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Related: About this forumDisturbing video shows Jewish convert fatally shot by IDF in West Bank posed no threat
A video has surfaced from last weeks deadly shooting of a Palestinian convert to Judaism that shows the victim raising his hands in compliance with orders from an IDF reservist who opened fire on the 63-year-old anyway.
The video shows the soldier approaching Sameh Muhammad Abd al-Rai Zaytoun who went by David Ben Avraham since converting to Judaism several years ago with his gun aimed at him after he exited a Palestinian taxi at a bus station near the settlement of Elazar, south of Jerusalem.
The soldier aggressively asks Ben Avraham if he is Jewish, to which he responds that he is. Seemingly doubting him, the soldier asks him for his name and Ben Avraham responds, David Ben Avraham, idiot.
A separate surveillance video from the scene shows Ben Avraham standing with his hands on his head for a few seconds before the soldier shoots him.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/disturbing-video-shows-jewish-convert-fatally-shot-by-idf-in-west-bank-posed-no-threat/amp/
TeamProg
(6,630 posts)Lonestarblue
(11,988 posts)Rarely do they face any consequences for these unprovoked murders because Israel is a country that seems to be just fine with murdering innocent Palestinian civilians.
David__77
(23,879 posts)He was quite clearly murdered, with his hands in the air.
The Israeli authorities posthumously granted the man Israeli residence, which was denied while he was alive.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,377 posts)Rarely do they face any consequences for these unprovoked murders because the Palestinian Authority and the elected Hamas government is a system that seems to be just fine with murdering innocent Israeli civilians.
But of course, that's perfectly okay because Israeli civilians deserve it. Israel is the worst country in the world and those people deserve whatever they get. Their blood is cheap.
How many of the Oct 7th murderers have the Palestinians authorities arrested, trial, and convicted? Waiting for an answer.
But of course, Israel is held the MUCH higher standard because Hamas are honest, truthful freedom fighters with the Palestinian people's interests in their pure, innocent hearts.
sanatanadharma
(4,074 posts)Claiming the imprimatur of God justifies many wrongs, and it is just wrong.
All moral and ethical systems are built upon the particular actions of individuals.
Similarly, individuals are the ones who fail, by omission or commission, to be moral
Societies fail the ethics test by accepting the immorality of certain others.