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This is an article that has been translated to English from the Haaretz Hebrew daily. This was purposefully omitted from the English version of the paper. If you click on the first Haaretz link, the article has been taken down.

This is for all people, Muslim, Christian, Jew, Athiest or whatever who feel they can judge Palestinians and their methods of resistance without knowing what a completely different realm they are living in. After having spent a lot of time in Palestine, coming back here and reading newspapers or watching the news felt like walking into a twilight zone. Even though the article is about Palestinians, but its not just about them. This is for all the tortured people in this wretched earth who are led by puppets and mercenaries who have had a certain nostalgia for colonialism in the past 5 years or so. If there is a god, may he have mercy on the souls of these despots, because their people wont.

A NEW ISRAELI STUDY CONFIRMS OUR WORST FEARS : On the academic research of Psychologist Nofer Ishai-Karen and Psychology Prof. Joel Elitzur,

Dalia Karpel
shortened translation of article in Haaretz `Hamedovevet`
21.09.07


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Soldier `A` testimony:
`We decided to turn an old shower in our base to a make-shift detention cell. A Palestinian was brought there, handcuffed and mouth banded so he couldn`t talk, or move. We `forgot him there for three days`...

-- Psychologist Ishai-Karen was shocked to find that the soldiers enjoyed the `intoxication of power`, and had pleasure from using violence. She said: `Most of my interviewees enjoyed their own instigated violence during their Occupation service``.

Soldier `C` testimony:
`The truth is that I love this mess - I enjoy it. It is like being on drugs.
If I didn`t enter Rafah, to put down some rebellion -at least once a week-
I`d go berserk.

Soldier `F` testimony:
Some `tough guys` developed it into `an ideology`, according to which we have to react brutally even for minor events. A woman threw a sandal at me. I kicked her with my foot at her crotch. I broke her. She can`t have children any longer. Next time she won`t throw sandals at me... and when another woman spat at me she got the butt of my gun in her face. She can`t spit now.

Soldier `H` testimony:
After two months in Rafah a new NCO commander arrived. The first patrol, which he commanded, was at 06 hours. Rafah was under curfew. Not a soul was on the street. Then he saw a young boy, of about 4, playing in the sand in the courtyard of his home. The kid was building a castle in the sand. Suddenly the NCO, a guy from the Engineers Corps, ran to chase the kid. We followed. He captured the kid and broke his elbow. Broke the kid`s elbow! Damn me if I`m not telling the truth! Then the NCO treaded on the kid`s stomach three times, before he moved on. We couldn`t believe our eyes... But the next day we went on patrol with that guy and the soldiers started to imitate him...
What happened then?
Some guys couldn`t stomach it. The case of severe abuse of three young
adolescents, who were bounded hand and foot by a staff sergeant, got them to
alert a senior officer. `When the medic arrived the boys were bleeding all
over, their clothes were soaked with blood, and they were shivering from fear.
They were made to kneel like dogs and were afraid to move`. The NCO was
punished by 3 months detention. But the platoon commander backed the NCO and
reprimanded the conscientious soldiers for `defaming the platoon`.`

Who is responsible?

General Matan Vilna`i [now serving under Ehud Barak as vice Minister of
Defense] was at the time [during the FIRST INTIFADA] Chief of the IDF Southern Command. He often visited our platoon and discussed with soldiers, says Nofer But... there you go... the `Instruments of DENIAL and CONCEALMENT` went to work...`