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To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (196061)	8/8/2006 10:44:14 AM
From: SARMAN	Respond to of 281500

I see that you have a PH.D, that shows that you are educated. Also I see you are 42 years old. However, it doesn't sound that you educated nor 42 years old.

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (196061)	8/8/2006 12:13:09 PM
From: el_gaviero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Arab Urban legend..." Ah, Nikole, you force me to dig deep into digital archives to see what I can find about this urban legend in English. You are right about one thing: we are dealing with an urban legend. However, the urban legend is not that the little girl, Iman al-Hams, did not exist. She did and was killed by a member of the IDF. (For some reason, the Israeli press did not divulge the man's name. His actions were investigated by the Israeli army and found to merit no censure, that is, they found that he did not act in a manner that was "unethical.") The little girl is real, or rather, I mean, she was real until she made the mistake of walking to school within 70 meters of G-d's chosen people. No, the urban legend is this: that Israel now stands for anything except a narrow and brutal ethno-centrism. Here is the article: "Gaza girl death officer cleared "Doctors said Iman al-Hams was riddled with about 20 bullets The Israeli army has cleared an officer accused of repeatedly firing into the lifeless body of a young Palestinian girl of "unethical" behaviour. But the officer remains suspended for poor relations with subordinates. An inquiry began after soldiers told the story of 13-year-old Iman al-Hams's death to the media, provoking an outcry among many Israelis. Hundreds of Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli troops during the Palestinian uprising or intifada. ... "The killing of Palestinian civilians does not always make much news in Israel. And it is unusual for the army to launch an investigation into the circumstances of such incidents, says the BBC's James Reynolds in Jerusalem. Without revealing their identities, soldiers from the Givati brigade platoon told Israeli television how their officer sprayed Iman al-Hams with automatic gunfire on 5 October in the Tel Sultan neighbourhood of Rafah - a restricted area near Gaza's border with Egypt. The investigation did not find that the company or the company commander had acted unethically Israeli army statement "We saw her from a distance of 70m. She was fired at ... from the outpost. She fled and was wounded," a soldier said. While Iman was lying, wounded or dead, about 70m from the Israeli guard post, the platoon commander approached her and fired two bullets from close range at her head, the soldiers said. He then went back a second time, put his weapon on the automatic setting and - ignoring their objections on the walkie-talkie - emptied his entire magazine into her body. But the army says it accepts the commander's claim that he fired into the ground near the girl after coming under fire in a dangerous area. It has not explained why the officer shot into the ground rather than at the source of the fire. "The investigation did not find that the company or the company commander had acted unethically," an army statement said. "The investigation concluded that the behaviour of the company commander from an ethical point of view does not warrant his removal from his position." But the investigation criticised the officer's leadership abilities. "Due to these failures the company commander was suspended from his position, and his future career [in the army] will be decided upon in the course of the next week," the statement said. A separate military police investigation into the incident is continuing."