Eden Natan-Zada was lynched after he opened fire on bus passengers, killing four; protesters heckled court on Thursday, claiming ‘victims are on trial.’
Haaretz
The trial of seven Shfaram Arabs accused of lynching a Jewish extremist who had just killed four Arabs on a bus will resume Thursday in the Haifa District Court, after Wednesday’s session was suspended due to a demonstration that turned stormy.
Eden Natan-Zada, an AWOL soldier, opened fire on bus passengers in Shfaram with his army rifle in August 2005, killing four and wounding more than 20. The act was believed a “protest” against the disengagement from Gaza taking place at the time. An angry mob stormed the bus and killed him. Due to photographs that showed him still alive after having been disarmed and bound, police concluded that the killing may have been a criminal lynching and opened a probe.
A few months later, 12 residents of Shfaram were arrested. Five were charged with assaulting and disturbing policemen in the line of duty, while seven were charged with attempted murder. The case of the first five ended with a plea bargain in which they were sentenced to community service. But the case of the other seven dragged on, due to testimony from dozens of witnesses and unsuccessful attempts to reach a plea bargain. All seven pleaded innocent.
During Wednesday’s hearing, at which the sides were presenting their summations, dozens of Shfaram residents and leaders of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee demonstrated outside the courthouse. The demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and pictures of Natan-Zada’s victims and chanted slogans denouncing the trial.
“Anyone who examines this story understands that they’re putting the victim on trial instead of investigating who aided and abetted that terrorist,” charged Marwan Bahus, who was 15 when his father Michel was killed in the attack. “It’s impossible to accept the idea that he acted alone,” Bahus said.
At the same time, demonstrators inside the courtroom began disrupting the proceedings, causing the hearing to be suspended for two hours. Police arrested four demonstrators and will decide today whether to release them or seek to have them remanded.
Before the session was disrupted, defense attorney Maher Talhami argued that in similar cases in which civilians or policemen took action against terrorists, not only was no criminal investigation opened, but the civilians and policemen in question were lauded and even received medals. He also detailed evidentiary difficulties in proving that these seven individuals were involved in the lynching, given that thousands of people were in the crowd surrounding the bus at the time.
The prosecution relied mainly on testimony by policemen and photographs from the scene of the incident.
#1 by Blake on February 23, 2013 - 4:43 pm
1 rule for the indoctrinated to nothing impostors another for the native indigenous people who have had their lives turned upside down by this usurping imposition
#2 by Mark Propheter on February 23, 2013 - 5:15 pm
So all the evidence is circumstantial with no forensic evidence what so ever.
GUILTY AS CHARGED!
( As the court room clears from the reading of the verdict. You hear the faint sound of the prosecutor asking his female assistant.) “Hey where are Celebrating Purim tonight!”
#3 by Bob on February 23, 2013 - 6:00 pm
If the pic in the article is in fact the “Shooter”, he appears to be a Sephardic Jew, more than likely an Arab himself. If this is the case, then he almost certainly has far more in common culturally, biologically and historically, with the Arabs he was gunning down than he did with the Ashkenazi Jews who rule Israel (and most of the rest of the planet). Yet his self-identification as a Jew and the ideology of Judaism/Zionism was sufficient to compel him to walk onto a crowded bus and engage in mass murder of his fellow Arabs (and fellow Israelis, for these Arabs were Israeli citizens).
Can anyone cite a single example of an Israeli Jew who was put on trial for killing an Arab who had just engaged in a terrorist attack on Israeli civilians? This case exemplifies the nature of the Zionist state. It is a state for the exclusive benefit of Jews and the doctrine of Jewish supremacy (and gentile inferiority) pervades every aspect of the Israeli system. For Jews and Jewish law, for a gentile to kill a Jew is a capital offense regardless of the circumstances. The converse is also true, for a Jew to kill a gentile is always a minor offense, if it is an offense at all.
#4 by annebeck58 on February 23, 2013 - 7:12 pm
Hmm.
Some were given community-service. Others have been charged with attempted murder?
I bet we can guess of which, “culture”, the ones who pled out for community service are. And, the title tells us which group is sitting in prison for defending themselves as well as all others on the bus.
Can they be more obvious?
Israhell IS an apartheid state!
Arabs are not allowed to kill Jews, no matter what the Jew may be in the process of doing; even when murdering others. Crazy.
#5 by Rudy on February 23, 2013 - 8:48 pm
God should exterminate the Israelis.
#6 by 1bigcree Shadowhawk on February 24, 2013 - 1:28 am
Double Standard Judaic ‘Law’. A most reprehensible, unacceptable practice. And oh, ‘israel’ your days of ruling the world by this same Megalomanical & draconian ‘edict’ are quite simply coming to a most fitting end. You have had plenty of time to change you ways, but your collective arrogance has earned you a soon to come Royal ass kicking. And it is coming. Not if, but when.
#7 by K.PatrickRyan on February 24, 2013 - 7:29 am
The poor yiddish soldier… trained to open fire on all Palestinians (‘dey be potential suicide bombers… watch out!), the little man sees a bus load of ‘em and naturally opens fire.
Then, a few Palestinians, not understanding the rules of the game, beat the hell out of the soldier and, if we are to believe the Apartheid State, ””lynch”” the little soldier.
Now, if a Palestinian had opened fire on a bus of zionists, and had he been captured by other jewish zionists, and if one of them had wrapped a rope around his neck and strung him up on a light standard, you can bet there wouldn’t be a trial. Unfortunately these bus riders forgot the
script. Just because jews can get away with it doesn’t mean the slave class can rebel against the master race.
This trial will help get the word out to the Palestinians: jews write the script, direct the action, and will eliminate any Palestinians who fail to follow the rules set forth by the Chosens.
#8 by Average Joe Bodybuilder on February 24, 2013 - 8:16 pm
For those who think that iranian jews are loyal. PLEASE, Natan-Zada is an Iranian jewish name. Just like Shaul Mofaz, and Moshe Katzav (Musa Qassab). A jew is a jew is a jew is a jew is a jew is a jew is a jew is a JEW! It will be iranian jews that speak persian who will act out a false flag attack and make it seem like it was iranian muslims (who also speak persian, go figure) doing the deed.