CiF Watch
19 July '11
My first instinct upon reading Harriet Sherwood’s latest dispatch in the Guardian “Hundreds of Palestinian minors jailed for throwing stones, says report“, July 18, was to fisk it, as it was based on a report by B’Tselem - the highly politicized anti-Israel NGO (generously funded by the EU) whose CEO, Jessica Montell, has characterized Israeli policy in the West Bank as “worse than Apartheid”, and who employed a staffer who blogged that Israel was upholding “Nazi values.”
However, after reading it carefully it occurred to me that such an analysis almost wasn’t necessary, and that the only news was that, to Harriet Sherwood and the Guardian, it’s news, and evidently some sort of scandal, that Israel detains Palestinian teenagers who riot and attack soldiers.
Among the most incriminating passages in the report by Sherwood:
“800 Palestinian children [under 18] charged with throwing stones in the West Bank over a six-year period.”
(For those who have not experienced this first hand, unlike myself, this short film from last year should be seen to better understand what is being discussed here. Yosef)
Uploaded by MiddleEastNewsWatch on Oct 10, 2010
So, that would be an average of about 133 Palestinian teens incarcerated a year, out of the thousands of such incidents documented by the IDF – many exploited by terror organizations who cynically “recruit” them. The IDF report issued in response to the B’Tselem accusations noted that the NGO “was made aware of 160 cases of terrorist activity, including those involving minors that resulted in the death and maiming of Israeli civilians and security forces” – yet, for some reason, that information never found its way to the B’Tselem report or Sherwood’s post.
(Read full " ... Israel detains Palestinians who, umm, riot and commit acts of violence")
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