r/JewsOfConscience • u/TrackerOneA Jewish Anti-Zionist • Aug 29 '26
History / Education 2/26/1988 - a few months into the 1st Intifada: IOF beat two bound & blindfolded Palestinians in Nablus. Months prior, Yitzhak Rabin directed troops to quell the intifada with "might, power, and beatings." "Break their bones," he was quoted as saying.
Videos:
https://x.com/HatsOffff/status/2093436405980463583
Article:
Book excerpt:
The footage was blurry, filmed by the photojournalist at a distance, using a long-distance lens as a protective strategy against potential military retribution. The Palestinian youths at its center—cousins Wa’al and Usama Joudeh—are seen seated, their arms tied behind their back, as a group of four soldiers kick and beat them, endeavoring to break their bones with rocks. The attack was protracted and meticulous. “The soldiers do not seem to be in any danger,” an Israeli reporter would note later, “nor do they seem disturbed by the events. They are utterly focused on meting out the beating.”6
[...]The entirety of the footage—some thirty minutes in length—was never screened on Israeli television. Only a portion would be aired on the evening news following orders from the head of the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA). The damage would be too substantial, he argued, should Israeli viewers see it all.10 The video quickly circulated within international media outlets, and massive outcry followed: “the incident aroused a storm of protest, and Israeli embassies in Washington, London, Paris, and Amsterdam were flooded with angry calls. In some countries the incident sparked anti-Israel demonstrations.”11 In Nicosia, a mob attacked the Israeli embassy, barely restrained by the police. In an interview with an Israeli newspaper, Elie Wiesel would note that “I have never seen such intense hatred for Israel in the world.”12
The Israeli national conversation about the footage focused on questions of military strategy and soldier practice. Within the pages of the press, and on the floor of the Israeli parliament, debates ensued concerning best “methods for acting successfully against the Arab rioters.”13 Some parliamentarians proposed a journalist ban from the occupied territories: “it has become apparent that the rioters in Judea and Samaria and Gaza are staging disturbances because of the media presence.”14 The military responded by tightening press access. The four soldiers involved were given brief custodial sentences and eventually returned to their units. The Israeli parliament declined to investigate Rabin’s role.15
- Stein, Rebecca L.. Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) (pp. 157-158). (Function). Kindle Edition.
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u/North_Development864 Jewish Anti-Zionist Aug 29 '26
I was taught in my zionist upbringing and education that the Israeli army was the most moral any in the world. And I believed it.
When I saw this footage years ago it shattered that lie for me
And interesting to see the Israeli response in that article. Stop journalists catching it on camera, not the amoral violence. Decades of impunity and nothing has changed.
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u/Far-Literature5848 Jewish Anti-Zionist Aug 29 '26
Thank you for your diligence. I am going to go soon onto the Palestine Museum zoom film/discussion, every Saturday at 12 noon ET. Over 200 households from all over the world participate - Jews, Muslims, Christians - it has been enormously educational. I don't walk to shul until it is over. This is more important for me. Also - Doctors Against Genocide, Sundays 12 noon ET, also on YouTube. I helped bring the Gaza Children Shroud to my city. So I can be a proud Jew.
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u/TrackerOneA Jewish Anti-Zionist Aug 29 '26
The audio is from an older version of the video I found elsewhere, and posted to Reddit 5 yrs ago:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/obr1a9/feb_26th_1988_a_few_months_into_the_first/
Video source:
https://x.com/HatsOffff/status/2093436405980463583
Article:
Book excerpt:
The footage was blurry, filmed by the photojournalist at a distance, using a long-distance lens as a protective strategy against potential military retribution. The Palestinian youths at its center—cousins Wa’al and Usama Joudeh—are seen seated, their arms tied behind their back, as a group of four soldiers kick and beat them, endeavoring to break their bones with rocks. The attack was protracted and meticulous. “The soldiers do not seem to be in any danger,” an Israeli reporter would note later, “nor do they seem disturbed by the events. They are utterly focused on meting out the beating.”6
[...]The entirety of the footage—some thirty minutes in length—was never screened on Israeli television. Only a portion would be aired on the evening news following orders from the head of the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA). The damage would be too substantial, he argued, should Israeli viewers see it all.10 The video quickly circulated within international media outlets, and massive outcry followed: “the incident aroused a storm of protest, and Israeli embassies in Washington, London, Paris, and Amsterdam were flooded with angry calls. In some countries the incident sparked anti-Israel demonstrations.”11 In Nicosia, a mob attacked the Israeli embassy, barely restrained by the police. In an interview with an Israeli newspaper, Elie Wiesel would note that “I have never seen such intense hatred for Israel in the world.”12
The Israeli national conversation about the footage focused on questions of military strategy and soldier practice. Within the pages of the press, and on the floor of the Israeli parliament, debates ensued concerning best “methods for acting successfully against the Arab rioters.”13 Some parliamentarians proposed a journalist ban from the occupied territories: “it has become apparent that the rioters in Judea and Samaria and Gaza are staging disturbances because of the media presence.”14 The military responded by tightening press access. The four soldiers involved were given brief custodial sentences and eventually returned to their units. The Israeli parliament declined to investigate Rabin’s role.15
- Stein, Rebecca L.. Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) (pp. 157-158). (Function). Kindle Edition.
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u/Ok-Perception7779 Ashkenazi Aug 29 '26
Least genocidal israeli pm
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u/DeliciousSector8898 Ethnically Jewish Aug 29 '26
Another example of how much of a joke the Nobel “peace” prize is
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u/Jelliol Non-Jewish Agnostic Aug 30 '26
These guys are now widely known as the worst people on earth.
No hasbara, no M$, will never change this now.
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