The lunacy the left-wing is capable of reaching surpasses new heights every day, with the latest example being a left-wing activist claiming that the hero who shot the Tel Aviv terrorist committed a criminal offense.
Yariv Oppenheimer, who served as the director for Peace Now for a year and a half before resigning in 2016, responded to the video of the Israeli hero shooting the terrorist, neutralizing him. After a few seconds, he saw the terrorist move and shot two more bullets at him, seconds apart.
Oppenheimer commented: “It is the duty of the gun carrier to neutralize the danger but the second shot was borderline, the third shot, in a state of law, is a criminal offense.”
Apparently, Oppenheimer wanted the terrorist to live so Israeli taxpayers could fund his college education in prison.
Meanwhile, the hero, Kobi Yekutiel, told Radio 103 FM on Wednesday that after he shot the terrorist once or twice in his upper body, he continued his spree and fell to the floor with the old man he was trying to stab. “He still took the knife and raised it to the head of this old man,” Yekutiel said. “I didn’t think twice. I went very close so as not to hurt the old man and I put two bullets in him and neutralized him.”
Yekutiel said he was shaking and praying because when the terrorist saw him pull out his gun, he ran toward him with the knife. “My legs were shaking. I was praying, let the bullet come out because if not, I was dead,” he said.
Police Chief Kobi Shabtai praised Yekutiel, who saved countless lives by “succeeding in preventing the continuation of the murder spree.”
Unfortunately, the report about Oppenheimer isn’t surprising considering his history of working against his own people. Not only was he involved with Peace Now, but a Haaretz report in 2011 revealed that Oppenheimer maintained contact with the U.S. Embassy and gave them information about Israeli settlement construction in the Shomron.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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16 Responses
Not such a lunacy. even if emotionally and indeed rationally, yes the guy deserves to be shot, and we can all agree that he deserves that and more. However from a very logical perspective the risk here is that as soon as we become lax on people taking the law into their own hands in a legal setting where they cannot do so, than the risk is that in a less universally agreeable scenario, people may take the law into their own hands and this can be dangerous. and is wrong. so not such a lunacy. correct me if I am wrong.
That’s so messed up that why there is anti semites in this world
justanotherposhiteryid, it’s one thing to demand such weighed action from law enforcement, who are specially trained; but this is not an officer responding. This is a citizen acting upon self-defense.
The guy deserved it, the hero citizen is not trained to decide in seconds whether or not the threat is truly over, and in most instances law enforcement would do the exact same thing.
Your comment, about taking the law into their own hands, is completely out of place. Are you insinuating that he shouldn’t have neutralized a terrorist? Probably not, and are just reusing a phrase out of place.
If the vid of guy killing the sleazebag linked from this article hasn’t been AI modified — then those last 2 shots looked unnecessary unless to make a point and prevent other sleazebags from similar activity..in theory perhaps noble but that can’t be permitted based on j’s first comment which I agree with
justanotherposhiteryid
This is not taking the law into your hands. This is making shore that a murderer on a rampage r”l to kill innocent people, who will not stop as long as he is still breathing, is stopped with certainty. Just like pekuach nefesh is doche Shabbos, so the opposite, to kill a murderer, if we have even a safek that he has the ability ch”v to go further, than we are mechuyav to kill him.
If rationally the “guy” or actually terrorist attempted murderer in “logical” language, deserves to be shot, as justanotherposhiteryid agrees, what is his complaint? The rambling nonsense of the leftist anarchist Oppenheimer is total lunacy.
This has ”the cops should have shot the gun out of his hand or shot him in the leg” vibes. Classic idiotic comments from people who have no idea what its was like to actually be in that situation.
I really don’t get why this is lunacy. How anti-Halachic can you get?! We can’t kill a rotzeach once he’s already on the ground. And you’re justifying KILLING someone so that he doesn’t cost the state money? What an absurd distortion of values? It’s really crazy that people in Israel are against prisoners because of the cost. That’s simply how the world works. Even death penalty advocates don’t say that they want it because they don’t want murderers to cost the state money. It shows a real perverse set of values.
I know Jewish people who would have shot him and then immediately gone over and administered first aid. The contrast with this is staggering.
There’s a reason we have due process (which costs tons of money) even for mass shooters. Of course there won’t be any evidence that a mass shooter was innocent. But once he doesn’t have a gun, if the police shoot him to save the state money then the police should go to jail I think. That’s how the system works. It’s literally in the US Constitution.
Fifth Amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
danny boy,
Instead of multiple posts of inane drivel, a better use of your time would be planning your trip to beg forgiveness at the kever of R. Avigdor Miller, zt”l, for publicly criticizing him.
Danny The, what defense of murderers “rights”… Amazing, simply amazing, your priorities are so spot on, I am so deeply touched…rights for murderers on terrorists rampages; aren’t you simply amazing…
Deadly force is only permitted to stop a deadly threat. Once the threat is neuturalized, deadly force becomes criminal, and doing what feels good or shooting emotionaly gets you put away in prison.
I own six firearms from 5 inches to 36 inches and carry some of them anytime I am able to. I am greatful for this mans actions, but the rest of us must learn how to do things better from his mistakes.
for those hard of thinking i was clearly referring to the 2nd and third shot where he clearly did no longer pose a danger. as to the distinction between law enforcement i do hear your point but at the end of the day allowing citizens to take the law into their own hands and to kill someone on their own accord is obviously a dangerous precedent.
to clarify for those hard of thinking i was clearly referring to the 2nd and third shot where he clearly did no longer pose a danger. as to the distinction between law enforcement i do hear your point but at the end of the day allowing citizens to take the law into their own hands and to kill someone on their own accord is obviously a dangerous precedent.