• Major General Avi Bluth, head of the Israeli military’s Central Command, said his troops are ‘killing like they haven’t since 1967’ in the West Bank.
  • Bluth stated that last year soldiers shot 42 Palestinians throwing stones, while not shooting at Jewish settler militants for the same act.
  • He admitted discrimination in military justice: Palestinians are tried by military courts, Israelis by civilian courts.
  • He authorized maiming Palestinians caught trying to cross the separation barrier by shooting them in the knee, creating ’limping monuments’.
  • Bluth justified the actions as a struggle for ‘survival of the fittest’ and called every illegal Palestinian worker a ‘potential terrorist’.
  • Haaretz published the comments, questioning whether Bluth considered the ‘sociological consequences’ on Palestinians.

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