Israeli soldier admits that he lied.

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Will be interesting to see how our resident zionists will justify this.

Tim? GuruJane? Miller? Anyone....?

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Israeli sergeant lied about shooting
By Chris McGreal
Jerusalem
December 17, 2004

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The Israeli soldier on trial for killing the British peace activist Tom Hurndall in the Gaza Strip has admitted that he was lying when he said the man was carrying a gun but said he was under orders to open fire even on unarmed people.

Sergeant Idier Wahid Taysir is charged with manslaughter for shooting Mr Hurndall, 22, as he tried to shelter children on the edge of Rafah from Israeli army gunfire in April last year. He died of his injuries in January.

The sergeant told the military court that after shooting Mr Hurndall he had reported it to his commander.

"I told him that I did what I'm supposed to; anyone who enters a firing zone must be taken out. (The commander) always says this," he said.

The army has already been accused of carrying out an unwritten policy of shooting unarmed civilians who enter a closed security zone in Rafah, which led to the killing of a 13-year-old girl.

Sergeant Taysir told the army investigators he had opened fire at Mr Hurndall because he was on the edge of the security zone, carrying a weapon and wearing camouflage clothing.

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The prosecutor asked the sergeant if Mr Hurndall had a weapon.

Sergeant Taysir replied: "No. That's the truth."

"So you gave a false report to the company commander?"

"I did not give a false report. He might have had a weapon under his clothing. People fire freely there. The (Israeli army) fires freely in Rafah."

The prosecutor continued: "But you told him that you saw a weapon?"

"Right."

"So you lied?"

"I said it."

The prosecutor then asked "After that, you also reported that the man fired in the air and at you, right? Why did you report that he fired at you?"

The sergeant replied: "Because I had already fired without getting approval.

"Everything was under pressure and a result of fear. They tell us all the time to fire; that there is approval. All the troops fire without approval at anyone who crosses a red line."

Sergeant Taysir has also been charged with obstruction of justice.

He said that he did not know details of the army's rules of engagement. "I don't know them. No one ever explained anything to me about these documents."

The military investigation initially cleared Sergeant Taysir but was reopened under pressure from Mr Hurndall's family and the UK Foreign Office after the army's account of the shooting was shown to be false. Mr Hurndall's mother, Jocelyn, welcomed the soldier's testimony.

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The truth is starting to slowly but surely come out. One of the reasons that so few Israeli soldiers have been charged with unlawful killing, is that the resulatnt trials would reveal what has been really going on in the occupied territories, for a long time.
 

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Lestat said:
Really says it all, doesn't it.

Now who are the terrorists again?
And some people wonder why the holocaust happened.
Frankly as stories like this go on with the oppression of the Palestenians, I feel less and less empathy for what the Germans did in WW2.
There is no justification for this disgusting behaviour.
 

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celtic_pride said:
And some people wonder why the holocaust happened.
Frankly as stories like this go on with the oppression of the Palestenians, I feel less and less empathy for what the Germans did in WW2.
There is no justification for this disgusting behaviour.
The mind boggles.
 

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Lestat said:
Will be interesting to see how our resident zionists will justify this.
Soldier commits crime, is brought to trial.

Yep, Israel that lawless terrorist state Lestat.



Thank goodness we have nice people like Celtic_pride to point out how the Holocaust was justified!
 

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celtic_pride said:
And some people wonder why the holocaust happened.
Frankly as stories like this go on with the oppression of the Palestenians, I feel less and less empathy for what the Germans did in WW2.
There is no justification for this disgusting behaviour.
I disagree with what Sharon is doing, but the crimes of the new israel, while serious and disgraceful, are nothing compared with the wholesale slaughter that the Germans committed.

there are social and structural similarities, but by sheer scale the nazi crimes are by far the worst of the former century.
 
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