Israeli Soldiers Just Shoot, Shoot, Shoot

“When I first got to Hebron I wouldn’t open fire on little children. And I was sure that if I ever killed or hurt anyone, I’d go so crazy that I’d leave the army. But finally I did shoot someone, and nothing happened to me. In Hebron I shot the legs off of two kids, and I was sure I wouldn’t be able to sleep anymore at night, but nothing happened. Two weeks ago I hurt a Palestinian policeman, and that didn’t affect me either. You become so apathetic you don’t care at all. Shooting is the IDF soldier’s way of meditating. It’s like shooting is your way of letting go of all your anger when you’re in the army. In Hebron there’s this order they call “punitive shooting”: just open fire on whatever you like. I opened fire not on any sources of fire but on windows where there was just wash hanging to dry. I knew that there were people who would be hit. But at that moment it was just shoot, shoot, shoot.”

— Extract from an interview with Israeli soldiers (who are identified by pseudonyms) conducted by Israeli journalist Uri Blau and printed in Kol Ha’Ir, a Jerusalem weekly, in September 2001.
Translated from Hebrew by Tal Haran, and published in English translation in the April 2002 edition of Harpers Magazine.

[Via: Lawrence of Cyberia]

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4 thoughts on “Israeli Soldiers Just Shoot, Shoot, Shoot”

  1. So then why does the international community seem to have a problem when Palestinians decide to just suicide bomb, suicide bomb, suicide bomb?

  2. just one way of getting rid of Israeli Soldiers
    that is the muslims from all over the world should do JIHAD against israile

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