The Obama Administration has responded critically to the decision from an Israeli court to give an Israeli border police officer just community service for his entirely unjustified attack on an American teenager. Tariq Khdeir, 15, a Palestinian-American, was beaten by the officer, whose name has been withheld by the courts to avoid any further repercussions for him or his family. The beating was filmed after the officer caught the teenager near a riot in East Jerusalem in July 2014. Despite this evidence (and no evidence of just cause) the Israeli court gave the officer just 45 days of community service and a suspended prison term of four months.
Here is the video showing the officer stomping on the teenager and hitting him despite his being on the ground and apparently immobilized. Indeed, he appears unconscious as they carry him to the road but he is again attacked by the officer:
State prosecutors requested a seven-month jail term for the beating after international outrage over the video.
The Court however noted the officer’s remorse and his service to the state security forces as mitigating circumstances.
Tariq, who was 15 at the time, was spending the summer with relatives in East Jerusalem when violence broke out over the gruesome killing of his cousin Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 16, by Jewish extremists. The killers reportedly acted to avenge the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli youths by Palestinian militants in the West Bank. Police said that Tariq was masked and holding a wooden slingshot when the officer chased him.
The State Department has sharply criticized the Israeli handling of the case in the following statement from Spokesperson John Kirby:
We were disappointed to learn that the Israeli police officer who severely beat American teenager Tariq Abu Khdeir in July of 2014 was spared prison time by an Israeli court yesterday. Given the clear evidence captured on videotape of the excessive use of force, it is difficult to see how this sentence would promote full accountability for the actions of the police officer in this case. We understand there is a possibility for the Israeli state prosecutor to appeal the decision, and we’re going to continue to follow that closely, as you might expect.
I’ll just state again, the safety, security, and protection of American citizens overseas is of paramount importance for this Administration, and we have demonstrated repeatedly – we’ve demonstrated that repeatedly in cases all over the globe.
Here is a statement from the family of Tariq Abu Khdeir:
“To hear that the officer responsible for the inhumane beating of our young son, Tariq, was only sentenced to one-and-a-half months of community service is a shameful slap on the wrist and sends the wrong message that Israel tolerates the violent, extrajudicial beating of children. We continue to demand that justice be served, for the officers that participated in his cruel beating to be held accountable in a transparent manner, and for assurances that such treatment of Palestinian minors by Israeli forces will end.”
I cannot imagine how a court could justify community service in the face of this videotape evidence. Even if the teenager was guilty of some crime (for which he was not charged), the beating was clearly excessive and unjustified. Community service is hardly a commensurate punishment for the beating received by this American teenager.
What do you think?
Add this. Are the 4 blood moon prophecies kicking in?
“even Houston cops who are notorious for such things, stop beating when the perp is unconscious.”
This is a war, not a simple crime.
WIll you hold US soldiers liable for shooting the wrong person?
Yes, as your use of the USS Liberty event shows.
Assuming that Velo is correct, which is open to question, even Houston cops who are notorious for such things, stop beating when the perp is unconscious. I guess we should send our cops to Israel and see how such things are done.
Of course, most of the Israelis support such things against sub humans like Palestinians, so this is no surprise. The real surprise is that the US allows such things to go unpunished when we have the means to do it. But then what are a few dead US sailors between friends too? Remember the USS Liberty, and how the Israelis slaughtered those 34 sailors. The skipper of that ship was awarded the Medal of Honor for his outstanding ability of him and his crew to save that ship, but then it was NOT given to him in the White House with a big ceremony, but at the Navy Yard by the Sec. of the Navy!
Fact is, John, no one wants them because they are barbarians, and defiantly so.
Tikkun olam would take 500 years and the destruction of Mecca.
Since Israel and Saudi are the nations most benefitting from the destruction of the Syrian Nation-state, by the elimination of their army as a conventional threat, it is only just that Israel and Saudi take in a few million refugees. Lets deport all those who fled to Europe to Israel I say. Let them tikkun olam them into shape.
“Some 22 raids were carried out Sunday across Brussels and Charleroi, the federal prosecutor’s spokesman said.
Police fired two shots at a car during an operation in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, injuring one suspect who was later arrested.
No weapons or explosives were found during the searches on Sunday, spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt told a news conference.”
Where’s the outrage?
“Mr Hollande said France planned to intensify its air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria.”
Where’s the outrage?
Oh, it’s the Israel double standard.
Po, where were the thousands of Muslims protesting the Paris mass murder?
Hilarious.
Prof. Turley writes as if this took place without any background, like the current Palestinian knife intifada against Israel in its streets, where even the Palestinian women will suddenly take out a knife and stab you at a bus stop, not to mention the Islamic Paris attacks.
No, we get to discuss a stupid Palestinian kid at an Islamic riot who wound up with a fat lip.
Belgium just arrestesd
Unserious, this is, or foolish.
I can’t decide.
“Five more Syrians have been stopped at a Laredo port of entry on Friday. This brings the total number of Syrians seeking to enter the US through our city this week up to 13.“
“Police said that Tariq was masked and holding a wooden slingshot when the officer chased him.”
As per VeloMac.
Had he done this same thing in Saudi Arabia, he would have been shot and killed, and nothing more said about it.
Israel, like the rest of the West, is at war with Islam.
The young man decided to riot, and he got what was coming to him.
Palestinians in Israel aren’t “protesting”, they are aiming to destroy Israel.
Israel, like France, is showing restraint that may be suicidal.
Po and his Islamic friends have exported that terror to Paris and now they are threatening us (again).
This is not a ‘free speech’ issue or a police issue or anything else.
It is war.
Wake up and get used to it.
Weekly Jihad Report Nov 14 – Nov 20
Jihad Attacks: 37
Allah Akbars*: 8 (Suicide Attacks)
Dead Bodies: 434
Critically Injured:
371
Jihad Report October, 2015
Jihad Attacks: 195
Countries: 31
Allah Akbars: 40 (Suicide Attacks)
Dead Bodies: 1564
Critically Injured: 1730
Tariq was masked and holding a wooden slingshot when the officer chased him. Sounds like “probable cause” that he was participating in a riot to me. You don’t want to get beat up-stay out of riots. It always amazes me that Americans can go to foreign countries, act poorly, and then expect to be treated in the courts as if they adhered to American standards of justice. The little snot should try throwing rocks at the police in Dearborn or wherever the hell he comes from and see how he is treated.
In all fairness, we need to also consider the daily police beatings (look at countercurrent news or cop block for examples) that occur in the United States where the thugs in blue aren’t even prosecuted. Look at the number of people who die in jail cells due to untreated medical conditions. The cops who ignore their pleas are never prosecuted. I don’t think Israel should be held to a higher standard. American cops can shoot and beat almost at whim and only rarely get prosecuted.
I thought the sentence for John Gotti was too short, but that was just me. What would be the perfect sentence?
The only reply would be that these two men and the judge be beaten like the one they gave and video tape it so it would erase the anger everyone that see’s this has. Your days are coming to a close The people of this world its true citizens will not fight a world war 3 for you. But they will unite and turn on idiots like this.
Israel prides itself on being a just nation with an enlightened judiciary.
Not here; maybe rarely.
“The Court however noted the officer’s remorse and his service to the state security forces as mitigating circumstances.”
Remorse that he beat an American, I’m sure. If it had been a Palestinian, it would have been just another day on the job.
The Judaic male who killed the Israeli peace-maker Menachem Begin is practically a holy man in Israel. If they could do so without risking goyim shame, they’d make him President for life. In Judaism, any person including a Judaic who threatens Israel and/or Judaism is a cancer that must be killed.
For naive goyim in love with Steven Spielberg: In the movie “Schindler’s List,” the Judaics give Schindler a memento of thanks for saving their life. The memento has alleged inscription from the Talmud, said to read: “If you save one life you save the whole world.” Spielberg received congratulations and accolades for displaying this allegedly beautiful Talmudic verse.
One little problem. The actual vs. reads: “If you save one Judaic life, you save the whole world.” Goyim can eat dirt and die.
We were disappointed?????????? A pitiful response from a pitiful excuse…..
Zionism is racism and we are forced by ‘our’ government to pay Israel for its terrorism services.
Daily prayer of Orthodox Judaic males: “Thank you _od you did not make me a slave, a goyim (gentile), nor a woman.”
A verse from the Talmud, the holiest of all holy books of Judaism, above the OT Torah, which Judaism teaches is only a fable and only rightly interpreted by a Rabbi, who employs the Talmud to interpret the Torah (beware Judaism has two different books both called “Torah,” the OT and the Talmud): “Even the best of the goyim (gentiles) deserve only death.”
Bambam?
Karen?