[IsraelTimes] Four anti-government protesters accused of launching flares at the Caesarea home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month have said they were jailed by “terrorists and spies,” in a letter from prison obtained by Channel 12.
The four, Rear Adm. (res.) Ofer Doron, 63, his son Gal Doron, 27, and two other longtime anti-government activists, Itay Yaffe, 62, and Amir Sadeh, 62, were indicted in the Haifa District Court on charges of carrying out an act of terror through the reckless and negligent use of fire and attempted arson.
They have argued they did not intend to hit the home and only meant to fire the flares in its vicinity in protest.
Y’all are officers. You know all about never show a gun unless you plan to use it, and no plan survives first contact with the enemy. So your intention not to hit when you fired something exactly designed to hit is more than a bit disingenuous. In their letter penned from detention, the four say: “We were interrogated by about 10 Shin Bet investigators for long days.”
“By the third day of the investigation, the investigators concluded that we had no intention to harm the prime minister or his residence,” they assert. At the same time, “We were interrogated as if it were a grave terrorist act, even though the flares we launched are completely legal.”
Not when shot toward where people can be expected to be. “In the Shin Bet interrogation facility, we were held in isolation, adjacent to cells of terrorists, spies, and detainees suspected of harming state security,” they say. “Later, we were transferred to the Turkish Detention Center at the Russian Compound in Jerusalem, where we were kept in a freezing and unbearable cell.”
So you think you are better than the general run of prisoners, you elitist? You deserve special treatment? “The attitude of the prison service guards was fair, but the conditions were harsh, certainly for men of our age,” they add. “We were treated as terrorists, even though all our actions were part of non-violent protest.”
You cased the joint ahead of time, snuck in — trying to avoid being seen by security cameras — waited in position until your target time, then shot the same kind of rocket used by Hamas. Where is the non-violence in all that? They claim that in their act “there was no intention to harm or create panic. Our protest was solely intended to convey a message.”
The message that Bibi andhis family are unsafe in their own home. Got it.
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