Reply #8: Ex-IDF officer admits to systemic brutality against Palestinian children

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1. Former Israeli military commander, Eran Erafti:
In an interview with BBC, a former Israeli military commander, Eran Erafti, detailed the widespread abuse and torture of Palestinian youth by occupying Israeli soldiers.
"You take the kid, you blindfold him, you handcuff him, he’s really shaking. ... Sometimes you cuff his legs too. Sometimes it cuts off the circulation."
The children, he says, are as young as nine or 10. Most of them are arrested for throwing rocks at the occupying forces. Showing great courage, they throw rocks at their illegal occupiers, heavily armed soldiers and tanks.

http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/09-08-28-exidf-officer-admits-to-systemi.html



2. Former Mossad deputy director Shmuel Toledano:
"the Israel Defense Forces has
lost its morality and military ethics."

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-84483.html



3. Colonel W. Patrick Lang, retired senior officer of U.S. Military Intelligence:
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In Beit Suhur outside Bethlehem, I have seen IDF troops shoot at Palestinian Christian women hanging out laundry in their gardens. This was done with tank coaxial machine guns from within a bermed up dirt fort a couple of hundred yards away, and evidently just for the fun of it. In Bethlehem a lieutenant told me that he would have had his men shoot me in the street during a demonstration that I happened to get caught in, but that he had not because he thought I might not be a Palestinian and that if I were not the incident would have caused him some trouble. I have seen a lot of things like that.
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http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2009/01/the-idf-ground.html