To start with all this tape shows is that this girl assaulted IDF soldiers and they showed commendable restraint:
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/middleeast/ahed-tamimi-palestinian-activist/index.html.
Slapping, kicking, punching soldiers to try get them to loose their temper to create a brutality photo op for the PA was an epic fail.
This girl has been used as a photo and video prop by the PA since she was a little girl precisely because she is blonde and blue eyed and catches the camera's eye because of her physicality.
Here family have been using her as a prop since she was a very young child:
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-reality-behind-the-tamimi-family-s-resistance-1.5630465http://www.thetower.org/5815-advocates-for-terror-why-ahed-tamimi-and-her-family-are-no-heroes/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/02/ahed-tamimi-israel-occupation-palestinian-traumaTo answer Dia's question directly-some of us feel this girl is a prop- a young child who was taken at a very young age by her own parents to be used as
a political prop-a girl ironically who summarizes everything wrong with the Palestinian liberation movement-its choice to use its children to engage
in violence and pose that as a legitimate expression of heroic political discourse.
If that was my daughter and I have two, I would never have allowed her to be used this way in support of anyone.
Its a tragedy to see her parents exploiting her and using her as they do.
This is not a way to achieve peace or respect. This is a method to incite hatred and violence.
Its not working. Look back at the tape. It spits in the face of an attempt to suggest the IDF for no reason beat people and are evil.
This girl if anything needs to be liberated from her parents hatred and crass exploitation not Israelis.
Her parents are her worst abusers. To turn her into a hero is bullshit. She is a child abuse victim.
They may as well out her in a
**** film. Ethically there is no difference. None.