By Jonathan Cook: It
is has been a very bad week for those claiming Israel has the most
moral army in the world. Here’s a small sample of abuses of Palestinians
in recent days in which the Israeli army was caught lying.
A child horrifically injured by soldiers was arrested and
terrified into signing a false confession that he was hurt in a bicycle
accident. A man who, it was claimed, had died of tear-gas inhalation was
actually shot at point-blank range, then savagely beaten by a mob of
soldiers and left to die. And soldiers threw a tear gas canister at a
Palestinian couple, baby in arms, as they fled for safety during a
military invasion of their village.
In the early 2000s, at the dawn of the social media revolution,
Israelis used to dismiss filmed evidence of brutality by their soldiers
as fakery. It was what they called “Pallywood” – a conflation of
Palestinian and Hollywood.
