Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: “Fire on anything that moves in Zeitoun”

Samuele 15
1 Un giorno Samuele disse a Saul: "il Signore ha mandato me per 
consacrarti re del suo popolo, Israele. Ora, dunque, ascolta le parole 
del Signore.
2 Così dice il Signore degli eserciti d'Israele: Non ho dimenticato quel 
che il popolo degli Amaleciti ha fatto a Israele, quando gli sbarrò la 
strada mentre usciva dall'Egitto.
3 Ora va' e colpisci gli Amaleciti: sterminerai tutto quel che 
appartiene loro. Non avere pietà: uccidi uomini e donne, bambini e 
lattanti, buoi e pecore, cammelli e asini.
http://www.bibbiaedu.it/pls/bibbiaol/GestBibbia_int2.Ricerca?Libro=1Samuele&Capitolo=15
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Nessuno che si possa definire civile in senso moderno potrebbe dare 
ordine ad un esercito regolare di uccidere qualunque cosa si muove.
Sembra invece che in IDF, qualcuno che ha il potere di dare ordini, si 
rifaccia all'antica mitologia biblica.
E' del tutto evidente che gente simile va estirpata da Israele come si 
estirpa un cancro dal corpo, prima che lo divori tutto.
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 From The Times
January 28, 2009
Israeli soldiers recall Gaza attack orders
Sheera Frenkel in Gaza Strip
“Fire on anything that moves in Zeitoun” – that was the order handed 
down to Israeli troops in the Givati Shaked battalion, who reduced the 
eastern Gaza City suburb to little more than rubble in a matter of days.
According to Israeli soldiers who took part in the three-week offensive, 
the destruction of the area, a known Hamas stronghold, was designed to 
send a wider message to Gazans. “We pounded Zeitoun into the ground,” an 
Israeli soldier who was deployed in the area, told The Times.
“We knew everything was booby-trapped, we knew that they would try to 
kidnap us and if they did that was the end, we were finished . . . so we 
took no chances. We pounded them with fire; they never had a chance.”
Stretched along the southeastern corner of Gaza City, Zeitoun is where 
the coastal enclave narrows to just under five miles, serving as the 
perfect launching point for the Israeli military’s forays deeper into 
the Gaza Strip.
Soldiers on foot first entered the neighbourhood on January 4, 
overtaking several key positions there and finally withdrawing on 
January 14 – destroying much of the area in their wake.
The stories that have emerged from Zeitoun have been some of the most 
shocking of the war. The Samuni family said they lost 29 members after 
soldiers forced them all into one building that subsequently came under 
fire. Survivors said that the initial shelling killed 22 people, while 
others slowly bled to death after being denied medical care for nearly 
three days.
Others, including the Helw and Abu Zohar families, have similar accounts 
of watching loved ones dying of their wounds and coming under fire after 
emerging from their homes carrying white flags.
Human Rights organisations have called for an independent investigation 
into the Israeli army’s conduct in Zeitoun, accusing them of denying 
medical access to the wounded and firing on civilians. An Israeli 
military spokesman said that the incident was being investigated, and 
that the accusations were being taken “very seriously”.
The soldier, who broke Israeli military censorship restrictions to talk 
to The Times and did not wish to be named, was part of the second wave 
of troops who set up positions in the neighbourhood. “Most of the 
positions had been secured and we heard that the [Hamas] fighters had 
gone into the other areas. We had been warned of traps and it was very 
tense. We were to shoot first and ask questions later.”
He added that Zeitoun was a known Hamas stronghold and that militants 
had used the local fields and orchards to launch rocket attacks into 
southern Israel.
“There was definitely a message being sent,” he said. This weekend, the 
experienced infantryman took leave from his unit and was able to read 
some media accounts of Zeitoun. “I read about the family, the Samunis, 
and it was hard, it was horrible.” Asked if what he had read made him 
rethink his actions in Gaza he said: “I don’t know, I’m not sure. It 
maybe raised some questions.”
Israel banned journalists from entering Gaza during the military 
operation. It has since censored the names of military units and 
soldiers who took part in the fighting, fearing that lawsuits will be 
filed against them by human rights organisations, which renewed their 
criticism of Israel’s conduct yesterday.
“Having interviewed dozens of victims and witnesses and, having examined 
the ballistic evidence from north to south, we are convinced that Israel 
did not do everything possible to minimise civilians’ harm and death,” 
said Fred Abrahams, of Human Rights Watch.
“The rules of engagement were exceedingly loose, and they dropped the 
bar on the laws of war. This allowed civilian casualties to rise.”
Some in Israel have questioned the decision to send the Givati Shaked 
battalion to the area. Two of the battalion's four company commanders 
were removed, although one was later exonerated in an incident that 
involved the killing of Iman al-Hams, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl, in 
Rafah on October 2004. In the same year 11 Givati soldiers were killed 
when militants captured two armoured personnel carriers in Zeitoun.
One soldier from Givati Shaked told an Israeli daily newspaper that 
“revenge is our first impulse” after a friend of his was killed during 
an operation in Gaza last year.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5601177.ece

 The Times and did not wish to be named
E che magari *NEMMENO ESISTE* :)
-Stefano 

 estirpa un cancro dal corpo.
Vedo che da tutto il contenuto della Bibbia riesci ad assimilare bene
solo i contenuti piu' cruenti, con l'unica differenza che rivolgi il
tuo astio verso Israele (invece che verso i suoi nemici, come nel
testo originale).
R.

 Vedo che da tutto il contenuto della Bibbia riesci ad assimilare
ottimista.
Ti ricordo che non ha ancora parlato della circoncisione.
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"non ricordo il testo esatto" (Luca Logi / rodewalder)
cfr 
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2008/12/luca-logi-e-i-piselli.html