APN's daily news review from Israel - Monday August 17, 2020
You Must Be Kidding:
Israeli army seeks three months community service for soldier who shot dead innocent Palestinian young man
who stopped to help the wife and children of another innocent man the soldier also shot in cold blood.*
Quotes of the day:
"Not pleasant, but not terrible, either."
—Haaretz's Gideon Levy writes that's the message the IDF is delivering to soldiers for shooting Palestinians for no
reason.*
“After all, how will Israel maintain the occupation, a military regime over an entire people, for
generation after generation, without resorting to tremendous and ongoing violence? How can it be imagined that
Israeli control over the Palestinians will continue in such a manner, if the soldiers we send to carry it out will
have to face a real, not symbolic, accountability for what they were sent to do on our behalf.”
—Amit Gilutz, Spokesman for B’Tselem, writes in Yedioth why the IDF almost never prosecutes soldiers who have
harmed Palestinians or just gives them light sentences in the rare case that they do go on trial.***