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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Remember these are the guys we support

Please do not take this as a claim I support the Palestinians or the Isreal view in their war. I just can clearly say I can't support this.
Israeli military police have interrogated five reserve soldiers who put on an art exhibition detailing their gratuitous harassment and abuse of Palestinians in the city of Hebron.

Testimonies by 70 soldiers used in the exhibition Breaking the Silence reveal the use of Palestinians as human shields and graffiti reading "Arabs to the gas chambers".

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The testimonies describe a routine humiliation of Palestinians and the soldiers' dismay at the behaviour of the 600 Jewish settlers they protect.

Some tell of harassing a Palestinian bride and groom, others of throwing stun grenades at children for fun. The soldiers behind the exhibition say they want to show Israel how its young soldiers, as well as the Palestinians, become brutalised by the reality of occupation.