Qalandiya - Today the soldiers are good, they don’t kill
Man bites dog:
“Border Policemen and civilian security officials arrested a woman inhabitant of the Qalandiya refugee camp in her sixties who arrived holding a knife at the Qalandiya crossing. The suspect, on foot in a lane meant for vehicles only, was looking for the security forces to shoot her. They performed a suspect arrest procedure (not including firing) at the end of which she was arrested, and a search on her brought forth a knife.”
https://www.maariv.co.il/breaking-news/Article-876027
One doesn’t need to be a rocket scientist to locate the weakness of this item, that deserves no better than the heading “Man bites dog”…
What does need to be recognized is the place and its procedures, and something of the Israeli armed forces’ advocacy apparatus.
For here, where the weapon reigns, even an elderly woman as the one above is most expected to be victim of “firing to body-mass center” which, in the best case, would wound her, and in a worse case, those firing at her would not enable the ambulance to approach her and she would bleed to death.
And what about the knife? Whoever believes advocacy laundering will believe the generic knife story always photographed near the victim. Basel said it best:
Today the soldiers are good, they don’t kill.
Further away, at the southern edge of the refugee camp, opposite the Separation Wall, stands a house whose construction was never finished and an evil hand set it on fire. The remains of the house mutely tell us that the fire broke out from within and finished it all off.
