The crippling and sometimes fatal injuries inflicted by the IDF and Settler thugs on unarmed civilian Palestinians, protesters, stone-throwers, and school children alike, are largely due to the fragmenting bullets used in the standard issue Tavor assault rifle. Like the earlier M16, a US weapon introduced during the Vietnam War as a lightweight field rifle capable of inflicting maximum damage, the Tavor chambers the 5.56×45 mm NATO cartridge.

When the bullet impacts tissue at high velocity, it fragments, causing multiple internal injuries, much like those of the internationally banned dumdum bullets. Forensics experts confirm that x-rays of casualties show a pattern called “lead snowstorm,” the footprint of high-velocity military ammunition. Many of the wounded are hit at short range, less than 100 meters, compounding internal damage.

The reliance on these rounds is part of what human rights groups have denounced as excessive use of Israeli force against mostly unarmed Palestinians. As far back as 2001, Dr. Robert Kirschner of the Nobel Prize-winning Physicians for Human Rights observed in the context of the IDF that “shooting people with high-velocity bullets to wound them is a form of summary punishment being inflicted in the field”.

How did Adolf Hitler rise to become fuhrer of an apparently civilised, cultured Germany?
How did Jimmy Carter and Barak Obama and Richard Nixon rise to become US presidents?
History poses many such fascinating questions.

We also must get the Israeli MFA to kick out pseudo-journalists who publish lies. In Saturday’s SMH Ruth Pollard wrote that the IDF is using dum-dum bullets against rioting Arabs.

Ben, you
1) fail to address the points to which your comment purports to respond
2) Arafat signed on to the autonomy that Rabin offered in 1993 and promised faithfully to abandon terror.

Yeah, right!

On Mr Rodgers’ doorstep are teeming populations who have no or very few human and civil rights; where residents belonging to minority ethnic populations are severely discriminated against, populations who would give anything for the sorts of freedoms and opportunities which ‘Palestinian” Arabs enjoy, and Mr Rodgers, the “ambassador,” has nothing better to do than this in his spare time, which no doubt is very generously lubricated by a fat pension and perks.

GO Rachel!
Do it.
I have my hands full!
GS

As a former diplomat, his propaganda piece could have been far subtler than this blatant piece of mendacity and foolishness, which can easily be torn to shreds. That he somehow managed to become an ambassador should make sensible Australians cringe with shame.
He needs to read what the Palestinian Arab scholar, Bassam Tawil, recently wrote for “The Gatestone Institute,” where he asserts that his people’s racism is reminiscent of the Germany of the Holocaust era, and that they deserve nothing, let alone a state.
It’s clear that some Australian Foreign Affairs types are zealous for a terrorist state in Judea-Samaria solely because they know that it would compound the threats to Israel’s security. There can be no other explanation since such an Arab state would be detrimental to Australia’s interests as it would aggravate Middle Eastern instability, and because there is no potential for any material benefit for Australia in it.
Could it be that some of Mr Rodgers’ best friends are Jews?

These types are quite happy to cuddle up to the settler state of Jordan, an imperialist implant from the Hedjaz, but begrudge the Jews an independent statelet in the eternal Jewish National Home.