"When I was young, I went out with a lawyer, and when we had relationship trouble and I offered some whingeing excuse about her oversensitivity or extreme demands, she said, "You must take your victim as you find her. That is a principle of common law. If you hit someone with a thin skull and it kills him, you can't get off a murder charge by arguing that he had a thin skull."
What does it matter whether Jawaher Abu Rahmah had a previous condition, was on medication, etc.? And why are journalists taking this defense seriously? People say the teargas, which is known to injure and kill, triggered her death. I've been to Bil'in. Israel spread teargas copiously over a village. It must take its victim as it finds her."
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