Posted on Nov 17, 2023
A former Israeli soldier calls for international intervention to stop settler violence
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It wasn't long after Ori Givati became a combat soldier in the Israeli army in 2010 that he began to question his mission.
He spent much of his time not acting on specific security threats in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but making sure "all of the Palestinians feel like they cannot lift their heads up," he told Morning Edition's Leila Fadel.
Givati, 32, is now advocacy director for Breaking the Silence, a group made up of Israeli military veterans who are against their country's occupation of Palestinian territories. They collect testimony from former soldiers to educate the public on how the occupation is enforced.
While much of the world's attention including Givati's is on Gaza, where Israel has been waging a punishing response to the Oct. 7 attack on several Israeli communities, he is also alarmed by what's happening in the other Palestinian territory where he once served — the West Bank.
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Settler violence aimed at Palestinians has surged and reached record levels there in the weeks since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out, according to the United Nations and several rights groups. Scores of Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and more than a dozen Palestinian communities have fled in fear of attack in the last month alone, which is almost twice as many as last year. Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights group, says 90% of attacks are closed without an indictment being filed.
Givati says none of this is surprising.
It wasn't long after Ori Givati became a combat soldier in the Israeli army in 2010 that he began to question his mission.
He spent much of his time not acting on specific security threats in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but making sure "all of the Palestinians feel like they cannot lift their heads up," he told Morning Edition's Leila Fadel.
Givati, 32, is now advocacy director for Breaking the Silence, a group made up of Israeli military veterans who are against their country's occupation of Palestinian territories. They collect testimony from former soldiers to educate the public on how the occupation is enforced.
While much of the world's attention including Givati's is on Gaza, where Israel has been waging a punishing response to the Oct. 7 attack on several Israeli communities, he is also alarmed by what's happening in the other Palestinian territory where he once served — the West Bank.
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Settler violence aimed at Palestinians has surged and reached record levels there in the weeks since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out, according to the United Nations and several rights groups. Scores of Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and more than a dozen Palestinian communities have fled in fear of attack in the last month alone, which is almost twice as many as last year. Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights group, says 90% of attacks are closed without an indictment being filed.
Givati says none of this is surprising.
A former Israeli soldier calls for international intervention to stop settler violence
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Florida congressman wears an IDF uniform to GOP conference meeting
Brian Mast wore his military uniform from his service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Capitol Hill on Friday (13 October) to show his support for the c...
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Did you see the Florida R. Rep Brian Mast who shaved his head and put on an IDF uniform. Whether or not he is a dual citizen is not stated at his HR website. Whether or not HE it, it should be illegal for dual citizens to serve in our government, and also serve in the military of the another nation. Used to be when people chose to be citizens they had to give up allegiance to any and all other nations.
This is at Mast's HR page: "Brian subsequently received a degree from Harvard University and volunteered to serve alongside the Israel Defense Forces to show support for the freedom Israel represents throughout the Middle East and the world."
Israel represents freedom? Ha. For whom? Certainly not universal freedom for all. The government of Israel has used up all its "get out of jail free cards" that ignored the previous genocidal attacks in Gaza. Now the government of Israel represents genocide.
What does "serve alongside" mean? In what capacity? It does not say he was in the IDF. I says served alongside. Was that the "urban training" where American military participated in the Jenin Massacre some 20+ years ago? Did they wear IDF uniforms then too? Is that what Mast is referring to? Did he "serve alongside" as American military wearing an IDF uniform; as a civilian playing dress up wearing an IDF uniform? Is he a dual citizen? Americans deserve to know where the loyalties of people in government lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZSd0ysRAd4
This is at Mast's HR page: "Brian subsequently received a degree from Harvard University and volunteered to serve alongside the Israel Defense Forces to show support for the freedom Israel represents throughout the Middle East and the world."
Israel represents freedom? Ha. For whom? Certainly not universal freedom for all. The government of Israel has used up all its "get out of jail free cards" that ignored the previous genocidal attacks in Gaza. Now the government of Israel represents genocide.
What does "serve alongside" mean? In what capacity? It does not say he was in the IDF. I says served alongside. Was that the "urban training" where American military participated in the Jenin Massacre some 20+ years ago? Did they wear IDF uniforms then too? Is that what Mast is referring to? Did he "serve alongside" as American military wearing an IDF uniform; as a civilian playing dress up wearing an IDF uniform? Is he a dual citizen? Americans deserve to know where the loyalties of people in government lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZSd0ysRAd4
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