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Israel Is An Army With A Country Attached

H. E. Panqui

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...Biden and Trump ['Bidump'] make love passionately to iZrael... :cuckoo:

Israel Is an Army With a Country Attached

"A week into Israel’s summer 2006 assault on Lebanon — which killed 1,200 people, mainly civilians — Harvard Law School’s resident psychopath Alan Dershowitz surfaced on the pages of the Wall Street Journal with his latest upbeat intervention on behalf of Israeli war crimes.

The article, titled “Arithmetic of Pain,” posited the need for a “reassessment of the laws of war” in light of what Dershowitz determined to be an increasingly blurred distinction between combatants and civilians. Unfurling his concept of a “continuum of ‘civilianality,’” he explained:

Near the most civilian end of this continuum are the pure innocents — babies, hostages and others completely uninvolved; at the more combatant end are civilians who willingly harbor terrorists, provide material resources and serve as human shields; in the middle are those who support the terrorists politically, or spiritually.

The upshot: even purely innocent Lebanese babies were merely “near” the civilian-ish end of the continuum, while Israel was entirely exempt from the whole scheme because it is a “democracy.”....

During Israel’s fifty-day onslaught in the Gaza Strip in 2014, for example — during which 2,251 Palestinians were killed, including 551 children (hi, Dershowitz) — approximately 95 percent of Jewish Israelis supported the bloody escapade. As the New York Times reported at the time, some even headed to a hilltop with plastic chairs, sofas, and popcorn to watch the bombs fall.

Bresheeth-Zabner writes that, in Israel, military service essentially “starts before birth,” and the “whole social structure is militarized” to the point that the IDF and associated apparatuses form a “politicocultural-economic military–industrial complex.” There’s also an academic side to the complex, with Israel’s seven universities and top research centers “collaborating with the IDF and armament production and training companies, creating a seamless security continuum.” So much for that popular argument that boycotting Israeli academic institutions constitutes “rank anti-Semitism.”

Invoking the old hammer-and-nail saying, Bresheeth-Zabner notes that the more a society habituates itself to the use of force, the more the world looks like a place where force is needed — a self-perpetuating vicious cycle that is of course only helped along when the world in question is ever eager to acquire Israeli weapons and murderous know-how that have been battle-tested on Israel’s captive Palestinians and other Arab populations.

And it’s not only the United States that throws gobs of money at Israel for its services on behalf of empire; Israel’s universities and research centers are the “recipients of more EU research funding than the great majority of EU countries,” as Israel busies itself finding new and improved ways to spread insecurity under the guise of security.

Bresheeth-Zabner identifies the late Shimon Peres as the “mind behind the military-industrial complex” in Israel, starting with his appointment by David Ben-Gurion in 1947 — the year before Israel’s “independence” from the people whose territory they stole — as the official responsible for personnel and arms procurement for the Haganah, the precursor to the IDF. Director general of the Israeli defense ministry in the 1950s before going on to serve as both president and prime minister, Peres was instrumental in Israel’s nuclearization and the general militarization of Israeli identity, and responsible for such events as the infamous 1996 massacre of 106 people sheltering at a United Nations compound in Qana, Lebanon.

And yet, in keeping with the magical inverse logic that governs mainstream discourse on Israel, Peres has been memorialized as a man of peace (with a Nobel Peace Prize to boot!)
 
...Biden and Trump ['Bidump'] make love passionately to iZrael... :cuckoo:

Israel Is an Army With a Country Attached

"A week into Israel’s summer 2006 assault on Lebanon — which killed 1,200 people, mainly civilians — Harvard Law School’s resident psychopath Alan Dershowitz surfaced on the pages of the Wall Street Journal with his latest upbeat intervention on behalf of Israeli war crimes.

The article, titled “Arithmetic of Pain,” posited the need for a “reassessment of the laws of war” in light of what Dershowitz determined to be an increasingly blurred distinction between combatants and civilians. Unfurling his concept of a “continuum of ‘civilianality,’” he explained:

Near the most civilian end of this continuum are the pure innocents — babies, hostages and others completely uninvolved; at the more combatant end are civilians who willingly harbor terrorists, provide material resources and serve as human shields; in the middle are those who support the terrorists politically, or spiritually.

The upshot: even purely innocent Lebanese babies were merely “near” the civilian-ish end of the continuum, while Israel was entirely exempt from the whole scheme because it is a “democracy.”....

During Israel’s fifty-day onslaught in the Gaza Strip in 2014, for example — during which 2,251 Palestinians were killed, including 551 children (hi, Dershowitz) — approximately 95 percent of Jewish Israelis supported the bloody escapade. As the New York Times reported at the time, some even headed to a hilltop with plastic chairs, sofas, and popcorn to watch the bombs fall.

Bresheeth-Zabner writes that, in Israel, military service essentially “starts before birth,” and the “whole social structure is militarized” to the point that the IDF and associated apparatuses form a “politicocultural-economic military–industrial complex.” There’s also an academic side to the complex, with Israel’s seven universities and top research centers “collaborating with the IDF and armament production and training companies, creating a seamless security continuum.” So much for that popular argument that boycotting Israeli academic institutions constitutes “rank anti-Semitism.”

Invoking the old hammer-and-nail saying, Bresheeth-Zabner notes that the more a society habituates itself to the use of force, the more the world looks like a place where force is needed — a self-perpetuating vicious cycle that is of course only helped along when the world in question is ever eager to acquire Israeli weapons and murderous know-how that have been battle-tested on Israel’s captive Palestinians and other Arab populations.

And it’s not only the United States that throws gobs of money at Israel for its services on behalf of empire; Israel’s universities and research centers are the “recipients of more EU research funding than the great majority of EU countries,” as Israel busies itself finding new and improved ways to spread insecurity under the guise of security.

Bresheeth-Zabner identifies the late Shimon Peres as the “mind behind the military-industrial complex” in Israel, starting with his appointment by David Ben-Gurion in 1947 — the year before Israel’s “independence” from the people whose territory they stole — as the official responsible for personnel and arms procurement for the Haganah, the precursor to the IDF. Director general of the Israeli defense ministry in the 1950s before going on to serve as both president and prime minister, Peres was instrumental in Israel’s nuclearization and the general militarization of Israeli identity, and responsible for such events as the infamous 1996 massacre of 106 people sheltering at a United Nations compound in Qana, Lebanon.

And yet, in keeping with the magical inverse logic that governs mainstream discourse on Israel, Peres has been memorialized as a man of peace (with a Nobel Peace Prize to boot!)

If I were raised to believe that a minuscule country with a minute population consisting mainly of Jews was somehow the Prussia of the Middle East from its outset...cruelly invading its peaceful, tolerant, democratic neighbors out of nothing but sheer murderousness and territorial greed, I might be driven to write a similar article. But history and common sense thankfully belies Mrs. Fernandez's and Jacobin's ahistorical bilgewater.
 
If I were raised to believe that a minuscule country with a minute population consisting mainly of Jews was somehow the Prussia of the Middle East from its outset...cruelly invading its peaceful, tolerant, democratic neighbors out of nothing but sheer murderousness and territorial greed, I might be driven to write a similar article. But history and common sense thankfully belies Mrs. Fernandez's and Jacobin's ahistorical bilgewater.

...maybe you could share some of your 'facts' as to how many people 'israel' has killed, where they were killed, etc., versus how many israeli's have been killed, where, etc.. just the facts... [btw, how many nukes does 'miniscule' israel [pop. ?8 million] have?]

...here's a story you really won't like:... [on second thought, maybe you will]

Historian Gabby Bron wrote in the Yediot Ahronot (17 August 1995) that he witnessed Israeli troops executing Egyptian prisoners on the morning of June 8, 1967, in the Sinai town of El Arish. Bron reported that he saw about 150 Egyptian POWs being held at the El Arish airport where they were sitting on the ground, densely crowded together with their hands held on the back of their necks. Every few minutes, Bron writes, Israeli soldiers would escort an Egyptian POW from the group to a hearing conducted by two men in Israeli army uniforms. Then the man would be taken away, given a spade, and forced to dig his own grave. "I watched as (one) man dug a hole for about 15 minutes," Bron wrote. "Afterwards, the (Israeli military) policeman told him to throw the shovel away, and then one of them leveled an Uzi at him and shot two short bursts, each of three or four bullets." Bron says he witnessed about ten such executions, until the grave was filled. Then an Israeli Colonel threatened him with a revolver, forcing him to leave the area. USS Liberty survivor James Ennes, speculated that Israeli forces shot and killed 150 or more Egyptian Prisoners of war at the town of El-Arish while the USS Liberty passed just 12 miles offshore. Israeli documentary film "Rouch Shakid" alleged an army unit led by Benjamin Ben Eliezer may have killed 250 prisoners of war in the Sinai Peninsula rather than transferring them to POW camps. Ben-Eliezer DENIED [as usual, that] Egyptian prisoners were executed. He said Palestinian gunmen were killed during the fighting, not Egyptian soldiers [as if that's any better].

Talkbacks Glimpse into Egyptian captivity | News Ynet
 
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If I were raised to believe that a minuscule country with a minute population consisting mainly of Jews was somehow the Prussia of the Middle East from its outset...cruelly invading its peaceful, tolerant, democratic neighbors out of nothing but sheer murderousness and territorial greed, I might be driven to write a similar article. But history and common sense thankfully belies Mrs. Fernandez's and Jacobin's ahistorical bilgewater.

"Bilgewater"? Of course you have been fed the US-Israeli propaganda narrative for decades. The reality is very different to what you imagine it to be. I expect you also believe the genuine 'bilgewater' that Ahmadinejad's deliberately mistranslated speech about 'pushing Israel into the sea' and 'wiping Israel off the map' is true.
Israel, a nuclear power, paints itself as the eternal victim, and you bought into that crap hook, line and sinker.
 
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"Bilgewater"? Of course you have been fed the US-Israeli propaganda narrative for decades. The reality is very different to what you imagine it to be. I expect you also believe the genuine 'bilgewater' that Ahmadinejad's deliberately mistranslated speech about 'pushing Israel into the sea' and 'wiping Israel off the map' is true.
Israel, a nuclear power, paints itself as the eternal victim, and you bought into that crap hook, line and sinker.

Again, if I believed that in 1948 a sliver of a country populated by a few hundred thousand Holocaust survivors and Zionist grape-growing settlers decided to one day conquer the Middle East against their peaceful, tolerant neighbors I would think as you, H.E. Panqui and Belen Fernandez do.
 
Again, if I believed that in 1948 a sliver of a country populated by a few hundred thousand Holocaust survivors and Zionist grape-growing settlers decided to one day conquer the Middle East against their peaceful, tolerant neighbors I would think as you, H.E. Panqui and Belen Fernandez do.

Why are you inventing scenarios? It's a fact that hardcore Zionists want ALL of the region to be Israeli territory. They can't even stick within their legal borders now. To quote the founder of modern Israel, David Ben Gurion, "why should they [Arabs] trust us, we have come and we have taken their country"
 
"Bilgewater"? Of course you have been fed the US-Israeli propaganda narrative for decades. The reality is very different to what you imagine it to be. I expect you also believe the genuine 'bilgewater' that Ahmadinejad's deliberately mistranslated speech about 'pushing Israel into the sea' and 'wiping Israel off the map' is true.
Israel, a nuclear power, paints itself as the eternal victim, and you bought into that crap hook, line and sinker.

...i tell all these netanyahu republicans that if they want to support israel with their own lives and money..DO IT!!... but as long as these republicrat warmongering numbskulls have their dinkskinners DEEP in the trea$ury they will be exposed as anal sphincters...
 
...i tell all these netanyahu republicans that if they want to support israel with their own lives and money..DO IT!!... but as long as these republicrat warmongering numbskulls have their dinkskinners DEEP in the trea$ury they will be exposed as anal sphincters...

"If I was an Arab leader I would never make peace with Israel. It is natural, we have taken their country" David Ben Gurion. That's the reality those who bought into the 'poor tiny besieged Israel' propaganda are totally ignorant of.
They would do well to read some of Noam Chomsky's works. A Jew unafraid to tell the truth.

On Palestine by Noam Chomsky
 
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...chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent' is a great guide as to why 'the mullets' are the way they are...
 
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