Breaking the Silence › Testimony - I'm not here to make the call
A soldier can try to be moral within a situation that is immoral in
which he is sent by immoral policy makers to entrench the occupation.
But reality itself is immoral and this is how it looks like from our
military service in the Occupied Territories:
"In Hebron, in some
alley or something, there was this house where an old man was raising
sheep inside the house, inside the house's yard. And I remember that
settlers from Kiryat Arba came, about three or four, they looked about
25 years old, they came and harassed this old man, this Palestinian,
cursed, and they did, like – they slapped their butts, they harassed
him. He was really helpless and he started to tear up a little, and
straight away I told them "Leave him alone," I stopped the situation a
little. I walked toward them, I tried to put an end to it. And they said
"It's nothing, we're just having a laugh." I told him "What laugh? This
is an elderly man..."
[Staff Sergeant, Nahal 50, Hebron 2012]
Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories
