Who is wiping who off the map?

by on July 23, 2012 11
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This morning, Mondoweiss reader “James” sent us the screenshot below and added: “A quick look at the 3 top stories on the Haaretz homepage provide for a rather interesting narrative”:

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  1. Mndwss says:
    July 23, 2012 at 11:43 am

    “Israel orders demolition of 8 Palestinian villages, claims need for IDF training land.

    IDF hands over former West Bank base to Israeli settlers.”

    Only 8 villages?

    Bibi: “Damn the BDS, full speed ahead!”

    For all history Bibi will be known as the man who went to far…

    He will be famous like Onan.

    People will say: Don’t go to “bibi”…

    (yo momma so zionist, she taught you about sex saying ‘pulling out will make you look weak’)

    Onan went to far by pulling out and became famous.

    Bibi went to far with raping and killing and not pulling out.

  2. seafoid says:
    July 23, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    also in today’s Haaretz

    link to haaretz.com

    “In the Jewish calendar cycle we are in the midst of three weeks called “Bein Hametzarim,” “Between the Straits.” These three weeks are book-ended by the fast day of the 17th of Tammuz, which marks the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem, and Tisha B’Av, the fast day where we mark the destruction of the First and Second Temples. It is, according to tradition, a time to focus our attention on the loss of a national, cultural, and spiritual home for the Jewish people.

    Facing this devastating loss , our sages did something remarkable: they re-envisioned Judaism. They created a new center, built a tradition with new hope, comforting the people with a renewed Judaism; a Judaism where, in the words of rabbinic compilation, “hesed (loving-kindness) and prayer” were the new center of Jewish life and community.
    Though we may not be able to comprehend the utter devastation the community of the ancients felt, there are still meaningful lessons to be learned from this destruction. The rabbis teach us two crucial lessons about life and Judaism. First, each of us individually and collectively knows what it means to experience profound loss. In moment of deep failure it is often easier to remain in the depths of the darkness without hope, with a sense of purpose dwelling in the despair. Yet, the rabbis remind us not to dwell in the darkness but to move forth toward light. They teach us in these spaces between when nothing in life is certain, keep hope alive; even in our darkest hours, renewal can be on the horizon.
    Second, within this renewed Judaism, Torah, not the Temple, becomes the center of Jewish life and our new spiritual home. We now, they teach us, dwell not in the Temple sacrifices but in the black letters and white spaces between of our teachings – we became a people of the book, learning and living Torah
    ”
    link to youtube.com

    Where is the Torah today south of Hebron?

  3. ColinWright says:
    July 23, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    The calculation is probably that so much is going on right now that Israel can get away with this. The bombing, Syria, the Iran show…and then too, with the election coming up, Obama is not about to put his foot down.

    Look for more of the same.

  4. lysias says:
    July 23, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    Training? What is this training the IDF for?

    • ColinWright says:
      July 23, 2012 at 2:46 pm

      It’s training to turn the ‘training ground’ over to a Jewish settlement in a year or so.

      That’s assuming they don’t just get blatant and do it next week.

    • ErsatzYisrael says:
      July 23, 2012 at 4:08 pm

      lysias says:
      July 23, 2012 at 2:08 pm

      Training? What is this training the IDF for?

      So that Tzahal may continue terrorizing and murdering unarmed civilians, while simultaneously managing to maintain morals that are simply world- class, silly.

      The pursuit of this noble aim requires more than just rolling out of bed, and into the loving bosom of Tzahal; much time, great effort, more Lebensraum, all three are necessary for the proper teaching of the moral ways of Tzahal.

  5. seafoid says:
    July 23, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    This is the slow ethnic cleansing of Area A

    Facts on the ground are double edged – when the IDF is eventually defeated and capitulates there will be a precedent that allows the victors to send the entire Zionist population of Israel elsewhere.

  6. Bumblebye says:
    July 23, 2012 at 7:17 pm

    This comes just days after the knesset conveniently passed a law preventing Palestinians from taking legal action against security forces for the crimes committed against them:
    link to middleeastmonitor.com
    I’m sure the “most moral army in the world” will make the most of their freedom from Palestinian lawfare.

  7. yourstruly says:
    July 24, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    after military bases are established in occupied territory, settlers move in and take over an indigenous people’s land? let’s see, since history repeats itself the 1st time as tragedy & the 2nd as farce, what does the umpty-umpth repeat signify?

  8. Denis says:
    July 24, 2012 at 6:07 pm

    I might have titled it: “Who is wiping whom off the map.” But my grammar is sometimes spotty, so this is just an opinion.

  9. yishai says:
    July 27, 2012 at 12:54 am

    Great framing here, so on point…
    Thanks…
    Ironies/doublespeak like this, where the stated truth is the exact opposite of reality, and yet taken as truth by the vast majority, are only made possible by the most extreme forms of power disparity.
    Its a powerful diagnostic