Wednesday, February 15, 2023

 one more example of how the 'most moral democracy' in the mid east treats those its in the process of forcing from their land and homes so more joos can prosper, and there  are two entries on the same subject here;


If you want a glimpse into the mindset of the journalists tasked with covering the Israel-Palestine conflict for the controlled media, look no further than this tweet from The New Yorker's Lawrence Wright.

"I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron," Wright tweeted on Monday, sharing video showing an Israel soldier choking Amro, throwing him to the ground and then kicking him while he's down.

"I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it," Wright added..........more.........


In a video posted on Twitter by Lawrence Wright of the New Yorker on Monday, the Israeli soldier is seen grabbing Issa Amro by his jacket and neck and throwing him to the ground. He then kicks Amro before being pulled away by another soldier.

“I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this … I can’t stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it,” Wright, the author of The Looming Tower, wrote in a post on his Twitter account.

The Israeli military claimed in a statement that the incident occurred after the soldier, who was guarding a military post, asked the Palestinian activist who approached the post, to step away. It further claimed that in response, the Palestinian began recording and cursing at the soldier, and that a verbal confrontation followed, which soon became a physical confrontation, during which the soldier hit the Palestinian.

However, Wright tweeted that Amro had done nothing to justify the “violent assault,” adding that the Israeli military is “misrepresenting” the build-up to the assault on the Palestinian peace activist.

“The soldier initiated the encounter, Amro did not curse him, [he] only asked to call his commander. Nothing to justify the violent assault that followed,” he said. …more...



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