Israel’s Channel Two broke embargo and aired footage taken by an Israeli news team during a raid on a Palestinian home. A woman was mortally wounded, to the horror of her husband and children, when soldiers blasted down the door.
Two soldiers were interviewed after an ambulance that was dispatched, only after much begging by the woman’s husband and delays, finally arrived and removed her body from the scene.
“I don’t know what we’re doing here,” one said whilst grinning often, “Purification, maybe. It’s dirty here. I don’t know why a good Hebrew boy should be here so far from home.”
The other soldier said he “approved of the operation and that it really wasn’t so bad.”
It’s unclear why Channel Two breached the arrangement shared between the three Israeli networks and the army not to air any footage that isn’t pre-approved by the military. It would be reasonable to assume it was an act of protest. The alternative, that the media has grown so accustomed to the face of its country’s racism they considered the film merely titillating, is too barbaric to contemplate, isn’t it?
According to Neil MacDonald, the CBC journalist who compiled this report, when this footage aired people didn’t like what they saw. One of the strongest reactions came from an Israeli official who criticised the media for not exercising self censorship.
Obviously, the Israeli gov’t should have been made to turn over all of these snuff films, if they hadn’t already been destroyed.
Why didn’t that happen? This was a test and we’ve failed it.
(Film link via HUMAN first, then a proud IRANIAN)