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Title: | God Complex at its worst... | |||
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| Name: | Palestinian in UK | | |||
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| City: | Exeter | State: | | ||
| Israeli psychologist Nopher Ishai-Karen`s study into the behavior of IDF troops is shocking. She found the soldiers enjoyed the `intoxication of power`, and had pleasure from using violence: `Most of my interviewees enjoyed their own instigated violence during their Occupation service`. Below is a sample of the soldiers` testimonies: Soldier `B` testimony: `I was on my first patrol. Others simply shot like mad. I started to shoot as they did. They `set my on`. I took my weapon and shot. Nobody was there to tell me otherwise` -- Soldier `C` testimony: `The truth is that I love this mess - I enjoy it. It is like being on drugs. If I didn`t enter Rafah, to put down some rebellion -at least once a week- I`d go berserk. Soldier `D` testimony: What is great is that you don`t have to follow any law or rule. You feel that YOU ARE THE LAW; you decide. Once you go into the Occupied Territories YOU ARE GOD`. These are the kind of `soldiers` Palestinians have been dealing with... |
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