Settlers Launch Vicious Attack on Jewish Identity

Here is amazing footage of a religious settler attack on a Palestinian village--following a stabbing of a settler kid by the Palestinians. Cycle of violence. Of course the Israelis have confiscated Palestinian land and water, so yes I guess I excuse some of the Palestinian anger, and Israelis hit harder than the Palestinians. Notice the injured Palestinian at the front end of the video. He looks really Jewish to me. It seems he got shot. He says that Israeli soldiers assisted the settlers when they attacked the village. See the crowd of violent settlers, some apparently with guns, streaming down the hillside toward the Palestinian village. Excuse me while I vomit.

The audio in the second half is even more disturbing. The settlers give the soldiers protecting a Palestinian house an ultimatum of one minute before they attack the house. They want the Israeli soldiers to turn out the Palestinians. A soldier cries in anguish, "As if you're doing it for me." A settler: "Go and throw them out." A soldier: "Yossi stop throwing for a minute." "If you don't hassle them we will!" "Destroy their plants!" "Break their marble" settlers cry. Break this pipe!

These are Jewish settlers in a Jewish colonization scheme protected by Jewish soldiers (maybe a Bedouin or two?) in the Jewish state. But the cameras are provided to the Palestinians by the great Jews of B'tselem. This is a war for Jewish identity. My side's gonna win. As if you're doing it for me!!!!!

My mom never bought new books, she only bought used books. Tons of them. Professor's salary, 6 kids (she was repopulating the world with Jews because of Hitler, god bless my mom). We went to booksales endlessly. Then in the 80s she got all of her six kids  a new copy of Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World about the Warsaw ghetto and other Jewish places in eastern Europe. His photographs, the ones they were able to save. Amazing pictures. My mom never spent that kind of money, ever. B'tselem reminds me of Roman Vishniac.

Thanks to David Bloom for picking this up.

Comments

[Richard Witty]

I bought my parents a copy of that same book.

Its very moving.

Your parents (was it your mom) bought TONS of used stuff. I remember your house in the Cape, and how there was always piles of stuff on chairs.

[Yair]

This is in no way “a war for Jewish identity”. There is no such a thing as a “Jewish identity”, so it can’t be better or worst. Still the attacks by those Jewish settlers and the attitude of those Jewish soldiers (and “the Bedouin or two”) are despicable. I don’t need to believe in a “Jewish identity” to think so.

[Ed]

What are the positive stereotypes perpetuated in the West about the values supposedly inculcated by organized Judaism in its adherent? Individual equality and dignity, the quest for universal brotherhood, a thirst for peace and justice, intellect and reason over bias. Yeah. Well, Zionism, which is organized Judaism writ large, puts the lie to all those positive stereotypes (as this video demonstrates).

“The Jews” (modern organized Judaism) simply do good P.R., and good spin, and are remarkably adept at indoctrinating their children into a lie, and passing off lies about their own nature to everyone else. And just as the sociopath, they come to believe the system of lies they have propagated.

The simple fact of the matter is, they are no more unjustifiably victimized, and are no better, and may be worse, than any other tribe. So why the hell are we giving Israel so much money?

[Paul Malfara]

Witty,

Stop reminiscing about your boyhood and get on the subject of the post. We'd really like to hear your defense of the settlers.

PM

[ptw]

Phil, I'm sorry (re. this post).

Off topic (then again perhaps not), have you read this? Besides Gilad's "intransigeance" (to some), the piece has some good insights.

P.S. You are a good human being and it gives me some comfort to know this. Take care, man!

[El-Nakam]

"Settler kid"? Let's dehumanize a 9 year old child who was stabbed repeatedly, shall we? But I guess in your mind, he had it coming. Fair enough.