The Israeli Army’s First Commandment
JVL Introduction
We had no sooner finished posting Peter Beinart’s article Seeing the things in front of our eyes when this article by Amira Hass popped up in Haaretz.
It’s a brilliant and excoriating example of what Beinart is referring to – but here Hass refuses to not see the bigger picture.
She insists: “Stop saying ‘Soldiers fired for no reason’ or ‘a Palestinian boy was killed for no reason.’ First of all, because there is a reason, and second, because this kind of phrasing only entrenches the representation of reality that the government wants people to adopt.”
The first and only commandment that the Israeli army is subject to on the West Bank is protecting settlements and settlers.
From that perspective a Palestinian life is without consequence. And recurrent killings are entrenched in the reality of Israel’s settler-colonialism.
This article was originally published by Ha'aretz on Mon 9 Aug 2021. Read the original here.
The Israeli Army’s First Commandment
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Or you can choose someone other than Amira Hass to provide examples, eg https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/palestinian-woman-gives-birth-at-roadblock-idf-doctor-rescues-baby-675748
Is one allowed to mention ANYTHING positive about Israel in these columns?
[Sure Jaye a real feel-good story if ever there was one. Tell us, what is a roadblock doing there in the first place? Oh, we forgot. It is simply there to preserve Israeli domination in a 54-year old temporary occupation that Israel is forced to maintain against its will…
Suggest you read Peter Beinart’s Seeing the things in front of our eyes– JVL web]
This reminds me of the evil fable of the scorpion who asks for a crocodile across a river, then stings him halfway across, so that both drown. The moral being, as a Jewish friend told me with a chuckle, ‘It’s the Middle East, baby!’ So if Israeli soldiers murder Palestinians, it is – by this reasoning – to prevent them from murdering Israelis, as they surely would, given half a chance. It is the logic of Hell, but for Israel it is the only logic that makes any sense.
Some”data analysis”of the violence perpetrated against Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories would expose the shocking truth about Israeli settler colonialism.
Israeli violence including the murder of innocent Palestinians hardly gets a mention in the MSM. It’s as if there is something normal about this or the Palestinians have brought this upon themselves. Perhaps their lives don’t matter or should be sacrificed for the greater good of British foreign policy in the Middle East. How else can we explain the indifference of the MSM to the treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli colonialists?
I posted this video on Facebook, with the comment, “Isn’t it a shame that some Israelis are brought up to believe, that Palestinians are less than vermin”!!
They suspended me for 6 weeks, saying it was because I’d used the words “Palestinians are less than vermin”!! I had no way of replying.
https://youtu.be/EjTkJIPKj80
The ‘three monkeys’ rule now extends to “analyse no evil” and to “indict no evil”! The final fruit of ‘cancel culture’, ‘no platform’ and so on is to pass by on the other side WITH A SENSE OF VIRTUE!