Outrage after Israeli soldiers kill wrong man in raid on suspected Hamas militants

[emceeemcee]

Re: Outrage after Israeli soldiers kill wrong man in raid on suspected Hamas militant

x100 Nailed it.

major knowledge fail

 

[emceeemcee]

Re: Outrage after Israeli soldiers kill wrong man in raid on suspected Hamas militant

There's nothing they can do that will make some people happy.

They could stop killing civilians and stealing land. They haven't tried that one yet.

 

[kingoftherodeo]

Re: Outrage after Israeli soldiers kill wrong man in raid on suspected Hamas militant

Outrage where? Israel has broken more International law and UN resolutions in the last half-century than any nation on earth, yet the US gives them more tax dollars every day than any single state in the union.

Tax dollars to Israel is not even an acceptable topic for academic professors to debate on campus. It is officially and wholly taboo. The fact that this doesn't raise any red flags among the free speech brigade and American taxpayers is more troubling than anything Israel does (which anyone with common sense should expect by now).

 

[emceeemcee]

Re: Outrage after Israeli soldiers kill wrong man in raid on suspected Hamas militant

For anyone wondering how these 'accidents' come about:

“The Occupation of the Territories” is a book of 344 pages, consisting of almost 200 testimonies by soldiers about the daily and nightly life of the occupation. The soldiers supplied the eyewitness accounts, and the organization, which is composed of ex-soldiers, verified, compared and sifted them. In the end, 183 of some 700 testimonies were selected for publication.

Not even one of these testimonies was denied by the army spokesman, who generally hastens to contradict honest accounts of what is happening in the occupied territories. Since the editors of the book have themselves served as soldiers in these places, it was easy for them to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

The book makes very depressing reading, and not because it details gruesome atrocities. On the contrary, the editors made it a point not to include incidents of exceptional brutality committed by sadists, which can be found in every army unit in Israel and throughout the world. Rather, they wanted to throw light on the grey routine of the occupation.

There are accounts of nocturnal incursions into quiet Palestinian villages as exercises – breaking into random houses where there were no “suspects”, terrorizing children, women and men, creating mayhem in the village – all this to “train” the soldiers. There are stories about the humiliation of passers-by at the checkpoints (“Clean up the checkpoint and you will get your keys back!”), casual harassment (“He started to complain, so I hit him in the face with the butt of my weapon!”). Every testimony is meticulously documented: time, place, unit.

http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery12272010.html

 

[Ivor Littlun]

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Having been in Lebanon in the late 70's up to 1985 I can tell you that there are no "accidents" involving the Israelis. They are highly experienced at ethnic cleansing, torture and cold blooded execution...I have witnessed it at first hand, as well as their "internment"/concentration camps. Let's not forget Israel is a state built on terrorism, and in 1948 the Jews were the terrorists, planting bombs in hotels etc! How soon people forget when one nation wrings it hands and wails louder than everyone else, whilst at the same time murdering thousands of innocents with the backing of a major power who they have by the balls, because they control the banks, the press and the rest of the media!