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Israel brands Palestinian detainees with numbers on their foreheads (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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When Israel re-arrested Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank town of Dura, the detainees faced familiar treatment.

They were blindfolded, handcuffed, insulted and kept in inhumane conditions. More unusual was that each man had a number written on his forehead.

Osama Shaheen, who was released in August after 10 months of administrative detention, told Middle East Eye that soldiers brutally stormed his house, smashing his furniture.

"The soldiers turned us from names into numbers, and every detainee had a number that they used to provoke him during his arrest and call him by number instead of name. To them, we are just numbers."

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[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 55 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

They couldn't turn the world today into a movie because the writing would be called too lazy and ham-fisted to be realistic.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

"The Nazi analogies were so over the top, like we get it, they're bad people... It's insulting to the audience."

—average review

"You're watching it wrong! Those are protagonists!"

—US government in the comments

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm telling you, this Earth show jumped the shark last decade.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, the humanity show did. We'll be cancelled long before the Earth will.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sure, the Earth channel has other shows but Humanity has become the main pull of the channel such that it's pretty much the Earth show. I've tried watching some of the other stuff Earth puts out but it hasn't held my attention like Humanity has, even if the last few seasons have been absolute dogwater.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

It was those damn writer's strikes!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It would take somebody with a rye wit.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Mmmmm,.... rye wit.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that an intentional bread pun? I'm not getting the relation.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, to go with ham-fisted.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Cheers! Half of the time I understand jokes every time.

This is what happens the other 50%.