#stopthemassacre

"SERGEANT TAL WASSER 2006-09, Oketz (canine special forces), Nablus Standing at the roadblock for eight hours a day puts everyone under this endless pressure. Everyone's constantly yelling, constantly nervous, impatient … venting on the first Palestinian to cross your path. If a Palestinian annoys one of the soldiers, one of the things they'd do is throw him in the Jora, which is a small cell, like a clothing store dressing room. They close the metal door on him and that would be his punishment for annoying, for being bad. Within all the pressure and the stress of the roadblock, the Palestinian would often be forgotten there. No one would remember that he put a Palestinian there, further emphasising the irrelevance and insignificance of the reason he was put there in the first place. Sometimes it was only after hours that they'd suddenly remember to let him out and continue the inspection at the roadblock. SERGEANT, ANONYMOUS Nablus Regional Brigade, Nablus, 2014 "Provocation and reaction" is the act of entering a village, making a lot of noise, waiting for the stones to be thrown at you and then you arrest them, saying: "There, they're throwing stones." Lots of vehicles move inside the whole village, barriers. A barrier seems to be the army's legitimate means to stop terrorists. We're talking about Area B [under civilian Palestinian control and Israeli security control], but the army goes in there every day, practically, provoking stone throwings. Just as any Palestinian is suspect, this is the same idea. It could be a kid's first time ever throwing a stone, but as far as the army is concerned, we've caught the stone thrower. " And then you wonder why we're enraged? These are just two of the lot, the more you read, the more horrific it gets and then you start wondering why on Earth nothing's being done yet. People call Muslims terrorists? Yeah, turn around and look at what's happening in Palestine. Count the number of people who have died there in the past what two years? Okay leave aside two years, what about the last two months? Or the last two days? Take any time interval and then tell me who the terrorist is. This is isn't about which religion or sect you belong to. It's about lives. INNOCENT LIVES. And the more you close your eyes to it and try to defend murderers, the more you're aiding them in what they want. Every time I have faced racism based on my religion, because of Islamic extremists, I've made it point clear that I am not part of that small minority, and that neither are the rest of the majority of Muslims in the world. A life is a life no matter where and to see innocent Palestinian women and children murdered in their homes, in the name of "self-defense and targetting Hamas" is bullshit. More than 80 innocent lives have been taken in the past 72 hours and the number is only going up. To top it off, I see people defending these murders and the violence taking place. Well done indeed. This is no different than you supporting the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki nor is it any different than supporting violence against any innocent yourself. The link to the article with the Israeli soldiers speaking out: