Can someone please explain to me what Yoel Marcus means when he says, "Killing children is a matter of politics" in his Ha'aretz article titled, "It's not Israel's fault it has a strong, well-run army"?
The line after that goes: "Some of the countries now denouncing us have shed many liters of innocent blood." So maybe it's OK for those other countries to have killed children, too...
Later: "The operation is being run very wisely, with everything possible being done to spare the lives of our soldiers..." Right: our children are different.
Then: "The smartest move now is not to give in to the bleeding hearts who have lost their nerve..." O.K. Got it now. Killing children is a matter of politics.
Remember Baghdad Bob? I think Yoel Marcus really means that Israel's army is weak and badly managed. See Patrick Lang on the IDF Ground Forces. These days I translate Israeli propaganda comments by looking at their exact opposite for the real truth.
In the 2006 war my one close Israeli friend said this to me: "My brother is rolling in his grave." (he was a general in the 82 war, died young) "His children both got exemptions from their military service due to mental health reasons. All the children of the elite get out of going into the military now, or they get sent into special units, like education." She told me that the army was woefully under-staffed, that they were all reserves and not ready to fight. This was in the heat of the 2006 war.
We later heard about their personnel problems – Lang's blog invaluable for this. I have not seen reporting about this phenomenon of the Ashkenazy elite's children ducking their service – but then I don't monitor the Israeli press.
Anyway- part of the reason for this war seems to be to regain face after the defeat of 2006 – and militarily it was indeed a defeat. Marcus is trying to prove to his enemies, i.e. Hizbullah and Syria, that his army is better-run and more dangerous than it was in 2006.
However nobody really believes that the neighborhood psycho is all that tough when he's showing his valor by beating up the neighbor's children.
American military types on the internet are offended at this war – it's not only illegal, it's dishonorable. Yes, a valiant, well-run and strong army, shooting at starved humans in a giant pen. It's the Dick Cheney concept of combat.
How many kids does Yoel Marcus have? How many of his family would have to be murdered before he 'lost his nerve'?
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Here are two essays on the unspeakably horrible consequences for
children of the the grisly Israeli Occupation of Palestine, as well as of Israeli lies:
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_11409100
Not one individual entered during the five hours I was there. One individual exited, a small child lying in a semi-fetal position and wrapped from head to foot in bandages, only eyes showing. They laid this child alone on the back seat of a waiting Israeli taxi. It did not leave….That child was still lying in the backseat of the taxi when I left the crossing hours later.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090112_the_language_of_death/
Chris Hedges, ever wise and conscientious, details the new future to which Israeli butchery is condemning us all:
'Israel will, from now on, speak to the Palestinians in the language of death. And the language of death is all the Palestinians will be able to speak back. The slaughter—let’s stop pretending this is a war—is empowering an array of radical Islamists inside and outside of Gaza.'
What better can be expected from a broad segment of the Israeli population with a value system as obscene as it is perverse. I remember that Rabbi Dov Lior, then religious advisor to the IDF, declared that "The lives of a thousand goyim are not worth a Jewish fingernail." (I cited the quote in "Kurdish Life" at the time.) And 'goyim' which translates to non-Jews, includes men, women and children.
are jews proud to be the new nazis?
go ahead give the world all the reasons that the nazis gave the world for their crimes against your brothers and sisters.
and then remember your cry…never again.
what is the difference between what the israelis are
doing in israel and what happened in europe.
70 years.
Posted January 9, 2009
Israeli ground troops ordered around 110 Palestinian civilians into a single home in Gaza City’s Zeitun neighborhood and ordered them to stay indoors on Sunday. On Monday morning, Israeli forces repeatedly shelled the building, killing at least 30 of the civilians inside. It then refused to allow ambulances to retrieve the dead and dying people for days.
This was the report released by the United Nations today based on eyewitness accounts from the survivors, and just the latest in an ever growing list of Israeli attacks on the civilian population of Gaza.
A link to Frances Remillard's essay (about Israeli lies and the lack of humanitarian aid allowed in the West Bank and Gaza)
cited above is at antiwar.com.
Also there you can link to:
1. Only an America First PAC Can Stop the Madness by Juan Cole
link to juancole.com
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Haaretz today has a piece showing how the Israeli civilians have gathered along the Gaza border to watch the show, having a picnic.
The attitude, captured and quoted is that too bad, those Pal babies
would only grown up to be terrorists desiring to harm Israel. This is the same reason given by intelligent SS officers, when, after the war,
they were asked why they allowed the killing of jewish babies.
Lyrics:
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=2472
De-Satanizing the Jewish people
Young Jew Sings Protest to Chief Rabbi, Gets Arrested
01.11.2009 | Indymedia.org.uk
By Dovid
LONDON – A young Jewish man was arrested today after singing at the Chief Rabbi of GB, Jonathan Sacks, during his speech at today's End Hamas Terror (pro-Israel) rally.
Dovid Von Neumann stood up on the ridge of a Trafalgar Square fountain and sung the well known child's Chanukah song 'Sevivon sov sov sov.' [Spinning-top, spin spin spin] He was pushed into the iced fountain by members of the demonstration and was wrestled into police custody by special Jewish security guards.
Whilst the ongoing Israeli bombing of Gaza began during the festival of Chanukah, Jewish children around the world received the traditional gift of a four sided spinning-top (sevivon in Hebrew, driedel in Yiddish). Jewish children play a betting game on whichever side the sevivon should land on. Today these are mostly made from plastic; once upon a time they were cast in lead – hence Operation Cast Lead, the name given by Israel to its current Gaza incursion.
Dovid explains:
"I wished to highlight the insidiousness of how the current Israeli invasion into Gaza was named after a child's toy made from a highly toxic material, lead, and how Palestinian children have been at the mercy of such randomly falling deathly devices. Houndreds of children in Gaza have been killed by indirect attack, like flying shrapnel or inadequate medical resources, whilst many have died through direct attack. It's as if Israel had the lead sevivon in mind as a metaphorical present to Palestinian children."
Through his red megaphone, Dovid also accused Rabbi Sacks of being unrepresentative of the Jewish community in his claims that British Jews supported Israel's current military action.
I don't believe even Al-Jazeera had stomach to show this video:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vL75ujjFpgc&feature=channel_page
But my God there will be museums designed by Guggenheim's students in major cities, showing these images and proclaiming "never again".
My name is Dick Witty
I put goy money in the kitty,
I bet, spinning toy top
We will come out on top–
Israel First
At all costs
History's lesson,
Zippo else matters
Gaza tatters
Hail Joe the Plumber
He's iconic
A tonic
A kraut
Sans license,
He works for Newt Gingrich
For such lizards
For Joe Lieberman
Tight,
Keep it lite
The skull cap's delight
The bald beneath
Hollywood's black ink
The massive cover-up
Saul Newman took to his grave.