Who're you gonna believe? Me or your lyin' eyes?
An 'Israeli Arab' has told the Turkel Commission that the IDF refused to give medical assistance to passengers on the Mavi Marmara. An Israeli-Arab, Muhammad Zaidan, who was aboard the Mavi Marmara when it was overtaken by the Israeli Navy, told the Turkel Commission on Monday that Israeli soldiers refused to offer treatment to wounded passengers on the boat for at least one hour.Let's go to the videotape and you can decide whether to believe Zaidan or your lyin' eyes.
Zaidan said that he and about 250 other passengers remained below deck, in a large room where they slept during the seizure of the boat. He said he did not see the takeover of the boat by the soldiers, however, during the takeover, about 20 wounded passengers entered the room. Many of them were bleeding, he added. Zaidan said Israeli soldiers stood outside the door talking to each other but did not enter the room and did not extend help.
At one point he maintained, MK Haneen Zoabi [pictured. CiJ] went up to the soldiers with a sign asking them to look after the wounded. The soldiers, he continued, ordered her to return to her place and did nothing.
Commission member Miguel Deutsh asked Zaidan about reports that had been broadcast and videotaped, according to which Zoabi had refused to allow Israeli soldiers to treat the wounded passengers. Zaidan said he had seen the clips but knew nothing about them and insisted that the soldiers had rejected Zoabi's request for help.
So whom do you believe? By the way, Zaidan also claimed that the passengers protected wounded IDF soldiers. Right....
/Still looking for video with that line in the title.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:22 PM
4 Comments:
Yes Sepik Dinc's photographs show passengers 'protecting' captive soldiers - beating one of them with what looks like the handle of an axe. Lots of photographers around but no one seen intervening to 'protect' him. Dinc claims that some passengers tried to throw the captives into the sea. The series of photographs released of another - the only officer among them - shows him with a bloody face AFTER he was captured and relieved of his gear and it appears that his captors may have actually done further damage to the stab wound on his abdomen. But he was clearly beaten - not protected - while captive.
The problem for most of the passengers is that they've told so many easily demonstrable lies that they have zero credibility.
Why is MK Haneen Zoabi not in jail?
For those of us who don't understand Hebrew, is it possible to give a translation of the exchange?
Where does on find Sepik Dinc's photographs? I Googled the name but couldn't find them.
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