The Arab Israeli woman shot while her car was overtaking a line of cars. What was the line of cars doing?
Travelling along the road. In my experience, cars tend to bunch up behind slower moving vehicles, unless on a dual carriageway.
Was it at a checkpoint?
No.
Who was in the car with her?
Her mother and her sister. She was 47, so presumably her mother was in her sixties or older, her sister anywhere between 30 and 60.
Who shot her? IDF or Settlers? Or Palestinians?
The IDF at first said Palestinians had shot her, later admitted it was their own soldiers.
Why?
You tell me. The IDF shoots about 200 - 300 Palestinian civilians a year.
Was she in violation of any laws or orders from Israeli security forces?
Not that anyone is aware of. She wasn't a wanted suspect, if that's what you are hinting at.
Was it a lawful shooting according to Israeli law?
Israeli law doesn't apply in the territories, so who knows. Currently only a tiny percentage of shootings by soldiers are investigated by the IDF, there is no outside investigation.
It probably wasn't legal under Israeli military law, but without an investigation no one will know.
Arab man shot while trying to drive his car across a ditch. Who shot him? IDF or Settlers? What was the situation like? Was he in violation of any laws or orders from Israeli security forces? Was it a lawful shooting according to Israeli law?
IDF again. What do you think my last setence meant?
"Now, are you going to shift blame from the IDF, which shot all these innocent people?"
He was trying to cross a ditch in his car. He was spotted, and an Israeli patrol fired at his car. They claim to have fired wrning shots first.
Again, Israeli law doesnt apply. Again, probably ilegal under Israeli military law, won't be investigated.
The shell that went astray, sounds like an accident. Any indication that the IDF soldiers had any intent to kill him? Any criminal culpability?
Lot of accidents around the IDF.
Strangely, they never shoot a settler by accident, their shells never go astray and hit settlements, settlers are never shot for driving too fast, or getting out of their car too quickly at roadblocks.
As for the last one...did the IDF soldiers know that he was deaf?
No, aparently deaf people are extremely rare in Israel, because deaf people have been shot on several occasions for refusing to obey shouted commands. Not deaf settlers of course.
I think the tactic you've used is usually applied in court with questions like:
How short was your skirt?
Did you have knickers on?
Were you drunk?
How many men have you had sex with?
It is always wrong to try to shift blame and guilt from the rapist, or the terrorist, or the murderer, to the rape victim, the innocent civilian or the murder victim.
You obviously have problems understanding the concepts of intent, law, criminal and terrorist. The short answer would be, I doubt there is any blame to shift in your examples.
An innocent civilian is innocent regardless of the laws imposed on him. Jews murdered by the Nazis were murder victims, whatever Nazi law said. Members of the einsatzgruppen were murderers, whatever Nazi law said.
Laws don't change morals.
Israel is occupying the West Bank and Gaza. The IDF is there to enforce that occupation. These people were going about their legitimate business when they were shot by the occupying power. It doesn't matter what the ocupying power's laws say, that's still wrong.
After all, I'm pretty sure a Palestinian court would rule the suicide bombers are carrying out legitimate attacks. That wouldn't be right either.
The IDF is an army of occupation. They use typical tactics of violence and intimidation to enforce that occupation. I don't know if you are old enough to have seen the CBS footage from 1987, of IDF soldiers holding down a Palestinian youth whilst they used rifle buts to smash his arms. That incident followed Rabin's calls to "break the bones" of the demonstrators.
The IDF shoots Arabs even when there is no risk from them. Read the reports from human rights organizations, and even from the US state department. They give a long list of beatings, destruction of property, collective punishment, and shootings. Read the Mitchell report, which shows that a Palestinian is more likely to be shot dead by the IDF if the IDF are not under armed attack than if they are.
