Israel is a democracy.
Pete Jones | 02.09.2009 10:21
Criminals hide their faces
In a normal society, violence toward children is considered particularly appalling.
Yet in Israel, for decades now, Israeli soldiers have arrested and are arresting Palestinian children, often in the middle of the night, on the basis of confessions from other children who were sentenced to months and years in prison after admitting a felony against the occupation.
The children are questioned in the middle of the night and are detained until the end of the procedures, even when they are 13 and 14 years old.
The military judges find nothing wrong with this.
Usually it is best for the children to admit to the crimes quickly (for example, to throwing stones between 2001 and 2004, with no mention of a specific date and place) and sign a plea bargain.
From the most senior military judge down to the private at a checkpoint, hundreds of thousands of racist and nutty Israelis who are also violent at home are perpetrators in the administering, demarcating, restricting and brutalizing Palestinian society while cumulatively damaging its rights, welfare and well-being.
This is a democracy worth preserving.
Yet in Israel, for decades now, Israeli soldiers have arrested and are arresting Palestinian children, often in the middle of the night, on the basis of confessions from other children who were sentenced to months and years in prison after admitting a felony against the occupation.
The children are questioned in the middle of the night and are detained until the end of the procedures, even when they are 13 and 14 years old.
The military judges find nothing wrong with this.
Usually it is best for the children to admit to the crimes quickly (for example, to throwing stones between 2001 and 2004, with no mention of a specific date and place) and sign a plea bargain.
From the most senior military judge down to the private at a checkpoint, hundreds of thousands of racist and nutty Israelis who are also violent at home are perpetrators in the administering, demarcating, restricting and brutalizing Palestinian society while cumulatively damaging its rights, welfare and well-being.
This is a democracy worth preserving.
Pete Jones
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it is pretty clear by now that ...
02.09.2009 10:58
Note the levels of 'cancer' seen in recently released Palestinian prisoners (they don't talk about their experiences long!) and that peculiar coincidence of 'enhanced' levels of arrest and 'last minute prevention of terrorist outrages' that feature the former child inmates.
beginning to see a picture, a modus operandi?
no?
your probably a zionist.
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