Saturday, March 21, 2009
Lower than dogs
From Haaretz:
According to the squad leader: "The sharpshooter saw a woman and children approaching him, closer than the lines he was told no one should pass. He shot them straight away. In any case, what happened is that in the end he killed them.This defense was not valid at Nuremburg, why is it still being used? The Israeli military has said it will investigate reports of this and similar action during the recent ethnic cleansing in Gaza. That is equivalent to Dick Cheney investigating Scooter Libby.
"I don't think he felt too bad about it, because after all, as far as he was concerned, he did his job according to the orders he was given. And the atmosphere in general, from what I understood from most of my men who I talked to ... I don't know how to describe it .... The lives of Palestinians, let's say, is something very, very less important than the lives of our soldiers. So as far as they are concerned they can justify it that way," he said.
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