MOBOCRACY AT BEN-GURION AIRPORT
(Brain washed) "Nutters" according to Jerusalem Post writer, Larry Derfner.
Jerusalem Post Journalist Larry Derfner came to Tel Aviv airport to cover the arrival of international activists. Once in the reception hall, a small Israeli mob turned on him. In a matter of seconds, he found himself in a police van.
Poor wee Israel, so very misunderstood by the world, and I agree.
Countless arguments many have said "It's the Israeli Government, not the population"!
Well, there's another myth exposed, because except for a very small quantity of decent Jewish people the majority are absolute lawless nutters who are simply so used to literally "getting away with murder" that they know no boundaries, never a good thing.
What happens when a journalist from the Jerusalem Post arrives at Ben Gurion Airport to cover the "Flytilla" So lets' take a look at what un-checked lawlessness looks like:
Jerusalem Post's Larry Derfner surrounded at Ben Gurion airport
(photo: Joseph Dana)
Anybody who believes the platitude that the people want peace, it’s just the leaders who want war, should have been at Ben-Gurion Airport today.
It’s a good thing those Free Palestine activists got arrested; otherwise, the little mob that formed spontaneously would have punched them up pretty good.
Only minutes after I got to the Arrivals hall, a few activists stood in front of the phalanx of reporters and cameramen, held up their little signs and started chanting “Israel Apartheid” and ”Free Palestine!” The cops tore the signs from their hands and started pushing them toward the exit.
A couple of dozen people, mainly men but also a few women, followed very close behind the tightly-bunched demonstrators, cops and reporters to the police van.
Only minutes after I got to the Arrivals hall, a few activists stood in front of the phalanx of reporters and cameramen, held up their little signs and started chanting “Israel Apartheid” and ”Free Palestine!” The cops tore the signs from their hands and started pushing them toward the exit.
A couple of dozen people, mainly men but also a few women, followed very close behind the tightly-bunched demonstrators, cops and reporters to the police van.
“Throw them in the garbage,” shouted one woman.
An old man tried to get at one of the activists, but the police stopped him.
I was there ostensibly as a journalist, and I was scribbling notes, but I felt cowardly not saying anything to these nationalist hooligans, so I started asking them in Hebrew, “What are these people doing?”
I was there ostensibly as a journalist, and I was scribbling notes, but I felt cowardly not saying anything to these nationalist hooligans, so I started asking them in Hebrew, “What are these people doing?”
The woman who wanted them thrown in the garbage said, “They’re hurting us!”
I said, “They’re talking,” and the little mob turned on me, a couple of the men raised their fists.
The woman told me, “Go back home, get out of here,”
I said, “I live here.”
The cops mistook me for a demonstrator, put me in the police van, but when I showed them my press card, they let me go.
Let me repeat ~ the police started off arresting the demonstrators, but very shortly their main task was to keep them from being assaulted. They had to hold back the herd ~ and that’s what these people were, a herd incited by the idea that these protesters, non-violent protesters trying to get to the West Bank, were a menace, an immediate threat to their security.
Let me repeat ~ the police started off arresting the demonstrators, but very shortly their main task was to keep them from being assaulted. They had to hold back the herd ~ and that’s what these people were, a herd incited by the idea that these protesters, non-violent protesters trying to get to the West Bank, were a menace, an immediate threat to their security.
An Israeli woman confronts a local left-wing activist
as he flashes the victory sign from a police van after he was arrested.
as he flashes the victory sign from a police van after he was arrested.
And I do not buy the idea that these people are helpless pawns being manipulated by the government, the media, the right-wing politicians.
Most Israelis, even if they wouldn’t join a mob like the one at the airport, want to hear the belligerent rhetoric the opinion-makers are feeding them.
They hate anybody who says anything bad about Israel, and take their words automatically as “blood libels.”
The opinion-makers know this, and the ones who are popular and want to stay that way tell the people what they want to hear.
An Israeli border policeman arrests a local left-wing activist July 8, 2011 at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. A group of Israeli protesters gathered to welcome 'Pro-Palestinian Fly-In' activists who traveled in a mass protest to visit to the West Bank.
Who’s manipulating whom is a chicken-and-egg question.
Watching my enraged countrymen at Ben-Gurion, I imagined the daily headlines having been distilled into a kind of political methadrine and mainlined into their veins.
Few Israelis would join them in physically going after people chanting slogans.
But in their insistence that protesters like these be silenced because their words are acts of violence, acts of war, of terrorism, they represent the majority.
They are an authentic expression of the national will.
Theirs is the loudest voice in the land, it’s joined by the voice of Netanyahu, the government, the settlers and most of the media.
All competing voices are drowned out.
Which is why these foreign activists on these flotillas, whatever I or anybody else thinks of the totality of their politics, are absolutely vital not only to the Palestinians, but to Israel. They’re bringing oxygen to a suffocating nation.
Larry Derfner is a journalist and an op-ed contributor for the Jerusalem Post. This post was published on his joint blog with 972’s Dimi Reider, Israel Reconsidered, and is re-posted here with the author’s permission
PRO-PALESTINIAN ACTIVISTS DETAINED
IN ISRAEL ~ DENIED ACCESS TO LAWYERS
July 10, 2011
Forty pro-Palestinian activists detained in Israel for trying to reach Gaza are being denied access to a lawyer. According to pro-Palestinian activist Ronnie Barkan, Israel’s reaction is nothing less than sheer hysteria.
What we just saw at the airport a couple of days ago is not out of the ordinary,” said Barkan. “It is amazing that peace activists who clearly just want to show their solidarity and insist on basic values of universally recognized human rights are considered such a big threat by Israel.”
At least 500 pro-Palestinian activists arrived in Israel in recent days as part of a "flight-illa,” a mission to highlight what they perceive as Palestinian suffering in the West Bank. Fifty activists from among them clashed with security forces in two separate incidents in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh late on Saturday. Some of the protesters hurled stones at Israeli soldiers, who responded by making several arrests.
Israel says all pro-Palestinian activists detained at the country's international airport will soon be sent home.
Barkan said the activists’ actions cannot be called provocative.
Israel says all pro-Palestinian activists detained at the country's international airport will soon be sent home.
Barkan said the activists’ actions cannot be called provocative.
“What is happening is that over 500 Europeans and Americans chose to tell the truth and not lie to the border police,” Barkan told RT. “They stated they arrived to visit Palestinians, and were invited by their Palestinian colleagues. For doing this, they received absurd treatment by police and other security forces.”
Barkan, who is a member of the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” movement against Israel, said they simply want Israel to abide by international law.
“Until Israel respects universally-recognized human rights, we will continue to discuss the establishment of the State of Israel as an ethnic racist entity,” stated Barkan. “It led to the expulsion of over 700, 000 native Palestinians who are scattered everywhere around the world these days. Seventy percent of the Palestinians are refugees; others who are now living on Israeli territory do not have equal rights with Israeli citizens.”
Anan Odeh, an attorney and a human rights lawyer, managed to spend the day with the detained activists. He told RT that their treatment in prison has been awful.
Thuggish looking military at the airport. Israel's finest.
“Most of the detained said that Israeli soldiers and security forces treated them very badly,” said Odeh. “Some claim to have been beaten up by soldiers, who even hit women. The activists were held in tiny rooms at the airport without hearing any explanation of why they were not allowed to enter Israel. They were promised to be taken to hotels, but instead were crammed in vehicles used for transporting prisoners. They were kept there for more than 4-5 hours without water or food.”
The activists did not expect to receive such treatment.
“They came for peaceful activism,” said the lawyer. “They told Israeli security forces they did not want to take part in any demonstrations or break the Israeli law in any way. They just wanted to arrive to the West Bank and to meet the Palestinians and support them.”
