A video was released this week showing an apparent point blank execution in Jenin.
Rabhi Shalabi, 19, was driving his motorcycle with his cousin.According to reports, he was carrying a carton of onions. He stops at a makeshift checkpoint. The Palestinian police vehicle is clearly visible. The cousins wait to be waved on through, as they are every day.
But this day Rabhi was shot dead, and the cousin got shot in the eye. (The cousin is in front, he can be seen waving his hand right before the gunshot.)
Unlike videos taken at Israeli checkpoints that show the security services shooting terrorists, there is no chaos. No split second decisions. No aggression from the victim. No threat. The shooter had ten solid seconds to size up the situation before deciding to shoot.
At first the Palestinian Authority denied it was responsible, claiming the cousins were shot by armed gangs. Only when the video was released did they grudgingly admit that they shot them.
And outside Arabic media, this story gained no traction at all. No press releases from human rights groups (although the local office of the UN human rights office did condemn it.) The main group condemning the PA is its rival Hamas.
The reason, of course, is because there are no Jews in the area to blame.
Palestinian lives only matter when those lives can be fodder for Jew-hatred. Otherwise, no one gives a damn.
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