{"id":240475,"date":"2021-08-09T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T07:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240475"},"modified":"2021-08-10T06:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T06:06:17","slug":"the-media-yawns-at-the-israeli-armys-death-squads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240475","title":{"rendered":"The Media Yawns at the Israeli Army’s Death Squads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gideon Levy \u2013 Information Clearing House Aug 2, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Israeli terror is at it again. The Israel Defense Forces\u2019 death squads chalked up another successful week: four bodies of innocent Palestinians piled up between the two Fridays. There doesn\u2019t seem to be a connection between the four incidents in which four sons were killed, but the link cannot be broken.<\/p>\n

In all these cases, soldiers chose shooting to kill as the preferred option. In all four cases another way could have been chosen: Arrest them, aim for the legs, don\u2019t do anything or simply don\u2019t be there at all. But the soldiers chose to kill. It\u2019s probably easier for them that way.<\/p>\n

They come from different branches of the army with different backgrounds, but they share the incredible ease with which they kill, whether they have to or not.<\/p>\n

They kill because they can. They kill because they\u2019re convinced that this is how they\u2019re expected to act. They kill because they know that nothing is cheaper than the life of a Palestinian. They kill because they know that the Israeli media will yawn and not report a thing. They kill because they know that no harm will come to them, so why not? Why not kill a Palestinian when possible?<\/p>\n

They killed a 12-year-old boy and a 41-year-old plumber. They killed a 17-year-old youth and a 20-year-old young man attending a funeral<\/a>, all in one week. An Israeli slogan during the 1948 war went \u201cTo arms, every good man,\u201d leading later to the concept of the IDF\u2019s \u201cpurity of arms.\u201d Four in one week, for no reason, with no hesitation, with no terrorist facing them. Four executions of young men with dreams, families, plans and loves.<\/p>\n

None of the four endangered the soldiers, certainly not in a way that justified lethal fire. Thirteen bullets at a car driving by innocently, carrying a father and his three small children. Shooting a plumber holding a wrench and claiming that he was \u201cmoving rapidly toward the soldiers.\u201d Three bullets at the stomach of a 17-year-old who was on his way to take his brother home.<\/p>\n

All this can be called terror; there is no other definition. All this can be called the actions of death squads; there is no other description. It sounds horrible, but it really is horrific.<\/p>\n

It could be less horrific if the Israeli media bothered to report on it, possibly shocking Israelis. It could be much less horrific if IDF commanders took the necessary steps given their army\u2019s murderous recklessness. But most of the media believed that the killing of a child interests no one or is unimportant, or both, so this shocking incident wasn\u2019t reported on.<\/p>\n

If the soldiers had shot a dog \u2013 also a shocking act, of course \u2013 it would have attracted more attention. But a dead Palestinian child? What happened? Why should it interest anyone, why is it important?<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you working for the Arabs?\u201d journalist Yinon Magal maliciously tweeted, addressing Haaretz\u2019s Hagar Shezaf<\/a>, virtually the only journalist who covered the boy\u2019s funeral. This is the new journalistic ethos: Reporting the truth is tantamount to working for the Arabs.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In seven days the IDF shot dead four Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy. They could have arrested the four and taken them in for questioning. They could even have aimed for their legs but they didn\u2019t, and the media barely mentioned the shootings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240504,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240475\/revisions\/240504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}