Charges against Israeli cop - Killing Autistic Palestinian

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I just stick to history and skip the propaganda. The British vacated in 1948 and Israel declared independence. The surrounding Arab nations immediately invaded Israel and the war began as did the Nakba as people were displaced. War is hell. Lots of people were killed.

The genocide waged against Jewish people in the Middle East continuous today. I do believe there can be peace when that genocide finally ends.

I get it that many don't want to know the truth but maybe some will. Please repost to your instagram group.

The British vacated in 1948 and Israel declared independence. The surrounding Arab nations immediately invaded Israel and the war began as did the Nakba as people were displaced. War is hell. Lots of people were killed..

LMAO!! !

To be fair the Palestinian people were manipulated and used as political footballs by evil individuals claiming to represent their interests like the grand mufti of Jerusalem, PLO and HAMAS. The Arab states that attempted to invade Israel in 1948, 1967 etc have no interest in the welfare of Palestinians. I briefly visited Kuwait prior the gulf war and Palestinians were treated like sub-humans by the Kuwaitis. It never surprised me that they gleefully collaborated with Saddam Hussein.

Palestinians have never been given citizenship in Jordan or Egypt either. These people aren't their brothers.

War isn't funny and neither is ignorance. The underlying cause of war is often ignorance.

Palestinians have never been given citizenship in Jordan or Egypt either. These people aren't their brothers.

War isnt funny but your attempt at rewriting history is. Everything you wrote above has already been debunked above by actual scholars and esteemed historians, most notably Illan Pape in his book "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"

Propaganda artists don't write history books.

Wouldn't doing so help cement the erasure of the Palestinian people because it would allow Israel to argue that the refugees have a state besides Palestine?

I'm going to have to put this charade on hold due to a family emergency.

In the meantime if you want to learn more about what's happening in Palestine from the Palestinian side that never gets told, here is this link:

https://decolonizepalestine.com/

The Israeli right-wing allies with other right-wingers abroad because geopolitics are more important to the Israeli right than the safety of Jews outside Israel.

Israel knows that anti-semitic violence abroad ultimately benefits the Israeli state. It means more Jews will be forced to flee to Israel. This benefits the Israeli right by giving them more settlers to displace Palestinians and reduce their percentage of the vote.

Jordan and Egypt didn't give them citizenship even when they invaded and controlled parts of Israel/Palestine. In the famous Sheikh Jarrah dispute, the Jordanians invaded East Jerusalem driving Jews out and resettled Palestinians in homes when they were displaced from other areas of Israel. The Jordanians never gave them property ownership or citizenship but forced them to pay rent to the Jordanian government. Year later Israel controls the land and now the previous landowners want rent or the property back. It's a mess with both sides are making understandable claims.

The actions of Hamas are desperate and criminal and ought to be addressed in that manner but instead dealing with it as a military conflict allows for 'cutting the grass' as a policy, which is effectively limited ethnic cleansing with the idea of keeping the conflict never fully resolved but never able to become an actual threat.

An Israeli police officer who shot dead Iyad al-Halak, a Palestinian with autism, in occupied East Jerusalem in May 2020, was promoted this week despite facing a court case over the killing, it has emerged.

The officer, who belongs to the border police and whose name is under a gag order, shot Halak, 32, claiming he suspected the Palestinian of carrying a weapon. However Halak was unarmed, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prompted to apologise to his family in a rare move by an Israeli official.

On Monday, Israeli media reported that the police officer who killed Halak was promoted and recently made an operation sergeant in a base for Israel Border Police in Tel Aviv metropolitan area.

The police officer is currently facing a case at the Jerusalem district court on charges of recklessly killing Halak, and could face up to 12 years in prison if convicted.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Jewish supremacist MP recently appointed national security minister, who oversees the police and border police, has also previously expressed his support for the officer.

The police officer who shot dead Iyad Halak, a Palestinian with autism, in May 2020 testified in a Jerusalem court on Tuesday during his trial that he thought the victim was going to carry out “a killing spree.”

The 21-year-old border guard is accused of reckless manslaughter. He has not been publicly named and attended the Jerusalem District Court with a mask on to protect his identity.

Halak, 32, was shot and killed while heading to a special education school. After a policeman mistook a phone in his hands for a gun in the tense and charged Old City, two officers chased him through the streets. They cornered him in a garbage room and an officer fired twice, killing Halak. Prosecutors say the second shot was fired as Halak lay helpless on the floor and posed no danger.

According to the indictment filed against the officer, after shooting Halak in the lower abdomen officers asked the injured Halak about a gun they believed he may have been carrying.

Halak “got up slightly, pointed at the woman he knew and murmured something,” the indictment said.

The officers then directed the question at the caretaker. “What gun?” she replied.

While this exchange was taking place, the same police officer allegedly shot and killed Halak without any apparent justification, prosecutors said.

On Tuesday the accused officer recounted the day’s events.

“We had a briefing at 5 a.m. where we were given warnings and alerts. It was during Ramadan and we were on high alert. They told us that danger could come from unexpected places.”

The officer said as he stood with his commander near Jerusalem’s Old City, he heard calls on his radio of “terrorist!” followed by two police officers yelling nearby.

“I was sure there was going to be a killing spree. A terrorist, from my perspective, means a killing spree — he is killing people now and any second [another] person could be killed,” he said.

Beginning their pursuit of the Palestinian man, the accused said “we understood that there was a terrorist. The commander yelled at him to stop, but [Halak] didn’t listen. At that point, my commander fired and I heard a woman screaming.”

Claiming he thought the screaming woman’s life was in danger, the suspect chased Halak into a garbage room, where he shot him. Seeing Halak move, he fired again, he told the court.

“These were a few seconds that felt like an eternity. It’s such a quick event, I didn’t have time to break it all down. I wanted to save that woman,” he recounted.

In the courtroom, the accused told the prosecution that because the officers were running at high speed, they were unable to see whether Halek was carrying a weapon.

The officer said: “When they told me that he had special needs I was in shock. In real-time what I knew was that it was a terrorist. During the interrogation I was confused and under pressure — [the investigators] gave me the feeling that I was a criminal.”

The officer, if convicted, faces up to 12 years in prison.