'Where's your America First?': US teenager stuck in Israeli jail for six months
In the early hours of the morning on 16 February, US citizen Zaher Ibrahim, his wife and two of his children were asleep in their home in the occupied West Bank. They woke to loud banging and shouting outside. When Ibrahim opened the door, he found around 25 to 30 Israeli police officers outside.
They came in, handcuffed and blindfolded his 16-year-old son Mohammed, and took him to Moscovia detention centre in Jerusalem. After a few weeks, in mid-March, he was taken to Megiddo prison, and is now at the notorious Ofer prison, where he was moved to in mid-August. Mohammad was in Palestine on holiday when he was detained. Ibrahim takes his children back regularly, sometimes twice a year, so that they can maintain a connection with their culture and ancestral lands.
Ibrahim said that the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, came to visit him at his home in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli settlers killed Mohammed’s cousin Sayfollah Musallet in July. “He [Mike] came and sat for an hour. And you know, we got a lot of words that he’s gonna do what he can do. Nothing was done," Ibrahim told Middle East Eye from Silwad, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
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He's the wrong kind of American. The 'America First'
mantamantra only applies to straight, white, protestant Christian conservative Americans. Anyone outside of that narrow window is the enemy to those pushing this dogma.And even if they were in that narrow range there's still no guarantee the US would lift a finger to help.
What's marine life got to do with this?
Yeah, they're trying to starve him to death.
Israel has already starved children to death in their extermination camps this year.
Western media does not report on it very much because it is not Israeli ubermenschen.
What? Western media is covering it every day. Wtf are you watching?
In Gaza, usually without mentioning the perpetrator and blaming Hamas.
Not the starvation in the extermination camps fully under Israel control.
https://www.dci-palestine.org/17_year_old_palestinian_child_prisoner_starved_to_death_by_israeli_prison_guards
If that were an Israeli child the title would say "child starved to death by Hamas". But you are right this one was reported. I did not see the reports earlier.
Here is a recent one which fully went under the radar in Western media: Palestinian child seeking aid abducted in Gaza and thrown from roof as torture
https://www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_child_seeking_aid_tortured_in_israeli_military_detention_camp
Israel is even killing Palestinians by throwing them from roofs now:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/shackled-gaza-detainee-died-under-shin-bet-interrogation-after-falling-height
idk what shitty media you're watching, but the US has tons of amazing media outlets that are covering the genocide quite well
Even working under the veeeery generous assumption that he DID do what Israeli police are claiming—throwing rocks— 6 months in jail in horrible conditions and no definitive end date in sight is absolutely ridiculous.
Ofer prison is notorious for torture.
This shit wouldn't happen in America, land of freedom! Right?
Israel kidnaps American children while Israeli pedos in America walk free.
Never have I seen a country with less dignity than America right now.
America is two continents, not a country
American exceptionalism states the America means the US and South America does not exist.
This is part of the Israel First policy, isn't it?
Israel takes yet another hostage. Release the hostages!
American interests first. That's a dog whistle for monied interests. Billionaires.
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
"America First" refers to the order in which they intend to tear things down.