Things have kicked off again in the West Bank, with stone throwing youths harassing the poor Israeli military, who have nothing to fight back with but M16 assault rifles.
What are they ranting about this time? you may ask. Apparently a Palestinian man died in Israeli custody last week. The ME's verdict: death by natural causes, specifically a heart attack. But the family ordered a second necropsy and guess what? Many injuries were found on his body consistent with a heavy beating.- enough, in an older man, to engender a heart attack anyway.
This sort of thing is quite common around the world; even in the fair and proper UK it has happened. What happened to suspects taken by the US under extraordinary rendition does not bear thinking about if you are of a delicate disposition.
But Israel is the worst place for this to happen right now, because it must damage their much-hyped view that they are more sinned against than sinning. And one can also understand, if not actually support, the call from Hamas to step up their programme of kidnapping Israeli soldiers- let's face it it has been a highly successful political tactic in the past. Watch your backs you Israeli grunts!
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