   IDF Murders US Trained Professor in Nablus
  This story made me angry, maybe it will make you angry too: Death in a cemetery. Quote:How many of us can imagine the night of horror that the Salah family endured? To lie on the floor of the living room for what seemed an eternity, embracing as one being, trembling with fear as the house was blasted with bullets and missiles; to watch the sniper's laser ray doing its dance of death across the apartment, searching out its victims; to see the missiles slamming into the walls of the house, missile after missile, as though an earthquake had struck; to get to their feet in the dark following the order to evacuate the building before it was demolished; to try to open the front door and discover that it had been twisted out of shape by the gunfire and couldn't be opened; to open a window and try to shout to the snipers, in the dark of the night, that the door was jammed; to see the father of the family collapse from a bullet fired into his neck by a sniper; to see the son collapse a few minutes later from a bullet in his cheek fired by a sniper; to watch, helpless, as your son lies on the floor, the life ebbing out of him, next to his dead father, and to cry for help, but to find that the soldiers will not allow anyone to enter; then to undergo an interrogation and humiliation; and to discover that the entire contents of the house had been destroyed.That was the night of horror of the Salah family: the father, Prof. Khaled Salah, 51 at his death, founder of the Department of Electrical Engineering at An-Najah University in Nablus; his wife, Salam, and their three children, Diana, 23, Mohammed, 16, and Ali, 11, all of whom were at home that night. Fortunately for the firstborn, Amer, he was in Boston, where he is an engineering student. It was a night of horror on which the father, possessor of a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, and a member of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Committee at An-Najah, was killed, along with his son, Mohammed, a boy who loved soccer and dreamed of becoming a pharmacist, who lay dying on the floor for lack of medical treatment, which the soldiers denied him....This ethnic cleansing has to stop.
  This piece of text doesn't feel like a news article, more like a fiction story. In particular, the author could not have known some of the details described: most likely he invented them. Has there been any statement over why the IDF attacked the professor's house? Surely they don't allocate resources to kill innocent people for sport. Note, I am not implying that professor was guilty of any crimes, I'm merely saying the story lacks content. It is rediculously one sided and I, for one, would really like to hear what Israelis have to say.You could take this same text, replace the professor's name with a name of a random Israeli kid, replace the "IDF" with "Hamas" and "sniper bullet" with "bomb" and you'll have exact same story told from the other side. What I find disturbing is that nobody posts those stories around here.   ;  There's not much need, they're in the news papers every day.But I agree with the sentiment here...it's written almost like a work of fiction.   ;Quote:Original post by EtnuThere's not much need, they're in the news papers every day.Let me rephrase. I just find dusturbing that neither the court in Hague, nor the U.N. in general, nor any of the GDNet members here bother to acknowledge the fact that Israelies are at least partially the victims in the conflict. Everybody (rightly) thinks that the IDF's actions are terrible and raise hell when a Palestinian civilian dies but every time an Israeli kid dies in a pointless, horrific bombing people say "well, it's Israel's fault". The Europeans (as well as the GDNetters) like to praise themselves as open minded and compassionate, but why is their compassion only on one side?That being said, if Professor Salah was an innocent man as all the arabic sources claim, may he rest in peace. I hope Israel performs a real investigation and ensures such random, pointless raids (if they are in fact random and pointless) never occur again and commanders responsible for innocent people's deaths face a court of law.   ;  Well, yes, innocent people are, of course, always victims. Nobody's denying that.The issue is when it's government-sanctioned murder of innocent people. You could argue that the Palestians are a 'government' of their own, and that the terrorist bombings are condoned by them, but that's kind of a grey area.The sad fact is that, no matter which side of the conflict people are on when they die, 9 out of 10 of them did nothing wrong and were good people. ;Quote:Original post by EtnuThe sad fact is that, no matter which side of the conflict people are on when they die, 9 out of 10 of them did nothing wrong and were good people.May be if more people focused on this aspect of this conflict (and all conflicts), the discussions and hopefully actions would be a lot more productive.   ;Quote:Let me rephrase. I just find dusturbing that neither the court in Hague, nor the U.N. in general, nor any of the GDNet members here bother to acknowledge the fact that Israelies are at least partially the victims in the conflict. Everybody (rightly) thinks that the IDF's actions are terrible and raise hell when a Palestinian civilian dies but every time an Israeli kid dies in a pointless, horrific bombing people say "well, it's Israel's fault". The Europeans (as well as the GDNetters) like to praise themselves as open minded and compassionate, but why is their compassion only on one side?ive never heard anyone say that, actually.as has rightfully been pointed out: stories of palestenian suicide bombers are in the newspaper all the time. ive never seen a report on IDF 'misbehaviour', to say the least, in a dutch (european so supposedly antisemite remember?) newspaper.but i agree with you, it is a very badly written story, sensationalistic and one-sided. i however dont give a crap what the isreali government has to say about it because if possible will be more one-sided or just plain outright denyal.   ;Quote:Original post by Eelcobut i agree with you, it is a very badly written story, sensationalistic and one-sided.Well, I don't think it's badly written. It's a terrible news story, but IMO the author has a very good ability to put the English language to use.   ;  badly written for a newsitem, assuming that was its intended purpose.   ;Quote:Original post by CoffeeMugQuote:Original post by EtnuThere's not much need, they're in the news papers every day.Let me rephrase. I just find dusturbing that neither the court in Hague, nor the U.N. in general, nor any of the GDNet members here bother to acknowledge the fact that Israelies are at least partially the victims in the conflict. Everybody (rightly) thinks that the IDF's actions are terrible and raise hell when a Palestinian civilian dies but every time an Israeli kid dies in a pointless, horrific bombing people say "well, it's Israel's fault". The Europeans (as well as the GDNetters) like to praise themselves as open minded and compassionate, but why is their compassion only on one side?That being said, if Professor Salah was an innocent man as all the arabic sources claim, may he rest in peace. I hope Israel performs a real investigation and ensures such random, pointless raids (if they are in fact random and pointless) never occur again and commanders responsible for innocent people's deaths face a court of law.It's hard for the UN to be fair and unbiased toward Israel,  considering the IDF has targeted and assassinated its own personal before, and continues to harass and beat their refugee aid workers.   