ed note–as the character Ned Flanders from the Simpsons used to say in the midst of difficult situations, ‘this is a dilly of a pickle’.
Technically, the defendant IS insane, by virtue of the Judaic indoctrination he received his entire life.
At the same time however, the deliberate incineration of an innocent 16-year-old boy named Mohammed Abu Khdeir by a group of fanatical Jews high-as-a-kite on the mind-altering substance known as Judahism poses a real problem to Israel in terms of PR at a time when her mad dog behavior is becoming more and more the topic of worldwide interest and discussion. She knows that her continued existence hinges on the very precariously-placed narrative she has crafted for herself as an ‘enlightened Western democracy’, and so, if this murderer were to be declared insane, resulting in YET ANOTHER war criminal being let off the hook, it would only contribute further to the Great Gentile Awakening presently taking place at an exponential rate.
Besides, in terms of the cost/benefit analysis associated with it, Israel is willing to trade the conviction of one terrorist in order to gain the acquittal of the entire terrorist infrastructure making up the IDF, Knesset, and office of Prime Minister.
And so, at the end of the day, what all are forced to conclude is that the entire process involving the prosecution of this war criminal is a sham performance done for the purposes of creating a narrative that facilitates the Jewish state’s continued existence as a barbaric, gangster enclave that must–by virtue of the very Judaic principles that are its founding codicils–result in horrific murders such as those involved in this particular case.
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A Jerusalem District Court-appointed psychiatrist has determined that Yosef Haim Ben-David, the main suspect in the murder of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir, is responsible for his actions and fit to stand trial, Channel 2 reported on Monday evening.
The psychiatrist also determined that Ben-David, 30, was not credible and was only pretending to be insane.
The psychiatric opinion was completed on Thursday – almost three months after the Jerusalem District Court ruled that Ben-David committed the murder, but did not convict him because of a previous psychiatric opinion presented by his attorneys which questioned his sanity.
The new psychiatric opinion will be presented to the judges, who are supposed to determine whether to convict Ben-David of the murder and to then sentence him accordingly.
In November, after the judges determined Ben-David was guilty of the crime, Hussein Abu Khdeir, the victim’s father, said that it did not make sense that “this criminal waited a year and a half before presenting an opinion that he’s insane. Where was that a year ago? I’m afraid the court acquits him. As Ecclesiastes said, ‘Everything is meaningless.’ I’m afraid more like him would pop up if the court does not create deterrence.”
Earlier this month, the two minors who were involved in the murder were convicted and sentenced – one, 18 years old, to life in prison and another, 17, believed to have had a lesser role in the crime, to 21 years imprisonment.
The two minors, 14 at the time, and Ben-Yosef snatched Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir from an East Jerusalem neighborhood in July 2014, driving him to a Jerusalem forest where he was burned to death. The murder was carried out in revenge for the abduction and killing earlier that summer of three Israeli teens by Hamas terrorists.
In response to the abduction, Israel rounded up Hamas members in the West Bank, sparking a barrage of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. Days after the Abu Khdeir murder, Israel began airstrikes in Gaza in an attempt to quell the rockets, resulting in a 50-day war.
One of the teenagers is also accused of the attempted kidnapping of Moussa Zalum, seven years old at the time, from Beit Hanina, and the State Attorney has asked for an additional imprisonment sentence on top of the life sentence.