This arrived in the ol' mailbox today from one my many mailing lists, it is a review of a book writen by a former Israeli soldier, who served for three years in the Gaza Strip.
I note that I can find nothing on the internet at large about this book or the author, except on sites which also display this story. The fact that I cannot find this book for sale on any of the usual online booksellers makes me deeply suspicious that the message is a hoax.
Do you believe this?
“ I ran toward them and punched an Arab right in the face. I’d never punched anyone that way. He collapsed on the road. The officers said that we had to search him for his papers. We pulled his hands behind his back and I bound them with plastic handcuffs. Then we blindfolded him so he wouldn’t see what was in the Jeep. I picked him up from the road. Blood was trickling from his lip onto his chin. I led him up behind the jeep and threw him in, his knees banged against the trunk and he landed inside. We sat in the back, stepping on the Arab…who was crying softly to himself.“His face was right on my flak Jacket and he was bleeding and making a kind of puddle of blood and Saliva, and it disgusted and angered me, so I grabbed him by the hair and turned his head to the side. He cried out loud and to get him to stop, We stepped harder and harder on his back. That quieted him down for a while and then he started up again. We concluded that he was either retarded or crazy.”
“One of the soldiers went up to him and kicked him in the stomach. The Arab doubled over and grunted, and we all laughed. It was funny. I kicked him really hard in the ass and he flew forward just as I’d expected. They shouted that I was totally crazy, and they laughed…and I felt happy. Our Arab was just a 16-year-old mentally retarded boy.”
It was originally posted on the www.palestine-info.co.uk website. Updates here if I get more news.
