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Tue 30 Aug, 2005 05:28 pm
Arabs lose Israeli terror stipend
Family of shooting victims Hazar and Dina Turki
The victims were travelling on a bus when their killer opened fire
Families of Israeli Arabs shot dead on a bus in Galilee are not considered terrorism victims because their killer was Jewish, the defence ministry says.
Under Israeli law, only attacks by "enemies of Israel" are considered terrorism, the ministry said.
The ruling means families of the four victims will not be entitled to the lifelong monthly payments given to Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks.
The ministry says it has offered them an unspecified one-off payment.
The Arabs were killed by a 19-year-old Israeli army deserter who was thought to be trying to derail the evacuation of Jewish settlements in Gaza.
The architect of the Gaza plan, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, called the shooting "a despicable act by a bloodthirsty terrorist".
He is reported to have asked for the Galilee dead to be treated as terrorism victims - but to have been prevented by the law.
An Israeli Arab member of parliament, Muhammad Barak, said there was a strong scent of racism about the decision, because it distinguished between Jewish terrorism and Arab terrorism.
He has submitted an amendment to allow Israel to compensate anyone hurt in "hostile activities by a terror organisation" - not just those hurt by "organisations hostile to Israel", Haaretz reports.
When the US preemptively attacks another soveriegn nation without cause. If you have the biggest guns, and tell everybody it was to get rid of a tyrant and to bring democracy to them, they can usually get away with it, because nobody will challenge the aggressor - even knowing the fact that the big gun country was criminal in doing so.
By the best estimates, our soldiers have killed close to 100,000 innocent Iraqis - most of them women and children.
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