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This excerpt makes you wonder whether Yigal Allon and Moshe Dayan are Israel's or South Africa's national heroes, but this comparison is extremely unfair... to South Africa...
The white supremacist state never had a policy of murdering undocumented black south africans for not having a valid passport or pass to be in the country. They were simply arrested and sent back to their "countries" (read, bantustans) of origin.
In private conversations and internal correspondence, Israeli officers made no bones about the policy of shooting infiltrators, armed or unarmed, bent on harvesting, grazing, resettlement, or sabotage.
On 4 June 1949, OC Southern Command General Yigal Allon said that he had declared an eight-kilometre-deep strip along the Israeli side of both the Israeli-Jordanian and Israeli-Egyptian borders 'military area: every stranger found in [them] will be shot, without interrogation'. (He claimed that his had reduced infiltration.)
A month later, on 3 July 1949, Dayan, OD Jerusalem District, wrote that 'our army has an order to shoot at anyone trying to cross the [Israeli-Jordanian] border to our side and at everyone found in "the security zone" (several kilometres deep along the border) who is not in possession of a special pass'. Dayan felt that the Jordanians had no right to 'interfere' with 'our tough [keshiha] behaviour towards infiltrators'. The following month, Dayan's assistant on the IJMAC declared: 'I did not commit myself that we would arrest rather than shoot trespassers. In previous instances, I informed the Legion representative that anyone crossing the border was endagering his life.'
Or, as the American military attaché in Tel Aviv put it, simply: the 'Israel defense policy is shoot to kill all Arabs violating frontiers'.
COMMENT:
They talked openly about the shoot-to-kill policy "in private conversations and internal correspondence", not in front of the international or even the Israeli press because even they were too embarrassed and ashamed to admit the carnage.
The white supremacist state never had a policy of murdering undocumented black south africans for not having a valid passport or pass to be in the country. They were simply arrested and sent back to their "countries" (read, bantustans) of origin.
ISRAEL'S BORDER WARS
In private conversations and internal correspondence, Israeli officers made no bones about the policy of shooting infiltrators, armed or unarmed, bent on harvesting, grazing, resettlement, or sabotage.
On 4 June 1949, OC Southern Command General Yigal Allon said that he had declared an eight-kilometre-deep strip along the Israeli side of both the Israeli-Jordanian and Israeli-Egyptian borders 'military area: every stranger found in [them] will be shot, without interrogation'. (He claimed that his had reduced infiltration.)
A month later, on 3 July 1949, Dayan, OD Jerusalem District, wrote that 'our army has an order to shoot at anyone trying to cross the [Israeli-Jordanian] border to our side and at everyone found in "the security zone" (several kilometres deep along the border) who is not in possession of a special pass'. Dayan felt that the Jordanians had no right to 'interfere' with 'our tough [keshiha] behaviour towards infiltrators'. The following month, Dayan's assistant on the IJMAC declared: 'I did not commit myself that we would arrest rather than shoot trespassers. In previous instances, I informed the Legion representative that anyone crossing the border was endagering his life.'
Or, as the American military attaché in Tel Aviv put it, simply: the 'Israel defense policy is shoot to kill all Arabs violating frontiers'.
COMMENT:
They talked openly about the shoot-to-kill policy "in private conversations and internal correspondence", not in front of the international or even the Israeli press because even they were too embarrassed and ashamed to admit the carnage.