6-10-2017 Colonialism's latest victim - Marzuq Al-Halabi +972

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The Palestinian man killed in Kafr Qasim this week was just the latest casualty of a colonial system whose masters feel forever threatened by the natives they rule over.  Mahmoud Mahmoud Salim Taha, who was shot and killed by a security guard in Kafr Qasem, June 5, 2017.  Fifty-two young Arab citizens have been shot dead by Israeli security forces since October 2000. They are classified in legal terms as separate cases, each assessed on its own merits, but they're not. These killings are part of an ongoing phenomenon — a creeping process that has resulted not from the conduct of native Palestinian Arabs, but from the structural relations between them and Jewish society, which adopted a colonialist approach toward the native Arab population in the region.

Official spokespersons in Israel tell us that the killings of Muhammad Taha in Kfar Qasim, of Yaqoub Abu al-Qi'an in Umm al-Hiran, and of many others besides, resulted from security forces feeling that their lives were in danger and therefore they had no choice but to kill them. This story is invariably helped along by a fawning media and other advocates. And added to it will be the Kafr Qasim security guard's defense attorney's claim: "If the security guard hadn't opened fire, he probably wouldn't be alive now!"...

 

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