If you look at anything on this site, please watch the video below that Adam posted here before of a Palestinian woman who lives in central Hebron and whose door has been welded shut by rightwing Zionists with the support of the Israeli gov't. It is shocking to watch her hunkering down ladders to leave her house, it is happening right here and now without a peep from the U.S. gov't, and yes she reminds me of my grandmother, or images of Jews in central Europe.
And note that Zeev Sternhell in Haaretz is responding to the same conditions:
It is worth mentioning that Barak, by virtue of his position as defense minister, is also the West Bank's military governor. Viewers of the Channel 10 news last Friday were amazed to see a scene that seemed to belong to the world of sick imagination: To shorten the route to the Cave of the Patriarchs for the Jews of Hebron, the windows of Arabs' homes that the worshipers pass were sealed off. You had to rub your eyes to believe how the colonial power allows itself to make life so unbearable for the natives. Not only were their windows sealed, but access to their homes was made especially difficult - just for the convenience of the occupiers.
It was not the worshipers who sealed the houses but the army that stands at attention to serve them, and the army's chief commander is the leader of the Labor Party. Many people will refrain from supporting the Labor Party in the next elections, but it is doubtful whether ...
When you see this, and you see the President of the US warmly welcoming the architect of this cruelty, you see how far the absence of morality in government extends.
Obama is a born chump. He is always ready to cover the backs of all those who would stick a knife into his at the first opportunity.
Would you have ever believed it, during the Pres. campaign, if somebody predicted that Obama would become the owner and staunch defender of the Bush policies and Bush wars?
Each successive administration is merely the extension of the previous administration. One sets the groundwork, the other continues the policy – whatever the desire of the moneyed elites may be. So who is the boss? Certainly not Obama and not the people, but need I repeat myself AGAIN?
I know, but Obam is…. well, he’s… I mean, you know, I thought maybe he’d be, well, be able to see through the glass, darkly.
A diary at FDL has posted this:
link to seminal.firedoglake.com
“Libya Sends Aid Ship To Gaza”
and a YouTube of the destruction of a West Bank garden:
link to youtube.com
which is nothing other than state sponsored vandalism and terrorism. Take note how the soldier treats women trying to preserve their belongings. This should tear the heart of any who see themselves as civilized. This act and all others like it, as in the clip provided, can not end well for the perpetrators or their heirs.
I am introducing a regular feature into my weblog (Notes from the Levant) to be titled ‘Israel’s Crime of the Week……’.
The first such feature is at: link to levantnotes.blogspot.com and features the video linked in Formerly T-Bear’s post.
The most disturbing thing about this report (and many others that are similar – link to israel-palestinenews.org) is the cold, deliberately cruel way the Israeli authorities go about their dreadful business.
I don’t think I will need to go to any trouble to find a regular weekly Israeli crime.
To paraphrase Jane Austen, the difficulty will be in limiting it to one.
Sickening. Send the fuckin’ thing to Obama and my mother who just sent me an article that anti-Semitism is ablaze in the hinterlands. It’s these “little things” that give a true picture of what it means to be a slave of the Jews. The foulest deeds of Hamas, Hezbollah, or whomever are purifying and clear.
While I certainly find Israeli behavior to be increasingly sickening, I also find your use of the the phrase “a slave of the Jews” disturbing. Phil, Adam, Max Blumenthal, Richard Silverstein, Judah Magnes, Shmuel, Avi, Mooser, and many many other Jews I have either read, listened to, or communicated with online or in person about politics or anything else, do not strike me as having a ‘slave-owning’ mentality.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that anger is clouding your better judgment. You need to take a step back and remember that the larger picture isn’t black and white.
What do you think the Israeli Colonial Overseers are, Colin? If it tortures, murders, degrades, and dehumanizes like a SLAVE OWNER…it’s a SLAVE OWNER. Maybe if you get a good rake you can find some nuanced shades of gray in the ashes of the Palestinian children burned alive by white phosphorous.
unbelievable.
You can see how just one incident like this could create one sept 11 plot to bring down the world trade center. And its just one incident of thousands.
How does an entire nation turn into Dennis Rader the BTK (Bind,Torture, Kill) serial pervert from Wichita? And, largely cheered on by Jews around the world as well as all the upstanding (sic) moral perverts like Brit Hume in the media? The same question was asked about the Germans (Ukranians, Hungarians, etc., etc.) during WWII and obviously from 1933 on in Germany. But, how can the same people who were the victims of that cruel horror become the practitioners of it? And, if it’s simply a matter of the monstrously abused morphing into monstrous abusers – then how come the Gypsies, homosexuals, and disabled turned into BTK Dennis, too? What’s wrong with these (my) people – the Jews?
…how come the Gypsies, etc. DIDN’T turn into BTK?
I’m nominally Jewish, among other things. I can assure you one thing these ain’t my fucking people. My people are the ones locked in their own house.
The behavior of the settlers in this and many other cases is intended to make life so unpleasant that the Palestinians will choose to leave. There can be no other motivation. And folks who protest such conduct are termed “leftists!”
You know, I got to hand it to you guys. Y’all come up with so many creative ways to deal with minorities. This Hebron thing is just one example.
Think about it. Y’all board them up in their homes … but not hermetically. Y’all leave them a little rat hole (in the roof!) from which to escape.
Screw fire and safety codes, screw ADA requirements. Am Yisroel just boards the f*ckers up and makes ‘em deal with it! You don’t kill ‘em, you don’t starve ‘em, you don’t take their property, you don’t burn ‘em out, you just make their day-to-day lives a living hell. No bruises, no marks, no scars, no beatings. Nope. All that is unnecessary. And if they decide to move away … well … that’s their decision, I guess. Brilliant, just brilliant!
It’s not like this creativity is new, either. Sixty years ago twenty-nine (29) mainstream Jewish organizations said the following in their US Supreme Court amicus brief regarding racially restrictive covenants:
And the goyim bought that guilt trip! Little did the goyim know about the blue boxes in Jewish homes all across America collecting little Jewish children’s coins to buy land in Israel so it could be racially restricted for Jewish use.
Those little Jewish children were contributing every week not just to buy land for “free use”, but to “redeem“ in perpetuity the land “stolen” by thieving Christians and Muslims. And y’all pulled it off! Y’all really played the goyim for fools, didn’t you?
[In all fairness, Rav Kook would say there is no hypocrisy since God promised y'all Eretz Yisroel and he didn't promise the goyim anything at all. Of course this may be a less than persuasive argument for those who aren't Judeo-Christians.]
I tell my gentile friends they absolutely must go to Jewish websites and study Jewish history in order to learn from the Masters. Illegal aliens in America (but not in Israel!) certainly are.
You know, I got to hand it to you guys. Y’all come up with so many creative ways to deal with minorities. This Hebron thing is just one example.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and Israel is the “start-up nation” after all…
it is interesting that this is being covered, from a different angle in haaretz.. how many people in israel read haaretz? clearly this story has not seen the light of day in the usa to a great degree… it would be interesting to get obama’s feedback on it… frankly the whole thing is really disturbing and one more brick on a road that is leading to an insane place… the folks laying the bricks are committing their own murder, although they haven’t quite figured that out yet..