This Guardian article Israeli stupid!
I came across an article in The Guardian on some recent atrocities committed against the Palestinian people, by the Israeli Army. The Article lists three recent incidents of thuggish behavior, and goes over the response of the people of Israel to each one.
In the first, some Israeli soldiers found a frightened 13 year old girl wandering around in a combat zone. One soldier was recorded on tape saying: "A girl of about 10, she's behind the embankment, scared to death." Another soldier responded by shooting the young girl twice, killing her. Finally, a member of the unit emptied his machine gun clip into her corpse. The Unit Leader radioed a response: "This is commander. Anything that's mobile, that moves in the zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed. Over."
Well, that's pretty fucked up! Executing a 13 year old girl carrying some schoolbooks, as if she were Sonny Corleone, seems like it should be a PR nightmare, right? That must be the worst thing the Israelis did this month! Well... not exactly. In fact, the race for Best War Crime is really heating up this year.
In another scandal, Israel soldiers took pictures of themselves desecrating the bodies of dead Palestinians. According to one article these pictures included "a soldier posing next to a bomber's blackened head with a cigarette dangling from its mouth, a soldier with his boot on the chest of a dead Palestinian and his gun pointed at the corpse's head and a dead Palestinian's body draped over the hood of a jeep."
Ew, gross. As bad as all of that sounds, according to some Jews, the worst thing the Israelis did this month was force a Palestinian to play violin at an Army Checkpoint! That's right! Somehow violins are worse than violence. Apparently this is especially bad, because the Nazis forced Jewish Musicians to play sad music at WWII-era death camps.
Of course! How could I be so stupid. It's only a crime if it's a carbon copy of something that happened during the Holocaust. I wonder if it would have made a difference if the little girl those soldiers murdered was named Anne Al-Frank. Do I really need us to draw a diagram to explain how Israel has gone 180 degrees from abused to abuser? And before any assholes email me and say "BUT THEY ARE JUST DEFENDING THEMSELVES FROM BAD GUYZ!!!" Save it. I'm certainly not in support of Palestinian terror tactics either. Being against Palestinian terrorism is common sense. But If I speak against Israeli terrorism, I suddenly become an anti-Semite and a Nazi. That's bullshit.
In this man's view abusing Arabs isn't a crime, fuck, it's not even a misdemeanor. Harming actual human beings isn't an obstruction to morality. The only crime possible under Israeli law is upstaging the memory of some sixty year old horror story. Apparently the only way to draw attention to the plight of Palestine is by refusing to feed the Martyr Complex of people like Yoram Kaniuk. Apparently the only thing preventing people like him from advocating the construction of Gas Chambers in the Golan Heights, is the fear that by doing so, global sympathy for the horrors of Auschwitz will somehow diminish.
In the first, some Israeli soldiers found a frightened 13 year old girl wandering around in a combat zone. One soldier was recorded on tape saying: "A girl of about 10, she's behind the embankment, scared to death." Another soldier responded by shooting the young girl twice, killing her. Finally, a member of the unit emptied his machine gun clip into her corpse. The Unit Leader radioed a response: "This is commander. Anything that's mobile, that moves in the zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed. Over."
Well, that's pretty fucked up! Executing a 13 year old girl carrying some schoolbooks, as if she were Sonny Corleone, seems like it should be a PR nightmare, right? That must be the worst thing the Israelis did this month! Well... not exactly. In fact, the race for Best War Crime is really heating up this year.
In another scandal, Israel soldiers took pictures of themselves desecrating the bodies of dead Palestinians. According to one article these pictures included "a soldier posing next to a bomber's blackened head with a cigarette dangling from its mouth, a soldier with his boot on the chest of a dead Palestinian and his gun pointed at the corpse's head and a dead Palestinian's body draped over the hood of a jeep."
Ew, gross. As bad as all of that sounds, according to some Jews, the worst thing the Israelis did this month was force a Palestinian to play violin at an Army Checkpoint! That's right! Somehow violins are worse than violence. Apparently this is especially bad, because the Nazis forced Jewish Musicians to play sad music at WWII-era death camps.
But after the incident was videotaped by Jewish women peace activists, it prompted revulsion among Israelis not normally perturbed about the treatment of Arabs.
The rightwing Army Radio commentator Uri Orbach found the incident disturbingly reminiscent of Jewish musicians forced to provide background music to mass murder. "What about Majdanek?" he asked, referring to the Nazi extermination camp.
Of course! How could I be so stupid. It's only a crime if it's a carbon copy of something that happened during the Holocaust. I wonder if it would have made a difference if the little girl those soldiers murdered was named Anne Al-Frank. Do I really need us to draw a diagram to explain how Israel has gone 180 degrees from abused to abuser? And before any assholes email me and say "BUT THEY ARE JUST DEFENDING THEMSELVES FROM BAD GUYZ!!!" Save it. I'm certainly not in support of Palestinian terror tactics either. Being against Palestinian terrorism is common sense. But If I speak against Israeli terrorism, I suddenly become an anti-Semite and a Nazi. That's bullshit.
The critics were not drawing a parallel between an Israeli roadblock and a Nazi camp. Their concern was that Jewish suffering had been diminished by the humiliation of Mr Tayem.
Yoram Kaniuk, author of a book about a Jewish violinist forced to play for a concentration camp commander, wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that the soldiers responsible should be put on trial "not for abusing Arabs but for disgracing the Holocaust".
In this man's view abusing Arabs isn't a crime, fuck, it's not even a misdemeanor. Harming actual human beings isn't an obstruction to morality. The only crime possible under Israeli law is upstaging the memory of some sixty year old horror story. Apparently the only way to draw attention to the plight of Palestine is by refusing to feed the Martyr Complex of people like Yoram Kaniuk. Apparently the only thing preventing people like him from advocating the construction of Gas Chambers in the Golan Heights, is the fear that by doing so, global sympathy for the horrors of Auschwitz will somehow diminish.
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for this article.
Just ignore all the hate mail and yahoos who call you anti-semetic.
Come on people! I warned Franky not to write about the Israelis because they'd get all mad and shit. But I was wrong! Ain't nobody gotten mad about nothing. You're only emboldening Franky. He thinks he can talk smack about Israel and get away with it. Prove him wrong! Since when do people have to encourage Israelis to over-react to something? Come on, take it the wrong way! Get down to business! Over react please!
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