65% of Israeli Jews oppose criminal prosecution for soldiers suspected of raping Palestinian detainees
A shocking new poll shows that almost two out
of three Jewish Israelis oppose criminal prosecution for soldiers
suspected of gang-raping Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teiman torture
facility.
And this seems to strengthen the pattern that has been documented: not only do Israelis seem to generally enjoy watching snuff videos
of this systemic torture — they generally support the sexual violence,
including rape, that has accompanied it. It confirms what we saw last
week when Israeli journalist Yehuda Shlezinger lamented on Israel’s
mainstream Channel 12 how gang rape is not an approved and regulated policy in Israeli detention centers.
That figure, 65%, also echoes the February poll
saying that 68% of Jewish Israelis “oppose the transfer of
humanitarian aid to Gaza residents at this time,” even if Hamas or UNRWA
were out of the picture in terms of distribution.
The same INSS poll citing the 65% opposing criminal prosecution of
the gang rapists incidentally cites an identical percentage of Israeli
Jews as having “high trust” in the reports of the military spokesperson
“throughout the war in Gaza” — an institution which generates incessant genocide propaganda.
It is unclear whether there is a linear overlap between the two — those
who have “high trust” and those who oppose criminal prosecution of the
gang rapists, but it wouldn’t be a surprise. They can trust the military
to protect the rapists.
None of the Hillary Clinton-style 'feminists' here in the United States have uttered so much as a syllable about this.
Revocation of the JNF’s charitable status indicates massive shift in how Canada views the Israeli occupation
The revocation of the Jewish National Fund's
and Ne’eman Foundation's charitable status suggests a massive shift is
underway in how Canada views the illicit funding of West Bank
settlements following the ICJ's opinion on the Israeli occupation.
A significant justification for Israel’s
existence relies on the narrative that, because of the alleged inherent
and rabid antisemitism of Arabs and Islam, the Jews of the Middle East
never had a home. Without Israel, it is said, these Jews would be left
on the fringes of Middle Eastern societies, marginalized for an
irrational prejudice against their religion and ethnicity by Muslims.
Historian and author Avi Shlaim details in his book, “Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew,” through personal experience and historical analysis the lies that this narrative is constructed upon.
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Chris Hedges: One of the fascinating points in your
book is that there was, in the 1930s, the rise of an antisemitic party.
But again, that was a European import, that this was fueled by German
fascism. That was a fascinating point, that even the most virulent forms
of antisemitism in Iraq were a European import.
Avi Shlaim: There was no history of antisemitism in
the Arab world. Antisemitism is a European disease. Antisemitism was
born in Europe. You can trace it back to the church in medieval times,
which persecuted Jews because they didn’t accept Jesus Christ as the Son
of God. In the Middle East, in the Arab world, there wasn’t a parallel
tradition. In the 1930s, antisemitism was exported from Europe to Iraq
in particular, and it’s striking that there was no antisemitic
literature in Arabic. So antisemitic literature had to be translated
from European languages into Arabic, and one example is Adolf Hitler’s
“Mein Kampf.” The situation of the Jews in Iraq was very, very different
to that of the Jews in Europe. In Iraq, the Jews did not live in
ghettos. In Iraq, the Jews practiced all the different professions. It
took Europe much longer than it took the Arab world to accept the Jews
as equal citizens, and we, my family and I, in the Jewish community, we
had much more in common linguistically and culturally with our Arab
compatriots than we did with our European co-religionists. So we were
very much part of the fabric of Iraqi society. We are not a foreign
body. There were thriving Jewish communities throughout the Arab world,
in Lebanon, in Syria, in Iraq, in Egypt, throughout North Africa, but
the Jewish community in Iraq was the most successful, the most
prosperous, and also the best integrated of all the Jewish communities.
The leadership/ruling class of most (if not all) settler-colonial capitalist efforts is one of various forms of psychopathy; including sociopaths, narcissists, and above all, violence and murder, fueled by greed, money, and power.
And, one aspect of this leadership is a great deal of projection, along with a rather extreme inability to take accountability and responsibility for any of its actions.
Over 1,500 Israeli settlers led by Minister Ben-Gvir, storm Al-Aqsa Mosque
Storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been one
of the Israeli occupation’s provocative policies towards the Palestinian
people, exemplifying the fact that the end goal of the Zionist project
is incompatible with any semblance of Palestinian sovereignty
In a new assault on sacred places within the occupied Palestinian
capital of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), around 1,500 illegal Israeli settlers
stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Tuesday, August 13. The settlers
were led by Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir ,
and Minister for the Development of the Periphery, the Negev and the
Galilee Yitzhak Wasserlauf. The attack comes as Israel’s genocidal war
on Gaza completes 10 months, and Israel’s continuous provocations have
put the ceasefire talks in jeopardy.
