Conviction, fines no solace for Abu Khdeir’s father

The father of the Palestinian teenager burnt alive in Jerusalem, Mohammed Abu Khdeir, has said that no compensation could bring back his son after an Israeli court on Tuesday ordered his killer to a life sentence and to pay the family 150,000 shekels ($39,000). An Israeli court convicted Yosef Haim Ben-David, 31, of 16-year-old Khdeir’s murder…

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  1. Interesting that the author had no room for one word about the three Israeli teen-agers murdered just before the murder of Mohamed Abu Kdheir. Granted, their killers were in turn killed when they resisted arrest, but there has not been any financial compensation paid by the Palestinian Authority to the parents of the three teens, has there? When the Palestinian teen victim’s name is mentioned, it should be always in conjunction with the names of the three Israeli teens, whose murder is what triggered Abu Kdheir’s one in the first place. They were Naftali Frenkel (16), Gilad Shaer (16), and Eyal Yifrah (19).
    –J.J. Surbeck, San Diego

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