dinsdag 31 augustus 2010

Israel as a Rogue State 92

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Innocent Executioners: An Illustration of the Principles of Western Civilization in the Modern World
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WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD   
MONDAY, 30 AUGUST 2010 17:18
We hear a lot about barbarism and backwardness and bloodthirstiness among the nations of the Middle East, where violent religious extremists are praised and supported -- and often hold state power. A lot of this is hype and misinformation, of course, but sometimes it's all too true. From the Guardian:
An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday. ...

The soldier, who has only been identified as "Captain R", was charged with relatively minor offences for the killing of Iman al-Hams who was shot 17 times as she ventured near an Israeli army post near Rafah refugee camp in Gaza a year ago.

The manner of Iman's killing, and the revelation of a tape recording in which the captain is warned that she was just a child who was "scared to death", made the shooting one of the most controversial since the Palestinian intifada erupted five years ago even though hundreds of other children have also died.

... The military court cleared the soldier of illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and perverting the course of justice by asking soldiers under his command to alter their accounts of the incident.  ...

The army's official account said that Iman was shot for crossing into a security zone carrying her schoolbag which soldiers feared might contain a bomb. It is still not known why the girl ventured into the area but witnesses described her as at least 100 yards from the military post which was in any case well protected.

A recording of radio exchanges between Capt R and his troops obtained by Israeli television revealed that from the beginning soldiers identified Iman as a child.
In the recording, a soldier in a watchtower radioed a colleague in the army post's operations room and describes Iman as "a little girl" who was "scared to death". After soldiers first opened fire, she dropped her schoolbag which was then hit by several bullets establishing that it did not contain explosive. At that point she was no longer carrying the bag and, the tape revealed, was heading away from the army post when she was shot. ....

Palestinian witnesses said they saw the captain shoot Iman twice in the head, walk away, turn back and fire a stream of bullets into her body.

On the tape, Capt R then "clarifies" to the soldiers under his command why he killed Iman: "This is commander. Anything that's mobile, that moves in the [security] zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed."

At no point did the Israeli troops come under attack.
Well, at least they didn't stone her, did they? After all, Israel is a "bastion of Western civilization" in the midst of all those swarthy savages, isn't it? I mean, can there possibly be a clearer expression of civilization -- especially its ultra-modern Western version -- than Captain R's Aristotelian formulation? It bears repeating -- nay, memorizing, searing deeply into the brain and heart -- for it is clearly the guiding principle of all our glorious terror-fighting democracies today, not only plucky little Israel but also its patron and paymaster, the United States (and the lackey Limeys who trot along at Washington's heels):
Anything that's mobile, that moves in the zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed.

Even if it's a three-year-old.

Even if it -- this thing, this object, this Other, this creature, this piece of shit -- is a three-year-old.

Kill it. It needs to be killed. Kill it. You need to kill it. A three-year-old? Kill it. It needs to be killed.

Now that, my friends, is civilization.

3 opmerkingen:

Sonja zei

Over de liquidatie van het meisje, dat in 2004 in Rafah plaatsvond, schreef de zionist Ad Bloemendaal in het Parool het volgende doodzieke bericht:

Israël: meisje terecht beschoten

van onze correspondent AD BLOEMENDAAL

TEL AVIV - De tragische dood van een dertienjarig Palestijns schoolmeisje bij een Israëlische legerpost in de Gazastrook is niet te wijten aan onethisch gedrag van de plaatselijke compagniescommandant. Dat is de conclusie van een eerste onderzoek van het Israëlische leger.

Volgens het onderzoek bevond het meisje zich in verboden militair gebied, had ze een bom in haar schooltas kunnen vervoeren en is daarom terecht beschoten. Ook zou niet zijn gebleken dat de compagniescommandant het munitiemagazijn van zijn wapen in het lijkje heeft leeggeschoten, zoals enkele soldaten eerder verklaarden.

Dat de commandant na het incident van zijn post is ontheven, heeft volgens het rapport niet te maken met de dood van het meisje, maar met zijn slechte functioneren binnen de eenheid en met operationele fouten. Volgens berichten in de Israëlische pers heeft de commandant tijdens het onderzoek gezegd dat enkele oudere soldaten hem erbij wilden lappen en daarom hebben beweerd dat hij een magazijn in het lichaam van het meisje leegschoot. Andere soldaten hebben bevestigd dat veel soldaten een hekel hadden aan hun commandant wegens de harde discipline die hij de compagnie oplegde.

Het incident deed zich voor op 5 oktober, toen soldaten in de versterkte post bij Rafah 'een verdachte figuur' signaleerden die op hen af kwam. Een paar uur eerder was de positie onder vuur genomen door Palestijnse militanten.

''De eenheid, die dacht te maken te hebben met een militant, opende het vuur en raakte de figuur,'' vermeldt het rapport. Daarna verlieten de commandant en een groep soldaten de positie om poolshoogte te nemen. Daarbij werden ze opnieuw onder vuur genomen.

''De soldaten beantwoorden het vuur en trokken zich terug,'' is de lezing van het leger. ''Tot het tegendeel is bewezen aanvaardt de stafchef de lezing van de compagniescommandant dat hij in de grond schoot, in antwoord op vijandelijk vuur in zijn richting.''

Er loopt nog een onderzoek door de militaire politie.

Parlementsleden van de Israëlische oppositie hebben het interne onderzoek door het leger gekritiseerd. Zij menen dat hier een onafhankelijk juridisch onderzoek op zijn plaats was geweest.

Het Parool, 16-10-2004

(hier nog te lezen)

Sonja zei

Het is ook goed om het hele artikel in The Guardian te lezen, met name het verslag van het voorafgaande gesprek via de legerradio.

The following is a recording of a three-way conversation that took place between a soldier in a watchtower, an army operations room and Capt R, who shot the girl

From the watchtower "It's a little girl. She's running defensively eastward." "Are we talking about a girl under the age of 10?" "A girl about 10, she's behind the embankment, scared to death." "I think that one of the positions took her out." "I and another soldier ... are going in a little nearer, forward, to confirm the kill ... Receive a situation report. We fired and killed her ... I also confirmed the kill. Over."

From the operations room "Are we talking about a girl under the age of 10?"

Watchtower "A girl about 10, she's behind the embankment, scared to death."

A few minutes later, Iman is shot from one of the army posts

Watchtower "I think that one of the positions took her out."

Captain R "I and another soldier ... are going in a little nearer, forward, to confirm the kill ... Receive a situation report. We fired and killed her ... I also confirmed the kill. Over."

Capt R then "clarifies" why he killed Iman
"This is commander. Anything that's mobile, that moves in the zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed. Over."

Sonja zei

Er volgde nog meer "beschaving" voor Captain R:

Subsequent to his acquittal, Captain R., was promoted to the rank of major. In March 2006, he received 82,000 New Israel Shekels (roughly $17,000) to compensate him for his defense expenditures and time spent in jail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iman_Darweesh_Al_Hams

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