When Israeli Soldiers Meet Palestinian Children
http://hurryupharry.org/2015/08/29/when-israeli-soldiers-meet-palestinian-children/
They threw stones and glass bottles at us, we fired rubber bullets and threw gas and stun grenades back at them. So the running battles of Qussra were conducted. Usually around the time school ended.
It was Summer 2004 when I was posted to the area near Nablus that included the small village. By night we would go into Nablus and make arrests and get into occasional brief firefights, by day we would spend eight hour shifts driving through the area in a Humvee. Everyone knew that when things got too boring we could just drive into Qussra in the hope that there would be some stones and bottles thrown, giving us the chance to break out the riot gear and really get stuck in.
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Seeing the recent video of a soldier attempting to arrest a Palestinian kid in Nabi Saleh reminds me of Qussra. But he has broken the rules. He’s alone for several minutes allowing himself to be surrounded, he’s met the enemy up close and he’s committed the sin of being filmed doing it all. Very bad combination. Back then, as long as there wasn’t a professional camera crew from CNN, you were ok, there were people filming on camcorders but it was less relevant.
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Israeli generals and politicians love talking about the tough job, the complicated job Israeli soldiers do. They talk about it as if it’s a job handed down from heaven, that can only be changed by order from heaven. But it’s a job handed down by them, and if they lament that it’s so complicated there is a very obvious answer. Make it simpler.
Instead they have made it more complicated. Now any kid who throws a stone is going to have their life taken away by the system that lords it over them. Well I say we are going to need a prison big enough to hold every Palestinian if we want this new legislation to be enforced. Should the soldier in the video above be reprimanded for letting the boy go? If he’s a criminal the soldier must do his duty and make the arrests, no?
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All they do is expose the truth about the stupidity of what we’re wasting our manpower on. They expose the truth about how, year in year out, we force the cream of our young people into unwinnable situations in the glare of the social media spotlight, when we should be using them to defend the country in ways that are, you know, meaningful.
Kinda hard to do that when you refuse to actually say where your borders are though.
