Israeli soldiers claim attacks on Gaza civilians were permitted

[grassfed]

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[Hulk]

1. Surprise, surprise.....

Some things even the dumbest of people can gather from actions taken. It's no surprise that the israeli military is trying to murder innocent women and children to further their cause. They are ruthless murderers, and if the people of Israel allow this to go on, then they are guilty as their thug military.

[burythehatchet]

2. Textbook definition of state sponsored terrorism

[Bushfire]

3. Big surprise

I'm shocked ...

[JohnyCanuck]

4. "Israel soldier calls order during Gaza assault 'murder'"

The accounts came from a Feb. 13 discussion at a military preparatory academy. The school's director, Danny Zamir, who led the discussion, disclosed the transcript this week. Here are recollections of Aviv, a squad commander in the elite Givati Brigade, other Givati soldiers and an air force pilot. The transcript didn't use their full names.

AVIV: Toward the end of the operation, there was a plan to go into a very densely populated area inside Gaza City. In the briefings, they started to talk about orders for opening fire inside the city, because as you know they used a huge amount of firepower and killed a huge number of people along the way, so that we wouldn't get hurt and wouldn't fire on us.

At first the specified action was to go into a house . . . with an armored personnel carrier . . . and start shooting inside. . . . I call this murder. . . . We were supposed to go up floor by floor, and any person we identified, we were supposed to shoot. I initially asked myself, "Where is the logic?"

They said it was permissible because anyone who remained in the sector was in effect condemned, a terrorist, because they hadn't fled. I didn't really understand. . . . They don't have anywhere to flee to. . . . This scared me a bit.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza-israeli-troops21-2009mar21,0,2555966.story

[formercia]

5. "put pressure on the civilian population"

This was the technique used in Nicaragua by the Contras under the direction of US authorities. Civilians were deliberately targeted to put pressure on the Sandinistas. It was felt, wrongly, that, if the civilians were brutalized enough, that they would overthrow the government.