Arrogant SOB Convicted! Some justice at last in a state filled with hatred and fascism. Lives of goyim may be wasted.
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IDF soldier who killed wounded stabber convicted of manslaughter | Times of Israel |
A military tribunal in Tel Aviv convicted of manslaughter an IDF soldier who shot and killed an incapacitated Palestinian assailant, concluding a high-profile trial that deeply divided the country. His attorneys accused the court of bias and vowed to appeal.
The verdict on Sgt. Elor Azaria [NY Times], 19, was delivered by a panel of three judges at the army’s Kirya headquarters, a change of venue from the Jaffa Military Court’s usual meeting place in the city’s south. Outside, scores of activists demonstrating in support of Azaria — among them far-right supporters of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer club — clashed with police and border guards dispatched to maintain order. Two people were arrested when protesters attempted to block Kaplan Street, a main avenue running outside the compound.
Azaria’s trial saw politicians and current and former army generals alternately supporting or condemning the soldier’s actions. Many of the army’s top brass, as well as former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon, had railed against Azaria’s “unethical” decision to shoot the assailant, Abdel Fattah al-Sharif , in the head nearly 15 minutes after the latter was shot and wounded as he attempted to stab an IDF soldier in Hebron.
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"Give Hebron shooter a medal" (Credit: Haaretz)In her lengthy decision, which she read for almost three hours, Judge Maya Heller described the circumstances of the shooting and summed up the indictment and defense, before tearing tore into many of Azaria’s claims.
Dismissing one of the defense’s key claims, she asserted, “We have adopted the conclusion that the terrorist’s death was caused by the shooting by Azaria.” She castigated the defense, which posited that Azaria had acted out of a sense that Sharif still posed a danger to his comrades while also making the apparently contradictory claim that he was already dead when Azaria shot him.
Citing testimony of Azaria’s commanding officer and a paramedic, who recalled that upon arriving at the scene minutes after the attack, he had said Sharif “deserves to die,” Heller said there was no indication Azaria felt threatened by the mortally wounded attacker, and that a member of the security forces had moved the knife away from the attacker minutes prior to shooting.
She added that the claim Azaria had reacted because Sharif was reaching for his knife was unacceptable, as video from the scene showed that the knife was out of reach. Moreover, she said, the claim that the footage from the field was doctored was baseless.
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○ Palestinian Imad Abushamsiya, who filmed execution, ‘threatened with arrest while reporting death threats’At the scene, “Elor didn’t raise concern of a knife or a bomb as an explanation for the shooting, but rather that terrorists deserve to die,” she maintained, terming Azaria’s version, which changed several times over the course of the trial, “unreliable” and “problematic.”
“There is no grounds for the claim of self-defense,” she said. “Azaria’s shooting was unjustified.”
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[Update-1] :: Israeli soldier is convicted of manslaughter; Times and Post portray case as isolated incident | Mondoweiss |
Sgt. Elor Azaria was convicted today by a military court in Jaffa of manslaughter for the execution of Abdel Fatah al-Sharif as he lay incapacitated in the street in Hebron last March, and there were immediate calls from Israeli political leaders and the public for the 20-year-old soldier to be pardoned. The story was the lead on BBC, and The New York Times and Washington Post also promptly put up the news.
B’Tselem, the human rights organization whose video unleashed the investigation, said the case was the rare exception in which an Israeli soldier was held accountable for a human rights atrocity. There is “routine whitewashing of cases in which security forces kill or injure Palestinians with no accountability,” it said.
Haaretz reports calls by Israeli lawmakers for a pardon of the killer. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman termed the verdict harsh, but sought to defuse angry protest over the conviction. Culture Minister Miri Regev said she’d lead a campaign for his pardon. The BBC quoted two ordinary Israelis today saying that Azaria is a “hero.” One said he was protecting women and children in Hebron, and it is a “scandal” that he is not being supported.
The original video was shot in Hebron by B’Tselem researcher Imad Abu Shamsiyah, last March 24.
