The Israeli army’s top commander in the West Bank has openly admitted his forces are enforcing a two-tier justice system that lets Jewish settlers throw rocks without consequence while Palestinian children are shot dead for the same act. In a leaked video, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth told a closed forum that troops had killed 42 Palestinians last year for throwing stones, a number he called “killing like we haven’t killed since 1967.”
When a Jewish settler was accidentally wounded by army fire during an incident, Bluth said, the public erupted in outrage. “Yes, it involves discrimination,” he acknowledged, according to The Guardian.
