'Why did they burn a baby alive? What did he do?'

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://972mag.com/why-did-they-burn-a-baby-alive-what-did-he-do/109508/

In the hours of the morning, the road leading from Nablus and the nearby settlements to the West Bank village of Duma is empty. Generally, when Palestinians attack Jewish settlers, the army hermetically seals the roads and raids the neighboring villages. Things are different this time around.

Inside Duma, dozens gather around the two homes that were set ablaze in the early hours of Friday morning. In one of them, 18-month-old Ali Dawabshe was burned to death in an attack by Jewish Israelis. His mother, father and four-year-old brother Ahmed were badly wounded.

The family’s home is almost entirely burned, including the bedroom, the kitchen and part of the living room. It is hard to recognize the remains of furniture or even clothing. Relatives are busy trying to salvage whatever they can. Inside the charred bedroom, relatives have places photographs of Ali on the ground as a makeshift memorial.

Yousef, a paramedic from the nearby village Aqraba, described the events of the morning to +972: “At 2 a.m. we received a report about an incident. I arrived with my ambulance and saw the house engulfed in flames. We evacuated the family to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus. The little boy died and the rest were in such bad condition that we needed to transfer them to Israel. A helicopter came and took them.”

[SummerSnow]

1. the downfall of the human race, were doomed to destruction

[BillZBubb]

2. He was the "price tag" for opposing Israel's land theft (settlements)

That's how the thieves (settlers) operate.

[azurnoir]

3. more precisely he was the 'price tag' for 2 smallish concrete buildings being demolished

earlier this week in the Beit El settlement, because they were found to have been built on privately owned Palestinian land. Bibi green lighted another 300 units being built in Beit El as an apology

[GitRDun]

4. Nothing.

When neither side sees the humanity of the other, these things happen.

I'm sure there are plenty of Israel apologists on DU that can link to articles of Jewish children killed by Palestinian rockets or gunfire.

A pox on both their houses....the US too, we fund and enable this crap.

[BillZBubb]

10. Correction: "We fund and enable the stronger side in this crap"

[azurnoir]

5. Slain Palestinian toddler’s parents, brother still fighting for lives

His father, Saad, was being treated for third-degree burns at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, where a spokeswoman described his condition as “critical”.

Mother Riham and four-year-old brother Ahmed were being treated at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer near Tel Aviv, where a spokeswoman described their condition as life-threatening.

Saad has burns on 80 percent of his body, Riham is suffering from burns over 90% of her body, and four-year-old Ahmad has 60% burns, Army Radio reported.

but not to worry Israel is keeping a lid on things

North of Ramallah, troops shot Laith Khaldi, 17. He was pronounced dead early on Saturday. The army said he was throwing a fire bomb at an army position.

On Saturday morning, Palestinians and Jewish settlers clashed near Qusra in the northern West Bank, trading volleys of stones until the Israeli army declared the area a closed military zone.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/slain-palestinian-toddlers-parents-brother-fighting-for-lives/

[Charles de Gaudless]

6. What did he do?

He was living on land that Gawwwwwwwwwwd gave to the Israelis!

[dougolat]

7. Dare to compare with how OUR settlers treated "Indians". ..nt

[BillZBubb]

9. Same old Israeli propaganda talking point. It's Bullshit.

You want to compare 19th century attitudes and actions to those of the 21st century. Sorry, but the world has come a long, long way since then. We've actually been to the moon, or haven't you heard? Take your head out of the sand (or wherever you've got it).

[dougolat]

12. Whoa, pard! ..Merely pointing out the attitude of settlers...

....toward those being displaced.

That's hardly a defense of the instance, but a criticism of the process.
Comprende?

[GitRDun]

14. I hear ya...

What the settlers ought to do, really, is skip to the end game lol...

Slaughter another half a million Palestinians, move those remaining to reservations in remote areas and let them build casinos!

That chuckle may be in bad taste but it symbolizes the lunacy of what the world is allowing to happen.

[jtuck004]

11. Do you like apples? We are, today, sending drones with missiles that burn babies alive,

so it's not just the "settlers"...

it's us. You, me, and the creeps we pay to target "bad people" and burn babies up as "collateral damage" - a term we use instead of "poor planning" so people can sleep at night.

How 'bout them apples?

That said, we didn't set off in a murderous rampage and burn people with no more care for them than a dead horse. We were highly skilled, thoughtful, considerate, and really, really sorry.

[dougolat]

13. Like at Sand Creek?...nt

[jtuck004]

15. We built a nation on the bones of 80 million or so people, stole their villages and wealth, and

tried to destroy the culture and humanity of those that were left. Still do, too.

But people today, you and me, are culpable in current events. Apparently we learned from our earlier experience that killing people is profitable, not wrong.

But in answer to your question, yes.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

16. Why would one want to compare ateocities that

happened before modern times?

Is it a 1:1 comparison?

Are we living in the 16-1800s?

[dougolat]

17. Not at all, but the relationship between those moving in ...

....and those being pushed aside seems fraught with enmity and abuse, even violence. Certainly the enthusiasm for such violence got out of hand, almost universally, in the case of the Amerinds; but the tendency should be recognized, even in the "Modern World", even in the case of neighborhood gentrification, and most definitely in the case of the illegal settlements in Palestinian areas.

To act as if this atrocity stands alone is dishonest; such events are virtually guaranteed. The lessons of the past argue powerfully against the settlements, and if they continue, point out the need to control the settlers as restrictively as the Palestinians are.

Commit to ignoring the past? Fine, lynchings have nothing to do with the current murders, excess wealth has nothing to do with corruption, huge businesses should make the big decisions, and military extravagance has nothing to do with the promotion of dishonest wars. So, "Woe is me, we've never seen these problems before, what ever shall we do?"

[valerief]

8. He wasn't born to a powerful father so he could live luxury and safety. nt