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Related: About this forumIsrael can’t force-feed occupation to those who hunger for freedom
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/occupation-hunger-freedom.htmlFor more than a month Israel sought to wriggle off a hook that should have snared it from the start. Two children, 17 and 16, were shot dead during Nakba Day protests near Ramallah, in which youths threw stones ineffectually at well-protected and distant Israeli military position.
Hundreds of Palestinian children have lost their lives over the years at the end of a sharpshooters sights, but the deaths of Nadim Nuwara and Mohammed Abu Al Thahir in Beitunia were not easily forgotten. Israel was quickly cornered by an accumulation of physical and visual evidence.
Israels usual denials the deaths were faked, video footage was doctored, Israeli soldiers were not responsible, the youths provoked the soldiers, no live ammunition was used have been discredited one by one. Slowly Israel conceded responsibility, if only by falling into a grudging silence.
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There has been no admission of guilt, no search for the guilty soldiers and no reassessment of its policies on crowd control or the use of live fire let alone on the continuation of the occupation. Instead, 20 soldiers arrived last week at the store in Beitunia, threatened to burn it down, arrested the owner, Fakher Zayed, and ordered he remove the camera that caused so much embarrassment.
Hundreds of Palestinian children have lost their lives over the years at the end of a sharpshooters sights, but the deaths of Nadim Nuwara and Mohammed Abu Al Thahir in Beitunia were not easily forgotten. Israel was quickly cornered by an accumulation of physical and visual evidence.
Israels usual denials the deaths were faked, video footage was doctored, Israeli soldiers were not responsible, the youths provoked the soldiers, no live ammunition was used have been discredited one by one. Slowly Israel conceded responsibility, if only by falling into a grudging silence.
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There has been no admission of guilt, no search for the guilty soldiers and no reassessment of its policies on crowd control or the use of live fire let alone on the continuation of the occupation. Instead, 20 soldiers arrived last week at the store in Beitunia, threatened to burn it down, arrested the owner, Fakher Zayed, and ordered he remove the camera that caused so much embarrassment.
So while the IDF is searching for the missing Israeli teens and keeping the spotlight there an injustice on top of many other injustices remains unanswered.
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Israel can’t force-feed occupation to those who hunger for freedom (Original Post)
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jun 2014
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azurnoir
(45,850 posts)1. actually IDF is calling off the search and proclaiming their mission in the West Bank a success
Surprisingly, the officer said the army considers the operation a success, despite that it failed to lead to a clue about the missing teenagers. The success, he added, is based on the fact that large numbers of Hamas supporters have been detained, and that the infrastructure of Hamas in the West Bank has been crippled.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=706997
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)2. Strange that not brining the three youths back is seen as a success.
Almost pitiful, really.
And if you get rid on one group another will take its place.
I do hope that the Israeli youth are found alive and well and return home.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)3. certainly leaves me going
just what was the mission again?