After libel claim: JPost retracts article claiming MK supports 'Jewish terrorist'
In September, the paper published an Op-ed titled: 'Simcha Rothman's support of Jewish terrorist crosses dangerous line.'
MK Simcha Rothman
The Jerusalem Post published an apology on Monday for an editorial article published in September, claiming that "Simcha Rothman's support of a Jewish terrorist crosses a dangerous line." The article was written in connection to the interrogation of Amiram Ben Uliel, the suspect in the Duma arson case, in which torture was used, and regarding a Tweet by the MK in which he made a general statement that "he doesn't know if a justice system which bases a conviction on an admission under torture can be considered a system that does justice."
After Rothman submitted a libel claim through Adv. Uriel Nizri, against the newspaper for statements attributed to him, the Jerusalem Post published an apology in which it clarified that "MK Rothman did not make any statement that supports any Jewish terrorist or Jewish terrorist act." The paper added that they apologize for any inconvenience caused to the MK.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/373933
How did the authorities, led by Moshe Ya’alon know within hours that the Duma firebombing on July 31st, 2015, was the work of “Jewish Terrorists”? Serious investigations of arson normally take some time.
The speed of the denunciations made thinkers suspicious.
Only 24 days later there was another arson attack in Duma against a Dawabshe brother’s home. There were at least two more such arson attacks in Duma in the following months involving a Dawabshe relative.
Many have written about this case, foremost among them Dr. Martin Sherman, who has written many detailed articles doubting the official narrative. Prof. Boaz Sangero wrote a scathing piece following the guilty verdict. Such articles are not easily found using Google search for some reason.
The immediate allegations that “Jewish Terrorists” were responsible for the Duma Firebombing is nothing less than a blood libel.. As with all blood libels, there was not a shred of evidence and any serious investigation could have easily proved that.
The blood libel in 2015 that “Jewish Terrorists” were responsible, was followed by arrests without rhyme or reason euphemistically called “Administrative Detention”. It is a crime in most civilized countries to arrest someone without cause, only to force them to confess to an imagined crime. With no evidence available a confession works like magic to find an accused guilty. As Attorney Adi Keidar has famously stated:
“Our police doesn’t do its job. It doesn’t investigate, it doesn’t corroborate and compare [evidence]. It likes confessions, because it trusts that once one is obtained the courts will ask for nothing else.”
Since then former Shin Bet director Yitzhak Ilan bore out this statement when he stated:“Believe me, it is very tempting to accept a false confession. You crack the case and go home.”
Ilan continued. “It is very tempting to use the incredible power you possess in the interrogation room, for the detriment of the suspect.”
Fortunately those first arrested knew that the purpose of the arrest and the disallowing of anyone who could advise the suspect was to force an admission and confession. They also knew that under no circumstances should the suspect say any word that might then be used against him, no matter how painful the methods are.
It may shock the reader to discover that psychological and physical torture is permitted under special circumstances. The defendants were subjected to interrogation methods causing intense pain.
Moving on to the ridiculous re-enactment of the crime. A re-enactment is supposed to show that the accused knew certain details that he could not have known unless he committed the crime. In order for it to achieve its purpose, details of the crime must not be shared with the accused. But in this case, the narrative was rehearsed with the accused, and both the mastermind and the torturer accompanied the accused to make sure he did not contradict the official confession.
The court ignored the alibi which proved Ben-Uliel was at home at the time of the arson, babysitting his infant daughter.
They also ignored the statement made by the grandfather of the arson victims who asked, “How can it be one man [driving] two cars? It's not logical.” Two cars were seen at the scene.
The court also ignored the expert opinion that Ben-Uliel did not paint the graffiti that was supposed to prove Jews were involved, and stated that it was painted by two persons.
Those who took the time to study the case also noted that the graffiti was copied from a Chabad T-shirt and that it was inappropriate. It proved instead that it was painted by an Arab or secular person who cannot differentiate between Chabad and any other Jewish sect.
Orian Ben-Uliel, Amiram's wife, said that "From the beginning, all efforts of the system were directed to convict Amiram at all costs, through the interrogation using severe torture and up to his conviction on the basis of the confession he was forced to give under those tortures."
"Torture is the wrong way to extract a confession, and we will continue to fight to prove his innocence." In Ben-Uliel’s own words,"under such torture, anyone would admit to anything."
All eye witnesses consistently claimed there was more than one person involved in the Duma firebombing.
Logic tells us that the crime was the work of a Dawabsheh family member, just one of a list of similar arson attacks----before and after the one that was highlighted as a Jewish crime.
No such event of this kind has ever been perpetrated by one person alone.
We would have to believe that: Ben-Uliel had the “cojones” and skill, to walk over five kilometers—late at night—undetected and unarmed, to reach the village, to infiltrate, undetected and unarmed, into the center of a hostile village; set one uninhabited building ablaze; then, still undetected, brazenly spray copious amounts of paint to write the incriminating Hebrew graffiti; then torched the Dawabsheh home; and make a phantom-like escape, egressing the village without trace, never mind being apprehended, leaving no clue to indicate where he had vanished to—all this entirely on his own!!
even members of the Dawabsheh family are highly skeptical. Hussein Dawabsheh, grandfather of the infant who died in the blaze, expressed his skepticism at the professed confession. Citing the account of his other grandson, five year old Ahmad, the sole survivor of the attack, he stated: “Ahmad said he saw a number of people. He could not say how many but he talked about several men who beat his father.”
Dawabsheh also wondered how only one man could carry out the attack: “I do not believe it. It needs a number of people—not one or two. Who can enter the village and do this alone. People saw two cars leaving the village.” With considerable justification, he asked: “How can it be one man with two cars? It’s not logical.”
“I saw Sa'ad and Reham burning on the ground. Next to them were TWO masked men, one beside each of them. They were dressed in jeans and black long-sleeved shirts…“Their faces were covered with a balaclava, with only the mouth and eyes visible. The street light shone directly on them. I was horrified by what I saw. They saw me and I was frightened and ran back home. I told my brother Bishar to get help and returned to Sa'ad’s house where I no longer saw the TWO masked men – Eye-witness account of Duma arson attack by Ibrahim Dawabsheh, a relative of the victims
Since that deplorable attack, at least three more houses of the Dawabsheh clan have been torched –as were two prior to it--without any hint of involvement of “Jewish extremists.
Another account from an Arab eye-witness to the Duma arson attack:
New testimony from a neighbor of the Dawabsheh’s suggests that the fire was not set by Jewish arsonists.
The man, an Arab resident of Duma who lived next door to the Dawabsheh family, told a private investigator his recollection of the incident, saying it was “nonsense” that Jews were involved. He claimed that the fire was sparked in connection to a separate arson in Duma, by locals who were involved in an internal dispute with another resident of the village.
The neighbor claimed that after sparking a fire in another house in Duma, owned by their rival, the Arab arsonists believed the Dawabshehs had spotted them, and sought to kill them, to ensure there would be no witnesses.
Neighbor: “That’s nonsense, forget it.”
Private Investigator: “What do you mean nonsense? What happened there? It wasn’t the Jews that did it?”
Neighbor: “No not at all, there’s nothing. The first arson wasn’t for them. Not for them at all.”
Investigator: “What do you mean ‘not for them’?”
Neighbor: “They [the Arab arsonists] didn’t come for them to burn their house initially. There was another man who was working with Jews, who was a thief, and made all kinds of problems. Now he bought a house in Shechem [Nablus]. He had told people that he’s in Shechem, in some restaurant called such and such. So people knew his house [in Duma] was empty. So they went out to torch his house.”
A second house in Duma was targeted by arsonists during the same night the Dawabsheh home was hit, which the neighbor interviewed by the private investigator claims was the primary target of the Arab arsonists he blames for the fires.
Neighbor: “At the same time [as the first arson], they [the Dawabsheh family]…were going back to their home to go to sleep. They turned on the light. The people who were setting the fire thought that they [the Dawabsheh family] had seen them and knew they were the arsonists.”
“They thought that they saw and knew who had made the fire, so they burned” the Dawabsheh home, “so they wouldn’t reveal who burned the house. You get what I mean?”
The neighbor also claimed that Israeli investigators failed to take the testimonies of Duma residents.
in 2016, there were at least six arson cases in Duma village, where the warring local clans regularly use firebombing the way regular people use disparaging comments on Facebook. And, also, the names of the two warring clans are Dawabsheh and Dawabsheh.
Arson in the village of Duma: One of several arson attacks not attributed to Jewish perpetrators
A girl looks at the damage inside the house of Palestinian Dawabsheh family after it was torched in the village of Duma near Nablus, May 11, 2018
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