Comments on: After shooting one Palestinian demonstrator, Israeli soldiers call out, ‘Do you want more gas?’

By: LD

LD — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Where is Witless to equate the conflict? Oh so much tragedy on BOTH sides, oh so much rejectionism on BOTH sides (he usually just blames Hamas tho)!

This Satanic State needs to be dismantled. FUCK Zionism.

By: Dom

Dom — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

This is a rather persuasive reply to the question "Why can't they (Palestinians) engage in non-violent resistance?"

Given the number of non-violent protesters (against the wall) who have been killed, including children, it is astounding non violent protests continue. I am not sure at all I could do it.

By: tommy

tommy — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

The expression, "do you want more gas," was commonly used at the Nazi death camps, but was probably coined during WW I.

By: anon 0

anon 0 — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

saturday, sabbath of the special-needs ones.

let us pray to our god for mercy to give them souls.

we could pray also to their god but, they are their god. they, their god cannnot give only take and inflict.

By: delia

delia — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

This murderous episode is especially disturbing to me – hard to write off as “the IDF up to its usual cruelties.” I’ve got that “sense of impending doom” feeling in the pit of my stomach -- perhaps because of the context in which I am reading about these atrocities today.

I tend to be unimpressed by most Nazi analogies, given that Zionists and other neocons are always hysterically predicting that Holocaust 2.0 is just on the horizon, so the US and/or Israel better start bombing ____ (fill in the blank). But I am catching up on Holocaust scholarship this summer and finally getting round to reading Claudia Koonz’s *The Nazi Conscience*. I don’t usually have physical reactions to scholarship – quite the opposite -- but I must admit to spasms of shivers as I read though Koonz’s gripping narrative. A lot of the Nazi rationalization for what she calls “ethnic fundamentalism” is echoed – practically word for word – in Zionist rationalizations for the slaughters in Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2008-9. I guess it must be the Nazi argument of “self-defense” that has got me feeling so squeamish, since I’ve spent the last few months reading the almost identical arguments in support of the Gaza siege and massacre.

I am trying to puzzle out why Goldhagen *Hitler’s Willing Executioners* got so much press back in the ‘nineties, while Koonz’s, which is far more scholarly, insightful, and chilling has made no impact beyond the walls of the Ivory Tower. I have just scanned all the available reviews of the book, all of which are consistently high.

I’m not writing this as self-therapy but rather, as a plug for Koonz’s book – which I think everyone who’s sick of Zionist rationalizations should have a look at.

By: LeaNder

LeaNder — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

This video is much better. It's shows too, what I was expecting but missed in the cut version. Thanks for posting this.

By: Dom

Dom — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

This should not need to be said, but apparently it does need to be said, at least in my opinion; and apparently it needs to be said routinely.

Comments like "Satanic State", "they are their god", and other comments that imply Israeli abuse of power is worse than any other state's abuse of power, comments that imply, or directly state that these abuses are "inherently Jewish"...strike me as complete nonsense.

How many civilians did we Americans murder in Vietnam? Estimates I have read have been as high as 2 million. How many Algerian civilians did Catholic France murder? (and I am Catholic, by the way). Again, I have read estimates that exceed 1 million.

I am no fan of Israeli abuse of power, but how many of us would pay the slightest attention to Palestinian suffering...if it did not inflame the Arab and Muslim world? And by doing so endanger the USA. I suspect next to none. And I include myself in that statement.

Is it so difficult to actually read a little history?

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

The Israeli state long ago lost any right to exist as a Jewish state. It must be called by its true name, a racist, supremacist state that is a blight unto the world.

By: delia

delia — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

As my post above intimates, reading "a little history" is indeed difficult. Historical precedent in defense of present actions doesn't cut it. It's like saying, "Don't criticize Israel until the Palestinian body count has reached 6 million."

By: MRW.

MRW. — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Murder.