IDF soldiers: the willing executioners of Palestinians in the Apartheid Territories
The soldiers ‘didn’t do anything to stop the pogrom,’ a senior Israeli defense official said, ‘they just stood there next to them, saw everything and did nothing.’
By John Brown • Translated by Sol Salbe
Josh Breiner in Haaretz reported that: Investigation shows settler raid on Palestinian village took place in front of IDF forces, who did nothing. The soldiers “didn’t do anything to stop the pogrom,” a senior Israeli defence official said, “they just stood there next to them, saw all of it [take place] and did nothing.” The body of the Palestinian who was killed was taken for autopsy, but the results are inconclusive as to who shot him: the settlers of the soldiers.
This is an important point. IDF soldiers are willing executioners in the Apartheid Territories. They didn’t arrive an hour later as they falsely claimed. They were there [all along], were there and provided protection for the murderers, willingly. They didn’t shoot the [pogromists], like they shoot Palestinian children, because they are full collaborators in these crimes. They don’t just follow orders.
It is already clear that the murderer in yesterday’s pogrom will not be brought to justice. The reason is that the Israel Police and the IDF deliberately do not attend the scene and they are not looking for the bullet. Since the victim was murdered with a rifle shot, the bullet passed through the victim [and exited], so the autopsy cannot assist in determining the actual weapon used to kill the victim.
This is the easiest course of action for the IDF and the police to whitewash murders committed by soldiers and settlers, and this is the [normal] procedure. All investigations in recent years have been closed in this way. Israeli authorities do not collect forensic evidence, so they close the files on the grounds that it is impossible to know who the shooter is because there is no bullet. Thus, this month an investigation was closed against Kfir soldiers who murdered a 12-year-old boy. Since three of them shot at him and it is impossible to know which of the three it was who killed him, then there can be no trial.
When I asked the authorities why they didn’t collect evidence, since the lack of the evidence guarantees the closure of the case, they told me that since these are Palestinian villages, it’s dangerous. But on the one hand, it means that murderers will never be brought to justice, on the other hand, they were there even though it is dangerous. So why is it OK to run the risk to subdue a village, but not to collect evidence? The answer is in Apartheid.
