|
|
|
Subject:
RE:Palestinians Consume their Own Children
swhitebull
5/27/2004 7:07:11 AM
|
| Here's the article from Haaretz that discusses the pictures taken of PALIS shooting their own children in the "demonstration" march in Rafah.
HIGHLIGHT from the lengthy article:
" When the procession with armed men in its midst set out in the direction of the forces, Zakai tried to speak with the community leaders in Rafah. The head of the Liaison and Coordination Administration, Colonel Poli Mordecai, phoned Nasser Saraj, the head of the Civil Committee in the city. Had the Liaison and Coordination Administration sufficed, they would not have needed the tank commander. Saraj, a respected individual, formerly the director-general of the Ministry of Trade and Industry in the Palestinian Authority, listened to Colonel Mordecai's pleas, but took no steps to prevent the disaster.
When men obeyed the calls over the loudspeakers to turn themselves in to the IDF authorities (and to the intelligence people who wanted to question them), they were confronted by members of the terror organizations, who opened fire on them and killed two children. A senior officer in Gaza reported yesterday that the IDF have in their possession pictures of this incident, of Palestinians killing their children. He expressed amazement as to why the army has refrained from publishing "
link
Inside Track / Rafah is a nightmare
By Amir Oren
O. who comes from an established settlement in the Jezreel Valley, has in recent years acquired a reputation as a fascinating tour guide in his area. Groups gather around him for visits to interesting sites and to hear tales of the valley. For the most part, the tourists never find out that in June, 1967, in north-eastern Sinai (later settled by Israel) second lieutenant O. excelled in the decisive battle fought by Major General Tal's division. He received a commendation and this was later replaced by a decoration a few months before the Yom Kippur War, exactly when his son S. was born. In a certain sense, O.'s was the first commendation of the Six-Day War; in another Six-Day War battle, his brother-in-law was killed. O.'s brother was killed in the Yom Kippur War.
Had the poet who wrote the line "the valley is a dream" been called up for reserve duty this week, he would have amended the line to "Rafah is a nightmare." On Wednesday, Lieutenant Colonel S., O.'s son, also the recipient of a commendation, was at the center of the devastating event. A tank crew in S.'s battalion fired four shells, on his orders, and killed eight Palestinians. S. had received the order from the commander of the Golani Brigade, Colonel Erez Zuckerman.
About eight years ago, in Lebanon, S. and Zuckerman were involved in a different incident. At that time Zuckerman was the first commander of the renewed Egoz special operations unit and S. was the commander of a tank company and was wounded by an anti-tank missile during the complicated rescue of an Egoz force. Since then, both have moved up the ranks. Zuckerman returned to the naval commandos and headed the unit. S. was put in a position that enabled him to observe the decision-making process among the top brass and to enjoy personal acquaintance with the most senior officers. One day - literally - he joined a pilots' course: one day - because the following day he was fed up with having to run around carrying beds as a new recruit. His dream of being an air force pilot was never realized; therefore he was not hovering over Rafah on Wednesday in the attack helicopter that tried to convince the demonstrators, by means of flares and a missile, to stop their procession and disperse, but remained instead down on the ground, as the commander of the tanks, one of which hit the demonstrators.
The officer who ordered Zuckerman to order S. to order the tank to fire shells is the commander of the Gaza Division, Brigadier General Shmuel Zakai. Toward the end of the week, in a quiet moment at his advance staff headquarters, Zakai said to someone that he already knew what he wanted to do after he retires from the Israel Defense Forces. "I want," he said somewhat sadly and bitterly, "to be a military commentator" - to send out into the air observations unconstricted by the need to choose between bad alternatives and without any responsibility for results and for people.
Zakai, Zuckerman and S. are people from the north. Zakai, formerly the commander of the Golani Brigade, was also the commander of the main regional brigade on the Lebanese border. S.'s tank battalion belongs to a brigade whose first task was to fight against the Syrian armored vehicles on the Golan Heights. Together with the Golani Brigade, the battalion was brought down to the Gaza area before Operation Rainbow. When tank fire in a very populated urban area is approved, without non-lethal means of dispersing demonstrations, the result is terrible, as in Rafah. The General Staff did not bother to equ |
| |
|
|
|
