-- At 11:14 PM 11/5/00 -0500, An Metet wrote:
It excuses the use of Israeli live bullets against stone-throwers, adding that CS gas and rubber bullets are
09:18 PM 11/6/2000 -0500, David Honig wrote:
The Israelis claim that they use live ammo against molotov cocktailers, not mere stoners.
This claim is partly true, and partly false. In a few cases the Jews have openly responded to rocks with gunfire. I would do the same in their shoes. In many cases someone in hiding slingshots a rock at a Jewish gunman and then runs, the Jewish gunmen men then kill some random Palestinians in reprisal, and then proclaim they think that someone was shooting at them. Note I said Jewish gunmen, not Israeli gunmen, since non Jewish citizens of Israel are screwed almost as badly as the non citizens, because Jewish non citizens have no difficulty exercising freedom to move themselves, goods, and money throughout Israel and the occupied territories, whereas non Jewish citizens have great difficulty in doing this. About half the Palestinians that are killed are shot in the head. If they shot in the course of combat, more of them would be shot in the trunk. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG KUQ1s2xYS02SRwUmgwJvdgjGmkWZaXnDr+eo9q29 4KHmU5/34CgqD/sLbCdGLzO9IpmDw8W9691cvy+KS