Palestinian Infant Sustains Punching-Related
Injury In Violent Clash With Israeli Police
By Caitlin Johnstone
May 09, 2021 "Information
Clearing House" - JERUSALEM — A four-month old Palestinian infant
has sustained fist-related injuries to the face on
Saturday during a violent clash with Israeli police
officers.
Early reports are unclear whether the violence
was instigated by the police or the baby girl. Also
unknown is whether the child’s injuries were
incurred by being struck or by attacking the
officers’ fists with her face.
The knuckle-associated trauma occurred when
violence broke out between the infant and several
officers in riot gear in East Jerusalem, where
clashes have been occurring due to rising anger over
evictions of Palestinian families on land claimed by
Jewish settlers. Both sides lay claim to the
disputed properties, with the families arguing that
the houses are their homes that they live in, and
the settlers arguing that they were given the houses
by decree in ancient scriptures authored by an
invisible omnipotent deity.
Video footage of the incident went viral on
social media minutes before being deleted from all
platforms, leading to calls for peace from US
officials.
“Very concerned about this violent clash, both
sides should have de-escalated,” Vice President
Kamala Harris said in a Twitter response to the
video, adding, “Violence is never the answer, no
matter your age.”
“We call on all babies to obey the rules-based
international order,” added Secretary of State
Antony Blinken.
Asked for comment on the incident during a
Saturday interview with NNC’s Ray Theon, New York
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that
“It’s not so much about the what of these
happenings, but the how. Sometimes the how gets lost
in the what, and then the what gets obscured by the
why, and the why gets eaten by the who, and who even
am I anyway? Who is anybody? Ultimately nobody
knows. It’s a philosophical mystery, just like that
incident with the baby.”
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“Israel has a right to defend itself from
terrorists of any developmental stage,” the Israel
Police told NNC when asked for comment.
Les Overton, a senior fellow at the
Washington-based think tank American-Israeli Center
for Strategic Genocide, says both sides have been
equally affected by this latest wave of violence,
with Palestinians sustaining numerous fatalities and
serious injuries and Israeli law enforcement
suffering emotional discomfort and great
inconvenience.
“It’s just a really perplexing situation,”
Overton said. “On one hand you’ve got the
Palestinians suffering under what more and more
human rights groups are calling an ‘apartheid
regime’, but on the other hand you’ve got the
Israeli government and violent far-right extremists
suffering from a desire to not have Palestinians
living near them anymore. It’s hard to say who’s in
the wrong here.”
“While Palestinians claim they have a right to
live with basic human dignity in the homes they’ve
spent their entire lives in, Israelis contend that
those demands are invalidated by a religious text
written thousands of years ago,” Overton added.
“It’s a real pickle.”
“But let’s be real here,” Overton said. “Who
among us, at some point in their lives, hasn’t
needed to punch a baby in self-defense?”
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