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An Israeli NGO said that the plundering of the Palestinian security takes precedence over
ENRIC GONZÁLEZ - Jerusalem - 14/12/2010

Israel occupying the West Bank for 43 years. There have been phases of great violence, as during the second Intifada (2000-2005), and more or less gentle stages, like the present. The Oslo Accords, the autonomy of the Palestinian Authority and the disappearance of large-scale terrorism have cemented the idea of \u200b\u200ba benign occupation. It is not. NGO Breaking the Silence (Breaking the silence ) , founded in 2004 by former Israeli soldiers willing to report what they had done, collected anonymous testimony of 101 former soldiers in a book that provides a snapshot of the occupation.

"The official version states that the military activity in the territories [occupied] is primarily aimed at ensuring the security of Israeli citizens, the testimony, however, describe an offensive behavior, including expropriations territory, increasing control over civilians and the systematic use of fear ", notes the book's introduction.

"We made some things which we denounce," said Yehuda Shaul, a former chief of patrol in Hebron and founder of Breaking the Silence. "We want to know what happens to the other side, breaking the willful ignorance of Israeli society. Some people will use our complaints to attack Israel, but our purpose is to strengthen the moral foundations of this country," he adds.
radiography occupation refers to both military and shows four strands:
Sikkul (prevention of terrorism), Hafradah
(separation) ; hayyim Mirkam (preservation of the Palestinian social fabric) and hok Akhifat
(law enforcement). These lines were supposed well-intentioned. The accounts reveal that it is a perverse use of them. "Prevention of terrorism" means, says Breaking the Silence, "in which all Palestinians, men and women, are suspect and are a threat, intimidation reduces the chances of them face security forces and, therefore, prevent terrorism. "

An example of "prevention" and there are dozens, is provided by a former soldier Kfir Brigade, for the area of \u200b\u200bNablus in 2009. The military intelligence had ordered 60 Palestinian houses recorded in a village. "We went house to house, at two in the morning, people were terrified, there were girls who fear they urinated on him," said the witness. Other phrases: "Men between 16 and 29 were wife and sold her eyes." "A soldier stole 20 shekels [four euros]." "You complained that there was nothing to steal, he had only been possible markers." "We found confiscate weapons and kitchen knives."
Another aspect of the "prevention" is to remind people the constant presence of Army. A former paratrooper, serving in Nablus in 2003, recalls that at three in the morning threw grenades blasting: "We told [the officers] that if there were terrorists, they would escape the noise. In reality, the message was that while terrorism had would become the life of the people in hell. "
"Separation" means, presumably, Israelis and Palestinians. The testimonies show that, in addition, separating Palestinians from each other to facilitate military control and separates Palestinians from their lands to force them to concentrate in cities. Many of the fields abandoned necessarily end up in hands settlers. Breaking the Silence says that "separation" is not aimed at an eventual Israeli withdrawal, "but to control and annexation of territory."
Another line of action, theoretically aimed at preserving the fabric of Palestinian society, has ended up consisting of a constant interference. To see who can be dangerous is practiced
mapping, translatable as "mapping." Described by a former gunner stationed in Hebron in 2003: "You go into a house and ask all the card. We register all, empty the closets and go. When I realized I was promoted to officer what it was for that: collect information for intelligence, so they know what is inside each house and who lives there. " The last axis is the application of the law, other than for Palestinians under Ottoman or Jordanian laws and, above all, military justice and the settlers, under Israeli ordinary justice. The Army has no authority over the settlers. In a conversation with this correspondent, a high Israeli Army officer said that settlers were generally "as dangerous as Arab terrorists."
The book contained stories like that of a soldier in Hebron in 2008. According to the military settlers liked to walk every Shabbat for the Palestinian market. The soldiers had to "sterilize" the streets (evacuated) from time to time, a settler cursing, spitting or giving a blow to a Palestinian, and the patrol took the Palestinians to "avoid frictions." "It was the most degrading," said the soldier.
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