6/24/2002: Another Palestinian child

[Count Zero]

Originally posted by dhamsaic


This is absolutely false. It is not Israeli policy to target and attack "everyone that happens to be Palestinian". If it were, you would see a lot more tanks-firing-into-markets incidents. I will absolutely agree with you that invidivual soldiers within IDF have intentionally killed innocent Palestinians, but your submission that Israel targets all Palestinians is false. The fighting would have been over long ago if this were true.

Here's a quote from a text written by Shamai Leibowitz, an Orthodox Jew and a criminal defense attorney in Tel Aviv and is also a tank gunner in reserve duty, and part of a group of 1000 soldiers who have refused to serve in the occupied territories (http://www.couragetorefuse.org/) :

Now that President Bush has enlightened us with his new "Plan" for the Middle East, we can only wonder how long it will take him to realize that his plan is useless and meaningless. Although his speech was riddled with rosy descriptions he envisions for the utopian Palestinian State in the far future, George W. Bush managed to avoid any mention of the present situation in the same parcel of land where all these wonderful things are to materialize. No mention of the fact that all West Bank cities had been invaded by Israeli military forces; that hundreds of thousands of inhabitants are imprisoned in their homes by a strict curfew, and that civilians appearing on city streets are being shot at like dogs by Israeli tanks and Apache helicopters.

I'm sure these were all terrorists... (Keep in mind that an Israeli Officer wrote that.)

The whole text is at http://www.zmag.org/content/showarti...22&ItemID=2042

There's a lot more where that came from, and other countless evidences of massacres done by the Israeli army, so your response couldn't be lamer.