"After they built showers with a generator, so we would have hot water all the time ... the shower with the 'geyser' was abandoned and people decided that it would be like a detention cell. We brought some guy there and forgot him for three days ... He was handcuffed and had a piece of flannel over his mouth, and he couldn't talk, couldn't move, couldn't do anything. After three days, someone, I don't remember who, happened to go by there and remembered."
This is zionism:
"I went out on my first patrol ... Others on the patrol were just shooting like crazies ... I also started shooting like all the others ... It was ... look, I won't tell you that it wasn't cool, because suddenly for the first time you come and hold the weapon seriously, you're not training in some drill or in some dugout in the dunes, or I don't know what, or you have some commander who is looking over your shoulder in the firing range. Suddenly you are responsible for what you are doing. You take the gun. You shoot. You do what you want."
This is zionism:
"The truth? When there is chaos and like that, I like it. That's when I enjoy it. It's like a drug. If I don't go into Rafah and if there isn't some kind of riot once in some week, I go nuts."
This is zionism:
"The most important thing is that it removes the burden of the law from you. You feel that you are the law. You are the law. You are the one who decides ... As though from the moment you leave the place that is called Eretz Yisrael [the Land of Israel] and go through the Erez checkpoint into the Gaza Strip, you are the law. You are God."
This is zionism:
"A 3-year-old kid, he can't throw, he can't hurt you no matter what he does, but a kid of 19 can. With women I have no problem. With women, one threw a clog at me and I kicked her here [pointing to the crotch], I broke everything there. She can't have children. Next time she won't throw clogs at me. When one of them [a woman] spat at me I gave her the rifle butt in the face. She doesn't have what to spit with anymore."
This is zionism:
"We were in a weapon carrier when this guy, around 25, passed by in the street, and just like that, for no reason, he didn't throw a stone, did nothing - bang, a bullet in the stomach - he shot him in the stomach and the guy is dying on the sidewalk and we keep going, apathetic. No one gave him a second look."
This is zionism:
"They took the Arabs, the commanding officers did, and put them on the bus between the back door and the last seat, put them only between the seats. On their knees. Then they told us: Within two minutes - and this is still just basic training - within two minutes everyone is on the bus. No one steps on the seats ... And everyone started to trample them [the Arabs] and step on them on the run ... It was a really bad winter. Minus 4 degrees [Centigrade] and rain and hail ... They each went out in the middle of the night ... They weren't given time to dress. Some of them had clogs, short-sleeved shirts ... Everyone opened the windows deliberately. People poured water on them from the canteens, so they would freeze from the cold. And the whole way they were bombarded with blows ... and I mean the whole way."
This is zionism:
"After two months in Rafah a [new] commanding officer arrived ... So we do a first patrol with him. It's 6 A.M., Rafah is under curfew, there isn't so much as a dog in the streets. Only a little boy of four playing in the sand. He is building a castle in his yard. He [the officer] suddenly starts running and we all run with him. He was from the combat engineers. We all run with him. He grabbed the boy. Nufar, I am a degenerate if I am not telling you the truth. He broke his hand here at the wrist. Broke his hand at the wrist, broke his leg here. And started to stomp on his stomach, three times, and left. We are all there, jaws dropping, looking at him in shock ... The next day I go out with him on another patrol, and the soldiers are already starting to do the same thing."
What is zionism? Quite simply, it is hate, murder, occupation, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Those who support Israel support zionism. Those who support zionism support hate, murder, occupation, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
* All excerpts from the article, Parallel lives, published in Ha'aretz October 6, 2007.
Continuing the emasculation of Tony Bliar, Coondelozer Rice further pared down his involvement in the Middle East "peace process" by specifying he is to be an "envoy" to the Palestinians and "would work on raising funds for the Palestinians, as well as building their economy and infrastructure." This is the expected precursor to ultimately defining Bliar's title as Official Fetcher of Erasers and White-Out. It's like the Palestinians now have their very own Shimon Peres, i.e. an expired politician getting paid to fill a primarily symbolic position to keep him busy into retirement.
Coon went on to describe Bliar's now mostly ceremonial position as "something that is completely complementary and if we all work together, and there is plenty to do, perhaps we can finally deliver," she said. Well, unless she's planning on delivering blow jobs to Mahmoud Abbas, I'm understandably skeptical that adding Tony Bliar to the mix will enable them to deliver anything much more. Quite frankly, Bliar is much better at sucking ass.
And since Tony now ostensibly represents the Palestinians, he'll of course "meet Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, in Jerusalem before meeting Mr. Abbas and his new government in Ramallah." Because when you're appointed to represent the Palestinians, it's considered customary to first meet with the Israelis and receive their terms of surrender and subjugation that you will then present to Mahmoud.
In light of Israel's most recent attempt to whitewash the war crimes committed against the Lebanese this past summer, it's instructive to read this letter written by noted journalist and author James Bamford in response to an attack on his credibility in reporting on the unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty by the IAF (Israeli Air Force) during the Six-Day War. In it, he provides many references to the attrocities commited by Israeli forces during that war that came to light in the 1990s.
Again, here we observe a familiar pattern of the Zionist spin machine. No lie is to go unspoken, no matter how outlandish, no matter how blatant, and no matter whether it's in the interest of the Israelis to lie or not. The intent is not to confirm or deny anything definitively, but rather to distort the historical record so thoroughly as to leave a lingering stench of doubt and uncertainty for historians to battle with as they try to unravel the tangled web in later years. Israel can then always point to the controvery and say that there are conflicting viewpoints and maintain a denial of culpability for their actions.
But even within this miasma, one thing is clearly evident: if observed collectively, as a unitary body, the Israeli military is a dishonorable, despicable entity, far removed from the myth of the "purity of arms" doctrine that they are so quick and so forceful to proffer at any accusation of their constant and consistent impropriety (the war in Lebanon is just the latest example).
Every last Zionist should be groveling at the feet of every surviving US servicemember who was onboard the USS Liberty that fateful day. They should prostrate and humble themselves before them for every drop they bled, and for every dollar since that has flowed from their wallet to the Israeli military by way of our self-abusive support for the criminal Israeli venture.
One blaring question remains unanswered: Why does the United States continue to countenance Israeli war crimes, in particular those committed against Americans (like all the American citizens recently murdered in Lebanon)? That answer, if ever revealed, will be truly interesting.
In closing: thank God for the Internet. It's getting harder and harder for Zionists to keep up the all-too effective facade they've been trying to paint over the ugly face of Israeli aggression since that state's unfortunate inception.
The election of a Democratic majority in the House and Senate is unlikely to result in any serious challenge to the Bush administration’s support for Israeli attacks against the civilian populations of its Arab neighbors and the Israeli government’s ongoing violations of international humanitarian law.
There's an episode of Star Trek (TNG) where all the top level commanders of Star Fleet get infected by this alien parasite that takes over their minds and hence their being and then attempts to subjugate the Federation from the inside out. Picard manages to infiltrate the upper command echelons and blows away what were once his command officers but are now zombies under control of alien leeches. Sorry to get all nerdy, but sometimes this is how I feel about our government (and guess who would play the roll of Picard). It's as if an alien parasite (the racist and vile meme of Zionism) has infiltrated the minds of everyone from the Oval Office through the Capitol Dome and beyond, forcing our government to do Israel's bidding with no regard towards our own interests. This theory would explain why we invaded Iraq, and also why we continue to support Israel's naked aggression against Arabs, even going so far as to veto every resolution of condemnation against Israeli war crimes in the UN, claiming they are "not balanced". If anything is not balanced it's the collective mind of this disgrace of a government of ours that has only grown closer to Israeli policy as it has become ever more aggressive and violent.
This might just seem like a rant (and it is) but the net effect is the continuation of a failed foreign policy in the Middle East that blindly and illogically supports one side of a conflict that we helped ignite by allowing the creation of the fiction called Israel. Hence, the answer to the pathetic question, "Why do they hate us?", the answer slapping you in the face everytime an Arab baby killed by an Israeli bullet paid for with American taxpayer dollars is buried.
With one more life callously extinguished: one more brother, sister, cousin, aunt lost through indifferent, inhumane, incomprehensible injustice; one more affront to human dignity: one more intolerable act that feeds into the sorrow, hopelessness, hatred and rage that grows, slowly, silently, with grim determination, until one day it simply becomes too much to humanly bear, and the inevitable pall of vengeance, Biblical vengeance, is visited upon the wicked.
I'd like to hear what the "Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism" freaks have to say about this:
This one has extraordinary entertaiment value:
Then there's this:
Yes, the IDF, brave defenders of Christianity's holiest of shrines. Excuse me while I puke. Of course, conveniently ignored is the IDF siege of the Church, whereby they desecrated it by firing on the refugees within, and their killing the bell ringer. If not for all the international press covering the siege they would have surely brought in the Caterpillars. This kind of naked propaganda is a typical product of Zionism.
samir: It's amazing how hard they try, and how successful they are, at spinning Israel's image. What's worse is how readily the American public eats it up. Actually, it's not amazing. It's the status quo.
