It was a surprise to receive a call from one of the ” IDF ” officers, givingme his support, and apologize for all what the ” IDF ” soldiers did to me.
The first moment he introduced him self, I asked him if he still working inthe army or not. And when he said yes, I was astonished!!
Actually, I remember some nice Israeli soldiers and officers I met as ajournalist,
Colonel Igal Sharon was a nice commander of the ” IDF ” soldiers in Hebron. Heused to deal with all of the human stories I was published in thenewspapers, and he tried several times to slove some of the Palestiniansproblems, he used to visit the Palestinians families their houses wereoccupied by his soldiers, and he listen to their complaints.
He punished some of his soldiers when they behaived crazy with Palestinians,and when the Palestinian woman Nazehah Abu Dahoud, sexualy harassed by the” IDF ” soldiers, they were stationed on her roof in 1997, he investigated hissoldiers and he put them in prison after I published the story in mynewspaper and I posted to the Israeli press through my friends, thejournalists (Sami Soukol and Ada Ushbez) from Ha’aretz newspaper.
Once the soldiers were broke into Nazehah’s bed room in her house, (MY HOUSENOW), at the morning, one of them exposed him self, and told her that hehave a big (PENUS) for her that’s better more than the small (PENUS) shehad. and he pointed to the small child he was with her in the room.
And while I cuased alot of criticizem noise for Colonel Igal Sharon in themedia, he was a nice Commander in Hebron, and when the Israeli TV made ashow about me and him through (OVDA), (Hebron the City without Mercy), theprogram made by Ilana Dayan, the settlers humiliated him personaly andspread false roumers against him.
Aron, the Paratrooper commander who served in Hebron in 1998 was a niceofficer too. Once he visited a Palestinian family in Tel-Romaideh with othercommanders, and when I follwed them to understand the reason behind theirvisit, every body was speaking in Hebrow and Aron was my translator toEnglish!!
Colonel Barokh Najjar was very nice colonel with me either, while Icriticized him alot in the media and I caused noise noise for him, But hewas respecting me, and once he said, that he wish to see more Palestinianswomen like me, but he is not wishing to see another journalist woman likeme. He meant the noise I made for him in the media definding thePalestinians rights!!