In Hebron, citizens of some foreign country that is not and has never been part of America spend your hard-earned tax dollars committing acts of terrorism against the helpless civilians they occupy.
Using a 10-year-old child to locate and punish a 15-year-old stone-thrower: "So we got hold of just some Palestinian kid nearby, we knew that he knew who it had been. Let’s say we beat him a little, to put it mildly, until he told us. You know, the way it goes when your mind’s already screwed up, and you have no more patience for Hebron and Arabs and Jews there.
"The kid was really scared, realising we were on to him. We had a commander with us who was a bit of a fanatic. We gave the boy over to this commander, and he really beat the shit out of him … He showed him all kinds of holes in the ground along the way, asking him: ‘Is it here you want to die? Or here?’ The kid goes, ‘No, no!’
"Anyway, the kid was stood up, and couldn’t stay standing on his own two feet. He was already crying … And the commander continues, ‘Don’t pretend’ and kicks him some more. And then [name withheld], who always had a hard time with such things, went in, caught the squad commander and said, ‘Don’t touch him any more, that’s it.’ The commander goes, ‘You’ve become a leftie, what?’ And he answers, ‘No, I just don’t want to see such things.’
"We were right next to this, but did nothing. We were indifferent, you know. OK. Only after the fact you start thinking. Not right away. We were doing such things every day … It had become a habit…
"And the parents saw it. The commander ordered [the mother], ‘Don’t get any closer.’ He cocked his weapon, already had a bullet inside. She was frightened. He put his weapon literally inside the kid’s mouth. ‘Anyone gets close, I kill him. Don’t bug me. I kill. I have no mercy.’ So the father … got hold of the mother and said, ‘Calm down, let them be, so they’ll leave him alone.’"
The Palestinians hate the Israelis because the Israelis are free and Palestinians hate freedom. And don’t you forget it.
Seriously though, the one of the main reasons that 3,000 were murdered on 9/11 was revenge for U.S. support of IDF terrorism against the civilians of Palestine. And then the Likud cheered that we would now assuredly become more like them and send our kids to die fighting their wars.
Scott,
It would not be hard to turn the US population against Israel. Just run stories like that one on the evening news every night for two weeks, accuse Israel of supporting America’s enemies (real or imagined ones) and it’d be done. I predict that most of the violence against Palestine would cease within days. Of course the rub is that the powers-that-be would have to be running the campaign for it to work, but one can dream, can’t he?
Scott:
If some Exxon Oil Tanker dumped a bunch of toxic refuse in the sea it would be covered big time…. That is why I say Israel is different than the other perverters of American foreign policy….. It is the one element that cannot be criticized unlike big oil, the Saudi’s, or the multinationals….
…Israel can only be critiscized to a certain, State approved degree—Rather like Christianity as a Paradigm in the former Soviet Union and this strictly for the sake of appearances…A “Soft Core” Parody of Objectivity if you will…It’s probably a good thing that, the, well known “Powers that be” don’t take this blog, and others like it serious…For now anyhow…Go figure?