SUMMARY OF A
PROFESSIONAL INVESTIGATION
REGARDING
THE KILLING OF A 12 YEAR OLD BOY AT
NETZARIM JUNCTION AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
DERIVING FROM IT.
1.
GENERAL
The killing was recorded by a Palestinian TV cameraman, on
Since then, this
scenario is used for unleashed anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish propaganda in the well-known
pattern of TSW - TV-Supported-Warfare.
The undersigned initiated a professional
investigation of the case, based on his long-time experience in complex systems
analysis, military operations research and combat activities under fire (see shortened CV).
2.
THE HARD FACTS
2.1
Confirmed by all sides: Israeli soldiers were
confined to one outpost across the junction, at a distance of 110m from the
victim and an angle of 30 degrees from
the brick wall at the point where
the boy and his father took shelter behind a concrete barrel. At this time,
Palestinian outposts were dispersed all over the area - in front and behind the
victim.
2.2
Confirmed by official representative of the Palestinian Authority on
channel 2 of Israeli TV -
2.3
The cameraman returned to the scene of the event the day after, and confirmed: the barrel behind which the
boy took shelter was of concrete (not of sheet-metal), therefore no
rifle-bullet could penetrate it from side to side ("Haaretz"
newspaper,
2.4
The film taken by the Palestinian cameraman revealed
on the wall the only hole of the bullet which penetrated the boy's body.
2.5
All the auxiliary facts, including recorded noises, only support the hereinafter conclusions.
3.
CONCLUSIONS
3.1
The hole revealed on the brick wall behind the boy's
body, after he fell on the pavement, is the only evidence of a bullet which
penetrated his body, as declared by the PA representative.
3.2
The location of the killing-bullet-hole is well
inside the space protected from Israeli outpost sniper by the concrete barrel
(see drawing attached).
3.3
The
killing-bullet-hole could be caused only
by a sniper facing the boy from the front (behind the bushes at the back of the
cameraman), and the noise recorded by
the cameraman before the boy was seen dead
was of a very near-by weapon, with a sound quite different from the
shooting heard before, from distanced outposts.
3.4
The armed outposts facing the boy from the front
were manned only by Palestinians. Therefore, only they could have killed the boy. The same holds true for the bullets which
wounded the boy's father: he was so deeply hidden in the corner between the
wall and barrel - that only bullets shot from the front could hit him, and in
no way could
they be bullets from the Israeli outpost which was at an angle of 30 degrees
from the wall. It was impossible even from an angle of 43 degrees.
3.5
This behavior of moslem
militants is completely compatible with their old tradition of sacrificing their own people for a
political purpose defined by their
leader as the will of Allah. This makes them automatically holy martyrs -
"Shahids" - gaining respect from all their society towards the
martyr and his family. It is also known
that suicide-bombers caught before explosion by Israeli police confessed that they were promised and
believed that after their martyr's
death, they would become a "Shahid"
who is entitled to be a honorable guest
in paradise.
3.6
Also compatible with moslem
militants' beliefs is that
telling outright lies is
legitimate - if they are used against an enemy. Such is the lie they produced
and spread worldwide - to accuse Israeli soldiers as heartless killers of
innocent children. The last example of such behavior was seen on worldwide TV
networks, when Yasser Arafat himself demanded protection of his people from
Israeli attacks, by repeating again and
again the outrageous lie regarding who starts
these attacks, when all the world
could see how his people initiate the
shooting and stone-throwing against Israeli civilians and soldiers, who
react only in self-defense.
4. RECOMMENDATIONS
4.1 Israeli defense strategy didn’t catch up
with the contemporary developments in TV-supported-warfare. It seems that
nobody learned the lesson since the defeat of General Somoza in
This is part of their
child-recruitment practice, which is revealed again and again, when their
officials order the closing of schools and send pupils of all ages to confront
Israeli positions.
Child-recruitment is an
international crime, and
4.2 There are ways to fight aggression
without providing a scene for TV-supported-warfare which the Palestinian
authority people are looking for in every confrontation. The methodology of
such warfare has to be worked out by appropriate Israeli organs. It reaches far
beyond pure military tactics and has to be based on ideological, political,
economical and psychological means as well.
4.3 As an example of political means to
discourage the sending of “innocent civilians” to be killed in confrontation
with Israeli soldiers, it is necessary to refer to the political goal of the PA doing it: the more
of their people will be killed, the stronger will be the demand to send an
“international army” to defend them.
Behind such an “army” the PA
hopes to revive the conditions in which their predecessors succeeded in the
first phase of the 1948 war in bringing the Israeli defense forces to the verge of
defeat on the main fronts: their attacks on Israeli towns, villages and roads
were launched from behind the protection of British forces who carried out the
policy of their anti-Israeli government.
The government of
4.4 In scientific research of ways to save
man-and-technology systems from running out of control, the undersigned
disclosed a phenomenon called “surviving power of failures” (
page 52 in the book “Out of Running Mad Systems”).
When it happens, the power
of perpetuating the failure overcomes that of correction. It seems that this
phenomenon has prevailed
in Israeli strategic planning for over 2 decades, so only a
general re-education of strategy-planning organs will be able to upgrade the
conventional defense theories into contemporary ways of warfare.
Joseph Doriel, Ing.
Management & Development Consulting
E-mail: [email protected]
JOSEPH DORIEL Industrial Management Consulting Engineer.
EDUCATION: Haifa Institute of Technology
Industrial
Management Engineering – 1952
Military
Operations Research – 1958
AUTHOR: “Management Systems Reports” –
1971
“National
Security of
(Included scientific prediction of the Yom-Kippur War).
“Systems
Madness” – 1981 (man-machine systems running mad)
“Out of
running-mad systems” – 1996
Managing out-of-control, self-destructing organizations.
EXPERIENCE:
1985-1994 Director General, Israel
Institute of Productivity
(equivalent to Deputy Minister in government), in charge of
improving efficiency and introducing modern management systems in all levels of
management.
1981-1984 Chairman,
Public Management Efficiency Board, for improving efficiency in government and public sector.
1956-1980 Senior
Partner, The Functional Planning Company, Ltd.,
Management and development consultants. Clients include: leading Industrial
enterprises, Government Ministers, Israel Aircraft Industries, Bus companies,
Israel Railways, El Al Airlines, Israel Army, Navy and Air Force. .
1953-1955 Head
of Production Planning and Control – Weapons Sector –
1952-1953 Production
Engineer in Israel Military Industries, in charge of the “UZI” submachine gun
project.
MILITARY
SERVICE:
SCIENTIFIC
ACHIEVEMENTS:
Development and implementation of
mathematical models for: 1) Functional Town-Planning, 2) Military
Activities; Initiation and planning of the Western-Negev Agro-Industrial
Center; worldwide patented Parking Control System without parking meters;
development of applied Strategic Paradigms (including early warning of PM Rabin
from the Oslo Accords).