This is an American kid, the cousin of the teenager who was tortured and killed by Israelis last week. Now the State Department is involved and I don’t think they’ll get away with it this time. They’re still trying (they are “investigating” and will no doubt try to save face by pinning something on this boy) but I don’t think it will work:
Just before noon Tarek Abu Khdeir, the 15-year-old American-Palestinian who was brutally beaten by Israeli police last Thursday, walked into court wearing the same clothes he had on when arrested. After a brief closed deliberation, with media corralling in the narrow hallway of the Jerusalem District Court, he was released after the payment of $880 (3,000 NIS) and under the condition of spending nine days under house arrest, despite not being charged with any crime. During arraignment, prosecutors for the police originally requested Abu Khdeir remain in the country for 15 days– an additional six days past his scheduled flight out– during which time an investigation against him will continue. Police have sealed the details of the on-going inquiry.
The youth will be remanded to a relative’s house in nearby Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem, as the judge issued a stay away order against his uncle’s home where he was apprehended. Indeed it is a family vacation gone terribly awry, leaving the high schooler at risk of detention in a foreign prison, and his parents mystified.
“They are holding him under investigation to try to pin something on him and I’m not happy with that,” said the youth’s mother, Suha Abu Khdeir outside of the Jerusalem District Court. If police decide to charge Abu Khdeir, he will not be allowed to exit Israel on July 16th as planned. “Why should he have to stay here,” she continued, “my son almost died from that beating.”
Police assert Abu Khdier was detained because he threw rocks during a demonstration. However his family rejects the claim, maintaining he was picked up at random in a sweep during a demonstration near their home. There is a video of the arrests that a neighbor filmed, which picks up with Abu Khdeir already lying on the pavement, with police striking his body until he lost consciousness.
The Zionists are the most dishonest and duplicitous group on earth. First they claimed that because the Palestinians were divided (Hamas and the PLO) they had no “partner in peace” to negotiate with. So the PLO and Hamas reconciled. Now the Zionists say that they will not negotiate until the PLO breaks all ties with the “terrorist Hamas organization.” Today we have a classic misdirect brought to us by the notorious Zionist warmonger Avigdor Lieberman the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He’s broken from the Likud coalition government because he said Netanyahu was being too soft on the Palestinians. I guess we’re now suppose to see Bibi Netanyahu as a moderate? Here is what Netanyahu, Lieberman and the Zionists want: 1) The UN to recognize Israel as a “Jewish state.” 2) The annihilation of Hamas. Neither of those things is going to happen for at least a thousand years.
Trumped up charges require manufactured evidence, which the Israelis are machining right now. That the victim and his family are standing up to Israeli thugs will only make it worse for the victim. Israelis have never been jailed for beating up Palestinians; Palestinians who stand up for their rights have always been lucky to hang on to their lives.