Roth – “Only” rock throwers – but now a father and his infant son are dead

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:00 PM PDT

Frimet/Arnold Roth
This Ongoing War
25 September ’11

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2011/09/25-sep-11-only-rock-throwers-but-now.html

Two of the constants in this part of the world are (a) the phenomenon of Palestinian Arab men – some young, but not all – hurling rocks at fast-moving Israeli cars; and (b) the wilful but completely dishonest minimization of the deadly threat posed by such attacks. Here’s the latest illustration of why this double-headed problem is so serious.

What seemed on Friday to be a routine car accident now turns out to have been an attack by terrorists in the vicinity of the Jewish community of Kiryat Arba. [Source]. The Jerusalem Post reports this evening that police now believe that rock throwing was the cause of the car accident that killed Hillel Palmer, 25, and his one-year-old son Jonathan on Friday. At a court hearing today, counsel for the police said that it now appears the car veered off the road after a rock shattered its windshield. “The police said that the front window was shattered, and a large rock was found inside the car with Palmer’s blood on it. People close to the victims claimed that the police quickly determined it as a car accident in order not to inflame the region.”

A young man and his baby son are dead and a family is forever shattered.

It’s possible the perpetrators drew inspiration from a highly publicized ambush by masked rock-throwing children of an Israeli in Jerusalem’s suburbs last October. You might remember the incident (see video below): the Arab media and especially Al Jazeera presented what happened in their customary Daoud vs Goliath fashion: “innocent” and “meek” Arab schoolboys, armed only with loincloths and slingshots callously run down by aggressive Israeli in his armored Zionist vehicle. The presence of a phalanx of cameramen, clearly positioning themselves at that location because of the expectation that there would be some highly photogenic violence is completely absent from the anti-Israel reporting. Likewise the cynical abuse of Palestinian Arab children by their adults (Arabs) who are at the scene.