Some anecdotes about Israeli torture in the 1980s:
<<< ... In fact, before the intifada, the daily oppression, humiliations, land confiscations and arbitrariness of the Israeli regime were steadily increasing. This increase, duly recorded by the Hebrew press, was the chief reason for the outbreak of the intifada.
Readers of Israel's Hebrew-language press are aware of how outrageously the Israeli armed forces were behaving before the intifada. On June 19, 1987, Eyal Ehrlich reported in an article in Haaretz headlined, "An occupier against his will," the testimony of a young Israeli soldier assigned to serve in the border guards. Whenever a Palestinian is accosted to show his I.D., the soldier wrote, its checking is always accompanied by "a slap, a punch. a kick."
"The border guards usually enjoy beating the Arabs," the account continues. "They derive pleasure from it...
"Sometimes I feel like a Nazi when I watch my friends in action. I try hard to stay away from one of my commanders ... He always behaves very badly toward the locals: with violence, beatings, and the like...
"The soldiers spit in the faces of the Arabs, or they kick them in the testicles. And there is always that slap in the face. "
An article in Hadashot of July 7, 1987 by Menahem Shizaf was headlined, "Border guards order the Arabs to masturbate and to lick the floor." It described the treatment meted out to Palestinian workers from the occupied territories who were found spending the night in shacks in Israel rather than returning to their homes ... >>>
The Israeli Occupation Three Years After the Intifada
By Israel Shahak
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