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Israel and Palestine: Historical Backgrounds315111. Jerusalem Post, Dec. 12, 1982; “‘Cut off their testicles,’ Sharon saidwith regard to demonstrators in the West Bank” Yediot Ahronot, Dec. 29,1982; Ma’ariv, Feb. 18, 1983, quoting Avraham Burg; The Dawn (AlFajr), Jan 21, Feb. 4, 1983, on the expropriation and the curfew;Michael Precker, Dallas Morning News—Boston Globe, Feb. 17, 1983.The expropriation was noted by Trudy Rubin, Christian Science Monitor,March 4, 1983.112. Zvi Barel, Ha’aretz, Jan. 20, 1983 (Israleft News Service; Barel,Ha’aretz Weekly, Feb. 6-11, 1983; Edward Walsh, Washington Post—Boston Globe, Feb. 18; David Richardson, Jerusalem Post, Feb. 18;Barel, Ha’aretz, Jan. 30 (translated in The Dawn (Al Fajr), Feb. 11);Eitan Mor, Yediot Ahronot, Feb. 18, 1983; Reuven Padhatzur, Ha’aretz,March 11, 1983, explaining how the defense “broke the rules of thegame” by building its case on the demonstration that IDF policy isresponsible for the atrocities; the defense was successful, since higherofficers, who gave the orders, could not be (and were not) tried. See alsoMarcus Eliason, AP, Boston Globe, Jan. 22, 1983, reviewing Eitan’sorders and also his statement, which is correct, that the practice ofdemolishing houses in collective punishment and deportation waspracticed much more extensively by his Labor predecessors. Also NewYork Times, Feb. 10, 18. The sanitized New York Times accounts mayusefully be compared to those cited from other American journals,particularly the detailed account of Eitan’s testimony by NormanKempster, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 10, 1983. Ahronot, Dec. 3, 1982.113. Aharon Bachar, “Do not say: We did not know, we did not hear’,” YediotAhronot, Dec. 3, 1982114. Aharon Bachar, Yediot Ahronot, Nov. 5, 1982.115. Yoram Pen, Davar, Dec. 10, 1982.116. “Peace Now officers recount atrocities,” Al Hamishmar, May 11, 1982;Aharon Geva, Davar, April 4, 1982 (Israeli Mirror).117. “Human Rights Violations on the Golan Heights: February-May, 1982,”Report of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Israel Office of theAmerican Jewish Committee (1982). The following account and quotesare from this study. The events discussed were reported by some of theClassics in Politics: The Fateful TriangleNoam Chomsky