Ringleader in murder of Palestinian youth makes fresh insanity claim

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Ringleader in murder of Palestinian youth makes fresh insanity claim

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
Monday 30 November 2015 09.46 GMT

Two Israeli youths who kidnapped, beat and burned to death Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir last year, have been found guilty of murder.

The court, however, accepted a petition from lawyers for the accused ringleader – Yosef Haim Ben David, 31 – to reconsider a claim of insanity.

The panel of three judges acknowledged in their ruling that Ben David had committed the murder but said he could not be convicted at this time because of his mental state, setting a new sentencing hearing in January.

Mohammed’s father, Hussein, denounced the verdict, telling Israeli Army Radio that the trial was “a lie”.

The two minors, whose names have not been released, were convicted after a lengthy trial of kidnapping the 16-year-old last July and killing him in the Jerusalem Forest.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/30/mohammed-abu-khdeir-israeli-youths-guilty-of-murder-after-palestinian-teenager-was-burned-to-death

[DetlefK]

1. The father's criticism:

The Palestinian teenager’s parents attended every court session and expressed regular dissatisfaction with the lengthy delays in the legal process.

“Why haven’t they demolished the homes of these three murderers,” Hussein Abu Khdeir asked at the last court session. “If they were Arabs, their homes would have been demolished immediately. Because they burned my son alive, people today are stabbing.”

Speaking to reporters outside, he said: “The court behaves one way with Arabs and another way with Jews.” He called the last-minute psychiatric report by Ben David’s lawyers a “trick” and asked why it was not submitted earlier.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Wow. The deniers are all pretty quiet on this subject.

I guess it's too hard to spin this into guilt for Israel so they just left it alone.

[Little Tich]

2. Yet another victory for Apartheid.

Palestinian terrorists get their houses demolished, but Israel doesn't do it when the terrorists are Jewish. If that isn't Apartheid, then what is?

[6chars]

4. Israeli leaders

Two Jewish teenagers convicted. Leader of Yesh Atid calls for demolishing houses of These Jewish terroristes.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/204200#.Vl1arGt5mSM

Ben David, who several years ago tried to strangle his baby daughter and has been under psychiatric care since that time will have his mental state considered in sentencingI.e., if he is found criminally insane lock him up in one kind of a facility, if not then in another. It is acknowledged he committed the crime.

As Israel energetically pursues justice and punishment against Jewish terrorists, the Israel haters blame Israel for pursuing justice instead of vigilante revenge.

Haters gonna hate hate hate.