Israeli women curb their soldiers' excesses

[Scurrilous]

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/12/09/2003078925

'REAL HUMAN BEINGS': The all-female Checkpoint Watch team patrols Israeli checkpoints, intervening on behalf of Palestinian civilians who receive improper treatment at the hands of the military


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"An Israeli woman runs toward a soldier, admonishing him not to hit a Palestinian teen he had just slammed against a fence at a West Bank roadblock.

The soldier slowly relaxes his grip and eventually lets the teen go -- another small victory for Sara Alimi, 53, a volunteer in Checkpoint Watch, a group of about 300 Israeli women trying to stop abuses at dozens of checkpoints restricting Palestinian travel in the West Bank."

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"Founders of the organization, including Yehudit Elkana, 69, said they sought a practical way to express their opposition to Israel's 36-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

"I saw what my country was doing as an occupier," said Elkana, whose son is a lieutenant colonel in the army reserves.
"But then I realized I could prevent such things," she said."

[bluesoul]

1. True heroes

just like Beilin and those behind the Geneva Accord. For them I say :toast:

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. Brave ladies. And one of the saddest stories I have seen

A 69 year old grandma putting on a military uniform and thrusting her own body between a soldier of her own country and a child of another - it's a heartbreaking reminder that brutality does an even greater harm to the brutalizer than to the victim...

[kimchi]

3. Very courageous and caring women; I applaud them.

May there be millions more people who stand up for peace and decency.