Breaking the Silence ha pujat un nou vídeo Corporal Shachar Berrin on “The New Arab Debates”.
“Whatmakes a country good isn’t whether it is happy or not, it’s the ethics
and morality of the country. When soldiers are conditioned and persuaded
on a daily basis to subjugate and
humiliate people and consider other human beings as less than human, I
think that seeps in, and I think that when the soldiers go home … they
bring that back with them.”
As soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories and experienced this
reality of military control over a civilian population, we know that
when soldiers try to share what they have done in the Territories - our
society refuses to listen to them.
Rather than trying to grasp the meaning of carrying out such tasks, Israeli society silences the soldiers who act in its name.
During the recording of Deutsche Welle's “The New Arab Debates,”
Corporal Shachar Berrin, an immigrant from Australia and a religiously
observant lone soldier, was in the audience. He stood up to address the
panel, as seen in the video below. Following this incident, Berrin was
court marshalled and sentenced to a week in military prison.
Read the full story here at Haaretz.com>>
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.657936
Berrin. 'We see every day how
soldiers… look at these people not as human beings, not as someone who
is equal, but someone who is less than them.' Courtesy of the Berrin
family
soldiers… look at these people not as human beings, not as someone who
is equal, but someone who is less than them.' Courtesy of the Berrin
family
How telling the truth gets an Israeli soldier thrown in jail
Cpl. Shachar Berrin, 19, told of his personal experience of the occupation in a show for German TV, and was promptly tried and jailed by the IDF.
“What makes a country good isn’t whether it is happy or not, it’s the ethics and morality of the country. When soldiers are conditioned and persuaded on a daily basis to subjugate and humiliate people and consider other human beings as less than human, I think that seeps in, and I think that when the soldiers go home … they bring that back with them.” Those words – precise, pained, obvious – are from Cpl. Shachar Berrin, 19, a lone soldier who wears a knitted skullcap and serves as a combat soldier in the Home Front Command rescue unit in the Jordan Valley.
They were said about 10 days ago in Jerusalem during the recording of “The New Arab Debates,” a show for the German TV channel Deutsche Welle, as Gideon Levy reported in Friday’s Haaretz.
Cpl. Shachar Berrin, 19, told of his personal experience of the occupation in a show for German TV, and was promptly tried and jailed by the IDF.
“What makes a country good isn’t whether it is happy or not, it’s the ethics and morality of the country. When soldiers are conditioned and persuaded on a daily basis to subjugate and humiliate people and consider other human beings as less than human, I think that seeps in, and I think that when the soldiers go home … they bring that back with them.” Those words – precise, pained, obvious – are from Cpl. Shachar Berrin, 19, a lone soldier who wears a knitted skullcap and serves as a combat soldier in the Home Front Command rescue unit in the Jordan Valley.
They were said about 10 days ago in Jerusalem during the recording of “The New Arab Debates,” a show for the German TV channel Deutsche Welle, as Gideon Levy reported in Friday’s Haaretz.
