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bemildred

(90,061 posts)
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 09:34 AM Feb 2016

Israeli Court Sentences 2 Over Palestinian Teenager's Murder

JERUSALEM — An Israeli court on Thursday sentenced two Israelis in the 2014 murder of a 16-year-old Palestinian, sending one to life in prison for a crime that sparked deep soul-searching in Israel and was part of a series of events that led to the Gaza war later that year.

The court sentenced a second Israeli, believed to have had a lesser role in the crime, to 21 years in prison. Another Israeli is awaiting a verdict following a psychological examination.

"The sentence imposed on the defendants reflects what we asked for and the barbaric and atrocious act," said Ori Korb, the state prosecutor. He said the murder marked a "moral nadir."

The Israelis sentenced Thursday snatched Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir from an east Jerusalem neighborhood in July 2014, driving him to a Jerusalem forest where he was burned to death. The murder was carried out in revenge for the abduction and killing earlier that summer of three Israeli teens by Palestinians said by Israel to have been Hamas operatives.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/02/04/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-palestinians.html

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Israeli Court Sentences 2 Over Palestinian Teenager's Murder (Original Post) bemildred Feb 2016 OP
Got in a minute before me , surprising sentences though azurnoir Feb 2016 #1
Yep. I imagine the airwaves are just humming. nt bemildred Feb 2016 #2
It was ToI's headline story in any event azurnoir Feb 2016 #4
Completely ordinary, don't be silly. nt bemildred Feb 2016 #5
ya come to think of it .......... Sammy Kuntar was 16 or 17 when he was azurnoir Feb 2016 #6
Only surprising for those that attempt King_David Feb 2016 #3
You mean they didn't get a parade? leftynyc Feb 2016 #7
Surprising? King_David Feb 2016 #9
Demolish their houses, or I will call this an Apartheid ruling. Little Tich Feb 2016 #8

King_David

(14,851 posts)
3. Only surprising for those that attempt
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 09:48 AM
Feb 2016

to delegitimize the Jewish state at every turn and pretend that there's an apartheid state.

Jews are able to run countries- Bernie Sanders is quite capable.

Verdict and sentences were not surprising at all.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
9. Surprising?
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 12:02 PM
Feb 2016

Infuriating to some that Israel is a great tolerant democracy....goes against the desired narrative.

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)
8. Demolish their houses, or I will call this an Apartheid ruling.
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 10:58 AM
Feb 2016

BTW, I think that it's wrong to demolish the houses of terrorists, but if only the houses of Palestinian terrorists get demolished, and the houses of Jewish terrorists are allowed to stand - then it's Apartheid.

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