Israeli Soldier Admits Crimes

An extraordinary admission by an Israeli soldier lat month about Israeli Military actions in Gaza will not come as a surprise to many of us who are fully aware of Israel’s indiscriminate attacks on the Palestinians.  For the Palestinians however, it has always been a matter of fact and a reality, but for all their words and protests about the behaviour of Israeli soldiers, it has repeatedly fallen upon deaf ears.  This sadly, may also be true of this admission today, even though it comes from a serving Israeli soldier.

Taken from Reuters

One of the soldiers, an infantry squad leader, recalled an incident in which he said an army sharpshooter killed a Palestinian mother and her two children who turned the wrong way after troops ordered them out of their house.

“The platoon commander let the family go and told them to go their right. One mother and her two children didn’t understand and went to the left … The sharpshooter saw (them) approaching him, closer than the lines he was told no one should pass. He shot them.”

The squad leader said most of the men under his command felt “the lives of Palestinians are something very, very less important than the lives of our soldiers, so as far as they are concerned, they can justify it that way.”

Zamir said he conveyed the veterans’ accounts to the Israeli military. Israeli leaders have said Hamas bore ultimate responsibility for civilian deaths because its fighters operated in crowded Palestinian areas.

Another squad leader who attended the academy said at the gathering that a company commander had ordered an elderly Palestinian woman shot as she walked on a road about 100 meters (yards) from a house that troops had taken over.

Describing vandalism carried out by soldiers, the squad leader said: “To write ‘death to the Arabs’ on the walls, to take family pictures and spit on them, just because you can — I think this is the main thing, to understand how much the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) has fallen in the realm of ethics.”

One phrase that simply stinks of arrogance is the phrase used by Ehud Barak, who responded to these accusations by repeating the mantra that “Israel’s Military is the most moral in the world”.  I cannot think of a more untrue statement. This is an army that routinely murders little boys and girls who are armed with no more than stones, an army that bulldozes homes with people inside and an army that uses chemical weapons against unarmed mothers and their babies.  This is a statement of a freak!

Inshallah, I pray that those who are blind to Israel’s behaviour can begin to wake up because this admission after all, is right from the horses mouth.

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