Murdered baby just part of 'Palestinian resistance'

Asher Palmer with son, Yonatan

A fine of about $890,000 imposed against a terrorist who murdered a father and his 1-year-old baby is a miscarriage of justice, because it "delegitimizes" the Palestinian Authority "resistance," contends a PA officer.

Issa Karake, who holds the rank of minister in the PA as the prisoners' affairs authority director, defines being a victim of Palestinian terrorism as "being exposed to resistance by Palestinians," reported Palestinian Media Watch.

Karake said Israeli courts have been "passing sentences on prisoners that force them to pay large sums in financial compensation to Israelis who have been exposed to resistance by Palestinians."

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Karake then cited the case of Ali Saada, a terrorist prisoner who along with Wa-al Al-Araja murdered Asher Palmer, 25, and his 1-year-old son, Yonatan, on Sept. 23, 2011.

PMW said Al-Araja threw two stones at Palmer's car from a vehicle driven by Saada, hitting the baby in the head and causing Palmer to lose control of his vehicle, which ran into a gulley, killing both of them instantly.

PMW's report included a longer excerpt from WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency:

"In a statement published today [Dec. 16, 2014], Prisoners’ Affairs Authority Director [and PA Parliament Member] Issa Karake said that the Palestinian government had, in accordance with the new prisoners’ regulations, stopped paying the fines continuously imposed on the prisoners by the occupation courts. He clarified that the occupation courts collect large sums from the prisoners, and that 95 percent of the verdicts pronounced by these courts involve fines, some of which are exceedingly high. ...

"Karake noted the existence of an even more severe policy, which the occupation courts have been adopting, and which involves the passing of sentences on prisoners that force them to pay large sums in financial compensation to Israelis who have been exposed to resistance by Palestinians (i.e., terror attacks). He noted that [a fine of] 3.5 million shekels had been imposed on prisoner Ali Sa'ada, as compensation for the families of the killed settlers, with the aim of delegitimizing the [Palestinian] national resistance against the occupation."