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2017-08-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF blockades hometown of Palestinian who stabbed grocery worker

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Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Odd body language in the video.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-03 01:37|| 2017-08-03 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 How so, Skidmark?

Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-03 10:20|| 2017-08-03 10:20|| Front Page Top

#3 1) the pointing finger shows us the attacker is lurking at the end of the aisle having approached from the left, but we don't see the approach.
2) the attacker approaches the victim with arms wide, perhaps because of the backpack, perhaps an extreme demonstration he is open, vulnerable, unarmed. in later action he does not appear constrained by the pack.
3) the victim sees him approach and waits just a little too long to move out of the path of the attacker, a general gesture of disrespect and some assumption of empowerment.
4) the attacker brushes past the facing victim in extremely close proximity to soft knife targets heart, abdomen and liver.
5) unthreatened, the victim turns away exposing first right, then left kidney and a rear throat slash. the classic sentry attack.
6) the attacker passes then turns left drawing the knife with his right hand lifting his shirt with the left hand. maybe a two handed cross draw, maybe someone tucked the knife in his left pocket. the left turn, right draw hides the weapon from the victim but it takes two hands.
7) the attacker raises the knife overhead and charges the victim clearly signaling his intent of an overhand strike and allowing the victim to assume defensive tactics. a much more difficult approach.
8) the attacker continues to flail at his victim, overhead, at arms length until he loses his weapon.

My sense is the attack was planned by someone else, the victim was not a target of opportunity, and the attacker was untrained and inexperienced.

Just a theory.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-03 18:27|| 2017-08-03 18:27|| Front Page Top

#4 But such a detailed theory! Thank you, Skidmark. I'll reread that a few more times intermixed with watching the video, so that I can begin to learn to see as you do.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-03 19:13|| 2017-08-03 19:13|| Front Page Top

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