No doubt militants who know the language of the enemy make more effective combatants in close quarter fighting and on raids, and in that sense pose a greater threat to Israeli security. But this was a 54 year man. The accounts sound more like random acts perpetrated by angry, stressed and trigger happy troops in the field who will seize on any pretext to commit violence, including murder, against civilians.
As well as in Gaza, many and perhaps more West Bank Palestinians speak Hebrew. Many have been shot, not for speaking Hebrew, but for throwing stones and other acts of resistance. You would think if there was evidence of such targeted “linguisticide” we would be seeing confirmation of the practice in media reports and from various Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations. You live over there and are better situated than any of us to establish whether anyone other than Max Blumenthal, whom I greatly respect BTW, has reported in the same vein?
On Oct 11, 2014, at 1:20 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> "According to several different eyewitnesses [Max Blumenthal] spoke to, offering corroborating accounts of different incidents, it seems that Israeli soldiers were executing a new practice during this latest Gaza war. As Max puts it: 'wanton targeting of Palestinian civilians who spoke Hebrew'."
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> https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/inquiry/14582-why-did-israel-target-and-kill-hebrew-speakers-in-gaza
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