Do you even know what that means?


>excerpts:
>A recent exhibit titled "Breaking the Silence," organized in
>Tel Aviv by a number of conscientious Israeli soldiers who
>served in occupied Hebron, exposed in photographs and
>objects more serious belligerence towrds defenseless
>Palestinians. Inspired by Jewish settlers' graffiti that
>included: "Arabs to the gas chambers"; "Arabs = an inferior
>race"; "Spill Arab blood"; and, of course, the ever so
>popular "Death to the Arabs," soldiers used a myriad of
>methods to make the lives of average Palestinians
>intolerable. One photograph showed a bumper sticker on a
>passing car, perhaps explaining the ultimate goal of such
>abuse: "Religious penitence provides strength to expel the
>Arabs."

You been looking at any Arab slogans recently? Nutters make nasty slogans...

The exhibit's main curator described a particularly
>shocking policy of randomly spraying crowded Palestinian
>residential neighborhoods, like Abu Sneina, from heavy
>machine guns and grenade launchers for hours on end in
>response to any minor shooting of a few bullets from any
>house in the neighborhood on the Jewish colonies inside the
>city.

Seriously? "All we did was fire a few bullets at someone, and then they tried to shoot us back, how evil they are...."

>
>The Hebron horrors pale, however, in comparison to what
>Israeli army units have done in Gaza. In an unnerving
>interview with Ha'aretz in November last year, for instance,
>Liran Ron Furer, a staff sergeant (res.) in the Israeli army
>and graduate of an arts school, described the gradual
>transformation of every soldier to an "animal" when staffing
>a roadblock, irrespective of whatever values he may bring
>with him from home. From his perspective, those soldiers get
>infected with what he calls "checkpoint syndrome," a glaring
>symptom of which is acting violently towards Palestinians in
>"the most primal and impulsive manner, without fear of
>punishment ." "At the checkpoint," he explains, "young
>people have the chance to be masters and using force and
>violence becomes legitimate ."

Yup, training to be a soldier does nasty things to people. A bit like training to be a suicide bomber...

>The most chilling of all the incidents was his own personal
>confession. "I ran toward and
>punched an Arab right in the face," he admitted. "Blood was
>trickling from his lip onto his chin. I led him up behind
>the Jeep and threw him in, his knees banged against the
>trunk and he landed inside." He then goes on to describe in
>gruesome details how he and his comrades stepped on the
>tightly handcuffed captive, dubbed "the Arab;" how they hit
>him until "he was bleeding and making a kind of puddle of
>blood and saliva;" how he "grabbed him by the hair and
>turned his head to the side," until he cried aloud, and how
>the soldiers then "stepped harder and harder on his back,"
>to make him stop crying.

And you use this guy as a reliable source?