#GazaUnderAttack | Israeli soldiers question Tel Aviv offensive in Gaza

  PressTV | Thu Aug 7, 2014 12:18PM GMT An organization of veteran Israeli combatants says many Israeli soldiers have questioned Tel Aviv’s aggression on the Gaza Strip, as Israel stations its forces along the border with the besieged enclave in preparation for yet another possible offensive. Yehuda Shaul, co-founder of Breaking the Silence organization, told […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Israeli Soldier Leaks Accounts of Revenge Attacks Against Civilians by Troops in Gaza

 Tuesday July 29, 2014 12:49 by Celine Hagbard – IMEMC News A member of the Israeli group ‘Breaking the Silence’ has published accounts of Israeli soldiers being authorized by their commanders to carry out revenge attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip “to enable the soldiers to take out their frustrations and pain at losing […]

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“Our Harsh Logic” documents Israeli soldiers’ mistreatment against Palestinians

Al Ray Agencies – Oct 6, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – The Israeli organization “Breaking the Silence” issued on last Thursday a book   collects the testimonies of Israeli soldiers served in the occupied territories from 2000 to 2010. “Our Harsh Logic” refutes the Israeli claim as  being “the most moral army in the world” In their […]

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VIDEO | Breaking the Silence: Looting and Bribery

Published on Jun 7, 2013 Breaking the Silence: Testimonies of female soldiers. These testimonies seek to tell the Israeli public and international community what it means to be a woman serving in the territories. In order to prove oneself as a woman soldier, one needs to be “more manly than a man”. Often, for female […]

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Is Gaza Outside Israel?

Oded Na’aman and Tom Engelhardt | Nov 26, 2012 | AntiWar.com On returning from his first trip to the Gaza Strip, Noam Chomsky told Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman: “It’s kind of amazing and inspiring to see people somehow managing to survive as caged animals subject to constant, random, sadistic punishment only to humiliate them, no […]

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Breaking the Silence: An interview with Yehuda Shaul

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. by Alistair George | 6 Dec 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “If you don’t look nice, you don’t spend too many hours in front of the mirror,”  says Yehuda Shaul,  one of the founders and Executive Directors of Israeli NGO, Breaking the Silence. […]

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Ilana Hammerman: Soldiers’ testimonies on the occupied territories

  Israeli Occupation Archives | August 10, 2011 By Ilana Hammerman, Haaretz – 5 Aug 2011 Kibush Hashtahim – Occupation of the Territories: Israeli Soldier Testimonies 2000-2010.  Published by Breaking the Silence (Hebrew), 347 pages, NIS 50 English version to be available later this year; 430 pages. On the 50th anniversary of the death of […]

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Who’s the boss here? What well-off Israelis refuse to know about their rule

Aug 9, 2011 | Jews for Justice for Palestinians Two book reviews, 1st what soldiers say about controlling the OPT, 2nd how the prison system and Shin Bet maintain a security state Soldiers’ testimonies on the occupied territories The main significance of the testimonies published by Breaking the Silence is not in the descriptions of […]

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Does AIPAC know what all of the checkpoints are for? New testimony – video

Breaking The Silence | April 23, 2011 “When you first arrive in the territories, you think the purpose of the checkpoint is to catch terrorists.” Source and more in the new online database of Breaking The Silence

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Former Israeli soldiers break the silence on military violations

Testimonies posted on YouTube by campaign group describe routine harassment and humiliation of Palestinian civilians Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem | guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 May 2011 11.26 BST Campaign group Breaking the Silence has met with a hostile response from Israel, especially after it published testimony by soldiers who took part in the war on Gaza […]

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Breaking the Silence – Testimony – “Knock on every door”

Breaking the Silence ‘s New database is now online testimony catalog number: 13980 rank: Staff Sergeant unit: Nahal Brigade place: Qalandiya period: April 2002 We were alerted to Qalqiliya. There we carried out what – amongst ourselves, I don’t remember what the official name was – we called it operation “Knock on Every Door” (the […]

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Lies that Stick, Struggles that Sell. The Media Broke Out the Silence

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Marivel Guzman   Palestine Youth Broke the Silence! Not after the Tunisia Revolution and certainly not after the Egyptian Revolution. “Palestinian youth have been inspired by uprisings in Arab countries, Pushing for a Palestinian Tahrir” Aljazeera Channel I don’t think so, Palestinians youth have plenty of inspiration to uprise in […]

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Breaking the Silence Activity Update for January and February 2011

Breaking the Silence | March 20, 2011 | Breaking the Silence photo exhibition opens in Hebron, and Stockholm In the last few weeks, the Breaking the Silence photo exhibition opened at the Tel Rumeida Community Center in the Old City of Hebron as part of events marking the 17th anniversary of the Goldstein Massacre, and […]

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