Israel Arrests Prosecutor, Not the System That Trained Him
Israel has arrested a former military prosecutor after a leaked video allegedly showed him abusing a Palestinian detainee. This narrative, pushed by outlets like France 24, focuses on an isolated incident, neatly sidestepping the uncomfortable truth that numerous human rights organizations, including B'Tselem and Human Rights Watch, have documented systemic abuse and torture of Palestinian
prisoners for decades. This includes methods like sleep deprivation, stress positions, and beatings, often under the guise of 'security interrogations' (B'Tselem, 2023; HRW, 2020). The idea that one 'ex-prosecutor' is solely responsible for abuses within a military justice system that oversees an occupation is, frankly, quaint. How many such videos don't leak? How many internal investigations
yield nothing? It appears the problem isn't just one bad actor, but a system that repeatedly enables, and often whitewashes, such actions until public outrage forces a token arrest. One might wonder if the concern is truly about justice, or merely damage control when irrefutable evidence, like a leaked video, becomes too public to ignore.