Reply #10: More about the Rabbi who came to his rescue...

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A left-wing Israeli rabbi who said he too was detained as a human shield when he tried to intervene to free Muhammed Badwan in the past week said he planned to press charges.

"It is very depressing and very sad to see that we have come to this position where this is what we do. There is disbelief," said Rabbi Arik Ascherman, head of Rabbis for Human Rights, which distributed the picture, taken by a foreign photographer, of Muhammed strapped to a jeep.

But Muhammed, though he said he still wanted to throw stones at soldiers, said he did not consider all Israelis his enemy.

"If I saw an Israeli child, I would respect him, not hit him," Muhammed said. "The soldier was not good, he was like an animal. But the man who came to help me is an honourable person."

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