The double standard of Israeli militarism will soon literally be on display at a museum dedicated to the history of the central Israeli city Hod Hasharon. Evidently, museum curators recently found "an arms cache dating back to the British Mandate at a Synagogue in Hod Hasharon.
The weapons, which included grenades and bullet casings, were apparently stored in the building by the Hagannah Jewish militia." The article continues:
Simcha Klein and Aviva Even-Hen, curators of the
museum dedicated to the history of Hod Hasharon, found the arms while
they were tidying rooms in the synagogue, which was crammed full of
documents, pictures and old maps dating back to the beginning of the
Zionist enterprise.
"While searching the rooms, we came across one small tin box that
contained grenades, and another that contained dozens of bullet
casings," Klein said…
Klein said that during the British Mandate, the synagogue used to
serve as a shelter from Arab rioters, and therefore has long and narrow
windows, and slits for firing. These slits apparently made the
synagogue an ideal location for stashing the weapons.
Hmmm, why does this sound familiar? Oh yeah, it's because Israel repeatedly justified destroying mosques in Gaza because Hamas was allegedly hiding weapons in them. The IDF even celebrated this practice by releasing a youtube video. And here Israeli Maj. Avital Leibovich offers her commentary on the practice and criticizes Hamas for using human shields. She ends by making it clear that "we in Israel do not use our synagogues and religious facilities to store rockets."
Speaking of double standards for militarism, here is a very strange post by Jeffrey Goldberg about
blacks and Jews "shooting back," saying in essence that it's cool when
black people and Jews get guns and shoot back. Of course Goldberg would
deny that right to Palestinians, as he demonstrated at the start of the
Gaza slaughter, which he endorsed. Palestinians of course are not
"shooting back," but simply "shooting at."
(Phil Weiss & Adam Horowitz)
