Police Used Excessive Force in Amona
The Knesset probe into the violence at Amona has published its preliminary findings. This article in Ynetnews.com covers the report well, and is titled Police Used Excessive Force in Amona.
The other Israeli web sites have similar articles, but with different headlines. The Jerusalem Post has a bland headline stating that the commission published its findings, without any more details. Haaretz places the blame, curiously, on the army in its headline of its article on the same topic.
The commission criticized everyone - the settlers, the police, and the politicians - so that everyone is both complaining and pleased at the findings. But the main thrust of the findings is that the police should not have used horses and batons, and that they were excessively violent. At least one web site gave the right emphasis in its headline.
The Knesset probe into the violence at Amona has published its preliminary findings. This article in Ynetnews.com covers the report well, and is titled Police Used Excessive Force in Amona.
The other Israeli web sites have similar articles, but with different headlines. The Jerusalem Post has a bland headline stating that the commission published its findings, without any more details. Haaretz places the blame, curiously, on the army in its headline of its article on the same topic.
The commission criticized everyone - the settlers, the police, and the politicians - so that everyone is both complaining and pleased at the findings. But the main thrust of the findings is that the police should not have used horses and batons, and that they were excessively violent. At least one web site gave the right emphasis in its headline.
posted by westbankmama at 12:20 PM
5 Comments:
Great post - thanks for putting this up.
Jameel.
Good for them! And thanks for putting this up - I haven't read it anywhere else.
What now? What will the Knesset do? If they do European style we will only see the "tongue" conclusion, no real actions in the field.
i'm glad that a committee was formed to basically reiterate what we already knew: the pictures from amona do not lie.
just out of curiousity, and being in the US my perspective might be off, but did it seem like it took a long time for this to be determined?
jameel - your welcome!
irina - that is what I think blogs are for - providing material that you might not get to on your own
emanuel - I don't think the politicians will do anything more. Olmert will probably disband the commission right after the elections. That is why they published their findings now.
bec - this was pretty speedy by Israeli standards!
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