Shovrim Shtika, a courageous group of Israeli soldiers who tell of the realities of occupation -- realities that most Israelis and most Jews do not know and, more importantly, are determined not to know.
Shaul spoke of his confusion and pain serving Israel as a soldier in Hebron, guarding the lives of settlers who often provoke and attack Palestinians. He could not respond to prevent the aggression, because his mission was just to protect the Jews, not the Palestinian residents. His personal story of how he and the soldiers of his company committed acts of violence on a daily basis was shocking. These acts, he explained, are the inevitable reality of any occupation where an army rules over two million people.
Yet he also acknowledged his own personal responsibility, his own teshuva (repentance) for acts he routinely committed that caused suffering. All that the soldiers of Shovrim Shtika want is for the leaders and people of Israel to acknowledge what its soldiers are asked to do, and have to do, on their behalf on the West Bank.'
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