(Photo: Popular Struggle Coordination Committee)
From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee:
Israeli Soldiers Sic Attack Dog on Protesters in Qufer Qaddoum
The dog bit one of the protesters in the arm, causing a serious wound, and did not release its hold for long minutes, even after its handler ordered it to. An Israeli woman suffered a head injury in Nabi Saleh.
Soon after the demonstration in Kufer Qaddoum began today, clashes between Israeli Border Police officers who shot tear-gas projectiles and rubber-coated bullets and local youth who threw stones at the forces developed. Roughly 15 minutes later - in a scene that seemed as if it was taking place in the American South of the 1960s - Border Police officers decided to sic an army dog at a group of the demonstrators, standing several dozens of meters away. The dog chased after the protesters, biting and locking his jaws into the arm of one of them - Ahmad Shtawi..
For long minutes, the dog would not release its hold of the bleeding arm, even as its handler arrived at the scene and tried to order it to do so. The Border Police officers then arrested Shtawi, despite the fact he was in obvious need of medical attention. Morad Shtawi, a member of the village's popular committee, tried to reason with the commanding officer into releasing young man. He was then pepper-sprayed and arrested as well.
Two other residents of the village were injured during the demonstration, after being hit by tear-gas projectiles shot directly at them. One was hit in the leg and another in the shoulder.
The weekly protest in Kufer Qaddoum, west of Nablus, was dedicated to the memory of Rachel Corrie - an American protester who was killed after an Israeli D9 bulldozer drove over her in Rafah exactly nine years ago, on March 16, 2003.
Nabi Saleh
In Nabi Saleh, at least three protesters were injured during the demonstration, including an Israeli woman who was hit in the head by a rubber-coated bullet. The two others were hit lightly injured, one by a rubber-coated bullet and the other by a tear-gas projectile. The woman was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital.Earlier today, large forces entered the village and sprayed a foul-smelling liquid known as the Skunk from a water cannon.
During the night, the army staged yet another raid on the village, the fifth in a week's time.
Here is video of the attack taken by Odai Qaddomi for B'tselem. (Warning: graphic):
Remember that the Ashkenazi are white, Palestinians, since they are Arabs, are not.
Ah?
How do you know the soldier is “Ashkenazi”? And who cares if he is? Most people in Israel are “mixed” anyway.
Israel is run by and for Ashkenazis. Remember these are the people who keep Ethiopian Jews out of their schools, who search for the “Jewish” gene by testing white Europeans, whose native Jews were called “Schwarze Jews by American settlers, etc.
“Israel is run by and for Ashkenazis”
I’ve no idea. I didn’t check the DNA or roots of Israeli politicians. Who cares?
“Remember these are the people who keep Ethiopian Jews out of their schools”
Uh? No one keeps the Ethiopians out of their schools.
“who search for the “Jewish” gene by testing white Europeans, whose native Jews were called “Schwarze Jews by American settlers, etc.
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WTF
You are seriously projecting.
The arrogance of the IDF in front of a video camera speaks volumes. This is clearly a premeditated attack of soldiers equipped with gas masks and attack dog, under the command of an officer. The soldiers are using pepper spray directly into the face of an unarmed protester and are calmly getting the dog to bite another one – all in full view of the world.
This leaves no doubt as to what happens in night raids and Shin Bet torture cells, when nobody is looking.
The Palestinian narrative has such traction that Israel needs more and more brutality to suppress it. And that’s slowly destroying what was the point of the Jewish state .
This is shameful and yet another way for the Israeli security individuals to distance themselves from the trauma they are causing. Most people understand that even a small dog can cause severe and painful wounds and that these attack dogs train against human tragets shielded in sturdy and thickly padded protective cloth suits which encourages the animals to bite hard and deeply.
They see themselves as merely utilizing another tool in the box to subdue these non-violent protesters. If they were waterboarding with firehoses, they’d claim it is only water. They are totally oblivious to and/or completely unconcerened for the damage they inflict.
Time for another side by side photo essay of Nazi tactics in comparison to Israeli ones.
Finklestein has one on his site
link to normanfinkelstein.com
Gawd, those images are painful to view.
Here’s the opening to a Fredy Perlman piece that addresses the contradiction of the oppressed becoming the oppressors.
Israel can’t walk away from the occupation. It’s too deeply embedded in Israeli society. Too many Israelis have played their part. It’s better to keep the head down and let the machine do its work. Everyone who is anyone in Israeli society supports the occupation. All the role models. Bring in the dogs, bring in the white phosphorous .
The education system needs to be broken up and started over. The schools deliver these soldiers.
Instead of 3 years military service Israeli teenagers should be obliged to spend 3 years abroad. Perspective desperately required.
Peter Beinart is wasting his time. The damage goes far deeper than he wants to know.
ahh, the brave israeli soldiers are using trained attack dogs on their prey now. there is a precedence for this. like so many iof actions it’s not unique to the iof.
But thats not all, using dog’s against of muslim protester….you know what that means ?
And now we shall see all the innumerable Lefty jewish types who so loved to put pictures of Bull Connor’s dogs attacking people at the top of their impassioned pieces denouncing white Southerners as obvious monsters … just look away. Far far away….
(Except of course the Alan Dershowitz type who will assert that this is different because they are *Israeli* dogs—the most moral in the world.)
Oppression is dirty work, but somebody’s gotta do it. It’s nice to see the occupation forces of the Jewish state taking their jobs seriously.
What to do when attacked by a dog:
When a dog sinks its teeth in your arm [offer it, to be sure], don’t pull; push. Put your leg between its two front legs, grab one of them and yank it sideways. You’ll rip its heart apart and the dog dies. Not something you’ll be able to practice a lot, but it works.
“IDF guns are ambidextrous; they kill left and right.” – DR
Daniel, are you insane?
Dear readers: do not try it if either:
a. dog handler stands above you, gun in hand, or
b. your misfortune is on tape, this piece of self-defence does not remove the bite injury but looks uglier then hell, or
c. you are not strong enough to rip the hear apart, or
d. you actually do not hate the dog.
And yet, listen to the Hasbrats squeal when you show compare these images with those of Nazis using attack dogs in the same way.
And now, while predictable, the topper:
“George Clooney, Jewish Leaders Arrested At Anti-Sudan Protest In Washington”
Headline to Haaretz story here: link to haaretz.com
Delicious quote from some big-time Rabbi there: “”We know better than anyone what happens when people stand by when innocents die.”
Yeah, you get your ethno-racial state, which is evil for anyone else to have!
One of the last acts of Jim Crow was O’conner’s use of firehoses and dogs against the Birmingham demonstrators. Those images graced the front pages of American newspapers from coast to coast. It was after that the Southern white liberals capitulated.
To think that the NYTimes took the lead in those days with such images. Why do they continue to ignore this story?
RE: “Israeli police use attack dogs on Palestinian protesters in the West Bank” ~ A. Horowitz
ALSO SEE: Creating a Warrior State: The Enigma of Israel ~ by Gabriel Kolko, Counterpunch, 3/16/12
ENTIRE COMMENTARY – link to counterpunch.org
as noted (quoted) in a comment yesterday, according to one of Jabotinsky’s biographers, Vladimir’s spiritual center was Rome. (Jeremy ben Ami’s father was also educated in Rome, following in the footsteps of Jabotinsky).
The same biographer, Joseph Schechtman, who was a close personal friend to Jabotinsky, also writes that Jabotinsky was powerfully influenced by Mussolini’s impatient and muscular militarism.
But Italy in that era is too often subject to simplistic categorization, labelled as “fascist” or solely committed to Mussolini’s concepts. In “Woodrow Wilson and the American Myth in Italy: Culture, Diplomacy, and War Propaganda,” Daniela Rossina offers the counterpoint to that narrative:
It is the terrible bad fortune of Israel, of zionism, certainly of the Palestinians and the entire region as well as the the USA, to have been led by one so intellectually immature as as Jabotinsky, who was forever enthralled by superheroes but not by statesmen. The Italy of Jabotinsky’s “soul” had more parts than Jabotinsky took time to explore. More is the pity.
RE: “The same biographer, Joseph Schechtman, who was a close personal friend to Jabotinsky, also writes that Jabotinsky was powerfully influenced by Mussolini’s impatient and muscular militarism.” ~ teta mother me
FROM TED RALL, 07/22/10: …Umberto Eco’s 1995 essay Eternal Fascism describes the cult of action for its own sake under fascist regimes and movements: “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”…
SOURCE – link to commondreams.org
P.S. It appears to me that Zionism has come to resemble what Umberto Eco referred to as “fascist regimes and movements”, and consequently Zionism ascribes to the “cult of action for its own sake” (e.g. the settlement project in the West Bank, its determination to bomb Iran, etc).
RE: “In a scene reminiscent of the American South of the 1960s, Israeli Border Police turned an army attack dog on a group of the demonstrators today in the West Bank village of Kufer Qaddoum.” ~ A. Horowitz
FILM: The Long Walk Home, 1990, PG, 95 minutes
Sissy Spacek stars as Miriam Thompson, a Montgomery, Ala., housewife who finds herself in the midst of a civil rights revolution when she helps her black maid, Odessa (Whoopi Goldberg), during the infamous bus boycott of the 1950s. When Miriam discovers Odessa is forced to walk the 9 miles to her house and back, she volunteers to give Odessa a ride — much to the dismay of Miriam’s husband and social circle.
Netflix Availability: Streaming (DVD availability date unknown)
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ALSO ON YouTube (in 11 parts) – link to youtube.com
The Long Walk Home Trailer (VIDEO, 01:45) – link to youtube.com
P.S. THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING: Thompson on Hollywood is reporting that John Turturro has cast Woody Allen in his upcoming film, marking the first time that Allen will act for another director in over a decade.
The movie follows two down-and-out pals (Turturro and Allen) who decide to become gigolos to make some extra cash, adopting the names “Virgil and Bongo”.
SOURCE – link to blogs.indiewire.com
“Israeli police use attack dogs on Palestinian protesters”
How very humane.
Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof –
Justice, Justice you shall pursue – Deut 16,20
Ceterum censeo, occupationem palaestinensem esse finiendam – SUBITO!
The story is now on AP, with still photos (not video).
So the big news is that AP is covering the story. AP was far more reticent years ago.
The Israel Lobby will have a very hard time spinning this story!
On the bright side, dogs are safer than rubber coated bullets and tear gas that can kill or cause someone to loose an eye. In general, dogs are safer than humans. Homo homini lupus.