Everything you needed to know about Israels war crimes and crimes against humanity from a former IDF soldier. And the first day after the young men were kidnapped, a hashtag was coming out. All the buses in Israel was covered by slogans—hashtag of course referring to the social media campaigns—#BringBackTheBoys, not in Hebrew, not in Arabic, but in English, saying, when we’re out there killing hundreds of people in Gaza, you will be our PR people. Everybody here need to work for us. #BringBackOurBoys in English from the first day, after they knew they were killed. Their families didn’t know they were killed. We, the citizens, didn’t know they were killed. But the police and the government did, and they hide this from us. Instead, they went into a very long operation of three weeks into the West Bank, into Hebron, arrested 850 people, killing 15, stolen money from houses, according to Electronic Intifada, arresting so many people that were released in the Gilad Shalit agreement, taking them back in, destroying houses. Me and my colleague, a activist in Israel, were actually in Hebron in a solidarity visit during this time. The things that I saw in houses in Hebron, I never saw in my life, not after the Second Intifada and not during my service as a combat soldier—houses completely wrecked and children’s room completely destroyed, kitchens, bathrooms completely destroyed. It was a revenge attack all along, saying to the Palestinians, You think you can embarrass us around the world? You think you can go to the U.N.? You think you can unite with Hamas? We will punish you for all of that. During this time, the Israeli Air Force is bombing Gaza, although there was never a connection between Hamas and between the kidnap that happened in the West Bank. They’re bombing Gaza for weeks before Gaza—before Hamas officials are starting to react. For days, they’re bombing Gaza. And from soldiers that I will talk to a few weeks after it will start, they will tell me all they were looking for inside the army was to get some reaction. They were looking for a reaction, so they can blame Hamas for whatever is going to happen next in the summer. And they succeeded. We were completely—and a lot of journalists in Israel will never write this, but they will talk about this between us. In Israel, the researchers, the journalists will say, what happened in Israel in the last summer was a completely stealing of our mind, a complete distraction from what’s really going on on the field. You know, the BDS movement is getting so strong since 2009 and until today. And the Israeli government is really on the last breath of an apartheid regime right now, trying to do whatever they can, even if that means to kill more than 2,000 people in a few weeks’ time.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:14:43 +0000
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