"Do you know what it
means to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories?" With these
words, Breaking the Silence has released stunning new testimonies from former soldiers, six Israeli women.
Very upsetting. Raw brutalization and debasement. Who
cannot weep when they hear these women's stories of degradation? This
society has lost its soul, and these brave witnesses are open about the
damage, so as to try and save Israel and Palestine-- the politics are
irrelevant to this work.
Full testimonies here.
In the video excerpts above, the women describe the brutalization of
the Palestinians, enforced by debasing peer pressure among the soldiers:
Read more (Mondoweiss)"You can't think that they're good hardworking people trying to survive in a closed, place.""Later I realized that in order to be there you have to break them, break their spirit. Breaking them means making them wait, blindfolding them, treating them badly, writing 'Death to Arabs' on their vests.""Putting cigarettes out on them."
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