How much more information about how Zionism worked out do you need before you get off the bus, homey? From Haaretz:
Palestinians are no longer bagging groceries most days at the Rami Levi supermarket at the Gush Etzion junction, after a romance between a Palestinian bagger and a Jewish cashier spurred local rabbis to demand that Levi take action.
In an effort to prevent fraternizing between the Palestinian packers and the female Jewish cashiers, baggers are no longer working at the checkout counters most of the week.
Then there's this outfit. We got an email about this campaign from the Israeli organization "Learn & Live." Check this out:
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Jewish teenage girls from dysfunctional homes are seduced and lured into Arab villages regularly beaten and raped, often locked up with no way to escape. Muhammed calls himself Moshe, and what started out as a search for love become a nightmare.
More from the same article:
“While there have been periodic media reports lauding the supermarket as an island of Palestinian-settler coexistence, right-wing groups and some locals have issued calls to boycott it,”
When extremist Jews call for a boycott, it’s “holy” and therefore allowed. Anyone else who thinks of a boycott of Israeli products is an anti-Semite. Got it??
here’s more of that quote for context saleema
so the rightwing boycott didn’t work, business was booming and the rabbi stepped in. hmm.
This is getting more and more bizarre by the day.
It’s a repeat of Jom Crowe era (and 18th century) where the white supremacists warned the black savages taking their women.
Absolutely, Shingo. Those societies were based on white supremacy, this one on Jewish supremacy, so one would expect that the techniques of oppression would repeat.
Witty? You’re always implying that Mr. Weiss should be addressing you directly. Well, here you are, sir!
I wonder if it’s got anything to do with Witty’s “Live and let Live” movement?
It’s an eerie coincidence otherwise.
from the haaretz article
Curious how two out of three of those Semitic ladies have distinctly Aryan colouring. But making Nazi comparisons is frown upon….
I was wondering the same. Aren’t there any dark-haired, dark-eyed Jewish beauties?
Well, the one with the big bruise on her face on their web site.
LOL. If that middle woman’s name isn’t somthing like Megan O’Malley, I’ll eat my hat.
curious indeed. and what does it say about israel that it regularly conducts military operations on the slightest of pretexts, kidnapping children off the street for example on allegations of throwing stones at the IDF, and yet it does nothing about the thousands of jewish girls held in captivity that are being beaten and raped by arab men. apparently it takes a private pledge of $5000 to get one girl freed from this living hell. or so says ‘learn and live.’
Phil,
This blog gets just a little bit better every day. It must be a lot of hard work for you and others, but you should realize that you and your contributors are relentlessly working your way, and the ways of others, uphill in what most see as a downhill situation.
Analogies like that of this post, to the US civil rights era, are very compelling.
a little bit better every day
i agree and this is another amazing post.
True, but you have to admit that the fascist/apartheid state of Israel is providing an abundance of material to work with and it’s colelctive dissent into insanity accelerates.
Also from the Haaretz article:
Levi’s supermarket really does epitomise the Israeli concept of peace: A Jewish-owned business on Palestinian land, where Palestinians are free to provide menial labour (except when inconvenient, for reasons of security or assimilation) and spend their money, and the settlers call the shots. What’s not to like?
Rabbi Perl:
I think the word Perl was looking for was “boy”.
They were real close to the South Africans, so “kaffir” would probably be the term that filth like Perl would use.
The deeper problem shows in the supermarket owner’s response:
So his response was not to stand up to the fanatics and make clear that a romantic relationship between a Jew and an Arab is absolutely okay. His response was to deny that one happened.
Shame there’s no quality journalism left in the world of mainstream papers, because I as a correspondent would immediately have followed up with the question: “But if there was a relationship, what would you have done then?”
Koshiro,
Rami Levi is, above all, a really good businessman, following the simple rule of trying to give everybody what they want.
He is against assimilation – because most of his customers are.
There was no affair – because that would be bad for business.
He did not fire the Palestinian – because that would offend some customers.
He is for “peace” and against “extremists” – because it’s good for business.
He did damage control by taking Palestinians off most shifts, but leaving them on a couple, so nobody could say he fired all his Palestinian workers (bad for Palestinian and liberal-Jewish business). The Gush Etzion store is only one of a chain (a few in the OT, but mostly in Israel). No point in merely satisfying the settlers and losing business elsewhere.
A question from a Haaretz reporter about what he would have done had there really been an affair, would undoubtedly have been answered in a similar vein.
Yes, I do realize that Levi is taking a middle ground position designed to be somewhat acceptable to the Israeli mainstream.
The problem is that this is such a position. Kinder, gentler racism as a mainstream consensus paints a grim picture.
The problem is that this is such a position. Kinder, gentler racism as a mainstream consensus paints a grim picture.
Indeed. And Phil did well to juxtapose this episode with the “Learn & Live” story. The L&L website includes endorsements from a government minister (Eli Yishai), a former chief rabbi and important religious and political leader (Ovadiah Yosef), and the mayor of Safed (Ilan Shochat – who ran on a ticket identified with Kadima, supported by both Yisrael Beiteinu and the Labour Party). Hardly the “extremists” Levi describes, but an important part of the mainstream.
As a matter of fact, I would say that Rami Levi is emblematic of the Israeli mainstream, particularly with regard to the OPT. His is the first large chain to treat the West Bank as an integral part of Israel – while talking about peace and coexistence (kind of like the Likud Constitution).
Kind of Romeo and Juliet at the checkout. Perhaps they have eloped. Sweet. Meanwhile back at the farm, the Israelis are apparently charging for knocking down Bedouin homes!
“Kind of Romeo and Juliet at the checkout.”
You know, I sort of married the girl next door. Does that make me a homeysexual?
Wasn’t it only a few days ago that our resident Zionists were lecturing us all about how ‘multicultural’ Israel is? Yes, here we have an excellent example. Goods at the supermarket are from cuisines around the world, showing how terribly multicultural israelis are. As long as they don’t have to go anywhere near Arabs, or mix with them. I guess apartheid is multicultural according to these geeks because they like falafel.
Funny, the trolls have no trouble implying, inferring, or just outright saying that all Palestinians are terrorists or murderers. Some will even defend the feasibility of ethnix cleasing.
But they seem afraid to come out and defend the purity of Israeli women. None of them care enough to inform us how necessary and laudible is an effort to prevent Jewish girls intermarrying, or even fooling around with “Arabs”?
Why is that? I smell raw sexual fear. They won’t come near this one.
OK, is anyone else here seeing a distinction between the “Romeo and Juliet at the checkout” story and the “pimps and runaways” story? No? Just me?
Hasbara is always making distinctions without differences. So what’s new about that?