{"id":26842,"date":"2019-03-19T11:33:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26842"},"modified":"2019-03-19T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:33:53","slug":"i-was-the-terrorist-israeli-army-vet-gives-explosive-tell-all-interview-to-abby-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/03\/19\/i-was-the-terrorist-israeli-army-vet-gives-explosive-tell-all-interview-to-abby-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Was The Terrorist&#8221;: Israeli Army Vet Gives Explosive Tell-All Interview to Abby Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mint Press <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/veteran-of-the-israeli-army-gives-explosive-tell-all-i-was-the-terrorist\/225780\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Was The Terrorist&#8221;: Israeli Army Vet Gives Explosive Tell-All Interview to Abby Martin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine\u2019s Hebron City. <\/p>\n<p>Eran Efrati spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an outspoken critic of the occupation of Palestine and Israeli apartheid. <\/p>\n<p>Efrati gives explosive testimony on the reality of his service and explains how war crimes are institutionalized, as well as how systematic the oppression against Palestinians really is in a war of conquest that will no-doubt be accelerated under the Trump Administration.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1Rk1dAIhiVc\" style=\"border:thick ridge 09900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>As one who entered the USA military in 1967, I can attest to the training that your enemy is both sub-human and super-human. This is what basic training tried to teach us about the North Vietnamese soldiers and people. This is what makes Eran Efrati&#8217;s testimony so believable to me.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain my first sentence.  In Army training, we were constantly taught that the North Vietnamese soldiers had super-human capacity to kill us.  We had to be very afraid of what their soldiers could do to us.  On the other hand, they were sub-human in that they deserved no normal humanitarian concern from us.<\/p>\n<p>There was a scene in the movie &#8220;Apocalypse Now&#8221; that demonstrated this for me too clearly.  It involved a young Vietnamese girl on her boat.  Her puppy had crawled into a covered basket.  Suddenly, she was confronted by a USA soldier who was searching her boat for possible weapons.  As he approached the girl and the basket, I knew exactly what was going to happen.  I knew the soldier was extremely apprehensive of the situation because of the training (and experience) that any Vietnamese person could be a threat.  When he opened the basket, I knew that the puppy would surprise him.  I knew what his reaction would have to be because of his training.  I also knew what the young girl&#8217;s reaction would have to be toward her pet.  The outcome was absolutely inevitable.  I doubt that other people in the audience that did not have military training could view this scene quite the way I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mint Press has the article &#8220;I Was The Terrorist&#8221;: Israeli Army Vet Gives Explosive Tell-All Interview to Abby Martin. In a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine\u2019s Hebron City. 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