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   PICTURE MISSING: ATROCIOUS SAVAGE JEWS CHOKING A CHILD WITH MULTIPLE FIRING   
   GUN TO HIS HEAD AND THEN PUSHING HIS HEAD AGAINST ROCKS   
   By Aviroce   
      
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   Is this disturbing video Israel's Eric Garner moment?   
      
   Updated by Max Fisher on August 31, 2015, 2:10 p.m. ET @Max_Fisher max@vox.com   
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   An Israeli soldier holds down 11-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed Tamimi in   
   the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.   
      
   For a few years now, Palestinians in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh have   
   held a weekly demonstration to protest the Israeli occupation that has   
   confiscated village land for a nearby Israeli settlement. These protests don't   
   usually make international    
   news.   
      
   But last week's was different. Friday's demonstration in Nabi Saleh escalated   
   into a violent confrontation between an Israeli soldier and a young child --   
   all caught on camera by the press who had attended the protest. The result was   
   a video of an IDF    
   soldier placing an 11-year-old child in a chokehold, holding a gun near his   
   head, and then sitting on him as he screamed in fear and pain.   
      
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   This isn't the first time something like that has happened in the West Bank.   
   But with this video of a panicking soldier crushing a screaming child beneath   
   him, Israel may have the opportunity to learn the lesson that the United   
   States learned last year    
   when a New York City police officer choked a black man named Eric Garner to   
   death: video forces a conversation. When a bystander with a camera captured   
   Garner choking, "I can't breathe," on a Staten Island sidewalk, it forced a   
   conversation about police    
   brutality and systemic racism in the United States. Now that a camera in Nabi   
   Saleh has captured the panicked screams and gasps of 11-year-old Mohammed   
   Tamimi, maybe this will force a conversation about the moral costs of Israel's   
   occupation of the    
   Palestinians.   
   What the Nabi Saleh video shows   
      
   On Friday, during the latest Nabi Saleh protest, small clashes broke out   
   between the protesting villagers and Israeli soldiers, as they often do. An   
   11-year-old Nabi Saleh boy named Mohammed Tamimi, whose left arm was in a   
   cast, did something to anger    
   one of the Israeli soldiers. The Israeli military says the boy was throwing   
   stones; Tamimi's family denies this. But whatever sparked it, the soldier   
   began to chase the boy, which is when the boy's father switched on a camera   
   and captured the moment.   
      
   In the video, the soldier throws himself on Tamimi, putting the boy in a   
   headlock and holding him over a rock as he screams for help. There is a   
   moment, at 1:06 in the video, when the soldier holds his rifle next to the   
   boy's head and, disregarding the    
   most basic weapons safety training, places his finger over the gun's trigger.   
   Thankfully, after a moment he slings the rifle behind his shoulder, but then   
   tries to wrestle and carry the boy off. After a short struggle, the soldier   
   places his hand around    
   the back of the child's neck and pushes his face into one of the rocks.   
      
   Several nearby women from the protest then attempt to intervene. One woman   
   tries to pull the soldier's arms behind his back; he panics and grabs the boy   
   again. Tamimi's young sister curls around her brother, shielding his body with   
   her own as she    
   attempts to drag him away, but the soldier pushes his hand into her neck and   
   shoves her away. The nearby women again throw themselves on top of the soldier   
   and, at this point, another soldier, reportedly the first's commander,   
   intervenes, eventually    
   pulling him away. The soldier punches and slaps at several of the Palestinians   
   as he's led away, throwing what appears to be a tear gas grenade or other   
   non-explosive grenade on the ground.   
   Why the Nabi Saleh video is so controversial   
      
   As with everything in the Israel-Palestine conflict, there are two narratives   
   to this video. The Israeli narrative is that it shows an Israeli soldier being   
   attacked by a mob of angry Palestinians. The Palestinian narrative is that it   
   shows an Israeli    
   soldier brutalizing an 11-year-old child. You can judge for yourself based on   
   the video, but it is difficult to imagine any universe in which this soldier's   
   treatment of an adolescent child is even remotely justifiable.   
      
   But the video's real controversy is not over what it shows, but what it   
   represents. Both Israelis and Palestinians feel that the international   
   community and the international media have failed to understand the conflict   
   and are biased against them. This    
   video is thus another opportunity to show the world the truth as each side   
   sees it, and to litigate global public opinion on the conflict.   
      
   So, for example, when the right-wing Israeli outlet Israel Hayom published a   
   column defending the Israeli soldier -- and alleging that the entire scene had   
   been deliberately staged by the Palestinian children who are beaten in the   
   video -- the point was    
   not just to defend the soldier, but to defend Israel's moral standing   
   vis-a-vis the Israel-Palestine conflict.   
      
   The argument around the video, then, is really an argument about the Israeli   
   occupation of the West Bank that has been ongoing for almost half a century,   
   and of the story this video tells about that occupation. Is it a story in   
   which violent Palestinians    
   provoke and attack well-meaning Israelis, dragging Israel into a conflict it   
   doesn't want? Or a story in which cruel and inhumane Israelis are so committed   
   to forcibly maintaining their occupation of Palestinian land that they will   
   attack even children?   
   Is this an Eric Garner moment for the Israel-Palestine conflict?   
      
   But there is perhaps something more than that going on here, something that   
   explains why this video has attracted attention beyond the dozens of prior   
   such videos of West Bank clashes gone wrong. Because the video is so brutal in   
   the particulars, and yet    
   so very typical of the daily norms of the occupation, it has taken on a   
   symbolic quality somewhat akin to the July 2014 video of New York City police   
   arresting Eric Garner.   
      
   In that video, a policeman put Garner in a chokehold while attempting to   
   detain him for selling untaxed cigarettes. Garner died as a result. The video   
   became a focal point for an argument about something much larger: police   
   violence against black men and    
   boys in America.   
      
      
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