Anybody you catch outside his home
First thing you beat him with a truncheon
All over his body
Except for his head
Don’t have pity on anyone
Don’t explain anything
Beat first
Then after
You explain why
If you catch a small child
Get out the whole family
Line them up and beat the father
Before all his children
Don’t consider the beating a right
It is your duty
They do not understand any other way
–an Israeli officer to his troops in the Occupied Territories
Cited in Noam Chomsky, Towards a New Cold War, 1982
Outtake from Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine
