Israelis Enjoy Torturing Palestinians

CAIRO - Israeli soldiers enjoy torturing Palestinians, both men and women, and many of them use it to discharge energy, according to a recent study by an Israeli psychologist.

" At one point or another of their service, the majority of the interviewees enjoyed violence," Nufar Yishai-Karin, a clinical psychologist at the Hebrew University, told The Observer on Sunday, October 21.

Interview 18 Israeli soldiers and three officers, Yishai-Karin heard confessions of brutal assault troops routinely commit against Palestinians.

clipped from www.islamonline.net Yishai-Karin found that soldiers start abusing Palestinians from as early as their first weeks of training. They recalled how one of their commanders began the first days of his leadership with beating up a four-year-old Palestinian child. "So we do a first patrol with him. It's 6am, Rafah is under curfew, there isn't so much as a dog in the streets. Only a little boy of four playing in the sand," one soldier remembers. "He is building a castle in his yard." "He grabbed the boy. I am a degenerate if I am not telling you the truth. He broke his hand here at the wrist, broke his leg here. And started to stomp on his stomach, three times, and left," said the soldier. "We are all there, jaws dropping, looking at him in shock. A fourth soldier revealed how he had "no problem" abusing Palestinian women in particular, recalling when he brutally beat one woman for throwing a clog on him. "I kicked her here [pointing to the crotch], I broke everything there. She can't have children."