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Stories like these are starting to make me very very angry.
Not that I'm saying that I'm anti-Isreal in any way, because hey, let's face it, stories like these happen with any bloody person behind the bloody trigger.
It's not the reason that bothers me, as the article suggests. After all, they must've had some reason to go after that guy, be it a stupid, ridiculous one like a show of force... I've already ranted my share about military administration and how their goals and aims are not exactly humane.
But they're the military. The ISREALI military at that, they've been fighting a war for ages. I stopped caring about the reasons.
But come on. Shooting a subdued unarmed subject near point-blank is just bloody sadistic. Sure I'm aware it's unavoidable to have soldiers that are built that way... after all, it's their job to kill and all...
... but it's still bloody sadistic. The individual act itself... it's bloody screwed up. Even the most bent-out whackjob soldiers I know, decent people that they are outside of military life, would never even dream of shooting an unarmed man with an automatic rifle from that close a range AFTER they'd already blown out their ankles..
I can understand anger, after all, I'm practically infamous for anger among certain circles... but there's a line somewhere that gets crossed when people do shit like this... whether it be strapping a bomb to your chest, or gunning down an unarmed man in cold blood point-blank after you've already shot up his ankles.
I understand the mentality, of course. Doesn't mean I have to like it.
And there's always the plentiful stories of US cops (who're trained, of course, to dump ammo on a suspect if things go wrong) shooting 200+ rounds at an unarmed man... that's 20 clips of ammunition in a standard police-issue sidearm. THAT's almost as fucked up as the fact that barely any of the rounds hit the suspect, and most art unloaded wildly, often dangerously, into the surrounding neighbourhood.
Sometimes people are just plain fucked up.