Israel’s ’Break the Bones’ policy

During the first Palestinian “intifada“ (uprising), Israeli forces perpetrated a policy of breaking protesters’ bones. More information about the this policy is at and The video is an excerpt from the documentary “Occupation 101 - Voices of the Silenced Majority“ - available at and (The narrator of the video is American author Alison Weir, founder of the nonprofit organization If Americans Knew.) Yitzhak Rabin, the initiator of this policy, later became Israeli Prime Minister, and is now known as a ’peacemaker’. Few people are aware of this history, and the fact that during Israel’s founding war, Rabin personally ordered that Palestinian inhabitants of Lydda “be expelled quickly without attention to age.” Thousands of refugees, entire families, elderly people, women and children marched about 15 miles eastwards in the height of summer. Dozens, including infants, did no