Israeli Soldiers Claim Human Rights Violations
3/20/2009 at 10:55 AM
If anyone still believes Israel went into Gaza this last time with the intention to avoid killing civilians.
One Squad Leader:
"When we entered a house, we were supposed to bust down the door and start shooting inside and just go up story by story," he was quoted as saying. "Each story, if we identify a person, we shoot them. I asked myself: 'How is this reasonable?' "
Another Squad Leader:
"You do not get the impression from the officers that there is any logic to it, but they won't say anything. To write 'death to the Arabs' on the walls, to take family pictures and spit on them, just because you can"
Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent:
"Its significance of course is the soldiers are actually confirming what Palestinians have been saying for the past three months"
Defense Minister Ehud Barak:
"We have the most moral army in the world"
Now your BS meters should be shooting through the roof.
More testimony from soldiers is coming out of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in the coming days.
Additionally, Richard Falk, the lead UN Human Rights Investigator in the region is accusing Israel of War Crimes.
http://www.democracynow.org/ http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza-probe20-2009mar2001821341.story,
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072228.html