REMEMBER,
PALESTINIANS
ARE THE FIRST RESISTERS
OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER!
This is why I have often said, in the words of Carlos Latuff, "We are all Palestinians!" because they wish to do to all gentiles what they do to the Palestinians ~ once our usefulness to them is over and they have enough power to pull it off.
In fact, it matters little what you call it, so long as it is recognized that what Israel intends and is working toward is the erasure of the Palestinian people from the Palestine landscape. Israel most likely does not care about how systematic its efforts at erasure are, or how rapidly they proceed, and in these ways it differs from the Nazis. There are no gas chambers; there is no overriding urgency. Gas chambers are not needed. A round of rockets on a residential housing complex in the middle of the night here, a few million cluster bomblets or phosphorous weapons there can, given time, easily meet the UN definition (of ethnic cleansing) above.
With violence against Palestinians becoming commonplace and essentially condoned, it begins vanishing from the media and becomes a non-issue.
When a post mortem on Israeli democracy takes place, there’s a good chance that the “Ha’Kol Ha’Yehudi” will be considered akin to Radio Rwanda, which encouraged and led the murderers to the victims during that country’s genocide.
The site (Hebrew), whose name means “The Jewish Voice,” is operated by the Yehudim Smechim (“Happy Jews”) Association (Hebrew), which is the active front of the students of the “Od Yoseph Khai” yeshiva in Yizhar. Led by Yizhak Ginzburg, this is in all likelihood the most extreme yeshiva around.
It became famous, or rather infamous, when two of its rabbis wrote “Torat Ha’Melekh,” a treatise on the proper way ~ according to Jewish law ~ to kill gentiles. Even the Ministry of Education stopped funding it for a time after that.
Ha’Kol Hayehudi reports steadily and enthusiastically about the pogroms carried out by settlers, under the code name of “price tag” ~ referring to acts carried out against Palestinian in revenge of government actions harming the settler enterprise. One wonders how involved is the site in those activities: When Itamar Sha’altiel and I tried to find out, two months ago, why price tag activities went drastically down for some two weeks, we found those weeks correlated with the yeshiva’s Passover vacation.
Be that as it may, Ha’Kol Ha’Yehudi enjoys excellent sources in the Jehovistic right. It reported on Thursday (Hebrew) about a pogrom which took place two months ago in Pisgat Ze’ev, a settlement close to Jerusalem: 40 Jewish young men organized themselves and went on a Palestinian hunt, claiming Palestinians were bothering Jewish women in the neighborhood.
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They managed to find four Palestinians next to the local mall, and after making sure the order of battle met KKK standards ~ which is to say ten attackers per victim ~ they began their attack. The police showed up, the Palestinians were taken to the hospital, suffering light wounds, and the pogromchiks fled. No arrests were reported. In fact, nothing whatsoever was reportedThere is no single fixed method for murder and not even for genocide. The author Y. L. Peretz wrote about "the righteous cat" that does not spill blood, but only suffocates. The government of Israel, using the military and its instruments of destruction, is not only spilling blood, but it is also suffocating. ... Of course, with our self-righteousness, with our self-adoration in our "Jewish ethics" we make sure to advertise how beautifully the doctors take care of Palestinian victims in the hospitals. We do not advertise how many of those are executed in cold blood in their own homes or how we destroyed their own hospitals. Therefore, it is not yet genocide of the terrible and unique style of which we were past victims. And as one of the smart Generals told me, we do not have crematoria and gas chambers. Is anything less than that consistent with Jewish ethics? Did he ever hear how an entire people said that it did not know what was done in its name?
Three years ago, Israel was shaken to its core for about twenty minutes, after proud Jewish pogromchiks did precisely the same thing, at the same place, except the time was the eve of Holocaust Day. In both cases, the gangs were organized in closed forums ~ the police thought they were organized by text message last time; the report says a Facebook group was the communication channel this time around ~ and in both cases, the police failed to grab the list and identify the organizers.
One wonders whether the source of Ha’Kol Ha’Yehudi is Neryah Ophan, a former student at “Od Yoseph Khai,” who was scandalously ordered to stay away from Pisgat Ze’ev by an order of the Home Front Command. Ophan was suspected of organizing precisely such events. Ha’Kol Ha’Yehudi used the pretext of the attack to reprint the call by Ginzburg and other extrme rabbis to support the pogromchiks, which was originally printed three years ago. Needless to say, none of the rabbis was either detained or interrogated; they are too powerful for the police to handle..
The attack three years ago yielded 11 arrests and a hell of a lot of noise; the latest attack drew just silence. After a bombardment of rabbis’ and rabbis’ wives’ letters, after “price tags” became a commonplace occurrence in the West Bank, after we’ve seen some incidents in Israel proper, after 46 percent of the public said (Hebrew) they consider the attacks a justified response to the Itamar massacre ~ after all that, this time there were no detainees and no publicity. Had Ha’Kol Ha’Yehudi refrained from mentioning it; the incident would have evaporated into thin air, like most incident it reports on.
The vast majority of these cases do not end in death, and pogroms or just abuse of non-Jews which is non-lethal is becoming a non-issue. We’ve become used to it. Pogroms are a daily event ~ nothing to write home about, as long as they are kept within bounds. It’s background noise. A dog bites a man. Nothing to see here, move along.
"The main difference between Bosnia and Palestine is that ethnic cleansing in the former took place in the form of dramatic massacres and slaughters which caught the world's attention, whereas in Palestine what is taking place is a drop-by-drop tactic in which one or two houses are demolished daily, a few acres are taken here and there every day, a few people are forced to leave" ~ Edward Said
That’s what a low-level terror campaign looks like, when the government lends a quiet hand:
Beginning with never-ending investigations; making it clear to hoodlums who hesitate to take part that they have nothing to fear; going along with the rabbis, who the police avoid, who provide the ideological framework for these crimes; and sealing the deal with the fact that those rabbis are government employees and their yeshivas are publicly funded. In fact, Israel, in fact, funds “price tag” activities.
All they have to do now is convince the Israelis to go the extra step, and ignore not just assault, but murder as well. This will be done with the usual excuses ~ would you like an Arab to date your sister, do you know what the Arab would have done to you if he could ~ and then we’ll take the final slide into silent darkness. This will take some time: A majority of the population is not yet Jewish enough, is still inhibited. But we’re no longer in on a slippery slope,
we’re in freefall.
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