Remembering Asher Palmer, his infant son Yonatan and a promise to dream

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
14 July '13..

The article below was written in memory of Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonatan. On April 2, 2013, a former member of the Palestinian Authority security forces by the name of Waal al-Araja, a resident of Halhoul was convicted in an Israeli military court of their murder.

We wrote here several times about the attack that brought about their deaths some 21 months ago [see "25-Sep-11: "Only" rock throwers - but now a father and his infant son are dead"] and about the tough determination of Michael Palmer, Yonatan's grieving grandfather and the loving father of Asher, to ensure the Palestinian Arab gang who planned and carried out the attack were brought fully to account by the law.

Al-Araja was convicted not only of the murder of the Palmers [Ynet] but of involvement in a series of additional attempted murders based on the same modus operandi - hurling rocks and cement blocks from fast moving vehicles into the windshields of oncoming cars driven by Israelis.

Attacks by rock hurling terrorists have rarely, if ever, resulted in an indictment for murder in the Israeli system. The world is a much better place now that Michael Palmer was instrumental in effecting this blow for justice.

This article was prepared in connection with the launch of a scholarship fund in memory of the Palmers. Further details here. The article is published with the permission of the author.

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