Look Who's Been Kidnapped!
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Courtesy Of: AxisOfLogic.com
By Arik Diamant
July 8, 2006


--Hundreds Of Palestinian 'Suspects' Have Been Kidnapped From Their Homes And Will Never Stand Trial--


Israeli Terror
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This description, you'll be surprised to know, has nothing to do with the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit. It is the story of an arrest I carried out as an IDF soldier, in the Nablus Casbah, about 10 years ago.

The "Soldier" was a 17-year-old boy, and we kidnapped him because he knew "Someone" who had done "Something."

We brought him tied up, with a burlap sac over his head, to a Shin Bet interrogation center known as "Scream Hill" (at the time we thought it was funny). There, the prisoner was beaten, violently shaken and sleep deprived for weeks or months. Who knows.

No one wrote about it in the paper. European diplomats were not called to help him. After all, there was nothing out of the ordinary about the kidnapping of this Palestinian kid.

Over the 40 years of occupation we have kidnapped thousands of people exactly like Gilad Shalit was captured.

Threatened by a gun, beaten mercilessly, with no judge or Jury, or witness, and without providing the family with any information about the captive.

When the Palestinians do this, we call it "Terror." When we do it, we work overtime to whitewash the atrocity.


Suspects?
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Some people will say: The IDF doesn't "Just" kidnap. These people are "Suspects." There is no more perverse lie than this.

In all the years I served, I reached one simple conclusion: What makes a "Suspect"?
Who, exactly suspects him, and of what?

Who has the right to sentence a 17-year-old to kidnapping, torture and possible death?
A 26-year-old Shin Bet interrogator? A 46-year-old one? Do these people have any higher education, apart from the ability to interrogate? What are his considerations? If all these "Suspects" are so guilty, why not bring them to trial?

Anyone who believes that despite the lack of transparency, the IDF and Shin Bet do their best to minimize violations of human rights is naive, if not brainwashed.

One need only read the testimonies of soldiers who have carried out administrative detentions to be convinced of the depth of the immorality of our actions in the territories.

To this very day, there are hundreds of Prisoners rotting in Shin Bet prisons and dungeons, people who have never been--and never will be--Tried.

And Israelis are silently resolved to this phenomenon.


Note: Arik Diamant is an IDF Reservist and the head of the Courage To Refuse Organization.


The complete article can be read at:
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_22471.shtml