Another Aug. 4 WorldNetDaily article by Aaron Klein portrays Eden Natan Zada, the AWOL Israeli soldier who shot and killed four people and wounded a dozen others on a bus, then later killed by a mob responding to the deaths, as a victim of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
While Klein doesn’t claim in that that Zada was “murdered” by the mob as he did in an earlier Aug. 4 article (a designation he did not apply to the four people Zada killed, as ConWebBlog noted), he does state that Zada “was killed when he was assaulted by a mob of angry Arab bystanders and witnesses.”
But Klein continues the lionization of Zada as a victim of Gaza withdrawal, using the following quotes:
— “Had he not been enlisted, had they not forced him to be scheduled to uproot Jews, there wouldn’t be any deaths.”
— “[Eden] was a quiet kid. Withdrawn. But very nice. We certainly were in shock when we heard what happened. But when [the IDF] made him serve and then sent him to jail for refusing, something in him changed.”
— Zada was “a humble and very shy Jew. The disengagement really broke him.”
A third Aug. 4 WND article by Klein repeats the quote, from a purported friend fo Zada’s, that “Had he not been enlisted, had they not forced him to be scheduled to uproot Jews, there wouldn’t be any deaths.” But not until the very last paragraph does Klein quote someone — for the first time anywhere in the three stories he wrote Aug. 4 on the incident — as noting that Zada “took the lives of innocent people.”