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Ahed Tamimi is the Palestinian Rosa Parks
It is possible for a single person to engage in an act of resistance against oppression and change the world.
A 16-year-old Palestinian girl named Ahed Tamimi is such an individual. On December 19, in a simple yet profound act of defiance against the occupation, she slapped Israeli soldiers who had entered the yard of her house. Just hours earlier members of the Israeli armed forces had shot her teenage cousin Mohammed in the face with a rubber-coated bullet. The young boy was placed in a medically induced coma as doctors operated on him to remove the bullet fragments embedded in his skull.
Much like American civil rights icon Rosa Parks - who was arrested six decades ago by breaking the law for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man - Tamimi has become the face of a nonviolent movement against injustice.
Ahed Tamimi is from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, where Israelis have confiscate the villagers' water source and land and built settlements. The village of 600 has regularly protested these encroachments, and the Israeli army has shot, maimed and killed Ahed's family members.
The Israeli authorities arrested Ahed, and an Israeli military court indicted her, with prosecutors portraying her as a terrorist. She could remain in prison until the end of her trial, and, if convicted, she could serve up to 10 years in prison. Ahed's mother, Nariman faces five harges, including incitement for posting the incident on Facebook.
Israeli military tribunals have a conviction rate nearing 100 percent.
The real crime this 16-year-old Palestinian girl committed was resisting a hostile and racist military occupation and its human rights violations, and having the temerity to challenge the toxic masculinity of the Israeli military. This has made her the target of ridicule, with Israelis giving her the nickname "Shirley Temper", and chalking up the incident to "Pallywood" (Palestinian "propaganda" discreding Israel). there have been accusations that the Palestinians such as Ahed stage hoax incidents wearing "American clothes" to garner support among Americans and other Western audiences.
One Israeli journalist, Ben Caspit, called for her rape and murder, saying: "In the case of the girls, we should exact a price at some other opportunity, in the dark, without witnesses and cameras." Member of the Knesset Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the US, accused the Tamimi family of using their children as "pawns" in a propaganda war, and suggested that Ahed may not even be their daughter.
As Martin Luther King, Jr - whose birthday is celebrated today - wrote in "Letter From Birmingham Jail (pdf)" an unjust law "is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself." Just as people have a legal and moral responsibility to obey just laws, King argued, "one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws".
On a December day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat on a public bus to a white man, breaking the local racial segregation law requiring black people to sit in the back of public transportation vehicles. Her arrest triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a yearlong boycott of the city bus system by African Americans, of which King was a leader. Ultimately, this boycott led to the US Supreme Court ruling the segregation of Montgomery public transportation unconstitutional. Parks' arrest was the catalyst for a movement.
"Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust," King said. "All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority."
Like Rosa Parks before her, Ahed Tamimi is struggling against unjust laws, in her case the injustice of a 50-year military occupation that denies Palestinians their land, right to travel and self-determination. Israel maintains an apartheid system of democracy for Israeli Jews - and discrimination against Israelis of colour - second-class citizenship for Israeli citizens of Arab descent, and dispossession and disenfranchisement for Palestinian Arabs in the territories.
Consider that Israel is the only nation that systematically detains and prosecutes children in a military court system lacking the right of due process. The Israeli military detains hundreds of Palestinian children between the ages of 12-17 every year (pdf), including many who are locked up for throwing stones - something that would never happen to Israeli children. Palestinian children face mistreatment by the military, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine, with 75 percent subjected to physical violence upon arrest, and 97 percent interrogated without a parent present.
UNICEF calls the ill-treatment of Palestinian children in military detention "widespread, systematic and institutionalised," (pdf) and according to the US Department of State, Palestinian children are tortured through “beatings, long-term handcuffing, threats, intimidation, and solitary confinement.”
Further, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) found that last December, at least 345 Palestinian children were injured by the Israeli military, of which over a third involved live ammunition. The Israeli military has killed at least 32 Palestinian children in 2016. This, from a force which calls itself "the most moral army" in the world.
In Israel's apartheid system of justice, Palestinians face the army, but West Bank Jewish settlers face civil courts. A West Bank settler teen who beat a left-wing rabbi and human rights activist at knifepoint received community service. Yifat Alkobi, a Jewish West Bank settler who slapped a soldier who tried to stop her from throwing stones, was released on bail the same day she was arrested and sent home. Prior to the incident, she had been convicted five times for disorderly conduct, throwing rocks and assaulting a police officer, yet never faced jail time. And Eliraz Feiz, another settler who called for violent action, even lethal force against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers was sentenced to five months community service.
Israel threatens Ahed Tamimi with years in prison because they fear her power, the power of a resistance movement to the occupation that has gained momentum. The BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) supported by Palestinian civil society is working, creating a backlash and a blacklist in which the Israeli government has banned such human rights groups as the American Friends Service Committee - which saved Jews from Nazi Germany - and Jewish Voice for Peace from entering Israel.
Meanwhile, the extremist right-wing, ethno-nationalist settler regime of Benjamin Netanyahu, and the white nationalist government of Donald Trump have no intentions of allowing a just peace settlement of the conflict. Israel seized 1012 hectares of Palestinian land in 2017, a threefold increase in settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem over the previous year.
At the same time, the Palestinian population is expected to soon surpass the number of Jews in Israel and the occupied territories. With the two-state solution now impossible, we will be left with only two alternatives: a fully democratic state in which Palestinians have citizenship and equal rights to Jewish Israelis, or what is taking place now, an apartheid state where one group rules the other.
The continuation of the status-quo is unacceptable. Whatever form self-determination takes for the Palestinians, the injustice of the occupation must end. And youth like Ahed Tamimi are leading the resistance that will eventually make the Israeli apartheid regime crumble. Ahed is the Rosa Parks of Palestine.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio ... 47043.html
The Tamimi Family – a Dynasty of Arab Terrorists
Lital Shemesh | 09/01/2018
The young women who assaulted soldiers and who is now portrayed as a folk hero fighting for freedom, is in fact another product of the well oiled Arab incitement and propaganda machine
Ahed Tamimi, a history of provocation. (Photos - Flash 90)
Two indictments were filed last week, against 17 year old Ahed Tamimi and her 21 year old cousin, Nur Tamimi, the daughter of the head of the Nabi Salah council. They were arrested for assault on IDF soldiers. We all saw the difficult to stomach images of these young women assailing the soldiers as they stood helpless, holding themselves back so not to be tempted to respond physically to the provocation.
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This is not the first time that IDF soldiers are forced to deal with such situations. This happens practically every day. Every Israeli citizen who has served as a combat soldier is familiar with this type of harassment, done deliberately in front of the cameras, as I myself am, having served as a fighter in conflict areas.
This disturbance to IDF soldiers in the performance of their duties is carried out on a daily basis. Most often young boys and girls are used for this mission to create a provocation in any way possible which can then be used as a propaganda weapon against Israel in the international media.
The Arabs have turned this behavior into a flourishing industry of lies that has been dubbed “Pallywood,” and the Tamimi family are among the biggest stars in the field. The family, which lives in the village of Nabi Saleh in the south of Samaria, has been in contact for years with activists from extreme leftist organizations such as B’Tselem, who instruct them on how to act and even equip them with cameras to document the activity.
Following the recent incident, Ahed Tamimi (who is often misleadingly reported to be 14 or 15 years old for some reason) has become the darling of Arab propaganda. Despite her young age, she has already managed to accumulate a rather impressive record in staged provocations.
She is very active in the social networks and six years ago was documented in a video cursing IDF soldiers and waving her fist at them. As a result, she was invited to Turkey, where President Erdogan gave her a medal of honor. Two and a half years ago she came back to the headlines after being photographed physically assaulting a soldier along with some of her relatives.
There is no doubt that the image of an innocent blonde girl facing a group of armed soldiers is a very effective visual weapon in the Arab battle against Israel in the media, which succeeds at pulling at the heartstrings of people in European countries, where Tamimi has already become a symbol of a struggle for freedom. When you look though at Tamimi’s roots and her family history, it turns out that the truth is the complete opposite.
In 1993, a resident of Beit El, Haim Mizrachi, went to buy eggs in a village near Ramallah, as he had done for years. When he arrived at the store, he was ambushed by two terrorists who stabbed him and then burned him to death in his car. The two terrorists were Said and Nizar Tamimi, cousins of Ahed’s father, Bassem.
The terrorist murderer Nizar Tamimi married Ahlam Tamimi from the village of Nabi Saleh, who in 2001 drove the suicide bomber who blew himself up at the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem and murdered 15 Israelis, including seven children. Another 140 people were injured in the attack. Tamimi was released as part of the Shalit deal and is currently living in Jordan where she presents a television program in which she praises terrorists and calls for attacks.
Another famous relative of this delightful family is Manal Tamimi, Bassem’s sister-in-law, whose Twitter account is one of the most popular in the Arab world. In it she shares anti-Semitic videos and distributes terrorist propaganda.
Bassem, the father of the family, was once convicted of organizing violent acts against soldiers. He is also very active with his wife in spreading anti-Israel propaganda and is occasionally invited to lecture on the issue in Europe and the United States.
When you look at the dark past of the Tamimi family, you can understand how the younger generation grew up to be brainwashed and full of hatred for Israel, continuing the path of terror and violence of its parents, with the support of left wing organizations, in their best tradition of justifying terror.
Last week, Ahed Tamimi’s lawyer, Gabi Laski, was interviewed on IDF Radio and explained that this is the narrative of occupation and that the story of Ahed and the soldiers is the story of the occupied and the occupier.
Lasky is also one of the founders of Peace Now, one of the left-wing organizations that fund and support the Tamimi family and are now trying to portray her as an innocent child struggling with the occupation. In fact, she is simply a new stage in the Arab aspiration to delegitimize Israel and bring about its elimination by incessantly inciting against Jews .
So the next time you see another masterpiece, courtesy of Tamimi Productions, remember the dynasty of terror and hatred that these young women, who have become heroines in Arab society, have grown up with, and you will understand again what kind of enemy we are facing and what its real intentions are.
Israel Denies Bail to Palestinian Teenager Ahed Tamimi
An Israeli military court has refused to cancel the preventive detention of teenage Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, who became an international icon after a video of her confronting heavily armed Israeli soldiers outside her home went viral.
Charges filed on Jan. 1 against Tamimi include aggravated assault, rock-throwing, incitement and participation in "violent riots." She is facing up to 12 years in prison. No plea was entered at the hearing.
Tamimi's lawyer Gaby Lasky argued that continued detention would violate Tamimi's rights as a minor and suggested the teenager would pose a danger if released on bail.
"They decided the trial will begin on the 31st of January, but although she is only 16 years old, the court believes that her indictment is enough to keep her in detention until the end of the trial," the attorney told reporters.
Calling for Tamimi's immediate release, Amnesty International said on Monday that nothing Tamimi had done to the armed soldiers wearing protective gear "can justify the continuing detention of a 16-year-old girl."
The Israeli occupation has been actively persecuting the Tamimis for decades over their weekly protests against the theft of their lands in favor of the illegal Jewish settlement of Halamish near their villages.
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ ... -0024.html
What MLK’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ tells us about Ahed Tamimi in a cold Israeli cell
In recent weeks, several people have said that the liberal indifference to Ahed Tamimi’s detention in an Israeli prison for slapping an occupying soldier on December 15 is reminiscent of the white liberals in Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, written in 1963. Today, you can give yourself no better political lesson than rereading that inspiring document of the American movement for freedom.
King’s letter is an explanation of the need for “direct political action.” King addresses a group of white liberal ministers and rabbis who have said they’re against segregation but times are changing, so why do “extremist” black clergy have to risk a backlash with provocative demonstrations? King answers that time is neutral and won’t do anything on its own; blacks have waited for hundreds of years for some modicum of justice and learned that the privileged will never give up privilege without pressure. White businesses promised to remove humiliating signs directing blacks to segregated water coolers and bathrooms and never followed through, and meantime anti-colonial struggles in other countries have outpaced American change, and inspired blacks to dream of an equal future.
We need to ratchet up political tension so as to precipitate a crisis, King explained:
[T]here is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth. . . . we must see the need of having nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men to rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. So, the purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.
Liberal ministers and rabbis were a bigger obstacle to this process than outright racists, King said, because they defused that tension among progressives with “lukewarm acceptance.” In the distant past the church had ended infanticide and gladiators’ fights to the death, but now the church was ineffectual. King warned:
It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo [as to]. . . be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. I meet young people every day whose disappointment with the church has risen to outright disgust.
Some whites had walked in black people’s shoes and understood the “urgency of the moment,” King said, but the moderate ministers were blindly supporting order, however unjust.
You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping “order” and “preventing violence.” I don’t believe you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its angry violent dogs literally biting six unarmed, nonviolent Negroes.
And he warned that the black community now includes many nationalists who advocate violence against Jim Crow.
The analogies of King in the Birmingham city jail to 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi in an Israeli jail are many. Occupied Palestinians have waited decades for justice as other struggles in the world have been successful. Palestinians have long been promised sovereignty and never gotten it. “Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber,” King writes, but Palestinians have seen their lands robbed year after year with no enforcement mechanism from the world. Many in the Palestinian community now advocate violence. But in their little village the Tamimi’s are part of a non-violent struggle against a violent occupation.
Ahed Tamimi caused tension– and a “crisis-packed” situation– when she slapped the soldier in her tiny village of Nabi Saleh on December 15, just hours after her cousin was maimed by another Israeli soldier.
But her weeks in jail are greeted with indifference or contempt by leftwing Israelis and American liberal Zionists, who tell us there must be equal sympathy for the Israeli soldiers and the Palestinian children. While the U.S. press writes articles about Tamimi’s choice in clothing, suggesting her encounters were staged. These people rationalize Israel’s brutal policy of a “managed conflict” forever with “lukewarm acceptance.”
Some will say, what about Ahed’s slap? Wasn’t that violent? It was not. Violence entails the possibility of producing injury to another. Tamimi’s slap of a towering, heavily-armed soldier was merely an insult, and a resonant one. “We must see the need of having non-violent gadflies.” (And as for throwing stones, even the New York Times Magazine has justified that as a legitimate response to occupation).
King’s letter is a challenge to the indifferent who rationalize the status quo. Moral people — church people, political people — must either take action or support it, he said. Geography is no barrier. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” is the most ringing line in the letter (which one of us used as an epigraph in his book against South African apartheid).
Today we revere King for precipitating radical political change in the U.S. and sacrificing his life to do so. The letter speaks to all who cherish the hope of ending other injustices. It is NOT meaningful as a nostalgic signpost of a huge battle our society won 50 years ago. It is ONLY meaningful as a signpost for what actions we should take today.
King ended his letter with a prayer. It is consciously a spiritual statement. Birmingham 1963 is the “eternal now“ of the letter, and the message passes from King’s soul to the reader right now. It addresses the struggle we all feel inside ourselves: It calls to the idealistic and motivated parts of our nature that see a way to address injustice, and against the lukewarm, timid despairing acceptance we feel in the face of huge odds.
For people who care about the Middle East, the letter can have only one meaning, to look on the lives of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and to hate the occupation and anything that rationalizes it. King tells us to be with Ahed Tamimi in her cold cell, and fight for her freedom.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was released from the Birmingham jail after 11 days. Ahed Tamimi, 16 years old, is still in an Israeli jail — 27 days later, and counting.
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/01/letter-bi ... m-israeli/
noir wrote:History will record who were the inside collaborators that helped Islam to conquer Europe.
zionists really need to start talking about actual reality if you want to be taken seriously, even in the slightest. What you said has nothing to do with a British politician talking about a Palestinian teenager that this thread is about. Here is more from that politician:Gideon Levy wrote:After Palestinian Teen Is Killed by IDF, Troops Deface His Death Notice With Stars of David
Musab Tamimi, 16, was shot dead by Israeli troops during a clash in the West Bank. The army claims he was armed, but witnesses say otherwise
Here’s what soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces scrawled on a mourning notice for 16-year-old Musab Tamimi, who was killed by a sniper’s shot to the throat: “Son of a bitch, slut, dead.” For good measure, they drew a Star of David.
Two days after they killed the teen, IDF troops again invaded his village, Deir Nizam, north of Ramallah. In a late-night raid, they arrested four young residents and left behind as a souvenir the memorial notice they violated. Neatly folded, the notice is now in the possession of the bereaved father, Firas Tamimi. An expression of pain crosses his face when he shows it to us. He was the one who carried his bleeding son two weeks ago to the car and rushed him to a hospital, where the teen was pronounced dead.
Musab was born in the house we are visiting. On the day of his birth, May 18, 2001, Lt. Yair Nebenzahl, from the settlement of Halamish, was killed by Palestinian gunfire on the road near Deir Nizam. As a result, the whole area was placed under closure, just as Dina Tamimi was about to give birth to her first child. The IDF fired tear gas into homes in the village and sealed it off. Soldiers prevented the Palestinian ambulance that was called to take Dina to the hospital from entering the village, and she was forced to give birth at home. It was a boy.
On January 3, Musab was killed a few meters from where he came into the world.
The family has had more than its share of suffering. Firas, 43, who retired after working for Palestinian intelligence, has a heart condition; four years ago, the family went to Jordan, for him to get medical treatment. But when they tried to return home, they were denied entry by Israel: Dina was registered as a resident of the Gaza Strip, and was therefore not permitted into the West Bank. In fact, she was born in Deir Nizam, but because her father, Farhud, was Yasser Arafat’s personal pilot during the period in the 1990s that the Palestinian leader was based in Gaza, she grew up in the Strip and was registered as a resident there.
It was not until last summer, after four years of forced exile in Jordan, that Israel allowed the family to return to their village. They arrived on August 21. Musab was delighted to be home. At school in Amman, he’d been head of the student council and a member of the choir. But he also remained active in Deir Nizam, participating in demonstrations against the occupation. His father shows us a video clip on his cellphone. Musab is reading a poem he wrote, a muscular youth in a red T-shirt, reading a love poem to the land of his birth.
On that fateful morning early this month, Firas went with Musab to the neighboring village, Abud, to buy bread at a popular bakery. It was the semester break at West Bank schools. On the way, his father pointed out the high school he’d attended and told Musab that during the first intifada, when he was a student there, the IDF had shut down the institution for half a year. The two then returned home for breakfast. At about 10 o’clock they heard the sounds of gunfire outside.
A colorful panorama – a valley of olive trees – unfolds from the yard of the Tamimi house. Photos of the dead son are pasted on the iron front door. The settlement of Halamish looms on the ridge across the way, and behind it the village of Nabi Saleh, some of whose residents are relatives of the Tamimi family and have been much in the news lately. Hearing the shooting, Musab went outside to see what was going on and perhaps to take part in throwing stones at the soldiers. His father urged him to be careful.
The IDF had been in the village two days earlier, and had detained Musab and photographed him. According to his father, one of the officers told his son, “We don’t want to arrest you today, but we’ll be back and will meet again. You’ll be sorry.” The words now echo in the room; Firas is convinced that the soldiers were out to kill his son.
Passions were running high in the streets on January 3, when Musab went outside after hearing the shooting. Below, next to the main road, the usual confrontations were taking place. Soldiers were in hot pursuit of stone throwers. They arrested 19-year-old Mustafa Saleh Tamimi, who is is also related to Musab’s family, and who is known to be mentally ill.
Firas, watching the events from his yard up the hill, quickly drove down to the main road, to try and get Mustafa released. The soldiers chased him away and took Mustafa with them. Firas recalls that he saw them beating the teen before bundling him into an army vehicle. He followed them in his car to the nearby base, still hoping to get him freed. From the road, he saw the officer who’d arrested Mustafa take him into the base and then return to the site of the clashes in Deir Nizam, where the situation became more fraught following the arrest of the mentally unsound young man. Another IDF officer promised Firas that Mustafa would be set free after he was checked – and he was.
Firas returned to the yard of his house. The confrontations continued below. Using gunfire and tear gas, the soldiers drove the stone throwers back into the village, where they were outflanked by another force that charged them from behind. An IDF drone hovered overhead, filming the events. Musab was there with his brother Osama, who’s a year younger, amid the olive trees at the edge of town.
At about 1 P.M., Firas heard the sound of heavy gunfire. Again he sped down to the scene of the clashes, about a minute’s drive. He had a bad feeling; two of his sons were there. At the bottom of the road he saw someone lying on the ground, blood streaming from his neck, with some youths standing around him. Only after Firas got out of the car did he realize that it was Musab. Immediately he carried him to his car and drove as fast as he could toward Ramallah.
Recalling the incident now, Firas speaks in a factual tone of voice; there are no tears. Two youths accompanied him, he says, all the while checking whether Musab was still alive. He too stretched his arm out behind every so often, while driving, to see if his son was breathing. But within a short time, he apparently was not.
On the way they called a Palestinian ambulance, which met them next to the Atara checkpoint. Musab was transferred to the ambulance, which in short order arrived at the new Istishari Hospital in Ramallah. Shortly afterward, Musab was officially pronounced dead. He’d been hit by a live round in a main artery of the neck.
The Israeli media reported that Musab was shot and killed because he’d been armed with a rifle. Osama, his brother, who had been by his side, denies that Musab was holding a rifle or anything else.
Says Firas: “If he had a rifle, why didn’t the army take it? Even if we talk and talk about what happened, the Israelis will not be convinced. They will continue to claim that Musab was holding a rifle.”
This week, before our visit to Deir Nizam, a villager was summoned for a talk with “Captain Malek” from the Shin Bet security service. Through him, Firas relates, the agent conveyed a message to Musab’s family not to talk to the media and to ensure quiet in the village.
In response to a request for comment, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit told Haaretz this week: “Some two weeks ago, there was a violent disturbance in the village of Deir Nizam, in which dozens of Palestinians participated. IDF forces identified an armed Palestinian, and in response shot at him. The Palestinian was evacuated in a private vehicle for medical treatment. Immediately after the incident IDF forces searched the area of the village, with the purpose of locating the suspect. The incident is under investigation.
“Additionally, information was received recently about offensive graffiti being spray-painted in the village. A check did not turn up information about the identity of the graffiti writer, and from our investigation, soldiers were not involved.”
According to Osama, who was near Musab when he was shot, they were part of a small group of teens who ran for their lives from the soldiers. Osama hid behind an olive tree; Musab was among the rocks abutting the road leading to Deir Nazem. Osama says he saw the IDF sniper aim his weapon at his brother and shouted to Musab to move toward him, a safer spot. A few meters separated the two brothers. And a few dozen meters separated them from the sniper, who had taken cover behind the bare fig tree on the slope of the hill, next to the last house in the village.
Osama had just thrown himself on the ground when he heard a lone shot. His brother had stood up in order to scramble to a more protected place, and it was then that he was shot in the neck. Immediately afterward, Osama heard shouts in Arabic: Wounded, wounded! He got up and saw his brother lying on the ground by the roadside. He went over to him and asked him to recite a verse from the Koran, but when Musab tried to speak, blood gushed from his mouth. Then their father arrived and took him.
Musab’s funeral was held in the village the following day. Clashes broke out again along the road; again the soldiers fired tear-gas grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets. Mohammed Afif Awad, 20, suffered a serious injury when a bullet hit him in the head.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.pr ... -1.5746591
The primary evidence against her is an online video filmed on 15 December, which went viral and has been repeatedly aired and discussed by mainstream media.
In it, Ahed confronts two Israeli soldiers outside her family home in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, demanding they "get out".
She pushes them and one swats her away. Then she slaps and kicks them with her older cousin, Nur. The Israeli soldiers do not react and Ahed's mother, Nariman, intervenes.
The incident was livestreamed on Nariman Tamimi's Facebook account.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42612666
ThirdTerm wrote:I think this Palestinian girl is like YouTube stars who perform crazy stunts on the social networking site. The entire scene was livestreamed on Facebook by Nariman Tamimi and the incident was clearly staged for the entire world to see. Without her mother's intervention, Ahed Tamimi could have been shot dead on the spot, making her a martyr for the Palestinian cause.
ThirdTerm wrote:I think this Palestinian girl is like YouTube stars who perform crazy stunts on the social networking site. The entire scene was livestreamed on Facebook by Nariman Tamimi and the incident was clearly staged for the entire world to see. Without her mother's intervention, Ahed Tamimi could have been shot dead on the spot, making her a martyr for the Palestinian cause.
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