By Barry Shaw
NETANYA, Israel — When publicity seeking 17 year old, Ahed Tamimi, the poster child of Palestinian provocation, was sentenced to jail for punching and slapping an Israeli soldier, many in the mainstream media and Hate Israel NGOs, ranted about Israeli cruelty for incarcerating a teenager.
So lets look at some facts, and examine the evidence of Israeli “cruelty” in having a troublesome girl face jail time.Tamimi was imprisoned for the legitimate charges of assault, rock throwing, participating in disturbances, threats, and incitement. She’s been doing it all her life, but only when videoed. She’s been doing it since she was a girl.
Now let’s see how Tamimi “suffered” in an Israeli jail as she described her experience in her own words.
“I took a law course, studied for high school. I was reading books, watching TV.”
But it gets better…
“We were singing. We made group breakfasts. Every room brought their own stuff and we had breakfast outside. We also had lunch together most of the time. We also had parties. We were singing and dancing and jumping and going crazy. We did many things.”
Now that Tamimi has become a hero and media darling we can expect further provocations, and further jail time, from a young lady who wallows in the fame and adulation granted to her by acting out her videoed acts of assault and violence. She admits she enjoys the conditions inside an Israeli jail. This is how the Palestinian leadership, and many foreign left-wing NGOs, promote anti-Israel activism in order to foster an image to the world media…
…and the Western media unquestioningly lap it up.
In some rare moment of rationality it would be called child abuse, not by Israel, but by the Palestinian leadership and the so-called human rights NGOs.
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My friend, film-maker Pierre Rehov, made this short video in which you hear Palestinian suicide bombers speak of their motivation to kill Jews.
Unfortunately, he has found that YouTube refuses to host it on their site.
This short shocking video will prove to you that Palestinian killers prefer paradise to Palestine.
Please watch and share it widely.
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Barry Shaw is the author of “Fighting Hamas, BDS, and Anti-Semitism” and “BDS for IDIOTS.” He is also the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
I have delved into finding the truth this last year and it has been nothing short of hearbreaking. Israeli Hasbara has done quite a job of misleading, I am beyond saddened to say.
Ahed Tamimi has grown up, a second generation under a brutal occupation. She began protesting when the settlers of Halamish stole their water spring. She has lived through night raids, the death of her aunt, uncle and cousins at the hands of Israeli occupation forces, and was tried in a separate military court, she is stopped at checkpoints that keep her from her school, the tear gas, sound bombs, it is a horrible existence, daily.
The Palestinians are now the David to the Israeli Goliath.
I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, we supported Israel right or wrong.
No more.
The occupation has to end.
I am proud of groups like Breaking the Silence, IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace, who are the conscience of Judaism.
Miko Peled, the General’s Son, lost his niece in a suicide attack, he is for one state, an end to the occupation.
It is appalling to use Pallywood,to discredit the pain and suffering of Ahed Tamimi, and others like her.
As an American Jew, I support Betty McCullums bill in Congress.
We lived through the Holocaust, we were strangers in Egypt.
Israel’s policies make me feel ashamed – Zionism is not Judaism.
Oppressing another people and stealing their land is against our Holy Torah.
The occupation is harming the collective Soul of Judaism.