A Jewish Florida man faces two counts of attempted murder after telling cops he “he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both” as he was being arrested on Saturday, shortly after he had pointed a semi-automatic handgun at a passing vehicle and fired 17 rounds into it, NBC 6 reports.
The local story does make mention that the two men that 27 year-old Mordechai Brafman – a fan of far right Israeli militant account “thejewishmarksman” on Instagram – fired at not only survived with relatively minor wounds but were able to drive themselves to a hospital to get treatment.
Missing though is a pretty crucial detail, something else Brafman got wrong: They’re not Palestinian.
What’s funny in a really sick and twisted way too is that, per the Times of Israel, victim Ari Rabey and his unnamed father may have been under the impression that Brafman was a Palestinian (or maybe a MAGA Neo-Nazi), writing “Dear Jews, we are in Miami, they tried to murder us on a nationalist reasons. My father was in a car yesterday in the Pearl Arbor neighborhood. They shot me and my father in the car. 12 bullets hit me. My father and I are here in a hospital in Miami. My father is anxious and afraid. We need your help. Chabad Jews. Please help us. We don’t know anything. Save them,” per a Google translation of Rabey’s Facebook post. Which was in Hebrew and he did not appear to be aware that it was another Jew who shot him. Welcome to Florida kid!