YouTube Video: Interview with child taken as human shield in Nablus

[Douglas Carpenter]

link:

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6637.shtml

"Video, Research Journalism Initiative and A-Films, 7 March 2007

On 28 February 2007, during the Israeli invasion of Nablus, the IOF kidnapped 11-year-old Jihan Tahdush from her home in the Old City of Nablus. She was used as a human shield while Israeli forces conducted door-to-door searches in the Old City. Jihan says of the incident: "They gave me biscuits to persuade me to talk to them, but I didn't tell them anything. When I brought them to the house they told me not to be afraid because they were with me. When I asked to go back to my mom, they said, 'We have to keep you a bit longer.'" This video-interview was produced by the Research Journalism Initiative and the Anarchist Film Collective "A-Films".

link: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6637.shtml

"with "Youtube" you may need to allow the film to run through one time first if it is choppy and then play it back a second time." thanx

article on same subject from Haaretz:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/834937.html

[breakaleg]

1. These soldiers are a bunch of spineless cowards. It's too bad nothing will come of it.

[Douglas Carpenter]

2. I'm afraid you're right

[bemildred]

3. The spineless cowards are the "leaders" of the soldiers.

The ones giving the orders for these "operations". Not that the soldiers' behavior is excusable, but they should not be there, they are put into an intolerable situation. Like the GIs in Iraq, they are sent into the lions den, with no identifiable enemy to fight, and they don't want to die for nothing, for political posturing, for a cause they do not believe in.