Palestinian Women, Children Stop IDF Soldier Detaining a Minor - Diplomacy and Defense - Haaretz
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L’armée israélienne en concurrence avec #Gorafi:
According to the army, the youth was throwing stones at the troops, who did not realize he was a minor.
Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinians in weekly protests
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Extraordinary moment that desperate Palestinian women fought and BIT an Israeli soldier after he put boy with a broken arm in a headlock at gunpoint
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3214441/Remarkable-moment-young-girl-bites-Israeli-soldier-two-women-overpower-
NABI SALEH 28 8 2015 Abu Yazan
Des femmes palestiniennes tentent de libérer un jeune garçon immobilisé par un soldat israélien #AFP 1/3
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Photos prises par Abbas Momani en marge d’une manifestation le 28/08 dans le village de Nabi Saleh en Cisjordanie #AFP 2/3
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Les habitants de Nabi Saleh manifestaient contre l’extension de la colonie juive de Halamish #AFP 3/3
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The Palestinian family who fought off an Israeli soldier from arresting their boy -
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/palestinian-family-who-fought-israeli-soldier-arresting-their-young-s
In the Israeli media, a soldier trying to arrest a minor is the victim
►http://972mag.com/in-the-israeli-media-a-soldier-trying-to-arrest-a-minor-is-the-victim/111227
A Picture of a Headlock That’s Worth a Thousand Words
Why hasn’t the IDF, one of the most sophisticated and advanced militaries in the world learned a damned thing since the first intifada?
Anshel Pfeffer Aug 30, 2015 10:33 PM
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Actually, looking again at the picture, there is one other detail which you wouldn’t have seen a few years ago. The soldier is trying to conceal his identity behind a badly constructed mask. Until very recently, you almost never saw servicemen in the West Bank covering their faces while trying to suppress riots. This isn’t for fear of being hauled in front of an international court - those tribunals never indict anyone beneath the level of senior commander. And while the soldier belongs to an elite battalion, it isn’t a special forces unit that needs to preserve its members anonymity.
Taking their toll
The mask is proof that the Palestinian stage managing, the dozens of cameras and the results immediately uploaded to YouTube, and in cases like this also broadcast in the media, are taking their toll. Whatever these men and their immediate commanders are telling themselves, the true underlying reason more soldiers are covering their faces is shame. They know our politicians have put them in an impossible situation where they can never win. No decent person, no matter his politics, wants to go home for Shabbat and see himself online manhandling children and women. Today’s young soldiers are by now a third generation enforcing an occupation that is eating away at our army and our society. Perhaps their shame will one day motivate them to demand real solutions from the politicians.
▻https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2015/08/30/a-picture-of-a-headlock-thats-worth-a-thousand-words
Father of IDF Soldier Attacked by Palestinians Says Proud of Son’s Restraint
If women had been hurt, the incident ’would have ended in a completely different way,’ father tells Army Radio; Palestinian girl seen on video tells Channel 2 soldier used too much force.
Haaretz Aug 30, 2015
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(...) Meanwhile, the mother and sister of the Palestinian teen seen on the video spoke out about incident in an interview with the Israeli Channel 2.
“I cannot stand by and see my brother on the verge of death,” said the boy’s sister, Ahed Tamimi, told Channel 2, adding that the soldier used too much force.
“It’s a little boy with a broken arm, what can he possibly do?” Tamimi said.
The boy’s mother, Nariman Tamimi, said: “I’m a mother, if a soldier attacks a small boy and does something to him I’ll do everything to release my boy from the soldier’s hands.”
This is not the first time the Tamimi family has gained international attention due to photographs of confrontations with the Israeli army. In 2012, a photo of Ahed shaking her fist at an Israeli soldier became an international sensation. Thanks to the photo, she has won an award from Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul.
Also on Sunday, Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev commented on the incident on her Facebook page, saying that Israeli soldiers cannot be sent out with their arms “tied behind their backs,” adding that soldiers under attack must be allowed to open fire.
“I call on the defense minister to put an end to the humiliation and change the rules of engagement immediately!” Regev wrote.
Israeli Mayor Calls to Dismiss Teacher Who Attended Palestinian Protest
Herzl Schubert allegedly seen on viral video showing Palestinian women scuffling with soldier.
Yarden Skop and Ilan Lior
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A Perfect Picture of the Occupation
The video clearly shows, once again, the truth about a great deal of the IDF’s operational activities: chasing children. And an army that fights children and chases them as they flee is an army that has lost its conscience.
Haaretz Editorial Aug 31, 2015 2:18 AM
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Incidents en Cisjordanie : le père d’un soldat « fier » de la retenue de son fils
31 Août 2015
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(...) Selon Jonathan Pollack, un activiste qui se trouvait sur les lieux, l’adolescent palestinien, Mohammed Tamimi, n’avait pas jeté des pierres et les soldats étaient conscients qu’il était mineur, rapporte le quotidien Haaretz.
L’armée israélienne a de son côté souligné que les soldats ne savaient pas qu’il était mineur et qu’"à la suite de l’affrontement violent, le commandant régional a décidé de mettre un terme à l’arrestation."
(...)
La ministre de la Culture Miri Regev a quant à elle appelé le ministre de la Défense Moshe Ya’alon à modifier le protocole concernant l’usage des armes à feu, affirmant que les règles actuelles sont « une honte ».
Plus tôt ce mois-ci, les soldats de Tsahal servant en Cisjordanie ont reçu l’ordre de ne pas tirer sur les suspects palestiniens s’ils ne constituent pas une menace immédiate pour leur vie.
« Toute personne qui tente de nuire à des citoyens israéliens et aux soldats des Forces de défense israéliennes a besoin de savoir qu’il met sa vie en danger. Nous devons établir dès à présent qu’un soldat attaqué a le droit d’ouvrir le feu », a dit Regev, selon Channel 2. (...)
Vidéo : une famille palestinienne empêche de force le kidnapping de son garçon de 12 ans
Ma’an News, le 1er septembre 2015
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A deux doigts de la catastrophe
Abbas Momani et Sarah Benhaïda, AFP, le 30 août 2015
►http://blogs.afp.com/makingof/?post/israel-nabi-saleh-tamimi-a-deux-doigts-du-desastre
Images of the #Occupation « LRB blog
▻http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2015/09/05/the-editors/images-of-the-occupation
It is not yet clear which are more effective in the long run: the bullets or the photos.
Selon la ministre israélienne de la culture, la palestinienne qui a défendu un petit garçon blessé d’un soldat israélien aurait dû être « abattue »
Middle East Monitor
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#Tehran Threatens to Open the Golan Front in Response to Israeli Strike
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/23295
"The response will be firm and decisive.” This, in short, was the Iranian reaction to the Israeli attack in the Syrian province of #Quneitra, which killed a senior commander in the #Iranian_Revolutionary_Guard (IRG), among others. The Iranian reaction indicates the possibility of opening the Golan front, where work is underway to build the necessary infrastructure. Preparations began after Syrian President #Bashar_al-Assad’s announcement that the response to Israeli attacks on #syria would come from the #Golan_Heights.
#Articles #Hussein_Sheikh_al-Islam #Iran #Israel #Mohammed_Ali_Allah-Dadi #Mideast_&_North_Africa
The fight against fundamentalist recruitment of Palestinian youth in Ain al-Hilweh | Al Akhbar English
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n an attempt to stop the new generation from drifting away from moderate Palestinian movements, Munir el-Maqdah, senior commander of the Fatah movement in Ain al-Hilweh and the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in South Lebanon, decided three months ago to revive the ancient Fatah youth movement known as the fighting Lion Cubs, or al-Ashbal.
Maqdah sees little hope when it comes to enhancing the discriminatory laws and abolishing the bureaucratic hurdles in Palestinian employment and hence chooses to focus more on immediately “getting the children out of the streets.”
Erdogan continues police purge, calls for broader governmental control of judiciary
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Turkey’s deputy police chief was sacked overnight, the most senior commander yet targeted in a purge by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan after security forces arrested several in a corruption case. The deputy chief was one of 16 provincial police chiefs fire in a new mass purge Wednesday, just a day after the government fired 350 police officers in the capital Ankara - bringing the total number sacked to over 700 since mid-December when the graft scandal broke, according to local media tallies. read more
IDF received NIS 4 million for leadership training by right-wing group - Diplomacy & Defense - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
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The Israel Defense Forces’ Education Corps recently received a special NIS 4 million budget to fund leadership training provided to IDF soldiers by the right-wing organization Elad (a Hebrew acronym for “To the City of David”) in East Jerusalem.
A senior IDF commander has confirmed that the amount was transferred; however, he claimed that there was nothing amiss in the IDF’s working with this organization because the Education Corps monitors all of the content of Elad’s instruction programs for IDF units.
Elad, which promotes Jewish settlement in Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, has worked with the Education Corps for many years. Apparently, the money was transferred though a special allocation from the budget of one government ministry. The senior commander confirmed that the money was earmarked in advance for this purpose – in other words, the Education Corps received it with the stipulation that it would fund the training sessions given by Elad.
He added that the organization specializes in instruction sessions focused on the City of David, an archaeological site immediately south of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. The content of every lecture delivered to IDF soldiers, he noted, is approved in advance by the Education Corps, which also closely monitors the training sessions in the field in order to ascertain that the persons conducting them are complying with the terms of the agreement between the Education Corps and Elad.
“The IDF supervises these activities meticulously,” the senior commander emphasized.
Last month, Haaretz reported that hundreds of cadets in officer training school spent a weekend at a “leadership Sabbath” in East Jerusalem that was initiated by the
Education Corps and organized by Elad; some of the lecturers appearing before the soldiers on behalf of Elad were rabbis. The event is part of the IDF’s training program for combat officers destined to serve in field units.
Cadets who participated said the speakers tended to avoid outright political statements, but the lectures contained a clear ideological message for strengthening the Jewish presence in the eastern part of the city. They visited the Jewish neighborhood of Ma’aleh Zeitim on the Mount of Olives and, from an observation point on the roof of one of the houses there, were able to get a good view of the Temple Mount.
The father of one cadet told Haaretz that the lecturers “marketed a concentrated religious doctrine concealed under the heading of leadership.”
A reservist officer who in the past has served in senior positions in the Education Corps, says that “there are various perspectives on Jewish identity, ranging from the ultra-Orthodox to Modern Orthodox and non-Orthodox, and I am not at all certain that the army is sufficiently balancing the picture.”
The new IDF Chief Education Officer, Brig. Gen. Avner Paz-Tzuk, assumed the post yesterday, replacing Brig. Gen. Eli Shermeister who served six years in that capacity.
Shermeister, who is retiring from military service, recently said in an interview with the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper: “The IDF is not a religious army, although it does have religious soldiers.” He added in that interview that he did not feel that the Military Rabbinate was trying to take over the IDF.
Manaf Tlass Defects | As‘ad AbuKhalil
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But none of the Western media or Syrian opposition media will raise serious questions about this man. He was a senior commander in the Republican Guards and has blood on his hands.
Is the search for high-ranking defectors so desperate that criminals and oppressors are welcomed to join the cause?
The recent Cairo document by the exile Syrian opposition made a distinction between members of the military with blood on their hands and members of the military who have no blood on their hands.
[…]
And how could Manaf be immune from the very war crimes accusations leveled at the regime by Western human rights organizations and by the Syrian exile opposition?
Will Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch request that he be arrested and charged with war crimes, in his capacity as a commander of a criminal and repressive arm of the regime?
Or will his crimes be forgotten (just as the crimes of Husain Kamil were forgotten once he defected to Jordan) because he may prove to be useful (idiot?) to Western governments?