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R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:02 PM Jun 2014

Israel can’t force-feed occupation to those who hunger for freedom

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/06/occupation-hunger-freedom.html

For 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 sharpshooter’s 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.

Israel’s 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 OP
actually IDF is calling off the search and proclaiming their mission in the West Bank a success azurnoir Jun 2014 #1
Strange that not brining the three youths back is seen as a success. R. Daneel Olivaw Jun 2014 #2
certainly leaves me going azurnoir Jun 2014 #3

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
1. actually IDF is calling off the search and proclaiming their mission in the West Bank a success
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:07 PM
Jun 2014

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.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 07:10 PM
Jun 2014

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.
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