From the YNet article "IDF soldiers leave racist graffiti on Gaza homes":
Other graffiti included "Death to Arabs," "Arabs must die," and "One down, 999,999 to go." The Guardian is also reporting that Israeli troops also wrote "Arabs 1948-2009" on the image of a gravestone.
O, the horrors, O the inhumanity, O what poor handwriting.
The Palestinians are reminding me more and more of the Joe Peschi character in Casino.
I know right. It's only news if a Jew is getting persecuted.
It will be interesting to see if any American papers chose to present these insights into the Israeli mind.
Of course, they never covered stories like this, so it's not likely.
Insights into the minds of teenagers who are battling terrorists?
Chris will be here soon to tell us that Hamas put up those graffiti just to blacken Israel's fair name.
@Chris Berel
Last time I checked, the vandals wrote "ARABS" and "[...] YOU ALL", not 'Hamas'.
No distinction is made.
It's not rocket science. Everyone, including you, knows Israel is made up by a racist Jewish majority and the Jewish culture in Israel is defined in large part by a hatred of Arabs and specifically Palestinians.
You're not convincing anyone.
The only reason you come to this blog is to vent and not to take part in discussion. Why? Because you're a fucking moron and you see your idiotic and vapid perception of the world shattered over and over by the FACTS and analysis that Phil cites/writes/etc.
Even morons like Richard Witty can at least feign an argument. At least he is more convincing.
You're overt in your ignorance and fanaticism.
Keep it up, it's good that people see what a real Zionist is like. Each of your comments destroys the credibility of your constituency and your ideology.
Fortunately, it appears that only you and a few of the rabble here actually posess that psuedo-knowledge.
I don't expect to convince someone like you, or Rowan, or Moonkoon. You all are much too smart for the likes of someone like me.
Keep talking.
Every time you whitewash the abject racism of the IDF (like the topic at hand), you make yourself look worse.
That inane stupidity is opening the eyes of the moderates who don't know much about this conflict.
So when they see your ignorance juxtaposed to the facts laid out in the reputable sources Phil cites (like other credible writers like Norman Finkelstein), the Zionist ideology is only further demystified.
You're your own worst enemy. All the Zionists have is money and guns. You can't win.
Nothing that can't last, ever does.
No, Chris Berel, you are much too humane AND smart for the likes of us. Especially our goyishe kopf contingent. Alas, what can you expect from us of animal souls? Thanks for trying to enlighten us.
Perhaps you should go to a Ukrainian blog and offer your light to the world there? Oops, that might be a bit of a challenge, given their history–you know, the red official state pogroms led by your tribe?
I guess it's only a hate crime when the drawings are swastikas.
Either you propose something better than Zionism or you face the opposition of the Israeli public, which has been able to defend the country against explicit threats with roughly 1/16th (Lebanon) or 1/40th (Gaza) of total available manpower.
Even Israeli Jews who know of Zionism's various cruelties (the discrimination in law, public institutions, the emptying of "friendly" villages) choose it over the PA. Even Israeli-PALESTINIANS wave their passports at threats to cede the Triangle to the West Bank. Even people who know that their government has been guilty of the most awful imperial over-reach do NOT want to be governed by Hamas in an Islamic Waqf Falastin.
well, the wishes of the israeli jewish public actually count for no more than the wishes of any other public. 'Democracy' is a myth.
I am quite curious about one thing regarding swastikas as anti-jewish graffiti: on the one hand, when people paint swastikas on jewish houses, they are being used to imply that 'the jews' (as always, this merely means their rulers) are indistinguishable from the nazis and hence should use the swastika as their own symbol rather than the hexagram. On other hand, when hindus paint swastikas on muslim homes, it means the complete reverse – it means, we shall do to you what the nazis did to the jews. In neither case does it mean what jewish propaganda claims it means.
I love these lines from YnetNews: "An IDF spokesman said in response to the report: 'This is not how IDF soldiers are educated. This goes against the IDF's ethical code. The matter is being investigated and those responsible for it will be severely reprimanded.'"
Since this has been going on for years in the poorly disciplined Israeli Army, it would be wonderful to hear what their reprimand is going to be.
The image of a top military fighting organization has been dismantled. The cracks appeared in the 2006 Lebanon War. Now it's confirmed. The Israeli fighting force is a perceptible joke: a bunch of gangster kids led by ideologues armed with weapons meant for WWIII and a raison d'etre.
An Israeli General tried to liken his kid soldiers' pressure to the Americans fighting in Iraq to which an American Colonel took exception. He sneered: What we're fighting in Iraq is exponentially a hundred times more lethal than what Hamas represents and no American soldier would ever behave the way the badly disciplined Israeli army has conducted itself in Gaza.
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ahmed.
I guess it's only a hate crime when the drawings are swastikas.
Yeah, you're right.
Ahmed, of what do you think the reprimand should consist?
Many an american colonel turn out to be just as ignorant as many of the posters on this board. Perhaps that is why so few advance.
Weiss, Ahmed is wrong but that defeats your reason for living.
He's not wrong, you douchebag.
For the reasonable people (non-Zionists) :
http://www.yesh-din.org/sys/images/File/Exceptions%5BEng%5D%5B1%5D.pdf
40% of complaints by Palestinians against the IDF are heard. Of that 40%, 6% get to trial/etc. And even then the convicted serve light sentences for the most part.
Israel is a joke and a fraud in ever aspect.
It's a democracy for Jews. Non-Jews are discriminated against. Palestinians are not seen as human. No justice, no peace.
Fuck that country. And fuck these ignorant Zionist morons on this blog (Witty/Euromoron/Chris Berel)
In America, it would be prosecuted as a hate crime. What chances are there of even that happening in Israel?
Again, what is the penalty expected for graffiti? Slap on the wrist? 2 months community service in an arab orphan home?
Exactly what are you demanding for punishment for graffiti?
The JAG defined the Second Intifada as "armed conflict short of war" because of the presence of armed Palestinians, members of PA security services, in Israeli cities, shooting at Israeli civilians. At that point Military Government inquiries on the level of police investigations were suspended, because it was no longer an issue of investigating the treatment of an occupied civilian population, but rather the interaction with a quasi-state at war with Israel.
They wanted war, and they got a severe dent in the quality of justice as a result.
More insights into the Israeli mind (via Xymphora):
"When the leader of Israel's religious-Zionist Meimad Party recently addressed a meeting of 800 high-school students in a Tel Aviv suburb, his words on the virtue of Israeli democracy for all its citizens were drowned out by student chants of 'Death to the Arabs.'"
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"Israeli soccer matches were suspended during the assault on Gaza. When the games resumed last week, the fans had come up with a new chant: 'Why have the schools in Gaza been shut down?' sang the crowd. 'Because all the children were gunned down!' came the answer."
I checked your source but there were no citations. Additionally, your source determined that Bill Gates is Jewish.
This sounds like another of Weiss' 5 out of 10 sophie remarks.
check out this graffiti from Hebron. substitute "jew" for "arab" and imagine the difference in reaction:
can anyone NOT see a pattern here?
oh, i left this charming masterpiece out. seriously now, can anyone really argue that Zionism is NOT racism?
let's not forget that:
"…on November 10, 1975 the United Nations General Assembly adopted, by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), its Resolution 3379, which states as its conclusion:
Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.
The resolution also endorsed an August 1975 statement by the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries (Lima, Peru), that:
…severely condemned Zionism as a threat to world peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this racist and imperalist ideology.
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_un_zionism_racism.php
No one forgot. The UN hung its head in shame that day. It was unable to redeem itself for many years.
Chris Berel, I gotta hand it to you, that's 2 straight days of hasbara marathon. It's pretty clear you've got talent for memorizing myths and just plain making shit up.
Maybe instead of Mondoweiss, you could become a screenwriter in Hollywood. Put some of these vivid Jewish nationalist fantasies of yours on the silver screen, you know? Aim for the stars, Chris.
You could be huge, but these ahistorical delusions are never gonna make you any money or win you any respect, here.
The UN hung its head in shame that day. It was unable to redeem itself for many years.
In whose eyes, apart obviously from zionists themselves? There is no impartial arbiter that could make the judgments you pretend are so wide-spread.
In the eyes of the nations that abstained and voted against the issue. In the eyes of those forced to vote for need of arab oil.
hey give chris berel a break, he learned all he knows in jewish summer camp, while being protecting by dumb goys. He's not really the problem, just the symptom. American goys need to act like jews, that is, in their own self-interest. They need to quit buying the rot of individualism, and instead, choose individualism only within their own tribe–like the jews do.
That was pretty boring. Got anything else?
OMG! MY NAME IS sally.. i live in america was born in egypt and lives my first 6 yrs in gaza with my BIG family… i wanna go back there but it looks soo dangerous. i a 14 yrs old.
ohh awww.. thats soo sad.. i live in canada and i was born in egypt too and lived in gaza for a long time. and i am 16 yrs old. and my name is mohammed