Ex-Israeli Troops: Reckless Force in Gaza

Government Rejects Latest Claim that Excess Firepower Used, Damage Inflicted During Incursion

(AP)  The Israeli military used reckless force during the fighting in Gaza earlier this year, resulting in needless deaths and damage, a group of former Israeli soldiers charged in a report Wednesday.

In testimonies collected by the organization Breaking the Silence, formed by Israeli army reservists, soldiers who participated in the Gaza fighting describe demolishing homes for no reason and using firepower beyond what was necessary given the relatively light resistance they encountered. None of the soldiers are identified.

The Israeli military rejected the report in a strongly worded statement, questioning its veracity and accusing the group of "defaming and slandering the IDF and its commanders."

The military "regrets the fact that yet another human rights organization is presenting to Israel and the world a report based on anonymous and general testimonies, without investigating their details or credibility," read the statement.

Breaking the Silence said the Israeli public, which overwhelmingly supported a military operation aimed at halting years of rocket fire from Gaza at Israeli towns, needed to know what soldiers saw during the fighting.

"We believe that the existence of a moral society clearly requires a profound, honest discussion, of which the voice of soldiers on the ground is an inseparable part," the group said in the report.

More than 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 900 civilians, were killed during the three-week offensive, according to Gaza health officials and human rights groups. Israel puts the death toll closer to 1,100 and says most were armed fighters.

Thirteen Israelis also were killed, including three civilians who died from rocket fire.

[South-of-Heaven]

If you treat the Son of God like that any wonder you treat your neighbors the way you do and justify it with Apparteid and Celebrate it with Special Olympics.

[YuSoWrong]

If you were first treated with a fountain syringe, it would be possible to bury you in a shoebox.

[South-of-Heaven]

by YuSoWrong July 15, 2009 3:03 PM EDT
Were you there as a snake? ...

That Guy Jesus sure is gonna carry a grudge when he comes back u know.

[YuSoWrong]

He might have been the rabbi you ran-over last night.

[YuSoWrong]

Were you there as a snake?

[hungry1968-16]

by YuSoWrong July 15, 2009 1:26 PM EDT
I'm surprised YOU even spelled "employed" without the "un" before it.






I was unemployed one time, for 2-1/2 months, since February 1986. And the only reason it was that long, is because I got out of the Army and moved back home - it took me a little while to get settled back in and looking for a job.

You?

[YuSoWrong]

Reading about you in the previous Nazis in the US military article.

[hungry1968-16]

Translation of AlwaysSoWrong's comment: "I've never had a steady job! Pout! Snivel!"

[YuSoWrong]

Arguing with scum is a full-time job. My family came back from WW2 with medals taken off-of scum. It's a tradition.

[YuSoWrong]

My dad and two uncles were in WW2. My uncle was a medic on the beach on D-Day. A lot of good guys were lost. You are lost, but you aren't a good guy. You should trade places with someone who'd be missed.

[South-of-Heaven]

YuSoWrong July 15, 2009 2:46 PM EDT
We are talking about the real world, d-bag. Not sure how your typically racist and misguided BS hasn't driven you mad by now. Now THAT'S sad..

well wasnt there some guy named Jesus killed by the jews?
who happened to be the Son of God?

[YuSoWrong]

Oh, yes, the sacrifice of the innocent on behalf of the guilty, and this is called morality -- and which, if it wasn't a suicide instead of a murder, would mean either the residents of Judea had supernatural powers (and perhaps still do?), or else the son of god is not the son of god.

But as we know from your emails, there were no Jews living in Judea, which is why they have no claim to this real estate now.

[YuSoWrong]

Greater Syria was divided into modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and Gaza. You have never given a reason for your love of the Kings and Criminals who rule most of this: the Syrians have been ruled by the same crime family for 40 years.

The fact that the Jews of Israel don't want to be subjects of the Caliphate makes them more like Americans than anyone else in the region. In fact, more like Americans than some people on this blog.

My friends in Texas don't want to be part of Mexico either. History works like that.

[YuSoWrong]

Your mind is out. You're still here, an excuse for a human being.

[YuSoWrong]

We are talking about the real world, d-bag. Not sure how your typically racist and misguided BS hasn't driven you mad by now. Now THAT'S sad.

[South-of-Heaven]

YuSoWrong July 15, 2009 1:56 PM EDT
Didn't we see you in the Special Olympics?

dont confuse me with a goat roper from Ruzzia.
Did you win at the Parting of the seas event?
if so theres a large kosher pickle for you to suck on.

[YuSoWrong]

You learned that phrase from me just last night! Glad to see your English-language skills improving. Tell me, just how far south of heaven do you think you're gonna land?

[South-of-Heaven]

let the special Olympics carry on...

[YuSoWrong]

Let the headless goat hockey league of Afghanistan reflect the glory that is due your boyfriends.

[YuSoWrong]

Didn't we see you in the Special Olympics?

[hungry1968-16]

How quickly this story disappeared from the CBS home page!!!

Typical!

[YuSoWrong]

Are you saying them Jews control the media? Seems to me a fine young Ayran named hungry1968-15 said that. Wonder what ever happened to him?

[hungry1968-16]

by YuSoWrong July 15, 2009 1:04 PM EDT
Hey baby, where you goin' with that suitcase? The street ain't gonna be kind to someone like you.






Someone like him?

You mean "employed"?

What would you know about it?

[YuSoWrong]

I'm surprised YOU even spelled "employed" without the "un" before it.

[YuSoWrong]

Come on, Anti-Zionist: Tell us how the political parties of the Near East began as Nazi allies during the 1930s. Tell us about "Arab Socialism". Tell us about the one-party rule in their miserable nations. Tell us how much you love the dictatorships abroad that you try to enforce on one broad at home. Pathetic bully. We know you for what you are.

[YuSoWrong]

Arab fascism, dictator-worshiping emo boy.

[juwboy]

Aunty Zion:

Why are people like you always so adept at spotting their own problems in others?

I`ve answered my own question, haven`t I?

[YuSoWrong]

What about yo mama, Osama?

[Illuminated1]

All anyone has to do is research the number of assassinations the Israeli government is responsible for over the many years and the numbers will astonish you. Beyond that they not only killed a great number of targets, but also those around them.
I have always considered this simple murder and government sanctioned.
I understand the concerns of israelis to live in peace, but you cant claim to want peace when you destroy other's homes and claim the land as your God given right to take......It's not kosher.

[juwboy]

In the 1970s, Yasir Arafat and his PLO attempted a coup in Jordan, from his HQ in a Palestinian refugee settlement near the capital, Amman.

The Jordanian government`s response was immediate and devastating.

Their Army and Air Force shelled and bombed the refugees ruthlessly, relentlessly and mercilessly until no-one fired back.

After three days, 20,000 Palestinians, men, women and children, were dead.

Name anything Israel`s done over a three day period that even comes close to this.

[hungry1968-16]

Nakba.

[YuSoWrong]

The springs were squeaking like that. And then your old lady ...
Ah, sometimes I likes to reminisce.

[hamiltongrad]

///////////////////////////// There is freedom of speech in Israel.

what a great country.

[freeflo06]

When is Iran going to finish their bomb and take out the trash in Israhell? That parasitic hell hole has sucked up more than enough of the USA's hard earned money.

[YuSoWrong]

You got up on the wrong side of the sewer this morning.

[casionova]

Maybe the Israelis were conducting indiscriminate attacks on civillian areas again.

[YuSoWrong]

Don't worry. The courts won't consider you a civilian.

[pete_in_az]

What court where? Where are you on this planet so I can avoid people like you?

[YuSoWrong]

We're not at the Nazi/Jihad brotherhood meeting. Go hide there.

[South-of-Heaven]

maybe the soldiers in this story werent given tickets to the Special Olympics now taking place there.

[YuSoWrong]

If Heaven = 100 IQ Points, what does "south of heaven" equal?

[casionova]

An IQ far exceeding your own apparently.

[YuSoWrong]

But if we added yours, it wouldn't be one digit higher.

[hungry1968-16]

"The Israeli military used reckless force during the fighting in Gaza earlier this year, resulting in needless deaths and damage, a group of former Israeli soldiers charged in a report Wednesday."







Hey CBS -- This isn't "breaking news".

This is "standard operating procedure".

[YuSoWrong]

I think we know your S.O.P., don't we?

[casionova]

Yu so wrong indeed.

[YuSoWrong]

You are a shill for Jihad. Please face East and get what's coming to you.

[pete_in_az]

The worst thing you can do is put blind faith in something. YuSoWrong, you, like most of the Jewish people I grew up with on Mercer Island Washington, honestly believe you are better then everyone else. History has proven that this attitude gets Jewish as a whole in more trouble then they can deal with time and time again.

Its time the majority of peace seeking moderate Jews speak up against the hard line Israeli politicians who are controlled by the intolerant sects of Judiaism that you sound off for.

[juwboy]

pete_in_az:

Mercer Island must be a real pschitthole if people like you lived there.

[YuSoWrong]

First of all: I ain't Jewish. Second of all, Mercer Island is an enclave of stuck-up white rich kids of all persuasions. Bill Gates lives there. 85% white. Surprised there were any Jews for you to even have an opinion. Just go whip your severants.

[YuSoWrong]

I'm sure you don't think of them as white, Herr Schickelgruber.
I myself am not Jewish, but if helps you to get-up a real jones for this, imagine anyone here looking like whatever you want, and wearing whatever you like. Stuff you probably can't afford anyway.

[zeitmin77]

Peace loving Hamas is now vindicated at long last !!!

[zonkzilla]

As my Jewish friends continue to say every time Israeli soldiers (most Israelis are good people) "Those are all lies by people who hate Jews, Israel wants peace, Israel is the victim and they have a right to defend themselves. Lies, lies, lies,".
Sure. Just a bunch of arabs dressed in Israeli uniforms, serving in the Israeli military, and pretending to be Jews so they can spread lies. Yea, that's it.

[EddieBell]

The EU being the most important trading partner of Israel should impose a tax on Israelis good and services to pay for Palestinian infrastructure paid by Europe to begin with. You brake it, you bought it...

[YuSoWrong]

Is Hamas making you pose in front of that poster, or are you doing it yourself?

[casionova]

Again you fail at debate. You cant address any issues can you? Boycott israeli goods (especially food grown in the occupied territories) until they abide by international law.

[YuSoWrong]

Again you pimp for Hamas. Feel good? How is it for you?

[blitzder]

Hamas, hizbullah etc. are all inventions of the Israeli political money hungary groupies, who use them, to maximize shameful/shylocking fundraising from Europe & America.

Israeli settlements are one huge PONZI scheme to steal American/European taxpayer dollars.

[YuSoWrong]

Hamas and Hebollah are inventions of the Israelis?! Ah hahahahaha.