Jewish Passenger Beaten & Choked On Ethiopian Flight

Via The Times Of Israel, a man was flying on Ethiopian Airlines from N’Djamena, Chad to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when he was beaten by another passenger.

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Here are the highlights of the story:

The suspect reportedly beat the Israeli man, identified by Ynet as a 54-year-old named Arik, with a metal tray and shouted “Allah is greatest” and “kill the Jews” in Arabic on the flight from Chad to Ethiopia’s capital on Thursday.

The Israeli man told Ynet that just before landing in the Ethiopian capital, the passenger behind him “identified me as Israeli and Jewish,” then started choking him, then beat him over the head.

“Only after a few seconds, just before I was about to lose consciousness, did I manage to call out and a flight attendant who saw what was happening summoned her colleagues,” he said.

After he was pulled free by airline employees, he said his attacker tried to rally passengers and crew to “finish me off.”

Apparently the Sudanese attacker has remained in custody since the incident.

Disgusting!

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SAS Guest

This is what you get for being the citizen of a murderous apartheid regime founded on mass ethnic cleansing which usurps US tax dollars to kill, oppress and ethnic cleanse on a daily basis. Zero sympathy from me to this Israeli or any other Israeli or their supporters who end up on the receiving end of hostility due to the Israeli government's disgusting actions.

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SAS Guest

Boo hoo. This is a small taste of what Palestinians have to endure on a daily basis.

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AB New Member

Despicable.

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High end hobo Guest

@wwk5d Last time i read through the entire torah i found no reference to the statement you purport is there? do you mind giving a citation You're a perfect example of ignorance leading to hatred

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Love to Fly Guest

@YYZgayguy - thank you for saying what needed to be said. Sigh. As a Muslim myself, I am saddened by reading the comments posted here. Clearly the story is disgusting and the man who did it deserves to face the consequences of his actions. That said the assumption that many commenters here is that this kind of behavior is part of the Islamic teachings, and this is just plainly wrong. Islam teaches that killing one soul is like killing all of humanity. Murder is an egregious sin. The Quran does not stipulate the killing of Jews, or anyone outside the context of war. (I don't want to open a debate on this point here but I have studied Islam for many years from many scholars and this is a gross misunderstanding of casual readers of the Quran.) Now of course there is some deep seated hate the has developed over the last century between Jews and Muslims but this rhetoric really only began out of the Palestinian issue. Prior to that you can read about how the Jews lived in peace with Muslims in many places - Morocco is a great example of this where you still find Jewish communities there. In fact every culture, race and religion has had its fair share of madmen. Read about the Crusaders and what they did to not just the Muslims but the Jews as well - in that time period the Jews flocked to live with Muslims. Anyways, I could go on about this, but I just ask that everyone educates themselves a little bit before painting the religion of almost 1/4 of the worlds total population as extremists and terrorists who want to kill everyone in their sight. Think about it. Your doctor, co-worker, teacher, lawyer, cashier at the supermarket... One of them (if not many of them) is Muslim. Are they batshit crazy? No. Thank goodness for that. Because if they were we'd all be dead. And it's because Islam (the canon) does not teach any of this. Cultural and racial grievances as well as classical Muslim rhetoric do... But let's not confuse the teachings with the practitioners. And again. Think about 1.57 billion people in the world being Muslim. They're not all out to get you. I know, because I'm one of them, and I don't want to hurt anyone. I hate ISIS. I hate al Qaeda. I hate Bin Laden. I hate what i read about what this Sudanese guy did. And guess what, so do most of those 1.57 billion Muslims. - Still Love to Fly

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