West Bank Assailants Beat U.S. Activists

[ss-zari]

More settler terrorism...

By NASSER SHIYOUKHI, Associated Press Writer

HEBRON, West Bank - Two American volunteers in a group helping Palestinians were beaten with baseball bats and chains by five men, including one who spoke English with an Israeli accent, one of the victims said Thursday.

The Americans, Chris Brown, 40, from San Francisco, and Kim Lamberty, 44, from Washington, were escorting Palestinian children to their school in a West Bank village Wednesday when they were attacked, Brown said.

The two are members of the Christian Peacemakers Team, a group that has been active in and around the West Bank city of Hebron for several years.

Brown remained hospitalized in Israel on Thursday with a punctured lung. Lamberty was released after receiving treatment for a broken arm and swollen knee.

The identity of the assailants was not known, but Bourke Kennedy, another member of the group, said the volunteers have been harassed in the past by Jewish settlers on the same road, which runs near the Maon settlement.

"We've been spat at, hit, and almost run down on occasion," Kennedy said.

The group said it would file a complaint with the Israeli authorities. Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene 30 minutes after the attack. However, the army said police would have to handle to case. Police could not be reached for comment.

The attack took place early Wednesday when Brown and Lamberty were escorting several Palestinian children from their homes to a school in a nearby village. At about 7:15 a.m., five men with black scarves wrapped around their heads attacked the Americans, Brown said in a telephone interview.

"They whipped us with chains and beat us with a stick. Then they threw stones at me and continued punching me in the face, hitting and kicking me in the back," Brown said.

The children escaped unharmed, he said.

[Sayeret]

Americans killed by Palestinian terrorists

http://www.house.gov/burton/RSC/PalestinianTerrorismFacts.PDF


Since Yasser Arafat “renounced” violence in the Oslo Peace Accords on September 13, 1993, at least 52 American citizens, including women and children, have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists, and at least another 83 Americans have been injured.

[GrimReaper]

You already posted about this case, why are you posting again in a new thread?
Trying to make it seem like a different thing?

[SOG]

hes trollin for queers. ::ZIP::

[Mr. Nielsen]

Seems to be another article describing the same incident as the earlier thread. Perhaps it should have been posted there.


Americans killed by Palestinian terrorists

http://www.house.gov/burton/RSC/PalestinianTerrorismFacts.PDF



When you look through the list, you will notice that many of them were killed near illegal settlements.

[Javehn]

SS , Posting the same event twice as different events wan't make you more right . It just make you more liar .

Nielsen , what would be your point ?

[Brozozo]

Hoooooolllly ****!!!!!!! Maybe just this once the Israeli's are the instigators and are at fault. Maybe just this once? It is possible! Why does everything contra-Israeli immediately have to be shut down and dismissed?

[StarvingStudent47]

Could you post this article a third time, ss-zari? Because I didn't get it the first two times.

[GrimReaper]

Hoooooolllly ****!!!!!!! Maybe just this once the Israeli's are the instigators and are at fault. Maybe just this once? It is possible! Why does everything contra-Israeli immediately have to be shut down and dismissed? No one is dismissing it. Masked criminals hit two people, it's being invastigated.
But him posting about it twice,and in the second post claiming "More settler terrorism" is a bit misleading and is promoting some private issue instead of just reporting.

[SeanAshi]

I really dislike that "ss"

[Javehn]

Hoooooolllly ****!!!!!!! Maybe just this once the Israeli's are the instigators and are at fault. Maybe just this once? It is possible! Why does everything contra-Israeli immediately have to be shut down and dismissed?

You have been owned by GreamReaper Industries (C) :oops: . Hasty writting is from the devil ;) .
By the way , **** isn't holly :roll: :lol: .

[combat jack]

I dont get it. Two Americans in a war zone are complaining about getting beat up. I'd be thanking my lucky stars that I didn't get shot!

[Obergefreiter]

Dumb asses. What did they think was going to happen to them? I wonder if they are as pro-palistinian now?

[SeanAshi]

They weren't with the International Solidarity Movement were they? rofl

[StarvingStudent47]

I dont get it. Two Americans in a war zone are complaining about getting beat up. I'd be thanking my lucky stars that I didn't get shot!

With the number of Americans who have been kidnapped and decapitated (from Pearle in Pakistan to Johnson in Saudi Arabia to countless numbers in Iraq), I just don't think a broken arm is newsworthy. Unfortunate, but not newsworthy.

[SeanAshi]

I just don't think a broken arm is newsworthy. Unfortunate, but not newsworthy.To people who hate Americas support of Israel find it newsworthy.

[Rakki]

It was obviously the Palestinians who did it. Kids in school mean kids learning something and not getting told: "Hey, you wanna blow yourself up and earn your family some quick money?"

[Phil642]

Comme on come on,

There are some assholes both in Israel and Palestine ontherwise it should be peace since a long time, isn't it?

[UoUo]

Comme on come on,

There are some assholes both in Israel and Palestine ontherwise it should be peace since a long time, isn't it?

No.

[StarvingStudent47]

Comme on come on,

There are some assholes both in Israel and Palestine ontherwise it should be peace since a long time, isn't it?

The Navajo must have done something bad to the white man, otherwise we wouldn't have taken their land, right?

Raped women must have pissed the man off, otherwise they wouldn't be raped, right?

The city of Nanking must have done something awful to Japan to make the Japanese treat them that way in WWII, huh?

Poland really had tortured Germany badly, and that's the only reason why Germany invaded it, right? Germany wouldn't have invaded if Poland hadn't asked for it?

Hitler never would have built Auschwitz if the Jews hadn't asked for it, huh?

Nobody is saying that every single individual in Israel is a saint. There are Israeli shoplifters, Israeli drugdealers, Israeli gang members et cetera. These few individuals (who beat someone up for an undisclosed reason) are two such examples. But they in NO way reflect the Israeli government or the vast, vast majority of Israeli citizens.

It only takes one party to make a war. It takes two parties to make peace. You are wrong to assume that it takes two willing parties to make war.

[Mr. Nielsen]

It only takes one party to make a war. It takes two parties to make peace. You are wrong to assume that it takes two willing parties to make war.

It's quite simple, the Sharon government* wants some or all of the palestinians land. And as long as a majority of israeli voters are willing to keep such an individual in office there is not going to be peace.

* It's of course not that simple, as the difference between Sharon (Likud) and Barak (labour), is about direct vs. indirect occupation, and not about a Palestinian state or not.

[GrimReaper]

It only takes one party to make a war. It takes two parties to make peace. You are wrong to assume that it takes two willing parties to make war.

It's quite simple, the Sharon government* wants some or all of the palestinians land. And as long as a majority of israeli voters are willing to keep such an individual in office there is not going to be peace.

* It's of course not that simple, as the difference between Sharon (Likud) and Barak (labour), is about direct vs. indirect occupation, and not about a Palestinian state or not.
No, it's about terrorists and corrupted officials who want a second palestinian state in place of Israel.

[UoUo]

It only takes one party to make a war. It takes two parties to make peace. You are wrong to assume that it takes two willing parties to make war.

It's quite simple, the Sharon government* wants some or all of the palestinians land. And as long as a majority of israeli voters are willing to keep such an individual in office there is not going to be peace.

* It's of course not that simple, as the difference between Sharon (Likud) and Barak (labour), is about direct vs. indirect occupation, and not about a Palestinian state or not.

LoL...since when Barak is the head of the labour? :lol:

You seem to know much about ISrael.

[Mr. Nielsen]

LoL...since when Barak is the head of the labour? :lol:

You seem to know much about ISrael.

I was thinking more in terms of blocks, not particularly the parties.
But Barak was indeed head of labour in the mid-nineties.

[StarvingStudent47]

It only takes one party to make a war. It takes two parties to make peace. You are wrong to assume that it takes two willing parties to make war.

It's quite simple, the Sharon government* wants some or all of the palestinians land. And as long as a majority of israeli voters are willing to keep such an individual in office there is not going to be peace.

* It's of course not that simple, as the difference between Sharon (Likud) and Barak (labour), is about direct vs. indirect occupation, and not about a Palestinian state or not.

And that's why there was peace and no terrorism before late 2000 when Sharon was first elected Prime Minister :cantbeli: You are aware that the Second Intifada began under Barak, and that things have been bad fore a LONG time before anyone ever heard of Sharon, right?

[Mr. Nielsen]

And that's why there was peace and no terrorism before late 2000 when Sharon was first elected Prime Minister :cantbeli: You are aware that the Second Intifada began under Barak, and that things have been bad fore a LONG time before anyone ever heard of Sharon, right?

Of course. There was occupation before Sharon came to office.
But as I said, the difference between Barak and Sharon, was between two variants of occupation.

[GrimReaper]

Don't like digging up threads,but since this doesn't warrent a new thread I feel this should be added here until there's an actual report (if at all) available, but I assume this wouldn't even get a paragraph in foriegn papers.

On local news today
The police has stated it has arrested a Palestinian for false testimony. The Palestinian arrived about a month ago to a police station in the Binyamin County while he was bruised and battered.
He testified that three settlers beat him. The police stated that in later questioning, the man admitted he lied in order to promoted political strife.

[Raistlin]

Heh, no one is perfect.

[Tikvah]

Comme on come on,

There are some assholes both in Israel and Palestine ontherwise it should be peace since a long time, isn't it?

Riiight... Because Israel has NEVER tried to achieve peace with the Arabs... :cantbeli: