{"id":10813,"date":"2009-09-17T07:38:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2009-09-17T07:49:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T12:49:50","slug":"soldiers-testimonies-from-operation-cast-lead-gaza-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10813","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers&#8217; Testimonies from Operation Cast Lead, Gaza 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A NEW BOOKLET BY &#8220;BREAKING THE SILENCE&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You feel like an infantile little kid with a magnifying glass looking at ants, burning them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-four testimonies of Israeli combat soldiers who participated in Operation Cast Lead reveal gaps between the reports given by the army following January\u2019s events; the needless destruction of houses; firing phosphorous in populated areas and an atmosphere that encouraged shooting anywhere. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shovrimshtika.org\/oferet\/news_item_e.asp?id=1\">Read more<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shovrimshtika.org\/oferet\/ENGLISH_oferet.pdf\">Download the booklet (.pdf)<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>h\/t<\/em>: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/9\/16\/un_inquiry_finds_israel_punished_and\">Norman Finkelstein: UN Inquiry Finds Israel \u201cPunished and Terrorized\u201d Palestinian Civilians, Committed War Crimes During Gaza Assault<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One soldier after another, literally\u2014I wish listeners would just bring up the report. It\u2019s called \u201cBreaking the Silence.\u201d And then, under\u2014enter under the search mechanism, just enter the word \u201cinsane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It was a massacre in Gaza. And you don\u2019t really see that, because they\u2019re measuring everything against what they call the laws of war. But you\u2019re applying laws of war to a massacre. There was no war there. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NEW BOOKLET BY &#8220;BREAKING THE SILENCE&#8221;: &#8220;You feel like an infantile little kid with a magnifying glass looking at ants, burning them.&#8221; Fifty-four testimonies of Israeli combat soldiers who participated in Operation Cast Lead reveal gaps between the reports &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10813\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2Op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10813"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10820,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions\/10820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}