Reply #8: From Gush Shalom, Israeli peace organization, statement on resignation of mass murderer [View All]

[Tom Joad]

Here follows the translation of Wednesday's Gush Shalom press release



Dan Halutz, shooting himself in the wing

Press release, 17/01/07


On the day when Dan Halutz entered upon his career as Army Chief
of Staff, activists of Gush Shalom and Yesh Gvul stood protesting
outside. We flew across the Defence Ministry walls little paper
airplanes bearing quotations from Halutz’s infamous interview,
where he stated that he was sleeping well at night after his
pilots had killed fifteen civilians, nine of them children, in a
single minute of dropping a bomb on Gaza, and that he felt nothing
but “a slight tremor in the wing, as the bomb departs”. Two
years have passed, in which Dan Halutz was directly responsible
for shedding the blood of thousands – Israelis, Palestinians and
Lebanese.* The arrogant man who had no feeling at the death of
Palestinian civilians also led his own soldiers into an
unnecessary, cruel war, hastily and without preparation, and ended
with a shameful fiasco for which he is today paying the price. Dan
Halutz has today been thrown out of the job which he should never
have gotten, and we do not feel even a slight tremor in the wing.
Halutz’s successor would do well to remember that even the
commander of the most powerful army in the Middle East is far from
being almighty.

By coincidence or not, the day of Halutz’s resignation is also
the day that the military authorities withdrew their intention to
add yet another to the innumerable iniquities of the occupation,
and rescinded the intention of imposing an Apartheid ordinance
forbidding Israelis and Palestinian from travelling together on
the West Bank roads.** May that be a sign of things to come.


Contact: Adam Keller - Gush Shalom spokesperson [e-mail]