First, Jonathan Pollak calls the dead Palestinian courageous and gives reasons why:
A courageous Palestinian has died, shrouded in stones
The army spokesman was right - Mustafa died because he threw stones; he died because he dared to speak a truth, with his hands, in a place where the truth is forbidden.
By Jonathan Pollak
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http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/op ... s-1.401102
Second - a contrast:
Some rock-throwers are more equal
By Aeyal Gross
It is easy to imagine what would have happened had Palestinians invaded an Israeli military base and vandalized vehicles, burned tires, thrown rocks at the brigade commander and injured his deputy. It would have ended in death, injury or arrest for many of them. But the perpetrators of this week's incident were Jews, not Palestinians, and they threw rocks at both soldiers and Palestinians.
The explanation voiced for the killing of Mustafa Tamimi, who died after being hit in the head by a tear-gas canister during a demonstration in Nabi Saleh on Friday, was that the young Palestinian man had been throwing rocks at an armored Israel Defense Force jeep. Even had that been true, one cannot ignore the disparity in the response to the stone-throwers in each case, where the only difference was their being Arab in one case and Jewish in the other.
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http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/ne ... l-1.401263
Cheers,
Shafique
