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| Israeli Gaza knee snipers | |
| 2020-03-10 | |
| [The New Arab] Discharged members of the Israeli Defense Forces, who served as snipers on the border with the Gaza Strip, have revealed shocking details related to their postings. One of the six snipers interviewed, identified by the name Eden, discussed his time in the Golani infantry brigade with Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and claims to remember exactly how many knees he's hit. Israel Snipers: Taking a knee before Colin Kapernick "I kept the casing of every round I fired," he told the newspaper. "I have them in my room. So I don't have to make an estimate ‐ I know: 52 definite hits." Eden was instructed to "repel" Palestinian demonstrators who approached the Gaza border fence. Gaza's protesters have taken to the border area every week for months on end as part of the "Great March of Return". The sniper said he had the most hits in his battalion and that he was referred to as the "killer". "When I came back from the field, they would ask, 'Well, how many today?'" "You have to understand that before we showed up, knees were the hardest thing to rack up. There was a story about one sniper who had 11 knees all told, and people thought no one could outdo him. And then I brought in seven-eight knees in one day."
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Could follow the example of the first Spanish governor of New Mexico, Juan de Oñate - In October 1598, a skirmish erupted when a squad of Oñate's men demanded supplies from the Acoma Pueblo, although the Ácoma themselves needed their stored food to survive the coming winter. The Ácoma resisted and 11 Spaniards were killed, including Oñate's nephew, Juan de Zaldívar.[11] In January 1599, Oñate condemned the conflict as an uprising and ordered the pueblo destroyed, a mandate carried out by Juan de Zaldívar's brother, Vicente de Zaldívar, in an offensive known as the Acoma Massacre. An estimated 800-1000 Ácoma died in the siege of the pueblo, and the 500 survivors[12] were put on trial and sentenced by Oñate. All men and women older than 12 were enslaved for 20 years. In addition, men older than 25 (24 individuals) had one foot amputated. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-03-10 18:49 |
| #11 Or a foot short. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-03-10 18:03 |
| #10 About three feet too low. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-03-10 15:14 |
| #9 Just a bit. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-03-10 12:43 |
| #8 If you read this article and then the article about grooming gangs in Britain, you have to conclude that Avi and Mordechai are aiming just a bit too low. |
| Posted by: Matt 2020-03-10 10:51 |
| #7 Collecting legs is more sanitary? |
| Posted by: Fred 2020-03-10 10:20 |
| #6 The tone of the article seems to be one of horror. "How could these monsters do such a thing?". Yet, as TW points out, it would have been much easier to shoot them in the head. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-03-10 10:17 |
| #5 Going to make that 5 times a day kneeling towards Makkah more difficult. Good. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-03-10 10:10 |
| #4 Somewhat more sanitary than collecting ears. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-03-10 08:39 |
| #3 They used to use .22 rounds. Has anything changed? |
| Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 2020-03-10 08:24 |
| #2 Gazans - a nation of one-legged tunnel diggers. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-03-10 07:28 |
| #1 The sons of Isaac are gracious. The sons of Ishmael are vengeful. |
| Posted by: boomerc 2020-03-10 05:22 |