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Posted by Tamimi on trial on Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:40 | #

NPR, “Military Trial Opens For 17-Year-Old Palestinian Activist”, 13 Feb 2018:

The trial opened Tuesday in an Israeli military for 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi. She is accused of assaulting Israeli soldiers outside her home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

For many Palestinians, Tamimi is a symbol of resistance to a half-century military occupation that stands in the way of Palestinian independence and shows no sign of ending.

For many Israelis, Tamimi is a provocateur who goads soldiers on video and champions rock-throwing, influenced by relatives who have been involved in protests and attacks against Israelis.

Tamimi was arrested and indicted following a public outcry in Israeli when a video of her altercation with the soldiers posted by her mother went viral.

Tamimi has been in Israeli jail since December and the case has garnered international attention. She was ushered into the small courtroom Tuesday morning, appearing calm, as a large group of reporters, foreign diplomats and some Israeli peace activists crowded the area.

But shortly after, the military judge ordered that the trial be held behind closed doors, and Tamimi was ushered out of the courtroom. The reporters and observers were ordered to leave, then allowed back into the courtroom as Tamimi’s lawyer argued to keep the trial open.

“I don’t think this is in the interest of the minor” to have a large crowd in the courtroom, military judge Lt. Col. Menachem Lieberman ruled, clearing the courtroom to all but her family and lawyers.

“What I think is that the court doesn’t think it’s good for the court to have all of you inside of it,” Tamimi’s attorney Gaby Lasky told reporters outside, “so you cannot carry on watching her trial.” She claimed the military prosecutors did not object to an open trial.

Tamimi is indicted on 12 counts, including assaulting an Israeli officer and soldier — as seen in the video — on December 15, and for five additional events in which she allegedly assaulted Israeli forces, threw rocks at them, threatened them, obstructed them during their duties, and participated in riots and incited others to do so. She could face several months or years in jail if convicted.

An indictment also was filed against Nariman Tamimi, Ahed’s mother, who uploaded the video to Facebook. In it, the soldiers don’t appear to react to Tamimi’s confrontation. The military said in a statement that it is charging Nariman Tamimi with using Facebook to “incite others to commit terrorist attacks.” Both women are being held until the end of their proceedings, which could last months.

Tamimi’s cousin after having been hit by rubber bullet from Israeli soldier.

The altercation with soldiers happened shortly after Tamimi’s cousin was shot in the head with a rubber bullet during a demonstration as he climbed a wall of a complex Israeli soldiers had commandeered, according to Bassem Tamimi, Ahed’s father, who is a well-known leader of protests in his village.

Military prosecutors say Ahed Tamimi’s slapping, kicking and punching soldiers was assault. Bassem Tamimi recently told NPR that his daughter’s confrontation is a natural reaction to a life of watching her relatives being arrested and killed.

Lasky, Tamimi’s lawyer, said Israel “wants to deter Ahed and other young people from resisting occupation nonviolently.”

In an interview with NPR, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Michael Oren recently described the video as very personal for Israelis. Referring to soldiers, he said that “for an Israeli audience to see again and again photos of our children being beaten up and not have the army react in any way was very, very difficult for the society.”

Human rights advocates, including Human Rights Watch, have criticized Ahed Tamimi’s pre-trial detention – now at more than 55 days. “Her case raises concern that Israel’s military justice system, which detains hundreds of Palestinian children every year, is incapable of respecting children’s rights,” the rights group stated.

Bassem Tamimi said he rejected the authority of the military court and did not expect justice to be delivered in his daughter’s trial.

Posted by Yasir Murtaja on Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:05 | #

A thirty year old Palestinian video journalist named Yasir Murtaja was fatally shot despite wearing a flack jacket clearly marked “press” while covering peaceful protests ....he was one of nine Palestinians killed by the Israeli army during its brutal crackdown on Friday’s protest. A total of thirtyone have been killed since Palestinians kicked-off a six week non-violent protest called “The Great March of Return.”

Murataja’s brother: “Israeli targeting of journalists was clear.”

Israeli Defense Minister: “There are no innocent citizens in Gaza.”

Posted by Ahed Tamimi interviewed upon release on Tue, 07 Aug 2018 06:04 | #

Ahed Tamimi interviewed upon release from her 8 month jail sentence for having slapped the Israeli soldier.

DN: Why did you slap the soldier?

AT: They shot my cousin while he was standing on a hill. Then they came to my house; I did not go to them.

Posted by (((Frame Games lips are moving again))) on Mon, 08 Oct 2018 10:14 | #

(((Affrimative Right))) is sponsoring a (((Frame Games))) video, “THE PROXY WAR THAT IS DESTROYING OUR FREE SPEECH.”

In this video (((Frame Games))) proposes the absurd notion that pro-Palestinian and Israeli interests have equal power, evident by the “conflict” between movements such as “Boycott and Divest” and Israel - such that ‘the Israeli / Palestinian “conflict” is being used as a proxy to distract from the fact that they want to take away the free speech of “our people”, such as Zionist shills, Steven Crowder, Alex Jones, Lauren Southern et al.. and just to make it look a little less obvious, he throws in a (((Paleocon, Christian controlled))) dupe, like Nick Fuentes.

Appropriately enough, (((Frame Games))) plays “Tell me Lies” for his musical break.

(((Frame Games))) proclaims that he is very much concerned that “the Left” is trying to take away our Enlightenment values of science and truth.

He was particularly upset, in fact, it was the final straw for him, to where he just had to put his foot down when they started demonizing Peppe the Frog.

Posted by Ahed, Like a Lion, in Zion on Mon, 08 Oct 2018 19:01 | #

I try to avoid this, and do avoid purveying black music - in this case, Bob Marley. Generally speaking, I hate reggae, Rastafarian culture and dreadlocks - especially on White people.

Even in such a case as this, where the black, half black, whatever, Marley is promoting the non-integrationist philosophy of Haile Selassie (and adherent, Markus Garvey) ...but it’s just too accurate in this case. Ahed does appear like “A Lion in Zion.”