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Israel security forces say putrid-smelling spray is a nonlethal crowd control tool; some activists call it punishmentOctober 9, 2015 3:19PM ET
by Renee Lewis
Skunk — a foul-smelling liquid first sprayed on Palestinian protesters as a form of crowd control in 2008 — has become one of the characteristic scents of the Israeli occupation.
Created by the Israeli research and development firm Odortec, Skunk has the “viscosity of water” and “can be sprayed over a large area using a standard water cannon,” Odortec says on its website.
After Skunk makes contact with a person or object, the putrid stench can last for days and can cause nausea and vomiting. The smell is overpowering, similar to a skunk’s spray but worse, smelling as if it has been mixed with raw sewage, sulfur and rotting animal corpses.
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But some activists and organizations, including the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, have criticized the Israeli military for allegedly using Skunk against individuals and structures unassociated with protests, making neighborhoods stink for days.
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King_David
(14,851 posts)Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Syrian police and troops shot down dozens of anti-government protesters Friday, as a wave of demonstrations against the regime of President Bashir Assad swept through more than a dozen cities. The movement has been sparked by revulsion over the massacre of protesters Wednesday in the southwestern city of Daraa, in which as many as 100 people may have died.
A funeral procession of 20,000 people commemorated the victims of Wednesday’s shootings on Thursday in Daraa, and an even larger protest took place Friday, bringing an estimated 100,000 people into Assad Square in the center of the city. Demonstrators carried Syrian flags and chanted “Freedom, freedom.” They burned photographs of Bashir Assad and tore down a bronze statue of his father, longtime president Hafez al-Assad.
Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria for 30 years, after taking power in a military coup in 1970. After his older son Basil died in a crash, the younger son Bashir was groomed for the dynastic succession, becoming president on his father’s death in 2000.
The military dictatorship has ruthlessly suppressed democratic rights and social opposition for four decades, and social contradictions have worsened under the economic liberalization policies of Bashir Assad, which have enriched a new layer of Syrian capitalists while living standards for the great mass of working people have stagnated.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/03/syri-m26.html
And here on DU there are people cheering Russia for doing Assad's dirty work in Syria.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)If you are so concerned, why don't you advocate for israel to take on Assad?
I for one sincerely hope Russia is successful in Syria and Assad remains in power until a truly viable replacement can be found and not one selected by the neocon factions in the West.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)"at least we're better than Syria."
I'm sure Herzl would be delighted with religious Zionism's takeover of Israel.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)If this spray was used in other (civilized) countries, I would say it would be OK in Israel too. Unfortunately for Israel, no other country uses it, and it also seems as if it's also unlawful to use against Jews or their communities.
Go figure.
