tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post4296074361276968730..comments2023-10-26T06:29:39.824-07:00Comments on The Magnes Zionist: "Breaking the Silence" Publishes New Booklet of Soldier Testimonies -- HebronJerry Haberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15173892714754718716noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post-57139899456731603732008-05-24T07:28:00.000-07:002008-05-24T07:28:00.000-07:00Thank you for your blog and for your work. You are...Thank you for your blog and for your work. You are brilliant.<BR/>I read the 97 testimonies which gave me a real perspective of the situation in the occupied territories...I think that it' s necessary for those soldiers to be heard so I' ve posted comments on youtube ( on videos involving Breaking the silence) in which I ask people to visit your blog and read the testimonies.<BR/>Thank you very much. Shalom /Salam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post-46748759372986797702008-05-24T07:20:00.000-07:002008-05-24T07:20:00.000-07:00Thank you for your blog and for your articles. You...Thank you for your blog and for your articles. You are brilliant.<BR/>I read the 97 testimonies. They are poignant, they give a real perspective of what the soldiers and the Palestinians are going through in the occupied terrotories. I think that it' s nessecary to read those testimonies so I' ve posted comments on youtube (on videos involving Breaking the silence), I' ve posted comments asking people to visit your blog and read the testimonies. Peace/ Salam / Shalom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post-26952169634940090472008-04-23T08:45:00.000-07:002008-04-23T08:45:00.000-07:00Actually I have downloaded Nitzan's thesis and rea...Actually I have downloaded Nitzan's thesis and read through bits of it. <BR/>Based on what I read I would be hesitant to use the word "caricature" as you did.Ben Bayithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540723595738423002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post-32603982574767983252008-04-22T05:49:00.000-07:002008-04-22T05:49:00.000-07:00Hi Ben,The short answer to your question is "no". ...Hi Ben,<BR/><BR/>The short answer to your question is "no". No Israeli researcher has made any such claim. The caricature published on the rightwing websites of Tal Nitzan's masters thesis (which I downloaded but haven't read yet) is silly and not worth responding to.<BR/><BR/>But we are not talking here about the theories of an Israeli researcher. We are talking about testimonies by the perpetrators themselves. Before a researcher tries to understand these testimonies (and somebody I know is doing that already), one has to confront the data.<BR/><BR/>Which you haven't.Jerry Haberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173892714754718716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post-83187462863164972012008-04-22T02:05:00.000-07:002008-04-22T02:05:00.000-07:00Didn't some academic recently "prove" that IDF sol...Didn't some academic recently "prove" that IDF soldiers are immoral because they DON'T rape Palestinian women?Ben Bayithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540723595738423002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7675600882597316438.post-4192503146966929072008-04-21T15:54:00.000-07:002008-04-21T15:54:00.000-07:00The worst long term effects are on the occupiers, ...The worst long term effects are on the occupiers, not the occupied. The social fabric of the occupiers is torn almost irreparably.<BR/><BR/> When the occupied gain their freedom they can can make heroes of those who did brave things out of desperation, and say we need not do this anymore because now we are free.<BR/><BR/>The occupier must continue to sanctify the occupation, their actions,and their behaviours for to do otherwise opens wounds in a society where most were silently complicit, some acted out their untreated PTSD through irrational militaristic polices, and others who will continue to be deniers and apoligists until forced to do otherwise.<BR/><BR/>The Biblical observation that the effect on a society these kind of sins may take four generations to undo, shows the wisdom and keen sense of the human condition, that the authors and editors of the Tanakh had.<BR/> <BR/><BR/>PloniAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com