Journo Witnesses Israeli Soldier Assault Palestinian Peace Activist, Ponders If Soldier Is Actually A Victim

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Feb. 14, 2023

If you want a glimpse into the mindset of the journalists tasked with covering the Israel-Palestine conflict for the controlled media, look no further than this tweet from The New Yorker's Lawrence Wright.

"I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron," Wright tweeted on Monday, sharing video showing an Israel soldier choking Amro, throwing him to the ground and then kicking him while he's down.

"I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it," Wright added.

I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron. I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it. pic.twitter.com/Qrsa1UJsfA
— Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) February 13, 2023

You watched an armed solider assault an unarmed peace activist, and your thoughts are for what this is doing to the fucking SOLDIER???

What the fuck is wrong with you?
— Josh Olson (@joshuarolson) February 13, 2023

If you think it's dehumanising to the soldiers, wait till you hear about what it does to Palestinians...
— Christian Henderson (@CjvHenderson) February 13, 2023

What's dehumanizing is being treated like human garbage while living under occupation. Odds are the thug soldier gets off on abusing others.

To his credit, Wright shared video showing the assault was entirely unprovoked:

The IDF is misrepresenting what led to assault on peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron yesterday. The soldier initiated the encounter. Amro did not curse or interfere only asked that he call the commander. Nothing to justify the attack that followed. pic.twitter.com/2nxCD2jXjc
— Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) February 14, 2023

The IDF misrepresented what led to this. The soldier initiated the encounter, Amro did not curse him only asked to call his commander. Nothing to justify the violent assault that followed. https://t.co/JENXJa9ba6
— Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) February 14, 2023

I didn’t refuse the treatment from the Israeli army, I called the Israeli police 100 , who didn’t come to help me,
I asked them for an ambulance , they said to me ARE you Arab or Jew . I told them I am an Arab, they said we can’t reach you .
They refused to give me medical aid
— Issa Amro عيسى عمرو 🇵🇸 (@Issaamro) February 13, 2023

Before the assault the other soldiers were afraid to intervene although I warned them it was getting out of hand. pic.twitter.com/TwJkSaO4OT
— Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) February 14, 2023

I wonder if Wright felt he needed to add the line sympathizing with the soldier just so he'd have an excuse to share the video without losing his job?

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