through the motions. One poor schlub is held up for public spectacle so the agency can pretend it’s rooting out a ‘scourge in the heart of Israeli democracy.’ He’s the sacrificial victim. Till the next tragedy, the next Palestinian massacre. Then a whole new set of terrorists show their ugly mugs to the nation and the process starts all over again.
I focus this post on the Dawabsheh terrorists because their followers really showed their true colors during the Court hearing I referred to above. As the grandfather, Hussein Dawabsheh, who has assumed responsibility for raising the orphan, Ahmed, strode into the courtroom to see whether justice would be done or perverted in his grandson’s case, he was met with the ‘cream of the Israeli crop.’ Settlers who screamed at him, as this video indicates:
Where’s Ali? No more Ali. He’s burnt. Ali’s on the grill.
Let’s remember that it was the good Rabbis Ginsburg and Shapira who wrote in Torat Ha-Melech that it was permissible to murder Palestinian babies because they would grow up to kill Jews. Duma is nothing but an extension of this execrable philosophy. In a democratic state they would be tried for inciting murder. In Israel they are officers of the state, employed by it to spew their hate.
To find a historical comparison to the human degradation of this incident, you’d have to go back to the Nazi death camps. There guards and commandants taunted the inmates and toyed with them, killing them on a whim or permitting them to live with the uplift of a thumb. There they gassed Jews and burned them, just like in Duma, the shame of it!
From Duma to Jedwabneh: Jewish and Palestinian Martyrs Sanctify God’s Name
Compare that to Jewish history, which is full of martyrs like the Dawabshehs, who endured immolation for the sanctification of God’s name, Kiddush hashem. There was Rabbi Akiva, who defied the Roman effect to cease teaching Torah. For his troubles, he was wrapped in a Torah scroll which was soaked in water around his heart so that he would endure longer, more excruciating pain as he burned to death. There were those Jews of the Inquisition burned at the stake and German Jews during the Crusades whose homes were burned to the ground with them entombed inside, or the Polish village of Jedwabneh, where hundreds of Jewish residents were herded into a barn by their Polish neighbors and set alight.
You see, we Jews have our own shahids, our own martyrs. All the more reason for shock and horror (that never comes) when so-called Jews do this to Palestinians. We have a Jewish name for this defilement of human life, hillul hashem, the desecration of God’s Name. It is perhaps the worst sin anyone could commit. Yet these Jews do it with joy and relish in their hearts.
These murderers should not be called Jews. They are brutish beasts. It’s difficult for me to even call them human. And what did the Israeli police do who gazed on as this matter unfolded? Nothing. They maintained their hands on their hips and their indifferent stares. It was all in a day’s work for them. A day’s work watching as the settler’s burned down the house that is the Israeli state, figuratively and literally.
Israel is a wholly owned subsidiary of these thugs. They own the governing coalition. They own most of the ministers. They run the show. As for the other Israelis who aren’t settlers? They’re onlookers. They’re the ones who slow down and gawk on the freeway as they pass a fatal crash. They’re glad it’s not them.
But it is them. The settlers are them. They are responsible for them. And they do nothing. It’s worth asking a troubling question: is this what the desperate eastern European Jews of the first Zionist Congress envisioned for their dream of a Jewish homeland as they sought to escape Russian pogroms? If they knew that their political descendants would boast about burning other human beings alive as part of the necessity of maintaining their Jewish state, would they have approved? Or would they have turned their backs in disgust?
And don’t get me started on American Jews. What do they do when they read these headlines? Nothing. They wring their hands. They say these youth are aberrations. They don’t represent Israel. Israel is revolted by them and renounces their crimes. Well, not exactly. Israel actually embraces their crimes. It just won’t come out publicly and say it quite that way. But it does.
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Oh and while we’re at it, let’s not forget that wonderful simcha celebrated at Yitzhar shortly after the Dawabsheh murders. The finest of the youth and their families danced and sang as two of their number were joined in matrimony at their chusuneh (“marriage”).
Hundreds of joyful guests joined in the festivities. What were they dancing to? They held up pictures of the murder victims, including the baby boy, and held up guns pretending to shoot them, as if they weren’t already dead enough. Whose guns were they? The IDF’s of course. Using Israeli army weapons to celebrate genocide. They danced and pretended to stab the victims photographs. It was ritual blood-letting. If we could ever witness a lynching (God forbid) this is what the blood-lust looked like. This is some specimen of humanity. The apogee of the Zionist dream. |
22 june 2018
Supporters of the Duma attack suspects
Op-ed: The Jewish rioters who jeered at Hussein Dawabsheh, 'Where is Ali? Dead, burned! On the grill!' must be prosecuted and made to pay compensation. Hit them where it hurts, in their pockets. Silence from the prosecution would be interpreted as acceptance and encouragement of those who try it next.
"Where is Ali? Burned! No more Ali! Dead, burned! On the grill, on fire!" these are the jubilant jeers that welcomed Hussein Dawabsheh this week as he was heading into the Lod District Court. His grandson, 18-months-old Ali, was burned to death in the terror attack in Duma. His two parents, Riham and Saad, also lost their lives in that arson attack, while Ali's brother Ahmed, then four years old, was seriously wounded.
"Dead, burned! On the grill, on fire!" brayed several rioters who came to support the terrorists accused of the murder.
Police were right in front of them. From conversations I had with those who were on the scene, the lawmen simply stood there frozen. Didn't even bother uttering a single word. Later, the Israel Police excused this failure with the words: "There was no violent rioting." Are you kidding me?
I suggest we stop yammering about "the need to educate the youth," blah, blah, blah, before going about our daily lives. No "education" is going to help the monsters within our ranks. Only a firm hand.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit shouldn't hesitate. The head of the prosecution in the State of Israel must prosecute all of those involved in this pogrom. It's a clear criminal offense.
"He who treats the dead with lack of respect intends to hurt the feelings of his fellow man" - This is exactly the case, the most evil and criminal side of it - a menacing carnival of hatred and gloating, over a horrifying act of terror that annihilated a family and burned a toddler alive, in front of the grieving grandfather. This is the case.
Go on, Mr. Mandelblit: Prosecute them. Now. The silence of the prosecution would be interpreted as acceptance and encouragement of those who try it next.
Alongside a conviction, the law also allows for damages to be ruled to the victim of the offense, the poor grandfather Hussein. The sum may not be very high - only up to NIS 258,000 - but that's something too. Hit the little monster where it hurts, in his pocket, because this is the only way he'll be deterred. A quarter of a million shekels. So either he or his dear parents realize how precious their jewel really is.
It would also be nice if the community of the supporters of the monsters comes together for the traditional fundraising campaign. An entire community will raise money to sanctify the right of a monster to spit in the face of a grandfather: Your grandson was burned. Ali is on the grill. Go for it!
Op-ed: The Jewish rioters who jeered at Hussein Dawabsheh, 'Where is Ali? Dead, burned! On the grill!' must be prosecuted and made to pay compensation. Hit them where it hurts, in their pockets. Silence from the prosecution would be interpreted as acceptance and encouragement of those who try it next.
"Where is Ali? Burned! No more Ali! Dead, burned! On the grill, on fire!" these are the jubilant jeers that welcomed Hussein Dawabsheh this week as he was heading into the Lod District Court. His grandson, 18-months-old Ali, was burned to death in the terror attack in Duma. His two parents, Riham and Saad, also lost their lives in that arson attack, while Ali's brother Ahmed, then four years old, was seriously wounded.
"Dead, burned! On the grill, on fire!" brayed several rioters who came to support the terrorists accused of the murder.
Police were right in front of them. From conversations I had with those who were on the scene, the lawmen simply stood there frozen. Didn't even bother uttering a single word. Later, the Israel Police excused this failure with the words: "There was no violent rioting." Are you kidding me?
I suggest we stop yammering about "the need to educate the youth," blah, blah, blah, before going about our daily lives. No "education" is going to help the monsters within our ranks. Only a firm hand.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit shouldn't hesitate. The head of the prosecution in the State of Israel must prosecute all of those involved in this pogrom. It's a clear criminal offense.
"He who treats the dead with lack of respect intends to hurt the feelings of his fellow man" - This is exactly the case, the most evil and criminal side of it - a menacing carnival of hatred and gloating, over a horrifying act of terror that annihilated a family and burned a toddler alive, in front of the grieving grandfather. This is the case.
Go on, Mr. Mandelblit: Prosecute them. Now. The silence of the prosecution would be interpreted as acceptance and encouragement of those who try it next.
Alongside a conviction, the law also allows for damages to be ruled to the victim of the offense, the poor grandfather Hussein. The sum may not be very high - only up to NIS 258,000 - but that's something too. Hit the little monster where it hurts, in his pocket, because this is the only way he'll be deterred. A quarter of a million shekels. So either he or his dear parents realize how precious their jewel really is.
It would also be nice if the community of the supporters of the monsters comes together for the traditional fundraising campaign. An entire community will raise money to sanctify the right of a monster to spit in the face of a grandfather: Your grandson was burned. Ali is on the grill. Go for it!
If you were raised Jewish you’ll recall your parents and grandparents shepping nachas at the glorious achievements of Jews: the doctors, the inventions, the Nobel Prizes. We were the People of the Book. We were in the vanguard of humanity. Now what are we? Or more precisely, what are they? Can we even call them ‘Jews’ any longer? Is it not a shame to our religion to do so?
Hussein Dawabsheh with his grandson Ahmed, the only one to survive the attack
And after the criminal damages, they can be sued for civil compensation as well. Any Israeli judge with a conscience, the conscience of the entire Israeli public, will certainly rule on a significant sum, the kind that would allow Hussein to erect a worthy tombstone for his loved ones. Even a small house. Maybe he could also say: "This is our answer to terrorism. They burn, and we're building."
Mandelblit must do this for the sake of the institution he heads. These are the wild thorns - more like a blossoming flowerbed of poisonous plants - who sprouted following the rabbis' letter that "ruled" it is forbidden to rent or sell apartments to Arabs - turning them into second-class citizens, subhumans, nothings, garbage.
Mandelblit, do you remember who avoided prosecuting them? That's right, your office. So if the Arabs are garbage - garbage must be burned. "In blood and fire we'll banish Rabin" - and those who succeeded in banishing Rabin with fire will go on to implementing the same method on Mohammed Abu Khdeir, and from there to the bilingual school in Jerusalem – Yitzhak Gabai, who was convicted of the arson of that institution, also had a hearing at to the Lod court this week - and from there to La Familia's jeers of "May your village burn" and onwards to the village of Duma.
"Ali is burned, on the grill" is a sort of a Jewish reclaiming of the furnace. We keep being told that we "must not compare the two." But it's them, the monsters within our ranks, who forcefully drag us into the abyss of the past. "When Jewish blood spurts from the knife, things go twice as fine."
Court to consider releasing defendant in Duma terror trial
Discussions on the release of one of the two Jewish terror suspects in the 2015 firebombing that left 3 members of a Palestinian family dead to be held Sunday, days after court ruled that some of the defendant’s confessions were obtained under duress.
The Central District Court will consider Sunday a request to release a defendant who played a role in the 2015 attack carried out by suspected Jewish terrorists which left three members of the Dawabsheh family in the Palestinian village of Duma dead.
Lawyers representing the defendant, who was 17 at the time of the attack, asked the court to consider granting him release after the Lod District Court ruled Tuesday that confessions given by him in the Shin Bet-led investigation that were obtained under duress were not admissible in the ongoing trial.
On July 31, 2015, Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Dawabsheh family's house in the village in the northern West Bank, killing an 18-month-old child, Ali, and critically wounded a four-year-old brother and both parents. The parents, Saad and Riham Dawabsheh later succumbed to their wounds.
According to the lawyers representing the defendant, whose identity remains under a gag order, the Supreme Court decided a month and a half ago that the Probation Service would produce a report on the matter to examine the validity of releasing him. The legal teams are expecting the court to acquiesce to their demands that he be released.
The Lod District Court ruled on Tuesday that the majority of confessions given by the two alleged Jewish terrorists, are admissible, bar those which were obtained under duress or by “special means.”
The publication of further details on the precise meaning of “special means” has been subjected to a gag order but the central defendant’s confession and reconstruction of the attack has been deemed admissible by the court.
While only one of his confessions was thrown out, the evidence against him remains robust.
Matters are considered more complex for the second defendant. A ruse used to get him to talk will remain admissible (he confessed to charges that are unrelated to the Duma incident, such as arson of a church and membership in a terror organization).
Another confession given by the minor on Duma “hypothetically”—without mentioning of names, but with a general description of the act—will also remain admissible. All of the other confessions he provided were disqualified, even if there was no force involved in their extraction.
The minor also stands accused of conspiring to commit a murder but not of the murder itself. It is currently believed that in the end, the unnamed suspect did not take part in the actual firebombing but was involved in its planning.
The lawyer representing the minor, Zion Amir, said that he believed his client would be released shortly from his arrest after two years in custody.
And after the criminal damages, they can be sued for civil compensation as well. Any Israeli judge with a conscience, the conscience of the entire Israeli public, will certainly rule on a significant sum, the kind that would allow Hussein to erect a worthy tombstone for his loved ones. Even a small house. Maybe he could also say: "This is our answer to terrorism. They burn, and we're building."
Mandelblit must do this for the sake of the institution he heads. These are the wild thorns - more like a blossoming flowerbed of poisonous plants - who sprouted following the rabbis' letter that "ruled" it is forbidden to rent or sell apartments to Arabs - turning them into second-class citizens, subhumans, nothings, garbage.
Mandelblit, do you remember who avoided prosecuting them? That's right, your office. So if the Arabs are garbage - garbage must be burned. "In blood and fire we'll banish Rabin" - and those who succeeded in banishing Rabin with fire will go on to implementing the same method on Mohammed Abu Khdeir, and from there to the bilingual school in Jerusalem – Yitzhak Gabai, who was convicted of the arson of that institution, also had a hearing at to the Lod court this week - and from there to La Familia's jeers of "May your village burn" and onwards to the village of Duma.
"Ali is burned, on the grill" is a sort of a Jewish reclaiming of the furnace. We keep being told that we "must not compare the two." But it's them, the monsters within our ranks, who forcefully drag us into the abyss of the past. "When Jewish blood spurts from the knife, things go twice as fine."
Court to consider releasing defendant in Duma terror trial
Discussions on the release of one of the two Jewish terror suspects in the 2015 firebombing that left 3 members of a Palestinian family dead to be held Sunday, days after court ruled that some of the defendant’s confessions were obtained under duress.
The Central District Court will consider Sunday a request to release a defendant who played a role in the 2015 attack carried out by suspected Jewish terrorists which left three members of the Dawabsheh family in the Palestinian village of Duma dead.
Lawyers representing the defendant, who was 17 at the time of the attack, asked the court to consider granting him release after the Lod District Court ruled Tuesday that confessions given by him in the Shin Bet-led investigation that were obtained under duress were not admissible in the ongoing trial.
On July 31, 2015, Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Dawabsheh family's house in the village in the northern West Bank, killing an 18-month-old child, Ali, and critically wounded a four-year-old brother and both parents. The parents, Saad and Riham Dawabsheh later succumbed to their wounds.
According to the lawyers representing the defendant, whose identity remains under a gag order, the Supreme Court decided a month and a half ago that the Probation Service would produce a report on the matter to examine the validity of releasing him. The legal teams are expecting the court to acquiesce to their demands that he be released.
The Lod District Court ruled on Tuesday that the majority of confessions given by the two alleged Jewish terrorists, are admissible, bar those which were obtained under duress or by “special means.”
The publication of further details on the precise meaning of “special means” has been subjected to a gag order but the central defendant’s confession and reconstruction of the attack has been deemed admissible by the court.
While only one of his confessions was thrown out, the evidence against him remains robust.
Matters are considered more complex for the second defendant. A ruse used to get him to talk will remain admissible (he confessed to charges that are unrelated to the Duma incident, such as arson of a church and membership in a terror organization).
Another confession given by the minor on Duma “hypothetically”—without mentioning of names, but with a general description of the act—will also remain admissible. All of the other confessions he provided were disqualified, even if there was no force involved in their extraction.
The minor also stands accused of conspiring to commit a murder but not of the murder itself. It is currently believed that in the end, the unnamed suspect did not take part in the actual firebombing but was involved in its planning.
The lawyer representing the minor, Zion Amir, said that he believed his client would be released shortly from his arrest after two years in custody.
21 june 2018
Survivors from the Dawabsha family, who were burned to death in their bed by right-wing Israeli settlers in 2015, have vowed to take a case to the International Court, after an Israeli court decided to throw out the confessions of two of the perpetrators.
On July 31st, 2015, extremist Israeli settlers infiltrated the village of Douma, south of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank, under cover of darkness, to firebomb the Dawabshas’ home, where the family of four were asleep in their beds.
The father Saad, 32, mother Reham, 27, and 18-month-old Ali were burned to death, while 4-year old Ahmad suffered from 3rd degree burns over most of his body.
The baby, 18-month old Ali, was declared dead at the scene. Both parents were still alive when medics arrived on the scene, and were rushed to the hospital. After seven days, medics announced the death of the father, whereas the mother died two months later.
Local resident Mesalem Dawabsha, aged 23, said he saw four Israeli settlers fleeing the scene, with several local residents following in pursuit. According to Dawabsha, the settlers fled toward the illegal Israeli settlement colony of Ma’aleh Ephraim, constructed on illegally seized Palestinian land taken from the village of Douma.
Dawabsha added that other witnesses saw the settlers smash the windows of the house before throwing firebombs inside.
Two suspects were indicted for murder, over the incident, in January 2016. Now, two years later, both suspects are likely to be released without charges following Wednesday’s ruling.
The indictment named Amiram Ben-Uliel, a 21-year-old West Bank settler, as the main suspect in the attack. A minor was charged as an accessory. Yinon Reuveni, 20, and another minor were charged for other violence against Palestinians. All four were charged with belonging to a terrorist organization.
The indictment said Ben-Uliel admitted to spraying graffiti on the Dawabsha family home and, then, tossing a firebomb through a bedroom window before fleeing the scene. Ben-Uliel’s parents said they believe in his innocence and that he was tortured during interrogation.
His lawyer says his client told him that he gave a forced confession after interrogators deprived him of sleep and tied him upside down by his feet. But there was no medical documentation backing that claim, or any evidence beyond the word of the youth.
On Wednesday, an Israeli court agreed with the family’s assertion – despite a lack of any physical evidence that the right-wing Israeli militia member had been subjected to any torture. As a result, legal experts say, the charges against the young militia member will likely be dropped.
For years, Palestinians watched angrily as the case remained unsolved, intensifying a feeling of skewed justice in the occupied territory, where suspected Palestinian militants are prosecuted under a separate system of military law that gives them few rights. The arson also touched on Palestinian fears of extremist Jewish settlers, who have attacked Palestinian property with impunity.
The Israeli security service (Shin Bet) said in 2016 that the suspects admitted to carrying out the Douma attack, claiming it was in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli settler by Palestinians a month earlier.
It said all the suspects were part of a group of extremists that had carried out a series of attacks over the years in a religiously inspired campaign to undermine the government and sow fear among non-Jews.
At the time, Nasser Dawabsha, Saad’s brother, said, “It’s clear the Israeli institutions are not serious. It’s clear there was an organization behind this crime, even the media knows that. And the government was not serious in preventing it and is not serious in pursuing the killers.”
Right-wing Zionist extremists have for years vandalized or set fire to Palestinian property, as well as mosques, churches, the offices of dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases. The so-called “price tag” attacks seek to exact a cost for Israeli steps seen as favoring the Palestinians.
The extremists are part of a movement known as the “hilltop youth,” a leaderless group of young people who set up unauthorized outposts, usually clusters of trailers, on West Bank hilltops, that are then turned into Israeli settlement colonies that are claimed as part of the Israeli state.
The Douma attack was one of the main reasons for the wave of protests and attacks by Palestinians against Israelis in 2016, during which 140 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, and 22 Israeli settlers and soldiers were killed.
Nasr Dawabsheh, the family’s spokesperson and the brother of Saad, said after the court ruling Wednesday that if the Israeli legal system fails to provide justice, the family will seek justice in the International Court of Justice.
“We are continuing to pursue the case before the Israeli courts, and in case all legal procedures fail, we will go to the international judiciary. On the third day after the arson, we pursued the option of international justice through the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The response was that if all the methods fail, we can go to international courts.”
On July 31st, 2015, extremist Israeli settlers infiltrated the village of Douma, south of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank, under cover of darkness, to firebomb the Dawabshas’ home, where the family of four were asleep in their beds.
The father Saad, 32, mother Reham, 27, and 18-month-old Ali were burned to death, while 4-year old Ahmad suffered from 3rd degree burns over most of his body.
The baby, 18-month old Ali, was declared dead at the scene. Both parents were still alive when medics arrived on the scene, and were rushed to the hospital. After seven days, medics announced the death of the father, whereas the mother died two months later.
Local resident Mesalem Dawabsha, aged 23, said he saw four Israeli settlers fleeing the scene, with several local residents following in pursuit. According to Dawabsha, the settlers fled toward the illegal Israeli settlement colony of Ma’aleh Ephraim, constructed on illegally seized Palestinian land taken from the village of Douma.
Dawabsha added that other witnesses saw the settlers smash the windows of the house before throwing firebombs inside.
Two suspects were indicted for murder, over the incident, in January 2016. Now, two years later, both suspects are likely to be released without charges following Wednesday’s ruling.
The indictment named Amiram Ben-Uliel, a 21-year-old West Bank settler, as the main suspect in the attack. A minor was charged as an accessory. Yinon Reuveni, 20, and another minor were charged for other violence against Palestinians. All four were charged with belonging to a terrorist organization.
The indictment said Ben-Uliel admitted to spraying graffiti on the Dawabsha family home and, then, tossing a firebomb through a bedroom window before fleeing the scene. Ben-Uliel’s parents said they believe in his innocence and that he was tortured during interrogation.
His lawyer says his client told him that he gave a forced confession after interrogators deprived him of sleep and tied him upside down by his feet. But there was no medical documentation backing that claim, or any evidence beyond the word of the youth.
On Wednesday, an Israeli court agreed with the family’s assertion – despite a lack of any physical evidence that the right-wing Israeli militia member had been subjected to any torture. As a result, legal experts say, the charges against the young militia member will likely be dropped.
For years, Palestinians watched angrily as the case remained unsolved, intensifying a feeling of skewed justice in the occupied territory, where suspected Palestinian militants are prosecuted under a separate system of military law that gives them few rights. The arson also touched on Palestinian fears of extremist Jewish settlers, who have attacked Palestinian property with impunity.
The Israeli security service (Shin Bet) said in 2016 that the suspects admitted to carrying out the Douma attack, claiming it was in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli settler by Palestinians a month earlier.
It said all the suspects were part of a group of extremists that had carried out a series of attacks over the years in a religiously inspired campaign to undermine the government and sow fear among non-Jews.
At the time, Nasser Dawabsha, Saad’s brother, said, “It’s clear the Israeli institutions are not serious. It’s clear there was an organization behind this crime, even the media knows that. And the government was not serious in preventing it and is not serious in pursuing the killers.”
Right-wing Zionist extremists have for years vandalized or set fire to Palestinian property, as well as mosques, churches, the offices of dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases. The so-called “price tag” attacks seek to exact a cost for Israeli steps seen as favoring the Palestinians.
The extremists are part of a movement known as the “hilltop youth,” a leaderless group of young people who set up unauthorized outposts, usually clusters of trailers, on West Bank hilltops, that are then turned into Israeli settlement colonies that are claimed as part of the Israeli state.
The Douma attack was one of the main reasons for the wave of protests and attacks by Palestinians against Israelis in 2016, during which 140 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, and 22 Israeli settlers and soldiers were killed.
Nasr Dawabsheh, the family’s spokesperson and the brother of Saad, said after the court ruling Wednesday that if the Israeli legal system fails to provide justice, the family will seek justice in the International Court of Justice.
“We are continuing to pursue the case before the Israeli courts, and in case all legal procedures fail, we will go to the international judiciary. On the third day after the arson, we pursued the option of international justice through the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The response was that if all the methods fail, we can go to international courts.”
20 june 2018
Hussein Dawabsheh with his grandson Ahmed, the only one to survive the attack
In video filmed outside trial of Jewish settlers accused of perpetrating Duma arson attack, youth heard shouting at Hussein Dawabsheh 'Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill' in reference to slain 18-month-old baby, adding 'It's too bad Ahmed didn't burn as well' in reference to Ali's brother.
Hussein Dawabsheh, whose family was murdered in an arson attack in Duma, suffered verbal abuse from right-wing settler youth outside the Lod District Court Tuesday, after it had ruled that the majority of confessions given by two alleged Jewish terrorists are admissible.
On July 31, 2015, Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Dawabsheh family's house in the village in the northern West Bank, killing an 18-month-old baby, Ali, and critically wounding his four-year-old brother and both parents. The parents, Saad and Riham Dawabsheh, later succumbed to their wounds.
MK Ahmad Tibi (Joint list) posted a video of the incident outside the court on Twitter, which gained many shares and comments from across the political spectrum.
Youths are heard shouting in the video, "Where is Ali? Where is Riham? Where is Saad? It's too bad Ahmed didn't burn as well."
Police officers and the ministers who were present at the court chose not to intervene, letting the demonstration of hatred and racism continue.
In an interview with Ynet, Tibi described the difficult experienced. "As Hussein Dawabsheh—who is Ali and Ahmed's grandfather—was leaving the court, 20 young settlers, probably 'price tag' activists, gathered around him," Tibi recounted.
"As soon as they saw us—and several women demonstrating against the murder—the 'price tag' activists began shouting: 'Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill,' while dancing and rejoicing," he went on to say."Others began chanting those words. It's chilling. As I looked at the grandfather, my eyes teared up."
"After Ali and Ahmed's uncle Saad a-Nasser told them, 'Ali was just a child, and he is in heaven now,' they continued dancing and chanting 'Ali was burned,'" the MK continued.
According to Tibi, he asked the police officers outside the court to do something, but they responded with indifference. "What would have happen had the situation been reversed? If 20 Arab youths were shouting about a Jewish fatality 'he's on the grill, he's burning'? How many of them would have gone home with broken legs? How many would have been arrested?" Tibi wondered.
"Part of the reason it was horrifying was the police's indifference, like nothing had happened," he explained.
"They (the police) could have at least removed them from the court. (No need) to break legs. Legs are only broken to Arabs in Haifa, not to Jews. But they could have at least removed them," he added.
Tibi said that after posting the video, many Israeli turned to him and said they felt awful about the display of hatred outside the court.
"The coalition as well as the opposition expressed their disgust of what happened. But lo and behold—not a single minister (said anything), not Miri Regev, not Yisrael Katz, not Ayelet Shaked, not Naftali Bennett and in particularly not the prime minister, who knows how to retweet awful things. He remained quiet instead of condemning this sickening phenomenon," Tibi lashed out.
In video filmed outside trial of Jewish settlers accused of perpetrating Duma arson attack, youth heard shouting at Hussein Dawabsheh 'Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill' in reference to slain 18-month-old baby, adding 'It's too bad Ahmed didn't burn as well' in reference to Ali's brother.
Hussein Dawabsheh, whose family was murdered in an arson attack in Duma, suffered verbal abuse from right-wing settler youth outside the Lod District Court Tuesday, after it had ruled that the majority of confessions given by two alleged Jewish terrorists are admissible.
On July 31, 2015, Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Dawabsheh family's house in the village in the northern West Bank, killing an 18-month-old baby, Ali, and critically wounding his four-year-old brother and both parents. The parents, Saad and Riham Dawabsheh, later succumbed to their wounds.
MK Ahmad Tibi (Joint list) posted a video of the incident outside the court on Twitter, which gained many shares and comments from across the political spectrum.
Youths are heard shouting in the video, "Where is Ali? Where is Riham? Where is Saad? It's too bad Ahmed didn't burn as well."
Police officers and the ministers who were present at the court chose not to intervene, letting the demonstration of hatred and racism continue.
In an interview with Ynet, Tibi described the difficult experienced. "As Hussein Dawabsheh—who is Ali and Ahmed's grandfather—was leaving the court, 20 young settlers, probably 'price tag' activists, gathered around him," Tibi recounted.
"As soon as they saw us—and several women demonstrating against the murder—the 'price tag' activists began shouting: 'Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill,' while dancing and rejoicing," he went on to say."Others began chanting those words. It's chilling. As I looked at the grandfather, my eyes teared up."
"After Ali and Ahmed's uncle Saad a-Nasser told them, 'Ali was just a child, and he is in heaven now,' they continued dancing and chanting 'Ali was burned,'" the MK continued.
According to Tibi, he asked the police officers outside the court to do something, but they responded with indifference. "What would have happen had the situation been reversed? If 20 Arab youths were shouting about a Jewish fatality 'he's on the grill, he's burning'? How many of them would have gone home with broken legs? How many would have been arrested?" Tibi wondered.
"Part of the reason it was horrifying was the police's indifference, like nothing had happened," he explained.
"They (the police) could have at least removed them from the court. (No need) to break legs. Legs are only broken to Arabs in Haifa, not to Jews. But they could have at least removed them," he added.
Tibi said that after posting the video, many Israeli turned to him and said they felt awful about the display of hatred outside the court.
"The coalition as well as the opposition expressed their disgust of what happened. But lo and behold—not a single minister (said anything), not Miri Regev, not Yisrael Katz, not Ayelet Shaked, not Naftali Bennett and in particularly not the prime minister, who knows how to retweet awful things. He remained quiet instead of condemning this sickening phenomenon," Tibi lashed out.
