{"id":16482,"date":"2011-12-08T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16482"},"modified":"2011-12-08T21:14:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:14:02","slug":"david-cronin-my-attempt-to-arrest-israeli-weapons-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16482","title":{"rendered":"David Cronin: My attempt to arrest Israeli weapons chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada<\/em>, 8 December 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Palestinian wounds suspected of being caused by DIME (credit: Rai24News)<\/p><\/div>This morning I tried to arrest an Israeli military strategist over his development of weapons intended for use in killing\u00a0Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Yitzhak Ben-Israel<\/a>, a former head of research in both Israel\u2019s army and its defense ministry, was standing outside a meeting room in a luxurious Brussels hotel when I arrived shortly after nine o\u2019clock. Initially, I walked past him and approached the registration desk for the \u201cterrorism technology\u201d conference at which he was\u00a0speaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood morning,\u201d I said to a woman behind the desk. \u201cMy name is\u00a0Cronin.\u201d<\/p>\n

A man in a dark suit then approached me. \u201cCronin?\u201d he said. \u201cYou are David?\u201d (I hadn\u2019t given my first\u00a0name).<\/p>\n

Click here to continue reading “My attempt to arrest Israeli weapons chief” by David Cronin<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo and caption via “Italian TV Exposes Experimental IDF Use of U.S. Weapon Which Severs and Burns Limbs Below Genitals” by Richard Silverstein<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 8 December 2011 This morning I tried to arrest an Israeli military strategist over his development of weapons intended for use in killing\u00a0Palestinians. Yitzhak Ben-Israel, a former head of research in both Israel\u2019s army and … Continue reading →<\/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-16482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4hQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482","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=16482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16486,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482\/revisions\/16486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}