zaterdag 21 maart 2009

De Israelische Oorlogsmisdaden 74


In tegenstelling tot joods-Israeli's die voor de mensenrechten van de Palestijnen opkomen, is rabbijn Soetendorp opvallend stil nu namens zijn geloof de mensenrechten worden geschonden. Hij is doodstil terwijl hij toch het gewicht van de thora met zich meetorst.

'Miami Herald
March 20, 2009
Israeli soldiers say army rabbis framed Gaza offensive as religious war
As investigations continue into the killing of Palestinian civilians during the Israeli military's latest incursion, testimony has surfaced that troops were told their actions amounted to `a religious mission.'
BY CLIFF CHURGIN
McClatchy News Service
JERUSALEM -- Rabbis affiliated with the Israeli army urged troops heading into Gaza to reclaim what they said was God-given land and "get rid of the gentiles" -- effectively turning the 22-day Israeli intervention into a religious war, according to the testimony of a soldier who fought in Gaza.
Literature passed out to soldiers by the army's rabbinate "had a clear message: We are the people of Israel, we came by a miracle to the land of Israel, God returned us to the land, now we need to struggle to get rid of the gentiles that are interfering with our conquest of the land," the soldier told a forum of Gaza veterans in mid-February, just weeks after the conflict ended.
A transcript of the testimony given at an Israeli military academy at the Oranim college on Feb. 13 was obtained Friday by McClatchy Newspapers and also published in Haaretz, one of Israel's leading dailies. The soldier, identified as "'Ram," a pseudonym to protect his identity, gave a scathing description of the atmosphere as the Israeli army went to war.
"The general atmosphere among people I spoke to was ... the lives of Palestinians are ... let's say far, far less important than the lives of our soldiers," Ram said. The religious literature gave "the feeling of almost a religious mission," he said.
Brig. Gen. Avichai Mendelblit, the Israeli army's chief prosecutor, on Thursday announced the first criminal investigation into the killing of Palestinian civilians during Israel's military incursion.
He issued the order after the Haaretz and Maariv newspapers published an account from the Oranim forum of how an Israeli sharpshooter killed a Palestinian woman and her two children when they inadvertently took a wrong turn after being released from detention in their own home.
There are growing questions about the Israeli Defense Force's commitment to prosecute war crimes and burgeoning criticism of the operation itself.
According to Haaretz, the army first learned on Feb. 23 of the Oranim forum allegations and obtained a full transcript on March 5. The army told McClatchy on Thursday that it had received the transcript that day, but on Friday a representative said it had received the document "a few days ago."
Some 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the operation, more than half of them civilians, according to Palestinian human rights groups.
SOLDIERS' TESTIMONIES
Danny Zamir, the head of the Yitzhak Rabin military academy, which organized the soldiers' forum, said the Gaza operation was "an unusual military action in the IDF's history that established a new, unknown norm in the IDF's ethical code."
The testimonies indicated that the army, despite repeated claims that it was protecting civilian lives, was not instructing its troops to that effect.
One soldier, identified only as "Aviv," said he was bothered by open-fire orders given to his unit for an operation that was later canceled.
"We were supposed to go in with an armored vehicle called an Ahzarit, break into the door and start to shoot inside and simply go up floor by floor. ... I call this murder ... to go up floor by floor and every person that we see we were to shoot," he said. "Aviv" served as a squad leader with the Givati unit in the Gaza neighborhood of Zeitoun.
"At first I said to myself, `How is this logical?' Higher authorities said this was permissible because everyone left in the area and in the city of Gaza is condemned, is a terrorist, because they didn't run away."

8 opmerkingen:

Anoniem zei

Hij is doodstil.......
zoals ook die andere z.g.n. Godsvertegenwoordigers dat waren tijdens de holocaust.

Macht Aanzien en vooral de mooie baantjes en ...de C.van centjes daar gaat het om.

En daarbij mondje toe!

Heel slim... een ander pakje aan, maar het komt op het zelfde neer.

Anoniem zei

Godsvertegenwoordigers weten gods woord te verspreiden, maar godsdaden te vermijden.


Anzi

Anoniem zei

Godsvertegenwoordiger is met pensioen
Hij gaat heen in vrede, hoeft niets meer te doen.


Anzi

Anoniem zei

Te weten wat het is om stapels lijken opeengestapeld te zien, dit te doorstaan en toch fatsoenlijk te blijven.

Anzi

Anoniem zei

Wie zwijgt, stemt toe.



Anzi

Anoniem zei

Niet in de naam van 6 miljoen doden



Anzi

Anoniem zei

En zie, het kind wenend, naast het zielloze lichaam van zijn moeder
Hulpeloos, gevangen in angst
In de steek gelaten door gods hoeder

Anzi

Anoniem zei

Kaddisj

Moge zijn grote naam verheven en geheiligd worden
in de wereld die hij geschapen heeft naar zijn wil.
Moge zijn koninkrijk erkend worden in uw leven en in uw dagen
en in het leven van het gehele huis van Israël,
weldra en spoedig.
Zeg dan: Amen

Moge zijn grote naam gezegend zijn nu en voor altijd.
Gezegend, geprezen, gevierd, en hoog en hoger steeds verheven
Verheerlijkt, gehuldigd en bejubeld worde de naam van de Heilige,
gezegend zij hij
hoog boven iedere zegening, elk lied,
lof en troost die op de wereld gezegd wordt.
Zeg dan: Amen

Moge er veel vrede uit de hemel komen en leven!
Over ons en over heel Israël.
Zeg dan: Amen

Hij die vrede maakt in zijn hoge sferen,
zal ook vrede maken voor ons en voor geheel Israël
Zeg dan: Amen


Anzi

Peter Flik en Chuck Berry-Promised Land

mijn unieke collega Peter Flik, die de vrijzinnig protestantse radio omroep de VPRO maakte is niet meer. ik koester duizenden herinneringen ...