(Guess they are going to have to buy more spots for that stupid Super Bowl commercial after this one.)
from Common Dreams
Human rights
defenders this week accused US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee—who
recently endorsed Israel conquering much of the Middle East—of inciting
deadly violence after Israeli colonists in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine fatally shot a Palestinian-American teenager who was trying to stop settlers from stealing livestock.
Nasrallah
Abu Siyam, 19, was shot dead last Wednesday by a masked Israeli settler
armed with an M-16 rifle in the village of Mukhmas, where the
19-year-old Philadelphia native had been living and helping his father, Mohammed Abu Siyam, tend the family’s livestock and cultivate their olive trees.
According to eyewitness accounts as reported by independent New York journalist and Palestine specialist Jasper Diamond Nathaniel:
At least four other local Palestinians
were wounded by settler gunfire during the invasion of the village,
including another young man whose foot may be amputated. Some were shot
while carrying the wounded to safety. Many others were severely beaten
with metal rods. Israeli soldiers, who accompanied the settlers into the
village, responded to the shooting rampage by firing stun grenades and
tear gas into the residential area, burning an elderly man. When it was
over, settlers walked off with more than 300 of the village’s sheep and
goats under the military’s watch. It was the first full day of Ramadan.
As of this writing, no one has been arrested.
While human rights groups and some Democratic US lawmakers have called
for a full investigation into Abu Siyam’s killing, Huckabee has so far
been silent. Last July, Huckabee responded to Israeli settlers’ killing
of 23-year-old Palestinian-American Sayfollah Musallet, who was beaten
to death while visiting relatives in the West Bank, as “a criminal and
terrorist act” that Israeli authorities should “aggressively
investigate.” As is usually the case when Israeli settlers kill
Palestinians, no one has been charged for killing Musallet...
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