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It's a big deal the @nytimes ran a piece on Israeli lethal force,it's also obvs the author was writing defensively against Israeli protest. #IyadHallaq bookends the article but it refuses to say the obvious re #EliminatoryViolence of #Palestinians
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/world/middleeast/israel-police-brutality-palestinian.html?smid=tw-share #THREAD
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/world/middleeast/israel-police-brutality-palestinian.html?smid=tw-share #THREAD
The author describes Hallaq's killing as a "deadly error" taking the incident out of context of the systematic killing of #Palestinians by Israeli police & military which r almost indistinct re Palestinians whether they are in Gaza, West Bank, Jerusalem, Haifa, Lydd, or beyond.
Israeli snipers shot to kill 217 unarmed #Palestinians, incl 40 children, across a militarized perimeter in #Gaza during the #GreatMarchofReturn bw March & October 2018. Israelis used live ammunition aimed at heads, necks, torsos, and backs of protestors. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-palestinians-who-died-during-great-march-return?fbclid=IwAR3afQjnSqRjash5Lajs3ofD_ecN3O2qrUPnF6nfX5V9WqZhEUhSnCZHmo4
Between 1 October 2016 and 16 November 2018 Israeli forces shot to kill at least 156 Palestinians in the West Bank during the so-called ‘Knife Intifada’ though most of the victims didn't even have a knife or other deadly object on their body. https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/9081
The article traces violence to Britain's colonial rule but doesn't explain that this 'emergency' regime was applied exclusively to #Palestinians as the first act of Israeli government 2 facilitate removal & land theft leading 2 several #massacres like in #KafrQasem in 1956.
The author could not refer to #Hallaq's killing without referring to him as a "rookie" officer- every single mention- and accepted that all the cameras in one of the most surveilled cities in the world were randomly turned off the morning of his extrajudicial assassination.
This is to say nothing of my own cousin's cold-blooded murder on the day of his sister's wedding. Israel has still not returned his body for a proper burial after 6 months. His father just called asking how they can sue Israel, I explained to him why it was almost impossible.
The @nytimes story is a good step forward but is horribly inadequate. It would be like trying to understand #policebrutality in the US without reference to ongoing #settlercolonial expansion and #native #genocide or legacies of #slavery, slave patrols, lynchings. Context matters.
For interested readers, I published this article which rehabilitates Israel's use of force within a #settlercolonial framework against #Palestinians irrespective of juridical demarcations, or police or military. This is about #native #elimination. @nytimes https://www.academia.edu/40491460/The_Sovereign_Right_to_Kill_A_Critical_Appraisal_of_Israels_Shoot_to_Kill_Policy_in_Gaza
