Eyeless in Gaza
by Uri Avnery | April 16, 2018
▻https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/16/eyeless-in-gaza-4
Write down: I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who give them the orders, up to the commander in chief.
We don’t belong to the same army, or to the same state. We hardly belong to the same human race.
Is my government committing “war crimes” along the border of the Gaza Strip?
I don’t know. I am not a jurist.
It seems that officials of the International Criminal Court believe that the acts of our soldiers do constitute war crimes. They demand an international investigation.
To prevent that, our army command proposes an Israeli military investigation. That is manifestly ridiculous – an army investigating itself about acts committed on direct orders of the Chief of Staff. (...)