Palestinian woman confronts Israeli thugs that entered her home in the middle of the night to interrogate her family wanted to wake up her 5 year old daughter. Palestinian woman wins. Bittersweet.
Choice quotes:
“I dont fear you, you’re in my house and you tell me to shut up, you shut up! You leave my house!”
“What do you want from a 5 year old girl? She threatens your state? She threatens its security? Are you happy with your state?”
From the YouTube page (translation Austin Branion):
“Occupation forces stormed the village of Nabi Saleh after midnight, raiding and ransacking the house of photographer Bilal al-Tamimi. They withdrew after the outbreak of clashes with village youth and the pelting of IOF vehicles with stones.”
Devastating article by Amira Hass
Israel is sacrificing its own future in the name of regional hegemony
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/israel-must-understand-it-cannot-be-like-america-1.423677?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.223%2C
Meanwhile far too many intelligent Jews are in denial
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/10/we-welcome-israel-national-theatre
Feel free to contact me for real translations instead of Google translations! The YouTube description says:
“Occupation forces stormed the village of Nabi Saleh after midnight, raiding and ransacking the house of photographer Bilal al-Tamimi. They withdrew after the outbreak of clashes with village youth and the pelting of IOF vehicles with stones.”
What’s really interesting here is that Google apparently translates what literally reads “occupation vehicles” as “IOF vehicles.” While that just so happens to be correct in this context, I wonder how would they know what occupation is being talked about? And it’s kinda funny that whoever wrote this description says “the pelting of IOF vehicles with stones” without attributing it to the “village youth,” as though it mysteriously happened.
I am struck by a couple of things. First, how much English both the lady and the IDF use. Is it common in the area and in these interactions between IDF and Palestinians for them to communicate in English?
Second, while not condoning a masked home invasion in the middle of the night, these kids are, basically, polite. They were sent there by some low-level officer, and are following orders. The IDF is full of pricks, and we often see those guys on videos beating up people or spraying them with mace. But there must be an equal number of IDF soldiers who know what they’re doing is wrong and who don’t want to be there.
Had this patrol been Americans in Iraq or Afghanistan, the lady would have gotten a rifle butt in the face and that would have been the end of the video.
Thank you for posting this.
Ducks, trees, sheep and, now, even five-year-old girls: Is there nothing / no-one in this world that / who isn’t anti-Semitic?!
Clearly, the only thing a religion-supremacist Jewish state can do in a situation like this is to maintain its 60+ years, ON-GOING and offensive (i.e., not defensive) campaign of aggression, oppression, theft, colonization, destruction and murder.
Anything less would be tantamount to self-loathing.
every time israeli shylocks aka IDF raid Palestinian houses, they make sure to exit with a pound of flesh– and a sack of money.