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Exposing Israeli Teens To IDF Abusing Palestinian Children!

by mosesman

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  • Exposing Israeli teens to IDF child abuse! 
    by Oded Shalom, http://www.ynetnews.com/ 
    Series of testimonies provided by IDF troops shed light on army’s abusive behavior towards Palestinian kids in new report; group aims to prepare next generation of soldiers for harsh reality
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    The year is 2005. An Armored Corps battalion is stationed in the West Bank, near Nablus. Its goal? To protect the Trans-Samaria Highway from terrorists.
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    “We would go into the villages on a daily basis, two-three times a day at least, to demonstrate our presence,” one of the soldiers says. “To show that we are here, that (the land) is ours and not yours.
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    “How do you do that? You send in a patrol squad or two, two Hummers followed by a Storm (armored personnel carrier). You set them loose in the villages. You send in an entire unit that marches in two rows down the streets, like a military parade.
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    “Sometimes, the commander would get bored and would decide to prove himself to the regiment commander… He would generate more and more friction, crush the population as much as possible, make their lives as difficult as possible. This in order to stop them from even thinking about throwing stones on the Trans-Samaria Highway, not to mention Molotov cocktails.
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    “Eventually it would work. The population would become so scared that people would just cower together. They would hardly ever go outside.”
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    Pointing gun at child’s head
    The soldier’s account is just one of 30 testimonies featured in a new report released by Breaking the Silence, an organization that since 2004 has been interviewing IDF troops about their service in the West Bank. Fresh from the printers, thousands of copies of the report have arrived at group’s headquarters ahead of the fast-approaching school year. Next week, they are to be distributed among the next generation of IDF soldiers – high school students in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. 
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    “The first time you point a weapon at a 5-year-old kid, you say that it isn’t right,” the soldier says in his statement. “But that changes when you go into the village and they throw stones at you. If you’re in the village, and you pass by a school, you’re automatically pelted with stones.
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    “Once, my driver got out, caught some kid and beat him up, really beat him up, for just sitting there. I think he just resembled some other kid, or maybe he wore the same T-shirt, or perhaps it was the same kid, but that isn’t the point. He gave him a severe beating. He didn’t even detain him, he just beat him up.”
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    In another incident described by the soldier, a company commander grabbed a 12-year-old boy, got him to crouch on his knees and yelled threats at him in order to intimidate the other children, who earlier threw stones at the troops, into coming out on the street for questioning.
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    “It was like something out of a movie about Vietnam,” the soldier says. “(…) it was clear that the threats weren’t real, he’s an officer, after all… He screamed at the kid to shut up, because he started crying and peed his pants.” Eventually, a village elder came out and convinced the commander to let the boy go. The next day, two Molotov cocktails were hurled at vehicles on the highway.”So we didn’t even do our job,” the soldier said. “And it makes you wonder, what is our job, anyway?”
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    Making Palestinian lives hell
    Breaking the Silence’s report is different from its predecessors in the fact that it focuses entirely on the way that troops treat Palestinian minors. While the group initially struggled with the decision to expose Israeli high school students to the grim incidents so graphically described in the report, the activists deemed the move “necessary.””Exposing our teens to this reality is not a trivial matter,” says Avner Gvaryahu, a former soldier who now works for the organization. His own testimony is featured in the latest report.”I have a 16-year-old brother. He’s super cute… He recently received his first draft summons, and it is my first instinct to shield him from the bad stuff.
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    “The group hesitated to distribute the brochure among high school students… but it was eventually decided to go through with it. I’m queasy about it even though I understand that it’s necessary… If you’re old enough to enlist and carry a weapon, you’re old enough to know what’s really happening in the territories.”
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    Gvaryahu, 27, studied social work and now works for Breaking the Silence as a Hebron tour guide. He spent his army service with the Paratrooper Brigadge’s Orev Unit.  “They trained us to fight a real army, to shoot anti-tank missiles,” he says. “No one prepared us for the routine activity. “For us it’s routine, but for them it’s an impossible reality, hellish even. And I’m referring to the children.”
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Source : http://ifamericansknew.org/

Revelation 2:9 – …. and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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“ … it turns out the creation of Israel had not, after all, been a haphazard fight in which the Arabs fled their homes at the directives of their own leaders, but it had been an unprovoked, systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Jewish militia involving massacres, terrorism and the wholesale looting of an entire nation.” – from 4:22 onwards

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