Here is amazing footage of a religious settler attack on a Palestinian village–following a stabbing of a settler kid by the Palestinians. Cycle of violence. Of course the Israelis have confiscated Palestinian land and water, so yes I guess I excuse some of the Palestinian anger, and Israelis hit harder than the Palestinians. Notice the injured Palestinian at the front end of the video. He looks really Jewish to me. It seems he got shot. He says that Israeli soldiers assisted the settlers when they attacked the village. See the crowd of violent settlers, some apparently with guns, streaming down the hillside toward the Palestinian village. Excuse me while I vomit.
The audio in the second half is even more disturbing. The settlers give the soldiers protecting a Palestinian house an ultimatum of one minute before they attack the house. They want the Israeli soldiers to turn out the Palestinians. A soldier cries in anguish, "As if you're doing it for me." A settler: "Go and throw them out." A soldier: "Yossi stop throwing for a minute." "If you don't hassle them we will!" "Destroy their plants!" "Break their marble" settlers cry. Break this pipe!
These are Jewish settlers in a Jewish colonization scheme protected by Jewish soldiers (maybe a Bedouin or two?) in the Jewish state. But the cameras are provided to the Palestinians by the great Jews of B'tselem. This is a war for Jewish identity. My side's gonna win. As if you're doing it for me!!!!!
My mom never bought new books, she only bought used books. Tons of them. Professor's salary, 6 kids (she was repopulating the world with Jews because of Hitler, god bless my mom). We went to booksales endlessly. Then in the 80s she got all of her six kids a new copy of Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World about the Warsaw ghetto and other Jewish places in eastern Europe. His photographs, the ones they were able to save. Amazing pictures. My mom never spent that kind of money, ever. B'tselem reminds me of Roman Vishniac.
Thanks to David Bloom for picking this up.
