Palestinian admits murdering Israeli family

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

http://news.yahoo.com/palestinian-admits-murdering-settler-family-army-194719605.html;_ylt=Ai3u9g3FqJHOtfBxfSR1tIILewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTQ4NWlocWZlBG1pdANUb3BTdG9yeSBXb3JsZFNGIE1pZGRsZUVhc3RTU0YEcGtnA2IxZDRlODljLWUxNzEtMzY0Yy04OTViLTBkNzRlNzExNzBkMQRwb3MDNwRzZWMDdG9wX3N0b3J5BHZlcgMyNGEzNDFlMC1lZWMyLTExZTAtYmNmNy0yN2RhNTNiMDljNzk-;_ylg=X3oDMTF2Y3Y5NDF0BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAN3b3JsZHxtaWRkbGUgZWFzdARwdANzZWN0aW9ucw--;_ylv=3

AFP – 2 hrs 32 mins ago

A 19-year-old Palestinian has confessed before an Israeli military tribunal to his involvement in the murder of a family of five Israeli settlers this year, the army said on Tuesday.

An army statement named the Palestinian as Amjad Awwad, cousin of Hakim Awwad, 18, who last month was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for the March 11 slayings in the West Bank settlement of Itamar.

Amjad is still to be sentenced, the army said.

According to the charge sheet, the cousins, from the village of Awarta, acted of their own free will although both are members of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

On the night of March 11, Ehud and Ruthy Fogel were stabbed to death along with their three children, including a three-month-old baby, in a murder that sparked international condemnation.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

we have a confession! Drone strike!

[sandinista! 1,816]

i wonder if their sentences will be cut to 40 years imprisonment, and if after serving 10 they'll be out on furloughs all the time. you know, like ami popper. israeli justice is interesting, to say the least.

Ami Popper was convicted of murdering seven Arab workers and the attempted murder of ten additional workers on May 20th of 1990. Popper was 21 years old at the time. At approximately 7:00 am he arrived at the Rose Garden junction between Rishon Lezion and Nes Ziona, with a Glilon assault rifle and five ammunition clips, which he had stolen from his brother, who was a soldier.

Popper demanded of the Arab workers waiting at the junction to line up and asked to see their ID cards. When a car with West Bank license plates drove by Popper stopped it and forced the passengers to join the lineup at gunpoint. Afterwards Popper opened fire at the line, killing seven of the workers.

The murder created a storm in Israel and the territories, where riots broke out and rioters were killed by IDF fire.

Popper was on a 48 hour furlough from prison and was expected back in prison on Thursday. He was sentenced to seven life sentences, though that was cut back to 40 years imprisonment. After serving a quarter of that Popper was allowed furloughs and has already left and returned to the prison 124 times. During his incarceration Popper married and serves his time in the religious wing of the Masiyahu prison.

Popper was convicted of seven accounts of murder and sentenced him to seven life sentences and an additional 20 consecutive years. In prison Popper became religious, marrying a Canadian woman from family identified with the Kach movement in 1993. In 1995 his eldest son was born and two more sons followed. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3354022,00.html

ah, israel. where the idf will open fire on rioters after seven palestinians were murdered in cold blood, but while he's in prison the israeli murderer himself marries a woman involved with the terrorist kach movement, fathers children with her and is out all the time on furloughs, driving his family around until he managed to kill them too.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Reported!

[Ban Hammer 13,501]

1 post removed for baiting, another for insinuation of a member belonging to a disreputable group, and one for quoting.

play nice. you know what happens when you don't....

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

You should remove my post as well, since the post it referred to is no longer there.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

1 post removed for baiting, another for insinuation of a member belonging to a disreputable group, and one for quoting.

play nice. you know what happens when you don't....

How is asking if someone justified the killing of a family (OP) by posting a completely unrelated story implying the murderer in the OP is getting a raw deal deserving of being removed? My question was quite valid.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

How is asking if someone justified the killing of a family (OP) by posting a completely unrelated story implying the murderer in the OP is getting a raw deal deserving of being removed? My question was quite valid.

Agreed.

[sandinista! 1,816]

Agreed.

lolz. it's your standard operating procedure. i was just taking a page out of the old vj playbook.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

lolz. it's your standard operating procedure. i was just taking a page out of the old vj playbook.

ditto

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

This was an horrific crime. I've seen the pictures - the scenes at the Fogel home were gruesome beyond belief.

That said, what was done to come up with these suspects and extract their confessions was extremely disturbing. The entire village of Awarta where the suspects lived (it's next to the illegal settlement where the Fogels lived, and large chunks of its lands have been confiscated to build and expand that settlement) was put under extreme closure for a month - schools and businesses closed, no entry or exit, farmers prevented from tending their fields - while Israeli soldiers went house to house, ransacking homes, breaking furniture and appliances, smashing windows, ripping sinks off the wall, destroying other belongings, taking villagers' food and dumping it on the floor and then breaking jars of oil on top of it.

During this time, Israeli soldiers rounded up hundreds of villagers and detained them without charge, including women and children, threatening and intimidating them. 100 of the village women were arrested en masse, seemingly at random - the IDF was just pulling them off the street. And yet more land was confiscated from the village and "transferred" to surrounding settlements as a punitive measure.

I don't know if these suspects are guilty or not. But these sorts of tactics don't serve any kind of justice.

(I also don't know why any person in their right mind would choose to take their kids to live in an illegal settlement in the West Bank.)

[sandinista! 1,816]

There's but a handful of posters though that will give two figs about that, sadly. It's largely a WWVMD (what would Vic Mackey do) mindset, especially when it comes to subhuman Palestinians.