An Israeli soldier has shot and killed a toddler. Let’s discuss ‘outdated’ notions
Muhammad Tamimi: his two-year-old life was ended after a member of the Israel Defence Forces raided his village and shot this defenceless toddler in the head.
Remember last week, when This Site commented on Jewish Chronicle reviewer Jonathan Sacerdoti’s critique of Maureen Lipman’s performance in the play Rose, in which he stated that it invests “dramatic capital in the outdated notion that Jews kill children”.
Outdated?
This happened last week:
Israeli soldiers shot a 2-year-old in the head!
Haytam Tamimi and his son Muhammad were among five Palestinians injured during a raid on the village of Nabi Saleh that lasted hours.
Israel claims they responded to being shot at in the Neveh Tzuf settlement. This is a lie pic.twitter.com/EjlPnqTsVP
— Miko Peled (@mikopeled) June 4, 2023
Images from my friend Bilal Tamimi after leaving the hospital. And the two-year-old in the hospital.
What could justify this sort of brutality? pic.twitter.com/6jmI5U5lm8
— Miko Peled (@mikopeled) June 4, 2023
Images from my friend Bilal Tamimi after leaving the hospital. And the two-year-old in the hospital.
What could justify this sort of brutality? pic.twitter.com/6jmI5U5lm8
— Miko Peled (@mikopeled) June 4, 2023
I think it’s time we discussed some of these “notions” that certain people are constantly telling us are “outdated”.
Certainly the claim that armed Israelis shoot children is neither a notion, nor outdated. It is a terrifying fact.
Some have tried to justify the killing of a child by saying his parents put him in the line of fire. This is clearly false; the shooting happened during a raid on a Palestinian village by members of the Israel Defence Forces.
They claimed that they were responding to Palestinian aggression and I am not going to debate that. It might be true but that is irrelevant to what has happened, which is this:
Armed military aggressors attacked unarmed civilians in their homes and shot a toddler in the head, causing injuries from which he later died.
There is no explanation that can justify such an act.
It is unacceptable on any level at all – as all civilised observers must agree. Nobody can ever say they shot an unarmed toddler in the head as an act of self-defence.
And the very least the rest of us should expect is a little contrition from people like Mr Sacerdoti.
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