Israel's Army of Extremists - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine »
Posted By PalestinianTruth 7 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsIsraeli soldiers, just back from Gaza Recent reports of atrocities committed by Israeli soldiers in the course of the intervention in Gaza have described the incitement of conscripts and reservists by military rabbis who characterized the battle as a holy war for the expulsion of non-Jews from Jewish land. The secular Israeli academic Dany Zamir, who first brought the testimony of shocked Israeli soldiers to light, has been quoted as if the influence of such extremist clerical teachings was something new. This is not the case.
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antibrainwasher7 months, 2 weeks ago
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And todays news:
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Jew arab jew arab jew arab jew
14 million jews.
1.5 billion arabs.
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Who gives a f.... F... em all, to the last man woman and child, these inbred tribes of hairless baboons with their invisible superstitions in the form of an invisible god on their side.
Only way Israel will exist for the next 50 y7ears is through genocide, Israel is 20% arabs with an average birthrate of 7 per couple, jews are less than one. game over, here comes the genocide.
Tribalism = religion = tribalism = religion. What kind of subhuman pigs live in a refugee camp with no food, running water or work, and have 11 children? Kiss civilization good bye. -
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hyperbola7 months, 2 weeks ago
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One should remember that zionism is a totalitarian ideology (like nazism or stalinism) in which the individual is defined by belonging to a "jewish nation" rather than by his individuality as a human being (as in the ideals of American democracy). When this totalitarianism is coupled with religious extremism, it represents a model which is unacceptable in the modern world.
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Ethnic cleansing / genocide by jewish extremists in Palestine is, of course, nothing new. Here is an israeli account.
Mamilla Pool
http://www.israelshamir.net/English/mamilla.htm
... By 614 Palestine was a part of the Roman successor state, the Byzantine Empire. It was a prosperous, predominantly Christian land of well-developed agriculture, of harnessed water systems and carefully laid terraces. Pilgrims came in flocks to the Holy places. The Constantine-built edifices of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives and of the Holy Sepulchre were among the man-made wonders of the world. The Judean wilderness was enlivened by eighty monasteries, where precious manuscripts were collected and prayers offered. The Fathers of the church, St Jerome of Bethlehem and Origen and Eusebius of Caesarea, were still a living memory. One of the best Palestinian writers, on a par with the Minor Prophets, blessed John Moschos, just completed his Spiritual Meadow.
There was also a small, wealthy Jewish community living in their midst, mainly in Tiberias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Their scholars had just completed their version of the Talmud, the codification of their faith, Rabbinic Judaism; but for instruction they deferred to the prevailing Jewish community in Persian Babylonia....
...In 614 local Palestinian Jews allied with their Babylonian co-religionists and assisted the Persians in their conquest of the Holy Land. 26,000 Jews participated in the onslaught. In the aftermath of the Persian victory, the Jews perpetrated a massive holocaust of the Gentiles of Palestine. They burned the churches and the monasteries, killed monks and priests, burned books. The beautiful basilica of Fishes and Loaves in Tabgha, the Ascension on the Mount of Olives, St Stephen opposite Damascus Gate and the Hagia Sion on Mt Zion are just at the top of the list of perished edifices. Indeed, very few churches survived the onslaught. The Great Laura of St Sabas, tucked away in the bottomless Ravine of Fire (Wadi an-Nar) was saved by its remote location and steep crags. The Church of the Nativity miraculously survived: when Jews commanded its destruction, the Persians balked...-
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hyperbola7 months, 2 weeks ago
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This devastation was not the worst crime. When Jerusalem surrendered to the Persians, thousands of local Christians became prisoners of war and were herded to the Mamilla Pool area. The Israeli archaeologist Ronny Reich writes:
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They were probably sold to the highest bidder. According to some sources, the Christian captives at Mamilla Pond were bought by Jews and were then slain on the spot.
The Oxford Professor Henry Hart Milman's History of the Jews describes it in stronger terms:
It had come at length, the long-expected hour of triumph and vengeance; and the Jews did not neglect the opportunity. They washed away the profanation of the holy city in Christian blood. The Persians are said to have sold the miserable captives for money. The vengeance of the Jews was stronger than their avarice; not only did they not scruple to sacrifice their treasures in the purchase of these devoted bondsmen, they put to death all they had purchased at a lavish price. It was a rumour of the time that 90,000 perished....
...In plain prose, the Jews ransomed the Christians from the hands of the Persian soldiers for good money to slaughter them at Mamilla Pool, ‘and it ran with blood’. Jews massacred between 60,000 and 90,000 Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem alone, almost 1.5 million in today’s values (the total earth’s population was according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica about 300 million, twenty times smaller than today). A few days later, the Persian military understood the magnitude of the massacre and stopped the Jews....
...The holocaust of the Christian Palestinians in year 614 is well documented and you will find it described in older books. It has been censored out of modern guides and history books. Elliott Horowitz described, in his brilliant expose of the Jewish apologia[ii] how almost all Jewish historians suppressed the facts and re-wrote history. The cover-up continues even now...
..The tragic events of 614 should be returned into historical narrative, for it will help the Jews to heal their paranoid delusion. Without this knowledge one cannot understand the provisions of the treaty between the Jerusalemites and Caliph Omar ibn Khattab, concluded in year 638. In the Sulh al Quds, as this treaty of capitulation is called, Patriarch Sofronius demanded, and the powerful Arab ruler concurred to protect the people of Jerusalem from the ferocity of the Jews.
The genocide of the AD 614 was the most horrible, but not the only, genocide wreaked by Jews in those troubled years....
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Dionys7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Let's be pretty clear and fair to the Israeli Army. The vast majority of them are fine young people with only a few extremists scattered througout. They're caught in a very tough position, often very strongly disagreeing with the actions they're asked to perform, but little ability to do anything but.
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They're certainly filled with less religious extremists than the US military.-
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hyperbola7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Do you have some figures to back up your statement? Frankly it borders on saying the Waffen SS was filled with fine young people.
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Is Israel's Army Waging a Jewish Jihad?
Religious extremists rising through the ranks
Extremist rabbis and their followers, bent on waging holy war against the Palestinians, are taking over the Israeli army by stealth, according to critics.
In a process one military historian has termed the rapid "theologization" of the Israeli army, there are now entire units of religious combat soldiers, many of them based in West Bank settlements. They answer to hardline rabbis who call for the establishment of a Greater Israel that includes the occupied Palestinian territories.
Their influence in shaping the army's goals and methods is starting to be felt, say observers, as more and more graduates from officer courses are also Dr.awn from Israel's religious extremist population.
"We have reached the point where a critical mass of religious soldiers is trying to negotiate with the army about how and for what purpose military force is employed on the battlefield," said Yigal Levy, a political sociologist at the Open University who has written several books on the Israeli army. ....
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hyperbola7 months, 2 weeks ago
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And, of course, the army does little to protect christian and moslem citizens of Israel from attacks by jewish extremists.
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Jewish Extremists Attempt Pogrom against Arabs in Akka
Hundreds of religious Jewish extremists and hooligans laid siege to and assaulted an Arab family home in downtown Akka Wednesday night, triggering widespread riots in the mixed Arab-Jewish coastal city in northern Palestine/Israel. The Jews accused the Arab family of “violating the sanctity of Yom Kippur” by way of driving their car. Eyewitnesses and police sources reported that dozens of vehicles and businesses were damaged after police forces violently repressed hundreds of local Arab youths who had attempted to free the besieged Arab family. Arab sources in Akka said Jewish hooligans attacked “and may have tried to lynch” the Ahmed Sha’aban family which lives in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Porla in the eastern suburbs of the city.
”The extremists, hundreds of them wanted to make sure that we, Muslims, observe the Yom Kippur and not conduct our life as usual. Next time, they will demand that we convert to Judaism, or leave,” said Jamal Adham, who was attacked and slightly injured by the extremists. According to Ahmed Odeh, a member of the Akka municipal council, the riots and the subsequent acts sabotage were triggered by provocative efforts by Jewish fanatics to impose a total curfew on the town’s non-Jewish inhabitants. Odeh said he had received assurances from the police that the city would remain open and that non-Jews would be allowed to move freely during the Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) holiday. Odeh added that he was later surprised to find out that all town’s entrances and exits were tightly closed, apparently by a private security firm answerable to the town’s municipal council. “Even access to the Old town, where most of the Arabs live, was blocked.”.....
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hyperbola7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Pogrom in Acre
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"Riots in Acre"-screamed the Israeli dailies today. They should have written instead "Pogrom in Acre," for what occurred last Wednesday was exactly a pogrom, of the kind Jews have suffered in the Tsarist Empire: a fanatic mob attacking a minority under the pretext of violating the holiness of a religious feast, with the passive complicity of the state police....
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