Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, MD, on vaccine safety

"In 1983, when I started medical school, I was taught vaccines were safe and effective and give them, but I was not taught about any of the science around their safety or any of the studies around how safety were done. And it wasn't until 1998, that a mother came up to me and said “Dr. Larry, did you know there's mercury in vaccines?" And I said, "No, I did not." And as a medical student I was trained to critically think. If you see an observation you go after it and try to figure out if there's a question to ask. So instead of just ignoring it, I looked further into the vaccine ingredients. And I found that there were a number of vaccine ingredients that in animal studies were proven to be very dangerous to animals and I didn't understand why these same ingredients were actually in vaccines. I was starting to hear stories from parents, not dozens, not hundreds, but thousands of stories from parents who took a very healthy child into their doctor's office and then found that their child lost much of their health whether it was their speech, whether it was seizures, whether it was death, whether it was asthma, allergies, eczema, whether it was autism, whether it was learning disabilities, whether it was inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune diseases. And every one of those parents were told it had nothing to do with the vaccine, every single one. And this continues today. But yet, when I look at the ingredients that are in the vaccines, I have the science to actually explain how these medical problems could be happening in these children. Today 1 child in 5 is learning disabled. In 1976, it was 1 in 17. 1 in 6 under age 8, 1 in 2 adolescents, and 1 in 4 young adults is diagnosed with a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder. 1 in 20 children under the age of 5 have seizures. 1 child in 40 develops autism. The number of cases of children and adults with autoimmune diseases is rising exponentially. It's one of the highest rising diseases in this country. And the vaccine ingredients, if you are willing to look at them and understand how they work when they are injected into the body, can be seen to be responsible for every single one of these cases.  

"So, what are these ingredients? Well, when I was in medical school, we were taught that the body has something called the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier is like Fort Knox to the brain. Elements of the blood stream cannot get into the brain. And those elements include drugs, viruses, and bacteria, among other things that are in the blood. Drug companies were very concerned about being able to develop drugs to get the drugs into the brain. And so, they used something called a nanoparticle - nanoparticle, very small particle bound to the drug. And they found that if they could put a nanoparticle onto a drug, they could get that drug to go into the brain. And it shows in animal studies that they were able to do this. They then were able to take an emulsifier which is something that's good with water and fat, it can dissolve in both, and if they added the emulsifier to the nanoparticle bound to the drug they could increase drug entry into the brain twenty-fold. This is right out of animal studies that I have found. So you have a drug, you have a nanoparticle, and you have this emulsifier. The vaccines are constructed the same way. You have the vaccine viruses and bacteria that are bound to a nanoparticle called aluminum. And that aluminum is a nanoparticle. And by definition, a nanoparticle has the potential to enter the brain. Most vaccines also contain polysorbate 80 or sorbitol. Both of those compounds are emulsifiers. Emulsifiers bind very tightly to the nanoparticle aluminum which is bound very tightly to the vaccine antigens.

“This raises a question: if the vaccine model is the same model as the model that the drug companies are using to enhance the delivery of drugs into the brain, is it possible that vaccine ingredients are making their way into the brain of our children that could explain why so many parents are watching their kids deteriorate after vaccinations even though the doctors, the media, and the government say absolutely no connection, even though the science suggests that there is. You cannot find a single study in the literature that addresses whether the injection of aluminum into the body penetrates the brain, whether any vaccine ingredients enter the brain, and whether polysorbate 80 enhances the delivery of any of those ingredients into the brain. And when I could not find those studies I was concerned. Because I am told, you are told, vaccines are safe. They are evaluated and very, very distinctly tested for safety. But yet, you cannot find a study that says does aluminum get into the brain of children, does aluminum take other vaccine ingredients into the brain that don’t belong in the brain. Because when ingredients get across the blood brain barrier that don’t belong in the brain, they cause inflammation. And inflammation is what we see in 1 in 5 children with learning disabilities and 1 in 40 children with autism. All you have to do is ask the guidance counselors and if you get honest pediatricians who are telling you what they are seeing in their practice, they are seeing kids one after another with more and more brain disorders.

"Now, as a medical doctor, who was taught to think and then went into the literature, and said, are proper science studies done, safety studies, where you take a vaccine and you inject it into 100 kids, and then you give 100 kids a saline placebo, meaning it’s inert - no study exists to actually evaluate the safety of a vaccine compared to a placebo group. None. When vaccines are studied, the maximum amount of days that vaccines are studied are up to 10 days to two weeks. And unfortunately, the vaccine manufacturers preselect what side effects that they will allow to be associated with the vaccines. So if a child has a vaccine reaction that is associated with the vaccine, the vaccine manufacturers will decide whether or not it should or should not be associated with the vaccine. And the public knows this and they are learning it more and more. So if your child develops seizures 5 months after a vaccine, your child is told by the doctor it had nothing to do with the vaccine. But that’s not true, because there are no studies to prove it. There is opinion. But there’s never been a study really addressing whether a vaccination at two months or even 9 hours of age could be related to an event that happened months or even years later. And yet, we have some of the sickest children in our country.  

“In New York we lost the religious exemption on June 13th because the unvaccinated children with a religious exemption were blamed for a measles outbreak. When I met with representatives in New York, I told them that there is no study to prove that unvaccinated children have ever been proven to start an epidemic. And he (one of the representatives) was surprised and he said I will vote against removing the religious exemption if I can't find a study like you say. He could not find a study, but he voted to repeal the exemption anyway. Because there are no studies, there are no studies proving that unvaccinated children are responsible. There's consensus and here's why there's consensus. We are taught that vaccines stop the children from carrying the germs that we are vaccinating against. And study after study shows that children who are vaccinated can still carry the germ despite having received the vaccine. So the vaccinated are still capable of spreading disease, but the unvaccinated are being unfairly blamed because of a consensus opinion but not true science. To repeat, no study, no science has ever proven that vaccines eliminate the existence of the organism in your body. If anything, science is showing that the vaccines cause the organisms to mutate. And there are plenty of articles showing that strains are replaced by new strains after vaccinations similarly to the way antibiotics are bringing about new strains of bacteria because of the overuse of antibiotics.

“So why are we blaming the unvaccinated children? No study has ever been done in this country appropriately to address the health outcomes of children who were vaccinated versus the children who were unvaccinated. I have been seeing families in my practice for over 20 years that have opted out of vaccination. They are the healthiest children I have ever seen. I have families who have older children who have been vaccinated, middle children who have been partially vaccinated, and then younger children who have not been vaccinated at all. And those families are rising in number and they see the difference between the health outcomes of their younger children who are rarely sick versus their older children who are getting I.E.P.’s in schools [Individualized Educational Program], needing medications, ER’s, and constant health issues. And all I get when I state something like that is well that’s anecdotal. Well, it’s anecdotal if you see it a couple of times but it’s not anecdotal when you see it for over 20 years and when you speak to parents and when you speak to teachers and when you speak to guidance counselors. And when I speak to pediatricians who are too afraid to come out in public. There is pressure to ostracize the families who know the science and know the lack of science that is available. There’s a lot of consensus. And when I think about the subject of vaccination, I want to ensure that if we are going to prevent infectious diseases in children, that we don’t create something worse in its place. Unfortunately, we’re dealing with a lot of beliefs instead of actual science and beliefs go a long way. I took the oath of first do no harm, but when I look into the science and I don’t see long term studies and I see only short term studies up to 4 to 10 days where the side effects are manipulated by the manufacturers who are the only ones doing the studies on the vaccines, and when I see no placebo groups and I see no studies of the single ingredients or the combined ingredients and I see the science, the biochemistry of the ingredients in animal studies where animals who are given the aluminum are found to have motor delays and behavior problems which is a great deal of what we are seeing in children today, I say are we first doing no harm? And so, first do no harm means the precautionary principle. And more and more parents are understanding the dangers of vaccines, and that’s why we are seeing such pressure to mandate vaccines because more of the science is coming out.

“In order to create herd immunity, you have to be able to prove that children who are vaccinated are immune. And the sad part about that is that whenever you vaccinate a population of children, you are always gonna have a population that doesn’t develop any antibodies at all. The estimates of that are about 10%. That vaccines will fail in 10% of the population. Vaccination, no antibody production. But the next group is even more suspicious. Because when you vaccinate and you do produce an antibody, there is science to show that the presence of an antibody doesn’t guarantee immunity either. And we don’t know the percentage of children who get a vaccine, develop an antibody but aren’t immune at all. We assume that if we vaccinate, we are getting protection. We assume that if we vaccinate, we are stopping spread of disease. Those are assumptions that have never been solidified in science. And I’m happy to offer more explanations during the Q and A. I wouldn’t say that if I didn’t have the science to prove it.

“The parents that I work with in New York, that I see around the country, are very concerned that their rights are being taken away, that their knowledge about the science is being pushed away by an agenda that only says unvaccinated children are a problem. Just to wrap up, in New York when we had the measles outbreak, I’m sorry in California when they had a measles outbreak, there were 194 cases. Of the 194 cases, 73 cases were due to the actual virus in the vaccine itself. 73, 38 percent. 73 cases were due to the measles virus causing measles.  All the literature states that measles virus infection is not true measles and should not be counted as a health threat. That means only 121 kids developed measles, 121 people. New York State did not do the proper testing that’s given down by the CDC to test every child to see if the children had measles strain, wild type measles, or a mutated measles. There are cases around the country and around the world where in a 95 to 98% vaccinated population they had measles outbreaks because they found mutated viruses. As I said before, there are cases where the virus mutates, where there are strain replacements.  New York State did not do the proper testing of the 1,000 plus young children and adults who came down with measles. They wrote a little blurb on the CDC website of the two wild viruses that were responsible for the measles outbreak but we in New York know that the testing was not done. 4,200 kids on Long Island had the religious exemption and were not vaccinated and there was not one case of measles on Long Island. Thank you.” 

Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, MD, a board-certified pediatrician with 31 years of experience as a physician, testifying at the Legislative Informational Forum, an informational forum on the science behind vaccines at the Connecticut state Capitol. Dr. Palevsky who is licensed to practice medicine in New York State, earned his medical degree in 1987 from the New York University School of Medicine, one of the top medical schools in the world. He completed a three-year pediatric residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC in 1990 and served as a pediatric fellow in the ambulatory care out-patient department at Bellevue Hospital, NYC, from 1990-1991. Since 1991, his clinical experience includes working in pediatric emergency and intensive care medicine, in-patient, and out-patient pediatric medicine, neonatal intensive care medicine, newborn and delivery room medicine, and conventional, holistic and integrative pediatric private practice. He received his pediatric board certification in 1990, and passed his pediatric board recertification exams in 1997, 2004, and 2011.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/10/06/dr-palevsky-disease-vaccines.aspx

THE WILLIAM DAVIDSON STORY

“He was optimistic, as most good entrepreneurs are,” recalls Peter Walters, who, before retiring, served as Guardian’s group vice president for international business development. “Entrepreneurs see things as having good outcomes — as opposed to the conservative finance people who would ask, ‘What would happen if the world comes to an end? Would we still be successful?’

https://williamdavidson.org/who-we-are/the-william-davidson-story/

Wonderwall

And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don't know how

Noam Gallagher

Elections again

The true cause is idol worship. Israelis worship the military like a god and want the Charedim to bow to that god. Why else the insistence that Charedim be drafted? There are already 18,000 soldiers too many. Because it's not fair? Is it fair that we keep Shabbos our whole lives and you party? Is it fair that the military is crafted in the image of Chiloni apikoris and arrogance? Hey Chiloni, how about you be a Toldos Aaron chossid for 2.5 years. That kind of culture clash is what you are demanding of us. You demand we join your culture, maybe you should join ours. How do you have three elections and none of the normal issues of a society get discussed: the economy, security, education, health. That's what normal societies talk about. The Mistake of Israel is not a normal society. It wasn't formed naturally as other societies are. It was formed as a rebellion against God and Torah. And so you get a political stalemate which is essentially all about the draft and a peacetime draft. There hasn't been war with another nation in 50 years but Israelis insist on the draft as if it were mesorah from Sinai. For them, it is mesorah, mesorah from Herzl, the man who wanted to convert all the Jews to Catholicism, mesorah from Ben Gurion, a self-professed atheist who according to Yeshayahu Leibowtiz hated religion more than any other person he had ever met, mesorah from Jabotinsky who was a fascist atheist. Choose your god Israel. Do you worship the Creator of heaven or earth or the Baal? It's one or the other.

A Little Respect Please

A Little Respect Please

From their broadcast studios, wearing fancy suits on loan from the TV networks, with their noses covered in powder to prevent sweat from shining up their foreheads under the studio lights, the sports analysts keep telling us that sports is all about championships and Michigan football hasn’t won any in modern history, which is the only history they seem to care about. “The most overrated program in history,” said one pundit. The disrespect Michigan is getting is off-putting.

It’s a strange notion that sports is all about championships. If that’s true, sports fans are fools because only one team wins every year. Sports viewing is a voluntary activity. Why would millions of people spend all that time if 95% of them are going to hang their heads in sorrow all through the offseason? Life presents enough sadness that we can’t escape. Why pay good money and spend precious time enduring more?

Now Michigan football has won national championships in modern history, which really should be defined as the AP era. It won in 1947 and it won a kind of protest symbolic post-bowl game national championship AP vote in 1948. It also won in 1997. The analysts keep calling the Lloyd Carr championship half a championship. If you win all your games, it is not half a championship. The NCAA, which also was not obsessed with national championships until the world turned rotten, didn’t have in those days a title game and a kind of way of determining an undisputed champion on the field. The AP voted for Michigan. That’s a full championship. The analysts keep talking about that exciting year as if the Michigan team and Coach Carr did something wrong. They won all their games fellas. What else can you do?

But that doesn’t even matter that much to me since I don’t watch sports to see my team become national champion. It’s nice to have one or two under your belt but I don’t need a dozen of them. I watch sports to be entertained and inspired. I want to see a good game, a competitive contest where people with enormous athletic skill, unlike me who has little, run really fast, jump very high, throw the ball very far, engage in dazzling feats of strength and footwork, and employ strategy and teamwork.

I love those moments just before the game begins, when the captains head out for the coin toss. They look so focused and determined. They are prepared for the contest. They are going to give it their best. And they do it as a unit, sometimes even holding hands! Hulking he-men holding hands in unity. How interesting. How unlike any place I ever worked. Something big must be happening out there in the field. How exciting. It gives my dull life a little voltage. That’s entertainment.

With college football in particular, I like the pageantry. I like cool uniforms and big stadiums and singable fight songs and mascots and excited fan bases. I like a team that stays in one place. Somebody tell me please, what’s an Indianapolis Colt? I’m sorry but Colts are from Baltimore.

College teams don’t move to better markets. Often, too often, they mess with the makeup of their league like when the Big Ten became the Big Thirteen and invited metro New York and DC onto the cow farm. I won’t complain about that right now. I take comfort that Badgers are from Wisconsin and Sooners are from Oklahoma. If that ever changes, I will stop watching altogether. I promise.

And speaking of Wisconsin, I like the rivalry with Wisconsin. I like the rivalry with MSU even more. I like the one with Minnesota too. There’s a lot of history there. I am entertained when Michigan goes up against Iowa. Leather helmets flash before my eyes. I see Neil Kinnock racing one way and Tom Harmon racing the other. Michigan has won many rivalry games and lost many and has entertained me most of the time. The contemporary sports analysts only seem to care when #1 plays #2. I like it when an unranked Illinois plays an unranked Purdue. It’s Midwestern football baby with or without your rankings. I love it. I care more about the Big Ten championship than a national one. I’m serious. And Michigan football has won plenty of those. Big Ten football baby. 

There’s always been an inherent problem with college football national championships even under the current system as sports writers and coaches historically have had a significant role in determining the winner or currently who plays to be the winner. Even if their choices are reasonable ones, the process is not very exciting except to themselves. 

Championships in any sport leave me with an empty feeling after a few days. I’m not into conquest I guess. Plus, what did I do? I watched passively. Maybe I added my voice to the crowd, one of 105,000. A good sports story is much more meaningful to me. It is not hollow when athletes inspire me to go about my life with more passion. That’s what Michigan football did for me this year as they had some trouble early on and heard all kinds of abuse but roused themselves and played like tigers the rest of the season. So they lost to OSU. Who hasn’t? And if they come back from that loss and play like tigers against Alabama in the Citrus bowl they will have inspired me again. Thank you boys.

The college football championship is doubly empty because much of it happens not on the playing field but in the calculations and biases of people who are not on the field. In college football, to win the national championship, a team usually needs a perfect record. Three of the four teams playing in the playoffs this year all have perfect records and style points on top of that, meaning they shamefully beat up on weaker teams. We are talking about college kids here folks. Young people aren’t perfect and their time is better spent rising from defeat than trying never to stumble. It’s more inspiring anyway, to watch a team get up after a defeat than being perfect. And smacking down weaker teams deep into the third quarter doesn’t help young men to build character.

One can learn much character playing sports if the coaches handle it right. Sports are full of lessons for life, even for fans. People who don’t understand sports think it’s all dumb jocks. But I have learned a ton from sports. From baseball legend Yogi Berra I learned that in theory there’s no difference between theory and practice but in practice there is. I don’t know if Yogi is even the originator of that brilliant quip, but I heard it from him. From sports I learned the term “mental toughness.” I saw the clip of Orlando Magic basketball player Matt Barnes faking an in-bounds pass towards Kobe Bryant’s head and Kobe not even blinking. The announcer said, you are not going to get into the head of Kobe Bryant. What a concept, not letting people in your head, not letting people intimidate you. I learned that from sports. I learned from NY Yankee Derek Jeter to slow down the game in my mind, to not fear failure, and to remember times I have been successful. I learned from Wisconsin quarterback Scott Tolzien to take it one play at a time, not to try to do too much, and to focus on my job. I learned from hockey legend Wayne Gretsky that I will miss 100% of the shots I don’t take.

I do try to limit my sports viewing because I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. But I find Michigan football irresistible because it provides all that I seek from sports. It always fields decent teams. Michigan football is as consistent as a workhorse. It finds superior athletes. It shows up for games. It has a terrific uniform, one that was voted by sports fans as the best in all of sports. It has one of the classic stadiums in all of sports. It has a rousing fight song, a spirited fan base, and historic rivalries. The one with Ohio State is often voted as the best in all of sports. So lately it’s been one-sided? For those who know any history, the game count is still has Michigan leading 58–51–6. Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields said, “I think we just take it more seriously than they do. We prepare for it all year.” Now that’s a rivalry. The sports analysts just see wins and losses. OSU and Michigan players see an on the field onslaught among rivals.

As for values and life lessons, Michigan football packs a wallop. I have a book on leadership from Bo Schembechler. Bo’s Lasting Lessons. It is so packed with wisdom that I have read it ten times. It is an amazing book. I’d wouldn’t exchange that book for 10 national championships. He says to honor the seniors - starters and backups - for that inspires the underclassmen to stick it out and do their best. One day they’ll be the seniors. Seniors fly first class. Underclassmen and coaches fly coach. He says to seek mentors not money and to listen before you lead. The book is chock full of wholesome wisdom that in our disturbed era is rarely heard or found.

Another Michigan coach who has taught me life lessons is Brady Hoke. Brady Hoke takes a lot of abuse for his tenure at Michigan even though his first year was full of big wins. As his days at Michigan were coming to an end, he endured what must have been significant personal embarrassment. A sportswriter, one of the sensible ones - a lady sportswriter actually - was asked about how he was reacting to it. She said, he’s taking it rather stoically. Indeed, he carried himself with dignity, absent of any public expressions of bitterness or blame. Thank you coach Hoke. What a lesson for life. Take it stoically. My goodness, what an incredible example you set. I have been trying to imitate that ever since I witnessed you doing it.

At Michigan, it’s not all about victory. We care about values, something sports analysts today with their big salaries know little about evidently. If you go to Stassen.com and look over the historic records of various teams, you’ll find an awful lot of vacated victories. In 2005, Alabama vacated all ten victories due to a textbook scandal. In 2006, they vacated all six wins; in 2007 the first five wins. In 2010, Ohio State vacated twelve wins due to playing ineligible players. In 2005, USC vacated all twelve wins due to NCAA violations along with two wins from the prior year. In 2006, Florida State vacated five wins and in 2007 all seven wins. 

Nothing like that appears on the Michigan page. The winningest program of all time has never been forced to vacate a victory. The football team has been clean of major scandal. It appears to be clean even of minor scandal, except for the time that non-Michigan man Rich Rodriguez was cited by the NCAA for exceeding practice limits. He still disputes the citation saying, “"We got in trouble for, in the offseason, a strength coach putting a rubber ball on a stick for a get-off thing when (players) did their running. A rubber ball on a stick.”

The sum of the matter is that the sports analysts need to learn a little respect, but they probably never will. They can go on pontificating from Manhattan Island with the East River floating behind their heads. I grew up in New York. There was little interest in college football there. Why are so many of the decisions about the sport and so much of the analyses made about it made on Manhattan Island? Like the Rock n’Roll Hall of Fame, news programs discussing college football should be based in Ohio or at least Alabama or Indiana or Michigan. Even Southern California would be a more appropriate choice because there is meaningful interest in college football there.

I had my suspicions that creating a national championship playoff system was going to have its drawbacks and the cheapening of the game is one of them. Michigan football has much of which to be proud, has contributed mightily to college football, and will continue to do so. Many of the analysts don’t get it. But to reapply a line from the old Lynyrd Skynyrd song, “I hope the sports writer will remember, a Michigan man doesn’t need him around anyhow.” 

independence

 you cannot live your life on the basis of what other people think you should do, because when the chips are down, nobody really cares. You're giving them a power they don't really have.  roger ebert on a bronx tale

10-year-old Palestinian Boy's Arrest by Israeli Troops

Gideon Levy Chilling Testimony From a 10-year-old Palestinian Boy's Arrest by Israeli Troops
In hot pursuit of masked youths in a Palestinian town, soldiers arrested, handcuffed and blindfolded 10-year-old Qusay al-Jaar, then took him away to be interrogated. He, his father and cousin recall the ordeal

Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Nov 08, 2019 10:07 AM, Haaretz

He’s a fifth-grader, 10 years old, with a speech impediment that constantly hampers him. He is the eldest of the four siblings in his family. Their home is small and cramped, located deep within the town of Beit Ummar, between Bethlehem and Hebron. It’s a town that evokes a feeling of despair, just upon entering it: There is a fortified guard tower, an iron barrier that is sometimes manned and sometimes not, a narrow road, neglect, commotion and filth. Merging onto Highway 60 is dangerous, almost impossible. But who needs a proper intersection with traffic lights? This is a Palestinian town, after all.

Wearing a black shirt, Qusay al-Jaar has a child’s captivating smile. His mother, Hitam, sits next to us in the small living room. The father, Ibrahim, works in construction in Israel.

On Friday, October 18, Qusay, together with a cousin, 17-year-old Rami, helped Ibrahim clear rocks from the roof of their one-story house, in order to put in flooring. The work involved filling pails with the rocks and taking them downstairs. Qusay would took the pails by bike to a place behind the house, where other construction debris was dumped. They began work in the morning: Being Friday, there was no school.

Sometime around 6 P.M., they noticed two young masked people running down the street outside, an army jeep in hot pursuit. With their disguises, Qusay and his cousin couldn’t identify the two, who fled into the alleyways, the vehicle behind them.

 few minutes later, the jeep returned, without having caught the masked people, and stopped next to Qusay, who was standing outside with his bike. Four Israel Defense Forces soldiers got out, grabbed Qusay by his shirt and dragged him forcefully into the vehicle. His mother and father shouted and tried to approach the jeep to free him. The troops fired into the air and hurled tear-gas canisters. Hitam was fearful for her son and for the safety of two of her other children, Ruya, her 3-year-old daughter, and the 18-month-old Umar, who were also on the roof at the time.

Ibrahim al-Jaar gave the following testimony to Musa Abu Hashhash, a field researcher for B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization: “I was removing debris from the roof of my house ahead of tiling. My nephew, Rami, who’s 17, and my son Qusay, 10, were helping me. They each got a pail from me, which they emptied near the house. Qusay carried the pail on his bike and then came back for another load. While this was going on, with me on the roof of the house, I saw two masked children running on the street nearby. I saw a jeep driving fast and figured it was pursuing the two of them.

“I went on working. After about five minutes the jeep returned and stood across from the house. Four or five soldiers got out. I saw Rami and Qusay standing next to the house. Two of the troops snatched Qusay quickly and pushed him into the jeep, and one of them shut the door. When I saw that, I jumped down from the roof. One of two soldiers fired two shots in the air. I saw Rami trying to approach the back part of the jeep; he tried to pull Qusay out. The soldiers kicked Rami hard in the stomach and shouted at him. I pulled Rami away and tried to calm him down.

“Very quickly women from the neighborhood arrived, and also my wife, Hitam, and she tried to intervene. My wife started to cry and begged the soldiers to release the boy. The soldiers threw stun grenades and tear gas, and then got into the jeep and drove away toward [the settlement of] Karmei Tzur. I had tried to explain to them that the boy is my son and that he was working with me; the soldiers spoke in Hebrew and ordered me to back off and shut up. I tried more than once to get close to the jeep, and my wife also tried, in order to get Qusay back, and then one of the soldiers fired a shot in the air.

“I calculated that the jeep was going to the military base next to Karmei Tzur. I went there with my two brothers, Mahmoud and Maher. The soldiers allowed only me inside. I saw Qusay, his hands bound in front and blindfolded, sitting on a chair, crying and scared.

“I stood near Qusay. There was a soldier – not one of the ones who arrested him – who asked him about his friends and people who throw stones. I tried to intervene, but the soldier ordered me not to. He asked Qusay about older friends, and Qusay told him he doesn’t have any older friends. The soldier said he was looking for an older boy named Abdallah. I intervened more than once during Qusay’s interrogation. The interrogating soldier said that he wouldn’t stop asking questions until Qusay gave him the names of the stone throwers.

“The soldier questioned me about the two minors who ran past the house before Qusay’s arrest. I told him that I didn’t know them and that both were masked. I heard Qusay tell the soldier that he wanted to go back home. The soldier told him he would be able to go back, but that he was waiting for an order. Qusay was released at 9:30 P.M. and I went home with him. Qusay was frightened and confused, and I tried to calm him down. A few relatives and neighbors came over to welcome us. After he ate supper he went to sleep. During the last few nights he’s been waking up suddenly and looking all around.”

The cousin’s testimony: “I am Rami Alami and I live with my family in Beit Ummar – my parents are not alive. I am in the 11th grade. On Friday morning, I went to my uncle’s house to help remove covering from the roof of his house. At around 6 P.M., while we were working, I saw an army jeep driving fast along the road close to us. I thought they were chasing two young people (minors). The masked people ran along the road before the jeep arrived. Five minutes later, the jeep came back and stood under the house. Qusay was close to me, with his bike. Without asking a question, four soldiers got out. Two went over to Qusay and one of them grabbed him by the shirt collar and pulled him toward the jeep. I heard and saw Qusay crying and shouting, ‘I didn’t do anything.’

“Just then, I saw Ibrahim jump from the roof to the ground. He started to talk to the soldiers and told them that Qusay was a minor and that he had been working with him. He tried to pull his son away, but then a soldier fired a shot in the air. Qusay’s mother, my aunt, also came out and tried to get close to her son and pull him away, but one of the two soldiers pushed her and kept her from approaching. Some women and neighbors gathered around and tried to get closer. One of the soldiers threw tear gas and stun grenades to disperse them. I also tried to get close to the jeep and pull Qusay out. One of the soldiers kicked me twice, once in the stomach and once in the leg, and threatened to shoot if I tried it again.

“One soldier quickly shut the back door of the jeep. Qusay was still crying inside. The other soldiers got in and drove off in the direction of Karmei Tzur. I saw Ibrahim and his brothers getting into a vehicle and understood that they had decided to catch up with Qusay. I knew they [the troops] were sending him to the military base near Karmei Tzur.

“I waited at my aunt’s house until 9 o’clock, in the hope that Qusay would return, but decided to go home. I was tired and went to sleep early. I found out in the morning that Qusay had been released at 9:30 and that he was back home. I learned that a soldier had accused him of throwing stones and had questioned him about whether he knew the names of the children who threw stones.”

Qusay’s testimony: “On Friday I was helping my dad… Around 6 o’clock that evening, when I was carrying a pail on my bike, an army jeep passed the house going fast. Before that, I saw two masked children running along the road. One of them was wearing a green shirt that was the same color as my shirt. After a few minutes the jeep came back and pulled up next to our house. I had enough time to get on my bike and stand next to Rami. Four soldier got out of the jeep fast. Two came toward me and one of them pulled me by my shirt into the jeep. I saw Dad jump off the roof and he started to talk to the soldiers. I heard the sound of a bullet fired in the air.

“The door of the jeep was open. Mom came out of the house and tried to approach me. She asked the soldiers to let me go and [told them] that I was a minor and hadn’t done anything. I saw a soldier push her and not let her stand there. My cousin, Rami, tried to get closer, and then the soldier kicked him and pushed him away from the jeep. I saw and heard women and men around the jeep who were trying to help me and were talking to the army people. Suddenly I heard the sound of stun grenades and smelled [tear] gas. The soldiers got in fast and the jeep headed toward the settlement. I was scared and I cried the whole time. I said I didn’t do anything. One soldier covered my eyes in the jeep and put metal handcuffs on me. After a few minutes they took me out and put me on a chair next to an army tower.

“A soldier came over to me and pulled the blindfold up and started to ask me if I threw stones, and I said I didn’t. I told him I was helping Dad take things off the roof. The soldier asked me to repeat what I said, because I have a speech problem. After half an hour Dad got there and stood by my side. The soldier was still asking me and kept on asking me. He asked me about my friends and their names and ages. I told him that my friends are in my class. He said he wanted older friends. He also asked me to give him names of people who throw stones and I answered him that I don’t know a single one.

“After my father got there, the soldier took the handcuffs off my hands, after I told him they were too tight. I saw the soldier asking my father questions about the people who throw stones in the neighborhood. I kept on sitting in the chair the whole time.

“After 9 o’clock, I heard the soldier tell Dad that I was getting released and sent home and that he was waiting for an order on the phone. After a few minutes they let me go. I went home with Dad and with my uncles, who were waiting outside. A little bit after I got there I went to sleep, I was very tired. During the arrest I was very scared and I cried all the time. I only stopped crying when Dad came to the place where I was under arrest.”

The IDF Spokesman’s Office told Haaretz in response that the incident is now under investigation.

According to B’Tselem, at the end of August, a total of 185 Palestinian minors (under age 18) were incarcerated in Israeli prisons, two of them under the age of 14. In the past few years, the number of children and teens imprisoned by Israel has ranged between 180 and 400 at any given time.

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