Three Israeli soldiers have been sentenced to jail for abusing Palestinian prisoners.
The Jaffa Military Court on Tuesday sentenced three fighters of the Haruv Battalion to five and a half months in prison after convicting them of abusing two Palestinian detainees about four months ago.
[…] The three were convicted of attacking two 17-year-old Palestinians while watching over them at their base in the settlement of Shavei Shomron. They beat them while they were handcuffed and they eyes were covered, cursed them, forced them to say words in Hebrew, and at one point even attached a heat conductor to one of the youths’ face.
The investigation into the affair, first reported by Ynet, began following a complaint filed by a female soldier from the battalion. The three fighters trued to convince the soldier not to report of what she saw, but she eventually gave her commanders the full version.
When you find me a case where the same kind of thing happens to Palestinians who abuse their own prisoners, then I’ll believe they can manage their own state. Until then, Condi Rice needs to get a clue.
“The expansion of violence in the Middle East makes the establishment of a peaceful Palestinian state more urgent, not less,†the U.S. secretary of state said Tuesday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington.
“The present opportunity is not perfect by any means, but it is better than any other in recent years and we need to seize it. Israelis have waited too long for the security they desire and deserve, and Palestinians have waited too long amidst daily humiliations for the dignity of a Palestinian state.â€
Really? It’s the violence in the Middle East that makes it urgent that they get a state? Because if they have a state, the violence will stop? Says who? And way to go, quoting the Palestinian “humiliation” line without mentioning the daily rocketing of southern Israel. Because it’s not like the Palestinians are still honoring suicide bombers or promoting violence and hate against Israel. Oh. Wait.
Palestinian Authority (PA) infrastructures controlled by Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah continue to promote the ideology that “Palestine” will replace a destroyed Israel. US and EU money facilitates this.
1- The Palestinian Security Services Academy, a military branch of Mahmoud Abbas´s Fatah government, prominently depicts as the center of its symbol the map of a “Palestine” state that erases all of Israel. This map is common in the Palestinian Authority and symbolizes the hope for the destruction of Israel. Voice of America reports that the academy is funded by “… Arab states and the European Union. The U.S. also has offered some indirect support.” http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2008-01/2007-Palestinian- Police-Academy.cfm
2- The second example is of a “Sport and Cultural Club” built by USAID that prominently displays both the words “USAID” and the map of a “Palestine” state that erases all of Israel, encircled by the Palestinian flag.
Seems to me that Condi is deliberately closing her eyes to the elephant in the room, which is Palestinian Arab rejectionism of Israel’s right to exist, just as all her predecessors did.
So, what was the reception of Condi’s insistence on the urgency of a state?
Rice’s remarks were greeted with silence.
Uh-huh.
The greater the violence the more pressing it is to establish a Palestinian state? So the Palestinians not only should not suffer any consequences for violence, engaging in it will bring pressure on Israel from the US?
If that’s the case, what inducement do the Palestinians have to stop trying to kill Israelis?
Is this the same Condi who was appointed as the National Security advisor in 2001, or have the pod people infiltrated the Bush Administration? Cripes, talk about a lack of logical thinking.