The settlement security coordinator told us what is allowed and what isn’t
testimony catalog number: 49598
rank: Staff Sergeant
unit: Nahal Brigade
area: Hebron area
period: 2002
I
did settlement security detail during basic training at Avigail Farm.
Bottom line, it’s really nice. All of a sudden you don’t have commanders
beating you over the head, you live with six other guys, it’s really
like a farm there, a commune. There’s a really pretty view. I got into
arguments with the settlers, I’d always talk with them.
It has been 20 years since the Goldstein Massacre, and settler violence in Hebron has not stopped.
"We had the feeling that we were protecting the Arabs from the Jews."
The Goldstein Massacre in the Tomb of the Patriarchs serves as the
climax of a long history of settler violence. Jewish terrorism is hardly
a marginal phenomenon when one looks at its impact: graffiti, physical
violence, harassment and abuse,
destruction of property, violent takeover of land. In all these cases,
soldiers are witnesses - including us and countless like us - but have
their hands tied. The legal system in the Occupied Territories operates
differently than in Israel proper. It enables settlers to act with the
knowledge that they can, to quote a soldier's testimony, "stretch the
law, the law will bend according to what we do."https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=713489318673314
