Israeli officer convicted in death of Palestinian

[Scurrilous]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3552185&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

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"An Israeli military tribunal found an army officer guilty of negligence on Sunday in the death of a Palestinian teenager in October 2002.

A statement from the military spokesman's office explaining the rare decision, blamed the officer in the death of Ali Zaid, 16, of Nizlat Zaid, a village near the West Bank city of Jenin.

It said the officer, said by Israeli media to be a captain, had fired at a wall to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators and that the bullet went through a window, hitting Zaid, who later died of his injuries."

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"Few Israeli soldiers have been tried or convicted for shooting Palestinians in a bloody 3-1/2 year uprising that has claimed the lives of 2361 Palestinians and 880 Israelis."

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[dfong63]

2. your analogy is wrong

Can you imagine if someone in this country threw a rock at a marine or a cop with a gun? lol.

lol yourself. your analogy is rotten because the Israeli soldier was not in "his own" country like a cop, but as an invader. a more proper analogy would be to suppose an Iraqi or Cuban marine were to come to this country. suppose the Cubans invaded the US, tore down YOUR home, burned YOUR crops, put checkpoints everywhere on YOUR roads, ... what would YOU do?

[Forkboy]

3. Let's all be grateful you're not in that position

[Resistance]

4. amen