No murder charges for suspects in lynch of Jewish terrorist
Jack Khoury; 15/6/08
The 12 suspects in the death of Jewish terrorist Eden Natan-Zada, who was lynched by an Israeli Arab mob in 2005 will be charged with violent assault rather than murder, it emerged on Sunday. AWOL Israel Defense Forces soldier Natan-Zada, 19, was killed after murdering four Israeli Arabs on a bus in the northern town of Shfaram in August 2005, days before Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The suspects were instructed Sunday to appear at a court hearing on July 13, where they will be indicted. Hadash chairman MK Mohammed Barakeh, slammed the court’s decision to charge the suspects with any sort of crime.
See: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/992889.html
For some taxi drivers, Jerusalem can be an unholy city
Claire Snegaroff; 15/6/08
Taxi driver Ezzedine Nassar will never forget the night last October he was hailed by three young ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem. They knew he was a Palestinian as soon as he opened his mouth. They smashed his face in with a rock. “They were waiting for an Arab to come along,” said the 48-year-old who now picks up fares during the day only and also tries to avoid areas of the Holy City inhabited by ultra-religious Jews. Local media recently broadcast surveillance footage of dozens of teenage Jews ganging up on two Palestinians in the settlement of Pisgat Zeev in the east of the city which was captured by Israel in the 1967 war and then annexed. One was stabbed in the back and the other was beaten senseless. Hostility from some sections of the Jewish population in Jerusalem towards Palestinians is nothing new.
See: http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=8603