D'autres images de l'occupation + Témoignages

Et oui, d'autres images de la vie ordinaire sous occupation israélienne... iamginez ce que c'est depuis le début de la guerre. Ces photos viennent du site web suivant:
http://stop-us-military-aid-to-israel.net/

Un soldat israélien qui "protège son pays" de "terroristes".

Des soldats israéliens qui posent avec le cadavre d'un Palestinien.

Des femmes palestiniennes qui protestent contre l'occupation.

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En prime, ce site offre des témoignages de soldats israéliens qui ont servi pendant l'occupation. Le service militaire est obligatoire en Israël, et souvent ces soldats sont très jeunes, encore des adolescents. Le film Checkpoint est excellent pour comprendre la dynamique entre les soldats et les Palestinien-nes.

http://www.oznik.com/words/040630.html

Extrait:

As I was leaving dinner, an armored ambulance arrived with the terrorists’ corpses, and the sight which was revealed to me just after this delicious meal, was of two terrorists’ corpses being held up in a standing position by three people who were posing for photographs. Even I was shocked by this sight, I closed my eyes so as not to see and walked away, I really didn’t feel like looking at terrorists’ corpses.

I think your judgment gets a little impaired when everyday… when your enemy is an Arab or somebody else who in your eyes… like, you don’t look at him as a person standing in front of you, but as the enemy, and this is the word for him: enemy. He is not a dog, he is not some animal, you don’t think of him as inferior, he simply doesn’t count. Period. He is not… he is your enemy, and if he’s the enemy, you kill him. And if it’s him that you kill, once you’ve killed him, then it seems that there’s nothing worse you can do to him, but apparently there is.

As long as I’m doing my duty according to the regulations, something completely legal, I’m doing something that is inflicting pain on people, harming them unnecessarily. I guard, or enable the existence of, 500 Jewish settlers at the expense of 15,000 people under direct occupation in the H2 area and another 140,000- 60,000 in the surrounding areas of Hebron. It makes no difference whatsoever how pleasant I am to them or how pleasant my company commander is, it simply… won't make it any better. I will still be their enemy. There will still be a conflict between us. And sometimes, the fact that I may be nice to them will only cause me trouble because then they’ll have someone to argue with, someone to turn to. But there is nothing I can tell them. You can't go through the checkpoint because you can't, and that's it!! It’s an order, based on security considerations.

As long as you want to protect these 500 people, that's what you have to do. As long as you want to keep these folks in Hebron alive and enable them to go about their existence in a reasonable manner, you have to destroy the reasonable existence of all the rest. There's no alternative. For the most part, these are real security considerations. They're not imaginary. If you want to protect them from being shot at from above, you have to occupy all the hills around them. There are people living on those hills. They have to be subdued, they have to be detained, they have to be hurt at times. But as long as the government has decided that the settlement in Hebron will remain in tact, even without undue cruelty, the cruelty is there, and it doesn't matter whether or not we act nice.