Israeli court jails Palestinians who defended themselves from Jewish perpetrator of massacre

Palestinians condemn prison sentences
Al Jazeera 29 November 2013

Jamal Zahalka, a Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, called the sentences "an aggressive message to the Arab citizens of Israel. It is a message that says that the Arabs can't defend themselves, that Arab blood is worthless. We don't accept that and will keep protesting until they are released from jail".

Protests erupted outside an Israeli court as prison sentences were handed down to seven Palestinian citizens of Israel convicted of beating a Israeli soldier to death after he carried out a shooting spree on a bus in 2005...

Six men were sentenced to between eight months and two years in prison, while another was given a suspended sentence and released on probation...

Eden Natan-Zada, a 19-year-old soldier, killed four Palestinian citizens of Israel in 2005 after opening fire aboard a bus in Shfaram, a Palestinian town in northern Israel. Another 22 people were injured, before a group of passengers killed Natan-Zada immediately after the attack...

Israeli security officials later said he had hoped to spur sectarian violence in Israel in an effort to derail the Gaza withdrawal, which went ahead weeks later...

Natan-Zada was a follower of Nazi Rabbi Kahane