Is this young woman a terrorist?

Who suggested protesting peacefully?

Thousands of Palestinian families get on with their own lives and don’t act like the family we are talking about who seem to have links to killings.
It doesn’t help anybody to shove and slap soldiers to provoke them.Who will ever solve the Middle East and it’s problems, but having Hamas in charge can only ever be a bad thing.Isreal has gone too far with land grabs ( although settlers have been removed from some areas ) but one side is never all right, and the other all wrong, and I dislike being manipulated with so called messages or pleas in cases like this.

Got to know a wonderful Belgian doctor in the UK - and we became friends. She was quite elderly, and used to tell me about her years fighting in the Maquis as a Résistante in France. I did ask her - but surely, there were other ways to fight against the Nazis and the French collaborators - and she said, NO there was not. I am so glad women and men like her fought for what was right. And yes, at times it was violent.

How do you 'get on with your onw life' when your land has been taken, your water, your orchard, your farm- and your family shot lemongrove? How?

Most Palestinians do.
Was this family residing in a tent?
In the case of the Middle East, violence is not the answer.

I'm amazed at the people who are castigating this family and blaming them for what has happened to them. If you have no political rights, if you are subject to discipline and attacks by armed soldiers, if you have lost your land, will lose your house and there is nothing you can do about it what other resource do you have apart from demonstration and protest? So for those who have posted about how the girl shouldn't have been allowed to approach the soldier, consider this, if things had gone differently in WW2 there might well have been German soldiers on the streets of your town, would you then have believed that resisting them was wrong?
The depravation suffered by the Palestinian people is a real abuse of human rights and Israel should charged and tried for this.

This link gives a little more background information about Ahed Tamimi, and her family.

This is just an excerpt: "^That Facebook post (Ahed Tamimi's) honored the teenage Palestinian terrorist who had just killed 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel in her sleep, after breaking into her home. As far as the Tamimis are concerned, the murder of the Jewish teen by a Palestinian just a few years older than her helped "to return to the homeland its awe/reverence."^

read more: www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.833071
www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.833071

Neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis are free of blame and there is much more to be read and understood than the original OP would have us believe.

Well said Chewbacca

Here here Chewbacca. This particular family's actions are disgusting. And the answer to the original question is- Yes she is a terrorist.

What is the answer Trisher- just lie down and watch everything you hold dear, including your family- just be beaten, humiliated and shot?

trisher, I'll stay with your words- I am glad some of you have some empathy and insight into what is happening to the Palestinians now. Thank you.

If I was a Palestinian living under their current conditions I'd sure as hell be a 'terrorist'!

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Jane10 - thought about saying that, but thought perhaps best not to. But yes, totally. Same under Apartheid - we visited the slavery Museum and District 6 Museum- and discussed what happened then and to the people afterwards - it was shameful and so cruel.

So would I Jane10, and I'm a pacifist. We are all products of our history and circumstances.

By the way, Birene, since when did you become the voice of the thread police to tell people how and why they could post?

Chewbacca Did you read the editorial in the link you posted?
Military prosecutors are determined to turn a few slaps by an adolescent who was born and grew up in an occupation into “aggravated assault.” They are using Tamimi to placate a vengeful public and send a deterrent message to young Palestinian men and women so they don’t dare rise up against the occupation.
Instead of putting an end to this wrong Israel perpetuates it. The problem is not Tamimi but the occupation. Not only was there no justification for indicting Tamimi, she should be released immediately.
In other words the blame is firmly placed on Israeli shoulders.

Have just listened to an interesting prog on r4 about simon sabah who as a citizen was living in israel in 1967 felt that israel should return the lands they had occupied during the war. His premise was that if this did not happen it would lead to oppression, war and hatred, which has proved to be the case.
He and his family were driven out of Israel with threats to their lives, came to England where he died 10 years ago.
I have had an interest in Israeli/palestinian events for over 30 years and u ntil recently the palestinian position was rarely given which has probably led to some ignorance of their lives and the losses they suffer.

I object to propaganda being aired on Gransnet. Should be deleted

Jura loves her wooden spoon.

How wonderful life would be if everyone thought exactly the same way.

Particularly if it was my way, Maizie.

Dean have you reported the OP to GNHQ and specified which guidelines it contravenes? That would clearly be the responsible adult action to take because of course there is absolutely no pro-Israeli propaganda on this thread is there?

Dean, there is no propaganda here. Following the discussion on Corbyn, with some declaring that he has been 'supporting' terrorists - when someone shared the story of this girl- it made me think. For me it was not about Palestine per se - but the plight of those people who are being oppressed by another regime. I thought that the title would make it clear that it was not about me - and that I was quoting someboy else.

So I do apologise if some didn't quite get the reason I posted - and I will of course accept any judgement from GNHQ. if they feel I contravened a guideline.

jura I was trying to be ironic/sarcastic. Dean’s post about propaganda was a little silly to say the least

Jura the woman doctor whom you met who was a member of the Maquis would have worked differently though, would she not? Rather than overtly taunting German soldiers the Maquis would have worked covertly or else their cover would have been blown and they would have been sent to labour camps.
Yes, it would at times have been violent but they also worked with stealth to help Jewish people to escape, escaped airmen etc. without drawing attention to themselves unduly.

But perhaps some did work differently, I only know what I have read about them.

trisher just read your post - however angry you might feel about the soldiers would it be better to work covertly rather than antagonising them in public?