FORMER ISRAELI OFFICER REVEALS -MILITARY POLICYPROMOTES TARGETING PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS
April 8, 2024This is the only thing that gives me some hope in Israel, that people like this former IDF officer are willing to BREAK THEIR SILENCE and tell the world the truth about how they are trained, what they are taught, their military orders and how they were given free rein to MURDER PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS.
I say it gives me hope, because it demonstrates there are people with a conscience, with a heart, who fear GOD, who have some decency to stand up and say this murderous, lying, manipulative, destructive ZIONIST CULT, its practices, beliefs and hunger for blood – MUST END.
This is another strong interview from Britain’s Channel 4 News lead presenter, Krishnan Guru-Murthy with Ori Givati, the former Tank Commander, who unequivocally explains how the POLICY of the military gives them the right to target and kill Palestinian civilians.
I will keep posting these testimonies to demonstrate that people like me who believe in justice, equality and the rights of the Palestinians are not blind and biased. That our values and standing up against the actions of Israel are in no way anti-semitic but rather pro-humanity.
I believe in the right of all people to live in dignity and with equality.
ALL PEOPLE!
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English Script:
Krishnan Guru-Murthy: Well, I’m joined now from Tel Aviv by former Israeli tank commander Ori Givati, who is part of Breaking the Silence, a group founded by Israeli combat veterans to document military abuses. Thank you for joining us. Having served in the IDF, do you trust it to tell us the truth about what happened in this and all the other incidents it’s been asked to investigate?
Ori Givati: Thanks for having me. Look, I think what we all have to understand is that killing of innocent people in Gaza happens every single day. And I’ve seen the remarks by the military spokesperson, by the chief of staff, by Netanyahu, saying this happens in war. All those things that are basically meant to sound good in the international community’s eyes. The problem here, yeah, to your question, the problem here is that no matter what investigation the military will do about this specific incident, the policy, the policy, the way that we fight in Gaza for decades is designed in a way that allows us to kill innocent people.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy: Well just explain that. How is it designed that way?
Ori Givati: So there are many different elements. It starts from how we select targets. You know, what targets are considered legitimate targets. You know, for an example, something called a militant house is a legitimate target. So if I’m here in my house in Tel Aviv, yeah, Israel would consider, and I served in the military, right. So Israel thinks my house is a legitimate target. You know what I mean? If I’m on the other side. That’s one example. Another example is that every target has a number attached to it. And that number is the amount of innocent civilians that are legitimate to kill in order to destroy that target. Mostly we’re talking about as individuals. Yeah. And I’ve just read a report that just came out now, like a few minutes ago in The Guardian about an AI system that selects the targets. The examples for that, you know, I can talk about the different examples or ours but what most what we all have to understand is that the way we fight in Gaza allows us to kill innocent people. And we can always say it was a mistake here and the commander did this there and so forth. But we have to understand that the problem is much, much broader.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy: And what are you told in training about how, you know, because these are young people often, very young people doing military service. What are you told about the killing of civilians?
Ori Givati: Look, I think that, you know, every single soldier was told, you know, I don’t know. It’s really broad. We’re talking about tens of thousands of soldiers here, you know, when we have to understand the spirit that comes down from the top, you know, that I think is the element here. The spirit today is the extremely easy finger on the trigger. And that, I think, is one of the major causes for what happened to the aid workers. Yeah, because when we have government ministers like Benny and Smotrich, also Galant and others, encouraging killing, encouraging destruction. There is basically zero repercussions for killing of innocent Palestinians, not only in this war, but now more than ever. There is also no incentive for a soldier to not shoot because there will be no price paid.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy: I mean, I don’t want to put words in your mouth, but are Israeli soldiers, I mean, are Palestinians dehumanized in your view, for Israel soldiers?
Ori Givati: 100%. 100% and we have been to, I personally, you know, one of the things that made me come out speak against the occupation that I took part in as a soldier is the dehumanization of Palestinians. And it starts decades ago. It’s not new for the last few months, but when you occupy millions of people, invade their homes, you know, disrupt any kind of normal lives for them. When you treat the militants exactly the same as you treat the innocent for decades, all of them become our targets. All of them become dehumanized and even more than, you know, even more so when we have leaders and this is new for the last year we can say, leaders that are encouraging this.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy: Ori, thank you very much indeed for joining us.
