Israel Released Detained Palestinian-American Teen After Kushner Intervened

 

Israel Released Detained Palestinian-American Teen After Kushner Intervened — Sources

 

Israel agreed to release a Palestinian-American teenager detained for over nine months after US President Donald Trump’s top aide Jared Kushner intervened on the boy’s behalf last month, a US official and a second source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.

Israel detained Mohammed Ibrahim in February on allegations that he threw stones at Israeli troops in the West Bank — a charge his family denies. Ibrahim was never charged and instead held using a controversial practice known as administrative detention, where suspects can be held indefinitely without due process. The tool is employed against several thousand Palestinians and a number of Israeli Arabs; Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered an end to its application against Israeli Jews earlier this year.

Ibrahim turned 16 in prison, and his family said that his health significantly deteriorated, as he lost over 20 pounds and contracted scabies — both common consequences for Palestinian prisoners, according to Israel’s own Public Defender’s Office. A Florida resident, Ibrahim was visiting family in the West Bank when he was arrested.

Ibrahim’s family lobbied US lawmakers for his release, and the boy’s case eventually was brought to the attention of Kushner, who contacted senior Israeli officials demanding his release, the US official and second source said. Washington took particular issue with the fact that a US citizen was being held without charge by an allied country, the sources said.
– The Times of Israel

Our Take: My two main takeaways from this story are:

1) Jared Kushner seems like a good man who takes a lot of flak from various segments of the MAGA coalition — not just the Groypers — who accuse him of being sinister. This probably was a favor asked of him by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but the fact that he pushed to make it happen, ending a nine month imprisonment that has been imposed without any charges being filed, shows that he has the clout among the Israelis to make such things happen, and the willingness to exercise that influence for something good.

And,

2) Why the hell is the government of Israel imprisoning a 16 year old child from a foreign nation? Especially without filing charges? And keeps him imprisoned for nine months? Without due process?

(Remember: This is being reported by The Times of Israel, which is basically state media.)

Tell me more about the origins of antisemitism, and how it is spread. Tell me more about how nations like Qatar spend millions of dollars to “brainwash” people online into disliking Israel.

Did Qatar make the government of Israel do this? Did Qatar make Israel imprison a foreign child for nearly a year without due process? Did Qatar send in the American to rescue the child, showing the world the power of American (Christian) grace?

Obviously, Jared Kushner doesn’t look at this 16 year old kid and see the same monster that Israel sees. If he did, he would have made up an excuse for why he couldn’t get him released, and most likely Palestinians would have begrudgingly accepted it. Instead, we see a clear-cut example of how American culture is morally superior to that of Israel. The American did not see things the way the Israeli did, though both were Jewish. And we can recognize that we are seeing two different cultures at work.

So maybe it isn’t antisemitism; maybe it is merely anti-Israel?

Regardless, Israeli culture has a serious moral decay that will need to be addressed if there is going to be peace and harmony in the Middle East.

It is past time for us, as both Christians and Americans, to start that conversation. – GhostofBasedPatrickHenry