Israeli Arabs sentenced to two years for 2005 lynching of spree killer soldier

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Three Israeli Arabs were sentenced Thursday to two years in jail for their role in the lynching of Eden Natan-Zada in 2005 after he killed four Israeli Arabs and wounded more than 20 in a shooting spree on a bus carrying Arab passengers in northern Israel.

Two other men implicated in the events were sentenced to prison terms of 18-20 months. All five were found guilty of attempted murder and assaulting policemen. An additional man, found guilty of aggravated assault, was sentenced to 8 months suspended sentence.

Hundreds of Shfaram residents and other Israeli Arabs demonstrated Thursday outside the Haifa District Court, which sentenced the defendants, who had been convicted previously.

Natan-Zada, an AWOL soldier and Kahanist, was apparently acting in opposition to the upcoming disengagement from Gaza when, with his army-issue rifle, he boarded a bus en route to Shfaram from Haifa on that August 4, 2005. As Natan-Zada shot at passengers, an angry mob stormed the bus and killed him. Due to photographs that showed him still alive after being disarmed and bound, police opened an inquiry into the circumstances of his death.

full: http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.560630

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1. i can't say i was "sad"

when the soldier was killed.....and the israelis that stormed the bus to stop his killing spree were brave enough, but as in other incidents, if the terrorist is alive when caught, then he is to remain alive....

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3. Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about it...

I think those who killed him after he had been restrained deserve to be in prison. It's vigilante justice and while I wouldn't care at all if they'd killed him in order to stop him shooting, he'd already been stopped...

Also from the article: 'At the time of the shooting, then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Natan-Zada’s actions an “act of terror,” and the victims' families were recognized as victims of hostile acts. The judge in the case also described Natan-Zada’s actions as terror.'

I remember at the time thinking as much as I disliked Sharon, he got that right and it turned out to be one of a few things he surprised me with what he said and did in the latter years before the stroke. Which is something I doubt Netanyahu will ever do...

I went searching down memory lane and found the thread at DU about the bus killings. Most posts seem to be complaining about the thread being moved from LBN to I/P, but further down there's some posts that are on topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x97787

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4. typical arrogant western remark

The typical, aggressive, ignorant, arrogant remark from a westerner is "its in the past, it doesn't matter any more.... as per your remark. (grave digging)

this is the middle east.....massacres are remembered, whether they are 100 years old or 5 years old, they have influence on the various cultures, then, and yesterday, today and tomorrow

don't forget you can't answer, remember your threat to not answer any of my posts....and since I refused your demands, we shall see if you have any credibility and not answer my posts