Israeli officer filmed overturning Palestinian's wheelchair (video added)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it has launched an investigation into a border police officer who was filmed tipping over a Palestinian in a wheelchair in the West Bank.

Justice Ministry spokeswoman Eden Klein said Monday that an investigation is underway.

The incident happened Sunday after Israeli forces shot and wounded a Palestinian woman who police said had pulled out a knife and tried to attack an officer.

Footage shot by a local resident shows the woman on the ground bleeding and officers ordering Palestinians to keep away. One officer flips over a Palestinian's wheelchair, dumping him on the ground.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9744ca0989ef4d71aefc16923e939f5f/israeli-officer-filmed-overturning-palestinians-wheelchair

[cpwm17]

1. In the West Bank, where the Israelis have absolutely no right to be.

[Human101948]

2. Where else in the past did I hear about this type of treatment for the disabled?

Hmmm?

[jtuck004]

5. They learned their lessons well. n/t

[Wilms]

6. And it's as predictable as it is reprehensible.

Would this be the first time a victim became an abuser?

The whole world needs help.

[Bad Dog]

3. I'm sure the investigation will get to the bottom,

of how someone was able to film an Israeli soldier.

[GoneFishin]

4. +1,000,000

[sulphurdunn]

10. Someone was a film crew of Jewish Israelis

[Bad Dog]

11. They're not all bad.

B'T'selem is a really good human rights group and Haaretz is a fine newspaper, but the Israeli state is an apartheid state and Netanyahu is despicable.

[sulphurdunn]

12. The world is waking up to that.

Ironically, Humanitarian Jews have been the primary whistle blowers.

[Bad Dog]

13. Unfortunately they're very much a minority voice.

All chances of peace vanished when Yitzhak Rabin was murdered and since then the influx of Russians has changed the make up of the country immensely.

[jtuck004]

7. Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities

Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazi regime systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of children and adults with disabilities as part of its "euthanasia" programs. These programs were designed to eliminate all persons with disabilities who, according to Nazi ideology, threatened the health and purity of the German race. Forgotten Crimes explores the development and workings of this nightmarish process, a relatively neglected aspect of the Holocaust. Suzanne Evans's account draws on the rich historical record as well as scores of exclusive interviews with disabled Holocaust survivors. It begins with a description of the Nazis' Children's Killing Program, in which tens of thousands of children with mental and physical disabilities were murdered by their physicians, usually by starvation or lethal injection. The book goes on to recount the T4 euthanasia program, in which adults with disabilities were disposed of in six official centers, and the development of the Sterilization Law that allowed the forced sterilization of at least a half-million young adults with disabilities.
...

http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Crimes-Holocaust-People-Disabilities/dp/1566635659?tag=duckduckgo-d-20

Well, maybe not so forgotten. And may well be there was no disability, just a person who was injured enough not to be able to walk - maybe by another soldier.

On the other hand, maybe they see no need to be careful, if they don't see their opponents as people. They could have learned that from us.

[lark]

9. Nothing will happen to the officer,

same as if he were here in the US. They'll have an investigation and say he's cleared, nothing to see here folks. Israel is every more pathologically addicted to allegiance to power than the US, and that's saying something.

[RandiFan1290]

8.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. Ugh

[Wuddles440]

15. Until the Israeli government...

starts recognizing that the Palestinians are human beings and demands that they be treated with decency this thuggish, disgusting behavior will only continue. Of course, our government is complicit in this state sponsored oppression, so any change of the Israelis attitudes and policies would need to start with the United States. Treating people with such inhumanity only breeds hatred and generational resentment.