Propagandist Expects You To Care That Murderous Palestinian Terrorist Loved Soccer

He  cited Qaraqe’s devotion to soccer as a way to get you to see him as less monstrous, and, perhaps eventually, to see him not as a murderer at all, because Palestinians are automatically snowflake princesses.

Ramallah, February 22 – An online activist attempting to both downplay or glorify the life and death of a man who met his end in an attack on Jewish civilians at a bus stop two weeks ago thinks your image of the murderer will change when you find out about his love for sports.

Mohammed Shehade, a prolific tweeter and Palestinian propagandist, cited the chief pastime of Hussein Qaraqe, 30, who drove a car into a crowd of Jews at a bus stop just outside Jerusalem two Fridays ago, killing three and injuring several others. Passers by shot and killed him before he could wreak further havoc. The dead victims included six-year-old and eight-year-old brothers, plus a twenty-year-old newlywed. Shehade, in a series of tweets, cited Qaraqe’s devotion to soccer as a way to get you to see him as less monstrous, and, perhaps eventually, to see him not as a murderer at all, because Palestinians are automatically snowflake princesses. Mr. Shehade sought to paint the wholesome picture in one thread, while retweeting and liking posts by others who called Qaraqe a hero, depicted him as a role model for Palestinians in general, and encouraged others to follow his example.

“Hussein was apolitical,” asserted Shehade in his thread, while others in his feed shared proud photos of the man with militant movement flags, posing in front of the Dome of the Rock. “he had no history of violence,” stated Shehade, even as the man’s own family boasted of his involvement in previous attacks. Qaraqe’s apparent love for kicking a ball around, Shehade seemed to argue, must negate the fact that he decided to target visibly-Jewish civilians at a bus stop, including children, and that, in turn, must somehow change your view of the conflict and of Palestinian society as something other than a cesspool of violence-glorifying, self-destructive honor-shame dynamics.

“He was a father of three,” Shehade also observed, seeking to stir in you a sense of the man’s warmth and caring nature, as if the knowledge that Qaraqe had children of his own is supposed to diminish, as opposed to what it actually does, which is highlight the corruption of his attitude, the revulsion any healthy human feels toward what he did.

Shehade also denounced the Israeli military’s sealing-off of the Qaraqe home, calling the move collective punishment of innocents, a concept he would never apply to the phenomenon of targeting Jewish-looking people at a bus stop over grievances real or imagined involving the decisions and actions of entirely different members of that group.

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