which, of course, translates into the continued construction of Jewish-only colonies on occupied Palestinian land and the collective punishment of those who oppose such policies. Take the latest peace building headline for example, “Israel to build 100 settler homes.” Now if only the Palestinians could love Israel for such peace initiatives and toss scented rice at the settlers, everything would be okay.
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Pouya, do you think Arash is proud of this?
“etal wire causes loss of hand:
Soldier: “There was one really crazy soldier in my unit, and he loved torture. One time he caused a man to have his hand cut off.”
Interviewer: “What happened?”
Soldier: “Just this Arab… The soldier stole a tobacco box from him. “Suddenly the Arab came and yelled, ‘thieves, thieves, I saw you.’ He got close to the soldier and we tried to keep him away… We didn’t know about the stealing.
“The soldier started to beat him, and everyone started pushing… It became a situation where the Arab was being beaten up badly.
“Then the soldier took a metal wire. He was really screwed up. Grabbed the Arab and started to twist it around…”
Palestinian man on knees (Photo: AFP)
Interviewer: “On his hand?”
Soldier: “Yeah, he really twisted it. I tell you, we tried to stop him. ‘No, I won’t let him go. He lifted a hand on me, he’ll be punished.’ Around and around… Afterwards we tried to get it off and we couldn’t, it actually made a groove in his hand. It was blue. And the guy is yelling, ‘I can’t feel my hand anymore.’
“I said he would have to have his hand cut off. We even tried to dig with a knife, to get it off, but we couldn’t… We told him to go to the hospital. Nothing to do, we couldn’t cut the wire off.””
Yeah, I read that Independent article on Israeli soldiers confessing their atrocities against civilians. Of course, weve know this for a long time from human rights organizations and Palestinian testimonials.