{"id":3884,"date":"2016-04-12T18:53:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.telosgroup.org\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2016-04-12T19:07:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T19:07:50","slug":"rubber-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telosgroup.org\/updates\/rubber-bullets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sarah Stern <\/p>\n

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I learned about these in the eleventh grade \u2013 Israeli rubber-coated bullets. Today, I picked one up \u2013 I had never actually seen one before. The biggest seemed much bigger than I expected, less like a bullet and more like a bath plug stamped \u201cIsraeli police.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne pierced just next to my right eye and shattered the bones of my socket,\u201d our host at Aida Palestinian refugee camp tells us, holding the smallest rubber-coated bullet, \u201cLater the doctors couldn\u2019t reassemble my socket, so they removed a bone from my leg and used it for my eye.\u201d He points to his hip.<\/p>\n

When I learned about rubber bullets in eleventh grade, I didn\u2019t know they could do this type of damage. I hadn\u2019t heard a story like this from someone\u2019s mouth, and examined the bumps around his eye \u2013 a Halloween mask year round.<\/p>\n

In eleventh grade Modern Israel class at the Jewish Day School, we talked about rubber bullets as a thought experiment. How moral is Israel\u2019s army? Do other countries temper their bullets by coating them with rubber? For many, these were rhetorical questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the bullet hit me, I can remember hearing the soldiers laughing,\u201d Mohammad tells us. He says he\u2019s seen soldiers taking selfies while they shoot tear gas in the camp. \u201cThey enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As I listen to Mohammad, I\u2019m simultaneously hearing a different story. Robi Damelin, a Jewish member of the Bereaved Parents Circle, lost her son during his Israeli army service, when he was killed by a Palestinian sniper.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t know who is behind the uniform,\u201d she emphasizes every time she tells the story. Her son didn\u2019t want to serve at checkpoints, but decided he could do so only if he set an example of graciousness and morality for his fellow soldiers.<\/p>\n

Robi\u2019s words recall how I felt for classmates from my American Jewish high school who graduated and went on to the Israeli military \u2013 there were a good handful of them. They were good people. They would be moral. They would be a light.<\/p>\n

The problem isn\u2019t them \u2013 it\u2019s that the military occupation here is very dark.<\/p>\n

In the past weeks, Israelis have been closely following the case of a soldier in Hebron. The soldier shot and killed a Palestinian who attempted a knife attack. When the soldier fired this lethal shot, the man was already lying immobile on the ground, having been neutralized.<\/p>\n

Much like the conversation that my eleventh grade class had about rubber bullets, Israel\u2019s concern over this incident focused on the morality of the army. What was the soldier\u2019s intent? Can we sympathize with his fear? Was he a bad apple?<\/p>\n

How can we rubber-coat his bullets?<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know who is behind the uniform. Robi\u2019s son and the soldier from Hebron both wear IDF olive green. What concerns me more than the morality of the army, is Israeli comfort with having young people in uniform, risking themselves in the name of occupation, controlling other people\u2019s lives and deaths, seemingly indefinitely. There is no way to be moral in such a situation \u2013 because you can\u2019t rubber-coat endless occupation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sarah Stern <\/p>\n

\"rubberbullets\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I learned about these in the eleventh grade \u2013 Israeli rubber-coated bullets. Today, I picked one up \u2013 I had never actually seen one before. The biggest seemed much bigger than I expected, less like a bullet and more like a bath plug stamped \u201cIsraeli police.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne pierced just next to my right eye and shattered the bones of my socket,\u201d our host at Aida Palestinian refugee camp tells us,<\/p>\n

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