“Peaceful” Friday Biilin protesters break Border Guard’s leg

If it’s Friday, this must be Biilin. I didn’t get around last week to linking the weekly riot. But there’s today’s:

A Border Police officer and four protesters – two of them Israeli citizens – were hurt during the weekly anti-security fence protest in Bil’in on Friday afternoon.

The Border Police officer broke his arm when protesters threw rocks at the security forces in the area.

IDF and Border Police troops dispersed the protesters using tear gas and stun grenades.

And here’s a report on last week’s fence riot, where the protesters got more violent than usual, and of course, blamed it all on the border guards.

At least 14 protestors and two officers were injured during violent protests against the security fence near Bilin, Friday afternoon. Some of the injured protestors are Israeli citizens, including known anarchist Jonathan Pollack.

An IDF officer, whose leg appears to have been broken, was wounded during an altercation with protestors. A border guard police officer was injured, also in the leg, from rocks thrown during the rally.

And let’s listen to how the “peace” protestors lie:

A protestor by the name of Kobi added: “We marched towards the fence and sat on the ground. Police and soldiers immediately began to shoot brutally with stun grenades and rubber bullets.”

He explained that crowd dispersal was undertaken by a unit of soldiers who had not been present at previous protests (which have taken
place in the village every Friday for the past two years) and described the troops as unusually violent.

Uh-huh. What’s the other side to the story?

The IDF had a slightly different story, reporting that the forces had responded with crowd dispersal gear when the protest this Friday became particularly severe, causing the injury of an IDF officer. As mentioned, a border guard police officer was also injured.

Figures. But notice this little tidbit towards the end:

The Bilin area calmed down after about an hour. Shortly afterwards, there were a number of similar clashes between IDF forces and Palestinians, during riots near Kalandia and Bitania, north of Jerusalem.

In one such incident, Palestinians threw Molotov cocktails at IDF forces north-east of Ramallah. Palestinians also opened fire at an Israeli civilian vehicle during a violent riot near the Kalandia refugee camp. There were no ensuing casualties or damages in either incident.

Interesting. So these were coordinated attacks in several places. Funny, how those “spontaneous” riots by the pals never seem so spontaneous when you look at the overall picture.

Yep. The ISM and PalSolidarity. They’re all about the peace.

Not.