• Neve Gordon · The Day After · LRB 4 May 2015
    http://www.lrb.co.uk/2015/05/04/neve-gordon/the-day-after

    Many others began to understand that the ethical dilemmas raised in the briefings were a #farce:

    We knew that we were entering a house and that we could be good kids, on our best behaviour, but even then a D9 [armoured bulldozer] would show up and flatten the house. We figured out pretty quickly that every house we left, a D9 would show up and raze it. The neighbourhood we were in, what characterised it operationally was that it commanded a view of the entire area of the [Israel-Gaza border fence] and also some of the [Israeli] border towns. In the southern and some of the eastern parts of Juhar ad-Dik, we understood pretty quickly that the houses would not be left standing … At a certain point we understood it was a pattern: you leave a house and the house is gone; after two or three houses you figure out that there’s a pattern. The D9 comes and flattens it.

    This is the Dahiya doctrine in action, named after the Beirut neighbourhood which #Israel turned into rubble in 2006.

    #doctrine_dahiya #mascarade #éthique