Thousands of Israelis Rally in Support of Soldier Who Executed Wounded Palestinian

Mr. Mackey

There is a clear difference how you treat support of lawless acts by Israelis and Palestinians. A show of support by Israelis for an IDF soldier accused of murdering a “suspected” Palestinian attacker is newsworthy while the support by Palestinians of the attempted murder of a busload of civilians by a Hamas operative in the West Bank is ignored. Your hypocrisy and/or support for terrorism couldn’t be clearer in this example.

You wrote three articles covering the IDF execution of the wounded “suspect” accused of knifing an IDF soldier. The last article was titled “Thousands of Israelis Rally in Support of Soldier Who Executed Wounded Palestinian”. One picture displayed in the article showed an Israeli with a sign that said “kill them all” referring obviously to the Palestinians. The article noted that a majority of the Israelis oppose prosecution of the IDF soldier charged with manslaughter. The article also suggested that left wing Israelis were threatened by the crowd. Your article was clearly meant to show right wing Israelis in a bad light – lawless or even fascist and certainly full of hate toward the Palestinians.

As you know, a Palestinian terrorist connected with Hamas ignited a suicide vest on a bus in East Jerusalem injuring 20 Israelis and killing the suicide bomber. There was no mention of this clear act of terrorism targeting civilians by the Intercept. In a story published by the Jerusalem Post (“Hundreds of Palestinians march in support of Jerusalem bus bombing suspect”), Palestinians celebrated the “young martyr”:

“……A mass demonstration took place on Wednesday as hundreds marched to the yard near the house of the family of the Palestinian teenager suspected of carrying out Monday’s Jerusalem bus bombing in a show of support for the young martyr……”

You chose to ignore this act of terror and attempted murder by the Palestinian terrorist – and the subsequent honoring of the Palestinian terrorist by hundreds of Palestinians. By choosing to ignore this story, you treat the bus terrorist as a “victim” and the Jews riding the bus as the terrorists – a very common position at the Intercept regarding Islamic terrorism.

Some titbits about Max Blumenthal:

Max Blumenthal, one of our favorite anti-Semitic activist authors, was recently dis-invited from speaking at an event in Germany, the Algemeiner reports:

The leader of the main opposition party in Germany, the far-left Die Linke (“The Left,”) has shut down a forthcoming party seminar at the German parliament featuring Max Blumenthal, an American writer of Jewish origin whose visceral attacks on Israel are widely regarded as anti-Semitic.

Since Blumenthal is well known for, among other things, harassing our students/ colleagues, spewing blatantly false rhetoric, and just generally hating on Israel, we can’t say we’re disappointed (or even surprised).

Max Blumenthal’s books and articles frequently compare Israel to Nazi Germany, an analogy which many experts on anti-Semitism view as anti-Semitic, since it deliberately seeks to wound the Jewish state by portraying it as no different from a regime that systematically murdered six million Jews and millions of others. A State Department briefing paper on anti-Semitism states unequivocally that “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is anti-Semitic. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has included Blumenthal in its “top 10? list of anti-Semitic slurs for 2013, because of chapter headings in “Goliath,” such as “The Concentration Camp” and “How to Kill Goyim and Influence People.”

More recently, Blumenthal is credited with having invented the Twitter hashtag #JSIL, which stands for “Jewish State in the Levant.” Israel is the equivalent, he believes, of the Islamic State terrorist organization currently engaged in a genocidal campaign against the Christian, Yezidi and Kurdish minorities in Syria and Iraq.

Blumenthal is a frequent visitor to college campuses, but this recent dis-invitation shows that, sometimes, reason prevails, and there are people who agree that naked bigotry is not acceptable.

http://www.cameraoncampus.org/blog/tag/max-blumenthal/

If you go down the linked page, you will see Blumenthal’s Twitter comment (yes, he did it) in response to a hoax attributing horrible words about Arabs to late Israeli PM Sharon. In reality, Sharon has never said that…

Indeed, as Breitbart put it: Max is the lowest and most disgusting form of a human being…

Yes, I agree. Let’s be civil and “Refrain from bigoted statements about Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians.” And to anti-semitic ants: don’t worry, bigoted statements about Jews and Israel are allowed, welcomed and encouraged. After all this is the Intercept…

This is my last comment in this thread. To the Zionists I’ve engaged here, if we meet again in other Israel-Palestine threads at this site, this is how it is going to go:

1. There are limits to the poorly executed attempts at “gotcha!” I will entertain. Those derail substantive discussion, and I won’t play that game much again.

2. The logical fallacies are not a grab bag of rhetorical weapons to toss out without regard to whether they apply. Nor are they to be engaged in by you with the expectation that I’ll go down the rabbit hole with you explaining why your fallacious bullshit is fallacious bullshit.

3. Have relevant facts, documented facts, available, or I won’t do much more than correct anything that other readers might mistakenly think is credible.

4. Pro tip: Unhinged wingnuts like Andrew Breitbart are not credible sources. No one should be expected to listen to him ranting abusively at anyone, and I regret having not summarily refused to even watch or discuss any video featuring him.

5. Refrain from bigoted statements about Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians etc. At some point a sufficient amount of that merits reporting you for banning, just happens here when the offenders are antisemites.

Adieu.

This is hard to even describe. Just watch this 10 minute video taken Israeli David Sheen (who speaks and translates Hebrew), of an angry Israeli throng in Tel Aviv celebrating and “supporting” the accused solider, some in the name of “the Jewish people.” Religious fanatics abound, but the uber-nationalism — the toxic tribalism — is most shocking.

It must be agonizing to identify as Jewish, and be a moral person, and see things like this supposedly about “all Jews.”

A member of parliament in the Likud Party: “We will win and we will fuck the Arabs! Ole Ole Ole.”

Just. Watch. It.

Ha! Where are the Israeli Gandhis?

Fake Palestinian People

Zuheir Mohsen, a Palestinian leader of the pro-Syria as-Sa’iqa faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) between 1971 and 1979, openly admitted that Palestinian people were a fake people, created only out of propaganda and the excuse to war against Israel and the Jewish people.

In a March 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw Zuheir Mohsen said:

“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.”

Zuheir Mohsen is not the only one admitting that Palestinians are a fake and created people. Created by a terrorist organization from the inception of the new Israel. The same admission was openly blurted out by Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad on Egypt TV on March 23, 2012, where Fathi Hammad admitted that Palestinians were actually from neighboring Arab countries: “Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis”. Because Palestinians are a terrorist creation, Arab nations refuse to give residency to those who now want to leave Gaza and second generation “Palestinians” that are now born in “Palestine”, while they openly use the conflict as a tool to perpetrate Jew hate and propaganda.

http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1596643

Re: “schizophrenic” liberal Zionists

The heart of their problem is that, generally, they want history to begin in 1967, and to take that as the starting point for considering the plight of Palestinians, and opposing the occupation. But the salient date, for Palestinians and many of their supporters, is 1948.

Without endorsing it all, I found this Jonathan Freedland book review of the works of three liberal Zionists illuminating. He quotes Israeli liberal Zionist, Ari Shavit, who wrote in My Promised Land:

…the bleeding heart Israeli liberals of later years who condemn what [the Israelis] did in Lydda but enjoy the fruits of their deed…. If need be, I’ll stand by the damned. Because I know that if it wasn’t for them, the State of Israel would not have been born…. They did the dirty, filthy work that enables my people, myself, my daughter, and my sons to live.

Shavit’s book tells the ugly truth about 1948, and he announces he will “stand with the damned.” But most liberal Zionists work hard not to look at 1948. They find it intolerable to make the choice of whether or not they align themselves with the damned, and struggle to not have to “go there.”

They will not grapple with the contradictions of ethno-religious supremacist nationalism (i.e., Zionism) that is squarely incompatible with liberal universalism.

That, then, is what I mean when I cite their “schizophrenia.”

You can’t negotiate with these things who call themselves Palestinians. If it is not clear to you based on watching the video: http://www.animalsaustralia-media.org/upload/photos/gaza-strip-2013/ , then one should examine Gaza Government’s Charter where they state that peace negotiations are ‘but a waste of time’ and resources and the only way to advance the Palestinian cause is Jihad. Do I need to spell out the definition of Jihad?

The lies and deception of closet anti-Semites at the Intercept and its readership boards is dispelled by one simple facts: after a war, which was unleashed by multiple Arab countries, which Israel won, the parties made peace and Jordan and Egypt gave on their claims to the now disputed territories. And by the way, there were no Palestinians at that time; nor were there claims by others to the disputed territories. So, essentially, both Gaza and West Bank legally belong to Israel. There were groups of Arabs some Jordanians, some Saudis most of them criminals, bandits and hoodlums who fled Saudi Arabia and mainland Jordan. Their mother countries didn’t want them for obvious reasons. There was no reason Israel would want them either. These groups organized themselves as Palestinians and pronounced their mission: removal of Israel and the Jews from the Middle East. Israel has always stood ready to give these things land in Gaza and West Bank to have their own country. But these savages, as written in their charter do not want to negotiate, as they have in mind a better prize: the destruction of Israel and the Jews.

Again, it has to be said that no other country on Earth would tolerate what these savages do to Israel and Israelis (essentially the same thing they did to Australian cattle in 2013). Had this happened in the US, UK, France or any third world country, the offending party (Palestinians) would have been wiped off. I fault Israel for the apparent inability to do so…

From Haaretz: Israeli Soldier Indicted for Shooting Wounded Palestinian Assailant Released for Passover

He was released to hero’s welcome, and the photo shows him being carried on the shoulders of a celebrating crowd, as he widely grins.

Brought to you by The Only Democracy’s ™ Most Moral Army.™

GilGamesh spews a common and false Zionist accusation:

>As for Max he’s the last person someone who claims to be offended by lies should quote.

For at least two years I’ve engaged in contentious exchanges with Zionists about Max. Not one has been able to document lies he’s supposedly told.

Max is extremely careful with facts. Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, is richly detailed and documented — I’ve see all of two criticisms about very minor, immaterial fact errors in it. (It is almost impossible to write a book of such scope without a few minor errors. Almost all authors make them. I’ve been a manuscript reader and even with a lot of us on it, they can sneak through.)

Eric Alterman, who is outraged by Max and Goliath, “reviewing” it in the Nation, called it “technically accurate.” That means: accurate.

The Jewish prophetic tradition has been a deep blessing to the West, especially perhaps in the United States. Jewish-Americans have been the salt of social justice movements in the 20th century. They still often are.

The rabid, racist nationalism that is Zionism has poisoned much of the Western Jewish community, but the younger generation is reclaiming their prophetic tradition. This past Tuesday some of them held a Liberation Seder in front of Hillel’s headquarters in Washington D.C , and one of these young Jews wrote, A new era of anti-occupation Judaism, my emphasis:

We began the seder with the Shehecheyanu, the Jewish blessing for auspicious beginnings. When I hear the Shehecheyanu, I cannot help but to hear it in my father’s voice. I grew up listening to him in his capacity as Rabbi Gale, chanting the blessing at weddings, holiday celebrations, and bnai mitzvah. I burst into a smile as we blessed our auspicious gathering of Jews united for freedom and dignity for all.

We sang Lo Yisa Goy — a passage from Isaiah popular in many Jewish communities. It translates, “Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and neither shall they learn war anymore.” For the first time in years, I was able to sing the song loudly and freely without wondering whether those around me cared about the Israeli occupation at all. I knew I was surrounded by a Jewish community that did care, urgently.

…

…young American Jews who love our tradition and decry the injustice of occupation are coming of age. And we are creating a Judaism together that does not force us to empty our prayers of meaning.

I feel in my bones like the times are finally changing. We are creating an actualized, morally consistent Judaism, and we are taking it to its next logical step.

Max Blumenthal once said of Zionism that it kills Palestinian bodies and Jewish souls. The truth of this strikes me again and again, as various Zionists come to these comments and post the most sick and depraved commentary, as well as lies. “Jonah” telling Sufi Muslim she must abandon her religion because it is immoral while he spews the most base Islamophobic trash seen here in a long while. “gorsky,” declaring that Palestinians are “barbaric savages,” strongly implying they deserve all the atrocities Israel imposes on them, and brazenly lying about the vile proposal Israel’s Intelligence Minister recently made.

The grotesque comments and naked lies that Zionists, around the world, offer to Palestinians and their supporters are simply breathtaking. These words are the fruit of ethno-religious supremacist nationalism, that is: Zionism.

It could never have been otherwise. As many Jews warned, including Hannah Arendt and Judah Magnes. Militaristic nationalism, based on mandated Jewish majority and privilege, is toxic.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/03/30/israeli-minster-calls-for-civil-targeted-killings-of-bds-leaders/

BDS is ever more successful. And the Zionist entity’s only solution is calling for more killings. 50 000 Israelis signed a petition demanding a medal for the Mengele Medic — are these people even human anymore?

Sgt. Elor Azaria is a fool who sold his soul. Those close who did not prepare him to resist the temptations of evil are negligent and as willing participants as any good nazi.

Decades ago, i believed evil was a fictional character for entertainment and Aesop’s fables. WW2 was past and the new world of the willing good lay ahead. Then came vietnam and the predatory greed of wallstreet. And i re-wondered.

Evil has no power if not followed, if not revered or praised. The antidote for evil is not evil’s ways, it’s laughter, the best medecine.

Zions are seriously bad, but they are also seriously stupid.

gorsky

Live cattle is not subject to blockade

If so, it’s about the only thing that isn’t. Israel has been destroying the economy of Gaza and has purposely reduced the amount of food available there. If they don’t do it by blockade, they do it during one of their every-few-years murderous bombing extravaganzas. Indeed, “such is the chilling meticulousness of Israeli planning that in January 2008, almost a year before the invasion of Gaza, the Israeli defense ministry prepared a document detailing the minimum number of calories that Gaza residents would be permitted to consume.”

Then the bombs fell again:

During Operation Cast Lead, for instance, the Israeli forces invading Gaza destroyed the chicken farms of Sameh Sawafeary and his family in the Zaytoun area. Over several days in early January 2009, the UN-commissioned Goldstone Report records that Sawafeary and other witnesses hid in terror as they watched “Israeli armoured bulldozers systematically destroy land, crops, chickens and farm infrastructure.” In all, thirty-one thousand of Sawafeary’s chickens were killed. He estimated that a hundred thousand chickens had been killed at other farms. This widespread destruction was confirmed by UN satellite imagery. In discussing the army’s assault on the farms in the Zaytoun area, the Goldstone Report states: “The systematic destruction along with the large numbers of killings of civilians suggest premeditation and a high level of planning.”152 It finds that “the Sawafeary chicken farms, the 31,000 chickens and the plant and material necessary for the business were systematically and deliberately destroyed, and that this constituted a deliberate act of wanton destruction not justified by any military necessity.”

And not just killing off the poultry. Flour, canning factories. This comprehensive, depraved Israeli policy is laid out here.

Gorsky:

One may approve or disapprove killing of animals for food, but the kosher killing or killing at Italian farms (agriturismo) or anywhere in the world (for food) is quick. Here, the “palestinians” take hours of continuous pleasure of torturing the animals before they get killed. Quite a difference. Isn’t it?

As is clear to any thinking person, this topic has nothing to do with Israelis celebrating the slaughter of human beings. Something they do often and grotesquely, as the above article documents.

Mackey’s piece, of course, pertains to but one instance of Israeli barbarism. For another, see this story: Israelis gather on hillsides to watch and cheer as military drops bombs on Gaza: People drink, snack and pose for selfies against a background of explosions as Palestinian death toll mounts in ongoing offensive. Don’t overlook the photo of the happy campers with their drinks and coolers yucking it up as their country drops rains death and destruction on other human beings trapped in a blockaded strip of land.

Many, many more examples of depraved Israeli words and deeds directed at Palestinians are “out there.” I could keep posting them quite endlessly. (Oh, and examples of loathsome, racist words and deeds Israelis direct at black African refugees, and even black Jews.)

Re; the cattle video. Absolutely brutal and barbaric. If you brutalize people they will become brutal.. Unfortunately, you will see the same kind of treatment of live animals on Factory Farms all over the USA which is one of the reasons you are not allowed on factory farms where animals are treated like machines (yes I know they are not pets). These animals in the film, at least had relatively quick deaths compared to a lifetime of confinement where they can barely move. Cows milked by Robots with their huge udders swollen by the drugs which are not allowed in most country’s. I have never watched Halal slaughter but I have watched the Kosher slaughter of Cattle and it’s essentially the same knife in the neck while the animal is fully conscious you see here. You may die a much worse death in some Hospital in the USA. The “sport” the people are enjoying is no different than that enjoyed at a Bullfight where the animals are tortured before being killed for the pleasure of the cowards in the audience. Ever watch a MMA match or even a professional wrestling match and watch the “civilized” audience. We have not advanced far from the caves and we are not likely to, ask any Cop or Soldier. While I think the Palestinians should get all their land back, to the UN partition of 48 and reparations. I can also understand why the 19 year old Israeli Soldier would murder the Palestinian. Ask your Secretary of State what American Soldiers did in Vietnam. In brutal situations, people act brutally.

It seems it’s time for this again. Moshe Dayan at a 1956 funeral for a dead Zionist soldier killed by a Palestinian:

Let us not today fling accusation at the murderers. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. . . . Let us make our reckoning today. We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house. . . . Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

The clear-eyed (and monstrous) Dayan understood that no people would passively accept what Zionists did and do to the Palestinians. Of course, the steel helmets and gun barrelsDaytan cited have been replaced by a state-of-the-art weapons stockpile, F-16s, white phosphorous and other horrors.

The world now increasingly understands what Zionist have done to Palestinians, and recoils in outrage and anger.

Every “palestinian” behind licker* should watch this video of mass torture of Australian cattle that were sent to Gaza/West Bank to help the “hungry.”

http://www.animalsaustralia-media.org/upload/photos/gaza-strip-2013/

*”palestinian behind licker” – definition: one supporting, promoting and glorifying barbaric savages and terrorists targeting men, women, children and domesticated animals for torture and bloody killing

Mackey shows the Twitter post by Dan Cohen in his article……

“……..Crowd chants “Elor the hero” and “death to Arabs.” This seems more like a celebration of murder than anything……”

……..but will undoubtedly ignore the hundreds that march in support of the Jerusalem bus bomber which targeted and injured 20 Israelis. As Dan Cohen would say: “This seems more like a celebration of [attempted] murder than anything” (my insert in brackets).

Here is another story that Mackey will not cover:

“………A mass demonstration took place on Wednesday as hundreds marched to the yard near the house of the family of the Palestinian teenager suspected of carrying out Monday’s Jerusalem bus bombing in a show of support for the young martyr…….Abdel Hamid Abu Srour, 19, a resident of the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem who is suspected of detonating an explosive on a bus in southern Jerusalem that left 20 others injured, died on Wednesday following multiple surgeries……..”

Now, if Mackey can prove that the surgeons actually finished off the terrorists (sorry, victim), that will be worthy of another story in the Intercept.

What the Elor did was wrong and what the Palestinian was doing was worse. What we don’t hear much of is how Abbas calls for murder and Palestinians follow with knife attacks. How about some reporting of these issues which are clearly related.

According to Blumenthal in the interview by Greenwald last year (Operation Protective Edge):

“……..So, the development of the al-Qassam brigades is one of the untold stories of this war. If we look at the casualty total of Israeli citizens, we see that about 72 Israeli citizens died. Sixty-seven of them were combat soldiers, which is evidence that soldiers and not civilians were targeted…….Mohammed Deif, the commander of the al-Qassam brigades, and his spokesman, Abu Ubaida, both explicitly declared they were targeting Israeli soldiers, and not civilians. They mocked the Israeli military as cowards for attacking civilians in the Gaza Strip……”

Last Wednesday, a Hamas terrorist boarded a bus setting off a bomb targeting Israeli civilians. Luckily, only the terrorist died, but clearly the target was a busload of innocent Israeli civilians. Is Greenwald going to interview Blumenthal about the bus bombing by Hamas which targeted civilians?? Blumenthal is a (typical) radical left wing propagandist for Hamas. Hamas is an internationally recognized terrorist organization. They earned that designation by targeting Israeli civilians with Qassams and suicide bombers.

“……They [Hamas] mocked the Israeli military as cowards for attacking civilians in the Gaza Strip….” my insert in brackets

Yea, the Palestinians had nowhere to go during the Israeli onslaught while Hamas operatives could hide underground in the labyrinth of tunnels which cost millions to build. That is millions of dollars that could have been used to build (possibly) bomb shelters for the people that elected Hamas to power? When you sacrifice your own population for reasons of propaganda then you are cowards. But the propaganda will continue to work as long as “journalists” like Blumenthal carry the mantra for Hamas (Blumenthal in the Interview with Greenwald):

“……They burst into the military base, killed every soldier they confronted, losing only one man, and then ran back into the tunnel, back to the Gaza Strip, and this operation, the video of it, was deeply inspiring to young Palestinians who had only seen, throughout their lives, video of Palestinians being humiliated by Israeli soldiers……”

You could tell that Blumenthal was gushing with pride for Hamas as they “killed every soldier they confronted”.

GilGamesh writes:

You can’t argue with this drunk army of anti-Jewish trolls

Perhaps, but the ADL — self appointed spokespeople of American Jews — can arrest young Jewish ones for opposing the occupation. IfNotNow held a “Liberation Seder” outside the ADL office today, and many were arrested and peacefully led away to a cop van in cuffs.

Below I wrote:

The truth there is wholly irrelevant to many Zionists, including some who spew their crap here. Even if the solider is guilty, he’s innocent.

It’s just that simple for them.

GilGamesh replied:

Kind of reminds me of the anti-Zionists who excuse the murder of Israeli civilians as justified resistance to the occupation.

1. Israel holds itself out as a modern liberal democracy characterized by purportedly having The Most Moral Army.™ 2. Israel is oppressing, occupying, still stealing land from and murdering Palestinians. 3. Palestinians are morally allowed to resist their oppressor (but not in any fashion). 4. Attempting to stab the the oppressor’s soldier is not immoral. 5. In all Western democracies, it is immoral for a soldier to execute a wounded, downed assailant.

But many Israelis are turning out in droves to support their murderous soldier, because they don’t care if he is guilty under terms of Western law; he is innocent because he murdered a member of the hated group they oppress.

That is the “morality” growing very fast in Israel.

Here is a story that Mackey will never cover because it is a victimless act of resistance (unless the IDF finished off the bomber). The casualties were just Jews (Haaratz):

“…… Hamas in the West Bank claimed responsibility Wednesday for the bus bombing in Jerusalem on Monday that left 20 wounded. The acknowledgment came after health officials in Gaza published a statement saying the Palestinian man who died Wednesday of wounds sustained in the bombing was a member of the group and was responsible for the attack.
Hamas identified the man as a 19-year-old from the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem………Unlike other terror attacks, neither Hamas in Gaza nor its spokespeople abroad published an official acknowledgment of responsibility for the attack. Immediately after the attack, the organization published a statement praising the attack, but not claiming it…….”

Mackey would never refer to the Jerusalem bus bombing as an act of terror even though civilians were targeted. Of course, he was the author of the article which covered the terrorist attack in Brussels for the Intercept. Mackey never called the Brussels bombings “terrorism” in his article. He also never referred to the victims as…..well victims. In reality, Mackey probably would call the bus bomber who died a “victim”. The other riders on the bus were the oppressors.

It is also interesting how Hamas in Gaza did not claim responsibility. This is similar to how Operation Protective Edge began with the brutal execution of the three Israeli children by Hamas operatives in the West Bank. Hamas leaders in Gaza said they knew nothing about the kidnapping – just like this time. Netanyahu will rightly hold Hamas leadership responsible – again.

How much will it take before American politicians are willing to admit they’ve been backing the wrong side when they praised the Israeli regime? How much barbarity committed by the ‘Jewish State’ will it take before the American Jewish establishment is willing to condemn the Israeli regime in the terms that the American Muslim establishment use to condemn the ‘Islamic State’? How much will it take before the sight of the ‘blue star and bars’ flying from a flagpole is understood to be a symbol of the same ideology that the ‘stars and bars’ represents, and the folks that try and portray it as representing something noble are seen as either blind to the truth or racists? Unfortunately, from the statements of even Sanders, the measures to outlaw participation in BDS, and too much else, even absolute proof of cold blooded murder and widespread support for the most obvious of war crimes doesn’t even come close.

Cite the law that permits a govt authority to shoot a prisoner who’s been captured and disabled in the head. Tell me upon which law that is based.

Or is the logic based on the fact that the suspect allegedly broke the law so the authorities then have an equal right to break the law as well? Will this power extend to all acts of suspected criminality? Do we really want to authorize govts with this power to execute suspects on the spot?

Time to stop sending American police to Israel for training.

“Chant: Release the kid or we’ll turn the country over”

I have been waiting for this a long time….a prayer answered. There is a day coming very soon when the decent Israeli’s with a fraction of humanity will need a place to go…along with all Palestinians. The blatant reality of this demon worship that is bringing on its own death…and I welcome it. The SHAME upon the parents of this poisoned fruit…the utter reason for their own deaths. The Almighty is against you! I commend the restraint of Moav Vardi to knock out some teeth…and the diligence of B’Tselem and other journalist/persons having the courage to report this. May this evil die a death of the thousands it has taken.

Comparing a Palestinian terrorist to Jesus and Israelis to Nazis may be getting a bit carried away. That’s the sort of thing that gives liberals a bad name – I’m staying off that bus.

This is much more like our own American lynchings — but not really the racist kind, despite the underlying ethnic aspect of the conflict. I mean the “why wait for a trial when we can hang ‘im right now?” kind. The disconnect between the Israeli people and the government on whether there is a death penalty is ordinary politics. But I suspect that this is old-fashioned death penalty politics, not a matter of empty ritualism as the death penalty is in the U.S. now, but motivated by real fear that some deal or mistake will be made and the killer will get out and do it again. Israel *has* traded prisoners for hostages in the past, and that sets a huge seed of doubt that a captured terrorist is really going to stay locked up. I don’t know what motivations the Israeli protesters actually have, but I would think that for them, every terrorist captured alive represents a partial payment toward having Israelis taken captive to be traded for their release. As such — if one puts a very high price on Israeli life and a very low price on a Palestinian terrorist’s life — a person could think of killing them as an act of genuine self-defense, even when they are defenseless.

Of course, I am not saying that this is how things should have happened.

The supporters of the murderer of Michael Brown was similar.
The supporters of the murderer of Trevon Martin was similar.
The supporters of Kristallnacht was similar.

Funny thing about evil, it appeals to the worst in people who are so given to take the blood of the innocent, they trade their souls for the feel of victory and in return get that temptation and lust for more blood for more their newly acquired craving. Vampire of the souls.

Perhaps the murder of Jesus wasn’t enough.

I spent so much of my life wondering how the Jewish people could have been so persecuted throughout their history. I defended them without question. Because I was lazy and allowed the State and their media mouthpiece to tell me what to believe. And my schools, the adults who mentored me as well praised “God’s chosen people” for their resolute endurance.

Who could doubt such romanticism?

Well, eventually I did. And now I wonder how I could ever have been so blind. There are few, if any other places in the world where such a display of collective barbarity can be seen in so much openness. And in seeming celebration of their own revulsion and hate.

I loathe to wish ill on anyone, but this kind of naked and unashamed immorality tests my Humanity, and tempts evil upon my very soul.

I am now in awe of the Palestinian people for their unyielding will to survive the Zionist horde.

The prosecution added that Azaria changed his story twice in the hours after the incident, as it became clear that he might be charged. Two hours after the shooting, the medic told his commander that he opened fire because he thought the wounded Palestinian had a knife. Later, he changed his story again, saying that he was concerned that the immobilized man, who had already been checked for explosives, might have been about to detonate a bomb.

The truth there is wholly irrelevant to many Zionists, including some who spew their crap here. Even if the solider is guilty, he’s innocent.

It’s just that simple for them.