Here’s an email from Abdul-Latif Khaled, a hydrologist living and working in Jayyous, a village near Nablus in the West Bank. The future “Palestinian state.” The email describes some of the abuse and humiliation to which Palestinians are routinely subjected by young Israeli soldiers. Those who insist that Israeli soldiers are also the victims of the occupation should read this.
Dear Friends,
What surprised me today when I came back from Nablus to Beit Iba Check point at 16:00 o’clock, that I was standing in what they call the humanitarian lane!!. When it is my turn, I gave my Id Card to the soldier in the checking room, he looked to me and said ” go back to the youth line”.
This means I have to go through the long line of the university students, and this alone means additional one hour waiting. I told the soldier, why? He said go back, then he called in Hebrew for another soldier. The new soldier came and took my Id from the soldier in the checking room and said “go back”. I said why? he said” *your face is
not beautiful*” and he was showing that to me in his finger. Then I said what?!! could you repeat what you have said?! He said ” your face is not beautiful” then I said to him do you insist that this is the reason? He said “yes” then I look to the other soldier that I may find different answer. But he told me “the same, your face is not beautiful” I said be sure what you have both said will reach many people including your people. He said “I don’t care go back” I turned back and in my way to the back line I found another soldier, and I started telling him my story and without any introduction. He seemed to be not happy with what I said to him and he took my Id, but the same soldier who sent me back and claims he is the commander at the check point came and took the Id from this soldier and he was shouting on me to move. I said I am discussing what
happened to your colleague. He said” no discussion. I said go back”
I went back and I followed the soldier’s rules with little changes.The students in the line let me very close to the rotating gate, so it took me only twenty minutes to check again.
I am not sure if these are the new regulations at the check points, or if this make their commanders happy or if their families can be proud of such a shame. What I am sure that such things happen daily everywhere at the checkpoints. .
I am not sure if my face is not beautiful because I don’t see it much. But I am sure that my heart is beautiful because I see it every minute. I cried, but the tears are in the heart.
Abdul-Latif
They justify this disgusting behavior by the ugly behavior of some Palestinians, but there is no justification of such behavior. They have brought dishonor and shame on the IDF. Jews everywhere must let their friends and family in Israel know that this is dishonorable and destructive. The Palestinians are our cousins and they must be treated with respect and every effort must be made to make them whole again after the Nakba. I know that most of my fellow Jews feel this way, but many more are blinded by fear and hatred. I know that at these checkpoints and in other parts of life, angry Palestinians treat Israelis disrespectfully too, but that is to be expected while we take their lands and refuse to own what we did to them. Israelis are smart, and they must come to this realizeation sooner rather than later.
Some entertainment.
The annoying thing about lapses of discipline described above is that they cost lives later.
Palestinians (with good reason) become enraged by the illegal occupation of their land and fight back – almost always with the loss of their own lives. But some Israeli lives are lost and the Israelis retaliate.
On both sides, moderates are reduced to twittering whilst "strong men" promise victory through force.
Yiddish song may presage today's treatment of Palestinians.
See Zionizing Jewish Culture and History.
Jews need to own the fact that Zionism is a murderous genocidal racist criminal ideology fully as evil as German Nazism, for Zionism is ethnic Ashkenazi Nazism.
Decent Jews and non-Jews must demand the arrest of American Zionists and the seizure of all their assets for giving material aid to Zionism.
Decent Jews and non-Jews must demand the arrest of Israeli military political leaders and their transfer to the Hague for trial for crimes against humanity.
Decent Jews and non-Jews must demand the removal of all Zionist interlopers involved in Zionist crime from Stolen and Occupied Palestine.
Decent Jews and non-Jews must demand the reconveyance of all stolen properties to Palestinians along with payments of exemplary compensation of at least 10x the value assigned to the harm that Zionists have committed against Palestinians.
Decent Jews and non-Jews must demand the repatriation of all Palestinians ethnically cleansed by Zionists as well as the repatriation of the descendants of ethnically cleansed Palestinians.
During period from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, Jews are supposed to atone for and ask forgiveness for crimes and sins that they have committed against other people.
All Jews should apologize to Palestinians and to non-Jews, whom Jews have enmeshed in Zionist crimes (lifnei iver — putting a stumbling block before the blind).
Jews should stop babbling about being the cousins of Palestinians, Arab or Muslims. Ethnic Ashkenazim have no connection to Palestine beyond the mythological or criminal.
See Yom Kippur and Ashkenazi Genocidalism.
See Pious Degenerates: Repentance and Religious Hypocrisy.
Jews also need to start owning the crimes of Soviet Ashkenazim because they grow out of Jewish politics just as much as the crimes of Zionist Ashkenazim.
give people a scapegoat and power to dominate "it", and yo and behold most will enjoy humiliating the "other". What percentages of sadists does a militarized society create?
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Glenn Greenwald Love, Devotion and Surrender
UPDATE: On an obviously related note, this was the exchange I found most striking in last night's Biden-Palin debate:
BIDEN: Gwen, no one in the United States Senate has been a better friend to Israel than Joe Biden. I would have never, ever joined this ticket were I not absolutely sure Barack Obama shared my passion. . . .
PALIN: But I'm so encouraged to know that we both love Israel, and I think that is a good thing to get to agree on, Sen. Biden. I respect your position on that.
They don't just consider Israel an ally. They don't just both support Israel. No, that's woefully inadequate. Instead: Biden has a "passion" for Israel and is its best friend, while Palin declares how excited she is that they "both love Israel."
Soldiers Stop Arab Bomber
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Solders Overpower Terrorist at Checkpoint Near Shechem
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Checkpoint Removals Blamed for Terror Attacks
POLL: MORE AMERICANS ARE PRO-ISRAELI
NEW GALLUP SURVEY REVEALS ISRAEL IS ONE OF FIVE COUNTRIES AMERICANS FEEL MOST FAVORABLY ABOUT; PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY RANKS NEAR BOTTOM ALONG WITH IRAN, NORTH KOREA
Nothing new here:
THE NEW ISRAEL AND THE OLD
WHY GENTILE AMERICANS BACK THE JEWISH STATE
A Gallup poll in June 1948 showed that almost three times as many Americans "sympathized with the Jews" as "sympathized with the Arabs." That support was no flash in the pan. Widespread gentile support for Israel is one of the most potent political forces in U.S. foreign policy, and in the last 60 years, there has never been a Gallup poll showing more Americans sympathizing with the Arabs or the Palestinians than with the Israelis.
"I know that at these checkpoints and in other parts of life, angry Palestinians treat Israelis disrespectfully too…"
Do you believe that implementers of the brutal occupation deserve respect?
Do you understand how that sentence functions to minimize the huge power imbalance that exists at the checkpoint? THIS IS NOT A SITUATION OF TIT FOR TAT BETWEEN EQUALS!!!
Posted by: Peace Now
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Heheheh…how pitiful. There is no wide spread support for Israel among Gentiles.
This is a myth that little activist like you post all the time….with links to articles done by Jews.
The World Opinon Poll, which is considered the most reliable poll in the world showed that in the US 77% of Americas favored a even handed approcah to the Isr-Pal problem and an evenhanded approach to the ME in general.
You are whistling thru the graveyard. Every day more Americans are learning about the true nature of Israel and of jews like you who try to proagandize the public. We aren't buying it.
Friends of mine who knew him well influenced first my curiosity and than my feelings about Teddy Kollek. That's why I like this little anecdote about him or more precisely about someone close to him: Olmert then and now:
I remember Olmert when he was deputy mayor of Jerusalem under that great and good man, Teddy Kollek. He would sit in meetings brooding over Kollek's clear willingness to think of himself as the mayor of all the people of Jerusalem/Yarushalayim/Al-Quds. He did not like that attitude. His own attitude of chilly indifference to people other than his own was patent.
If Palestinians were Africans Israel would have no American support.
No world support. It would go the way of South Africa, including giving up its nukes. Who doubts this? What does this mean?
The old "Separate but Equal" principle certainly seems to have been been proven inherently unjust in American life, so I find it hard to imagine it working equitably in Israel/Palestine.
What is a Jewish state? Is such a described state logically democratic
by definition? Is the current Jewish state democratic under rule of law as, for example the current German state? The Arab states are clearly not democratic. Iran is a Muslim state, hence also not democratic. Why pick on Israel? The USA writes no blank checks to any state or entity other than Israel. It continues to do even as it goes bankrupt. Such questions occur to American taxpayers because they are paying a key part of Israel's bills. Do parents have the right to curtail or kickout a child of theirs who insists
on being irresponsible–in the interest of the family's survival?
The movie, "The Pianist," in the scene where the Warsaw Ghetto Jews wait to cross the street, accurately depicts the Palestinian experience of today. This is what American military and economic aid to Israel pays for.
The founding fathers are products of the European Enlightenment; Commentary journal bills itself now as a champion of the West. Is it?
Argentinian law mandates government support for the Roman Catholic faith. Queen Elizabeth II is the supreme governor of the Church of England. In the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the constitution proclaims Buddhism the nation's "spiritual heritage." The prevailing religion in Greece," declares Section II of the Greek Constitution, "is that of the Eastern Orthodox Church of Christ."
In no region of the world do countries so routinely link their national character to a specific religion as in the Muslim Middle East. The flag of Saudi Arabia features the shahada – the Islamic declaration of faith – in white Arabic script on a green background; on the Iranian flag, the Islamic phrase "Allahu Akbar" (God is great") appears 22 times. And then there is Erekat's own Palestinian Authority, whose Basic Law provides in Article 4 that "Islam is the official religion in Palestine."
In the above context, and considering the USA's declared constitutional ethics, and the history of the USA in terms of implementation of what it means to be an American able to write blank checks to those conforming to its principles, is our current policy rewarding the usual suspects in foreign aid and military aid according to a very real substantial priority a good thing for America as a whole?