The True Face of Brutality in the Middle East (Infowars)

The world gets a glimpse of the mighty IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) at work...


Editor’s Note: Imagine if this were a video of a Syrian soldier hitting a peaceful protester. Undoubtedly, within minutes it would be transmitted throughout the global corporate mainstream media to promote the idea of regime change in Damascus. But because it happened in Palestine, you will not see it. This, and much worse levels of apartheid brutality and depravation have been allowed to carry on in Palestine for the last 65 years. - Infowars


RT
April 16, 2012

YouTube video showing a member of the Israeli military hitting a pro-Palestinian activist with a rifle has triggered uproar among both Palestinian supporters and Israeli officials. The officer condemned even by the PM says he was provoked.

The video was posted on Sunday by the International Solidarity Movement which supports Arab rights:



Lt.-Col. Shalom Eisner was filmed hitting 20-year-old Danish activist Andreas Ayas. The protester was slapped in the face with the rifle which made him fall down as if he had been shot.

Other activists who were attacked by Israeli soldiers, sustained wounds on their faces and backs and were taken to a hospital in Jericho.

The Israeli Prime Minister has condemned the beating. “Such behavior does not characterize IDF soldiers and officers and has no place in the Israel Defense Forces and in the State of Israel,” Benjamin Netanyahu said.

The incident is “seen as very grave” by the Israeli Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, and he has dismissed the officer who was the deputy commander of the IDF’s Jordan Valley brigade.
The clash between soldiers and pro-Palestinian activists happened on Saturday when a group of around 250 went on a bike ride in the Jordan Valley.

They called the action “a silent protest” aimed at showing the difficulties Palestinians overcome daily while using the Jordan Highway. They have to get permission from the Israeli military in advance to travel the road.

The protesters didn’t get permission and went on a bike ride in the direction of the highway. They were stopped by the Israeli soldiers who hit them and threw their bikes over a tunnel across the road.

The military say the deputy commander of the IDF’s Jordan Valley brigade, Shalom Eisner arrived after the confrontation started.

Activists insist their protest was peaceful, but Eisner has his version of the incident.
He argued that activists were trying to block a road, and soldiers were dealing with them for two hours trying to persuade them to avoid provocation.

Eisner also said the video was edited and doesn’t show how the Danish activist had hit him with a stick beforehand, and even broke two of his fingers.

The officer claimed that he carried out his job protecting the state highway from “lawbreakers”.
Israeli media note that conflicts between ISM activists and Israeli military occur frequently. It’s reported that from time to time the ISM manage to provoke soldiers and force them to turn violent, they constantly film the conflicts and the most flagrant episodes are used to blame the Israeli military.

College students pepper-strayed for protesting high tuition in Santa Monica college...welcome to the police state, its just the beginning

Students pepper-sprayed for protesting at Santa Monica College (VIDEO)
RT News
Published: 04 April, 2012, 18:57


Santa Monica College student Pronilover calls to fellow protesters during the Occupy the Capitol protest at the state Capitol in Sacramento (Reuters / Kevin Bartram). Video from YouTube users TheDigitalfolklore and TheCorsairOnline

Student protesters demonstrating against the rising cost of classes at Santa Monica College in California were met with a barrage of pepper spray late Tuesday. Around 30 people were attacked, including a small child and a congressional candidate.

At least two people were hospitalized on Tuesday after a protest at Santa Monica College outside of Los Angeles ended in a fog of pepper spray.

Hundreds of protesters had gathered outside a trustees meeting on campus that evening to wage complaints against a plan to add high-priced classes to the available course load at the community college in Southern California. After several students were refused admission into the meeting room and calls to relocate the rendezvous were ignored, protesters attempted to enter the premises on their own behalf. As the crowd of concerned students and demonstrators demanded to be heard by shot-callers at the college, police officers on the scene responded by discharging nonlethal pepper spray on protesters, injuring several, including bystanders.

“People were gasping and choking,” David Steinman tells the Associated Press. Steinman, a local environmental activist, was protesting against the college’s attempt to raise the cost of select classes. He is currently running for California Congress in hopes of winning a seat in the state’s District 33. On his campaign’s official Facebook page, addressed his concerns over the college’s plans hours before the incident.

“We are excluding students, and taxing them without representation, I feel, to feed a bloated state budget,” wrote Steinman, who added that the school has exponentially increased student fees over the years. “We need to look at the state community college boards of trustees as well as at our state government which has absolutely no accountability to the people. We need education to move our state forward.

The tiered system being proposed does just the opposite,” said Steinman.

While Steinman was among the 30 or so victims that were sprayed down by police, he wasn’t the most unlikely one. A young girl reported to be only four years old was also injured in the assault.

Others attacked by police say that law enforcement acted without notice and perhaps proper foresight. Marioly Gomez, a 21-year-old student at the schools, tells AP that she was pepper-sprayed without warning. In addition to the two hospitalized persons, around five are reported to have received medical attention at the scene.

Students on the scene were protesting a plan that would quadruple the price of some select classes at the college to around $600 per unit. As class sizes have dwindled in recent years, community colleges across California have lost substantial state funding, in turn causing the cost of classes to rise. As an alternative to costlier private and public schools, community colleges offer an opportunity for the less financially fortunate to receive a proper education.
Up the state in Davis, California, several students were assaulted with pepper spray last November while protesting similar tuition hikes.