Renouncing Violence
"So we got hold of just some [10 year old] Palestinian kid nearby, we knew that he knew who it had been [a 15-year-old throwing stones]. Let's say we beat him a little, to put it mildly, until he told us. You know, the way it goes when your mind's already screwed up, and you have no more patience for Hebron and Arabs and Jews there. "The kid was really scared, realising we were on to him. We had a commander with us who was a bit of a fanatic. We gave the boy over to this commander, and he really beat the shit out of him ... He showed him all kinds of holes in the ground along the way, asking him: 'Is it here you want to die? Or here?' The kid goes, 'No, no!'
"Anyway, the kid was stood up, and couldn't stay standing on his own two feet. He was already crying ... And the commander continues, 'Don't pretend' and kicks him some more. And then [name withheld], who always had a hard time with such things, went in, caught the squad commander and said, 'Don't touch him any more, that's it.' The commander goes, 'You've become a leftie, what?' And he answers, 'No, I just don't want to see such things.'
"We were right next to this, but did nothing. We were indifferent, you know. OK. Only after the fact you start thinking. Not right away. We were doing such things every day ... It had become a habit... "
And the parents saw it. The commander ordered [the mother], 'Don't get any closer.' He cocked his weapon, already had a bullet inside. She was frightened. He put his weapon literally inside the kid's mouth. 'Anyone gets close, I kill him. Don't bug me. I kill. I have no mercy.' So the father ... got hold of the mother and said, 'Calm down, let them be, so they'll leave him alone.'"
"It seems to me that what Hamas needs to do is pretty clear. Renounc[ing] violence would be a good step towards showing you actually want peace" US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
The Israeli military receives around $3billion a year in state aid from Dr Rice's government.
Labels: Israel/Palestine
posted by David Wearing at 4:51 PM
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An interesting follow up to the whole I/P conflict is the fact that in the Balfour Declarations it clearly states that:
"...nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine..."
Then of course you have the resolutions and international laws that specifically state that Israel has never been authorized by the UN Assembly to create or maintain an exclusively Jewish State that discriminates against the rights of non-Jews.
http://media-newswire.com/release_1065418.html
BTW really like your take on Israels Anniversary by quoting Edward Said.
thanks. Old Teddy Said is sorely, sorely missed.
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