Israel closes case of U.S. activist hurt during West Bank protest

is a no no in any mans language.lucky for these people that israel treats them in a humane way.imagine what the egyptians would have done to them.

An activist by any other name is merely a trouble maker. They glory in making trouble seeing their faces and names in the print media. This is of course bringing their cause to the medias attention and thuis their 15 minutes of fame. Unfortunately when you play the activist game, you can also get hurt, sometimes really badly hurt. And who is to blame. The activist who makes trouble or the law and order people for respomnding to the trouble that the trouble aker activists have been making. Too nad so sad. Activist had choices, made the wrong one and fought the wrong cause.. noble but stupid

because they would effectively END the impunity which it has always provided to its members. not all members of the idf are without conscience in their treatment of palestinians; but this isn't necessarily true when it comes to protecting their comrades who ARE. when it comes to dealing with the palestinians, there is NO accountability in the israeli defense forces. don't expect that to change.

are used for exactly THAT. they are NOT used in a manner that makes them an equivalent to more lethal weapons; something that happens more often than not in israel. do you understand the difference, realist? tear gas cannisters are meant to be aimed where the prevailing wind will blow the gas towards the protesters; they are not meant to be aimed AT them...and rubber bullets are meant to be shot at the legs and not from within a certain distance...they are NOT meant to be shot at the torso or the HEAD.

are used for exactly THAT. they are NOT used in a manner that makes them an equivalent to more lethal weapons; something that happens more often than not in israel. do you understand the difference, realist? tear gas cannisters are meant to be aimed where the prevailing wind will blow the gas towards the protesters; they are not meant to be aimed AT them...and rubber bullets are meant to be shot at the legs and not from within a certain distance...they are NOT meant to be shot at the torso or the HEAD.

because they would effectively END the impunity which it has always provided to its members. not all members of the idf are without conscience in their treatment of palestinians; but this isn't necessarily true when it comes to protecting their comrades who ARE. when it comes to dealing with the palestinians, there is NO accountability in the israeli defense forces. don't expect that to change.

This foreign "activist" was wholly responsible for his decision to come to Israel and participate in a violent riot. As for his family, they should have warned him to stay away from trouble while on holiday in the Middle East. Anyone who goes to a foreign country and deliberately breaks the law for something that is not his business does not deserve any sympathy. Other democratic countries have an offence called "wasting police time" and that is what this whole case was.

In the end, the settlers should not have been in the West Bank in the first place, their presence causes the protests, hence the settlers are responsible, hence Israel is responsible for causing the protests and their deadly consequences.

"Orthodox protestors in Jerusalem destroy property and attack the police, but they are never shot at with rubber bullets or cans of tear gas" Also settlers throw stones at the IDF and Israeli police and are never shot at with rubber bullets or cans of tear gas. "Israel is neither a democracy nor an ally to the Us" I agree on both counts.

that's how a 13 year old girl can be buried with her small body riddled by 30+ bullet shot from point blank range...while her killer is reprimanded for improper use of a firearm, and then promptly promoted to major, reimbursed his legal expenses, and paid for time spent in jail. the only plausible explanation, for there NEVER being any criminal intent, is that NO act against palestinians or their supporters by israeli security forces is considered "criminal"; no matter HOW blatantly abusive or unnecessary it is. was the guy who fired the gas canister specifically trying to hit tristan anderson? not likely. but was he aiming to hit a protester? there's a very good chance that he was--maybe not in the head, but then a tear gas cannister isn't a precision weapon. still, there's two choices of where to aim it. you can aim to where it's MORE likely to hit someone, or to where its LESS likely. one of these choices implies "intent". and simply put, the fact that he WAS hit suggests intent.

that's how a 13 year old girl can be buried with her small body riddled by 30+ bullet holes shot from point blank range...while her killer is reprimanded for improper use of a firearm, and then promptly promoted to major, reimbursed his legal expenses, and paid for time spent in jail. the only plausible explanation, for there NEVER being any criminal intent, is that NO act against palestinians or their supporters by israeli security forces is considered "criminal"; no matter HOW blatantly abusive or unnecessary it is. was the guy who fired the gas canister specifically trying to hit tristan anderson? not likely. but was he aiming to hit a protester? there's a very good chance that he was--maybe not in the head, but then a tear gas cannister isn't a precision weapon. still, there's two choices of where to aim it. you can aim to where it's MORE likely to hit someone, or to where its LESS likely. and so simply put, the fact that he WAS hit suggests intent.

There is no country in the world where it is possible to assault the police and then sue! It is time to send home all of these troublemaking foreign tourists who come to Israel to practise breaking the law. Why don't such hypocrites try to put on one of their protests in a dictatorship, for example Iran, Syria or Sudan? They think they can get away with it only because Israel is a democracy. It should be clear that what is legal in a democracy is exclusively peaceful protest by residents of the country. Violent riots by foreign "activists" should be treated as the serious crimes that they would be anywhere else in the world.

Mr. Anderson's lawyer said that he has witnesses that confirm that the canister was fired by the IDF from a distance of 60 meters. Since when does the IDF fire directly at protesters? Anderson is now suffering from brain damaged incurred when this gas canister hit him in the forehead. Such a hit implies to me that the Mr Anderson was looking straight ahead, unless of course the IDF has a photo of him staring up into the air watching this canister about to hit his forehead. The Anderson case is yet another reason why the IDF needs to agree to investigations independent of the IDF, as was called for in the Gaza attack of last year.

From the last report of 'Breaking the Silence': A female Border Guard officer in Jenin spoke of an incident in which a nine-year-old Palestinian, who tried to climb the fence, failed, and fled ? was shot to death: ?They fired? when he was already in the territories and posed no danger. The hit was in the abdomen area, they claimed he was on a bicycle and so they were unable to hit him in the legs.? But the soldier was most bewildered by what happened next between the four soldiers present: ?They immediately got their stories straight? An investigation was carried out, at first they said it was an unjustified killing? In the end they claimed that he was checking out escape routes for terrorists or something? and they closed the case.? Just a question: What 'danger' could a 9 year old pose anyway?

you mean that : '...indictments would be [NOT]be handed out. As no criminal intent found

Wasn't the word "no" omitted in the first paragraph?

This wasn't the first time that Israeli forces have aimed tear gas cans at leftist protestors with lethal results. I'll make sure to post this article on as many Euro and American sites as possible. Others ought to do the same. Orthodox protestors in Jerusalem destroy property and attack the police, but they are never shot at with rubber bullets or cans of tear gas. Israel is neither a democracy nor an ally to the Us.

rocks which put this activist life in danger? In the end, I feel for the family but this activist should have not been there in the first place.