Pepper spraying Palestinian activists
The above picture of activists getting pepper-sprayed was posted by the Palestinian activist site AlQadiPal and retweeted by Joseph Dana. It was reportedly taken today at the new Palestinian “outpost,” Al Manatir, a group of tents set up near Burin outside Nablus. Israeli soldiers declared the area a closed military zone, in removing the demonstrators.
The picture below is from the same new outpost. Showing “Israeli soldiers,” it appeared in Haaretz today, taken by AFP. “Haaretz Hasbara: In an otherwise straightforward article about the IDF incursion, along with settlers, into Burin today, the pic I have pasted below was the visual,” writes Mitchell Plitnick. “You know, because those awful Palestinians just keep beating up those poor IDF soldiers…”
Ok, it’s a closed military zone, so Israeli settlers can be there.
Phil (please excuse my unwarranted presumption) this must be a distressing and disheartening subject to write about. For a little light yet related comic relief, go here, a TPM article, and don’t neglect to look at the lists attached. It may not get you ROTF, but it’s good.
And BTW, didn’t Israel surpass Bull Connor a long time ago, as far as methods go? Not that it isn’t a valid and good comparison, of course.
But as I remember, Bull stuck mainly to his own jurisdiction
Is the soldier on the left in the top photo actually smiling? I see teeth, anyway.
One World, Under Pepper Spray. . .
Am I the only one to notice the eery similarity of the photo above to the infamous pepper spraying of Occupy students at UC Davis in November 2011?
Check it out: https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT8wmR6LbzKMgaXB-8JXNFqkjPjrbodP24DXUOeMmRU9h7swtQP
And a rundown of the event here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper-spray_incident
Hateful and immoral Zio-supremacist Occupation Forces at work.
I know, I know: Even though Israel is as wonderfully awesome as America, thankfully its oppressive military forces aren’t as bad as those of Saudi Arabia.