#idf breaks jewish law everyday

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Holy shit this person is stupid! No one is saying air strikes can't kill hamas bc they're in the tunnels; we're saying if you think the hostages are in the tunnels, why would you air strike and risk killing them? Not to mention israel has refused the return of the hostages many times in the last 6 months, your govt is playing on your sympathy to direct your rage away from them.

Oh thing I find hilarious is that pro-Palestinians will always say Israel’s air strikes can’t kill hamas because they’re in the tunnels, but then believe hamas when they say hostages were killed because of said air strikes, despite hostages being hidden in tunnels.

Hypocrisy of the highest order. 

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In Hebron, Protecting Palestinians Is Not An Occupied Israeli Soldier’s Job

A viral video of a soldier helping a Palestinian during a settler attack symbolizes how Israelis would like to see their army. The reality is far from it.

— By Ron Zaidel | June 22, 2020 | WWW.972Mag.Com

‘US Backed Occupied Zionist Cunt Israhelli troops’ take position around the Cave of the Patriarchs, also known as the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank, on October 30, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Two weekends ago, a soldier from the IDF Golani Brigade was filmed charging at a group of Israeli settlers who were assaulting a Palestinian man in the West Bank city of Hebron. The footage shows the soldier taking a beating from the settlers while trying to remove the Palestinian from the scene.

It’s an important video, but not necessarily because it shows settlers beating a Palestinian. After all, footage of settler violence against Palestinians are a dime a dozen. The fact that the new video shows settlers attacking a soldier isn’t important either. That, too, has become a fairly common occurrence in the occupied West Bank.

This video is important for one reason only: it shows an Israeli soldier refusing to stand idly by. And unlike the vast majority of videos of daily life in Hebron, a city where Israeli soldiers protect a group of roughly 850 settlers, this one went viral.

The most striking reaction was by the Israeli leaders who touted it as proof of the IDF’s moral backbone. Defense Minister Benny Gantz, for instance, was quick to say that the soldier “acted as every IDF soldier and commander is expected to.”

This is a bald-faced lie, and anyone who has served in the occupied territories knows it. The truth is that the Golani soldier’s behavior is the complete opposite of what a soldier is expected to do in the West Bank.

‘Zionist Cunt Israhelli coward soldiers’ arrest a Palestinian man during a raid on the West Bank city of Hebron, September 20, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Protecting Palestinians in the occupied territories is supposed to be one of the duties of an Israeli soldier, but theory and practice are two very different things. As part of my work for Breaking the Silence, an organization made up of veteran IDF soldiers working to expose the everyday reality of the occupation, I have interviewed hundreds of soldiers about their military service. One of the themes that is common to most of them is the clear directives they received from their commanders, according to which the settlers are considered untouchable.

I heard from soldiers about settlers who punctured the brigade commander’s jeep tires. I spoke to soldiers who told me about drunk settlers who threw stones at Palestinian homes during the Jewish holiday of Purim. I heard about settlers who attacked soldiers who dared to protect an innocent Palestinian family from violence, and about settlers who, during the olive harvest season, headed to the nearby Palestinian village to beat up farmers. In each and every one of these cases, I heard the same refrain: “But we’re not allowed to touch the settlers. That’s what the police do.”

A soldier in the Nahal Brigade once told me about a group of French tourists who came to Hebron and saw a Palestinian flag flying near the Beit Hadassah settlement complex. It was flying over a Palestinian house, but that didn’t matter to the tourists or the settlers. “They started shouting: ‘The nation of Israel lives,’ ‘Death to the Arabs,’” he said. They then got a ladder and tried to take the flag down themselves.

“I was really riled up because nothing happened and [the settlers] – it looked like they were about to kill someone and no one was doing anything about it. No one did anything to prevent it.” This testimony is far from the most extreme we have taken, but it has one advantage: the incident was filmed.

IDF soldiers are instructed to leave violent settlers to the police, even if they are the ones who must face the brunt of the settlers’ violence. That is why stories of settlers who go unpunished after throwing stones at soldiers are so common, and that’s why it is particularly astonishing to see one soldier who decided to do the right thing and rescue a Palestinian.

The truth is what the Golani soldier did was what anyone in a position of law enforcement would have done — just as one would expect the police to come to the rescue of a civilian in a similar situation. The problem is that IDF soldiers are not tasked with protecting Palestinian residents, but rather protecting the settlers. This is why the video shows only one soldier going after the settlers in an area where around 650 soldiers are stationed on a permanent basis. It is also why we only saw a video of one particular incident, and not of the other four settler attacks that took place that same day.

This video received so much attention precisely because it presents soldiers as most of the Jewish public in Israel would like to think of them; or more accurately, as Israelis like to think of themselves. What is better than a video that shows the whole world how the most moral army in the world makes no distinction between Jews and Palestinians, all while taking action to enforce law and order on an equal basis?

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Portman and Perlman, and the liberal Zionist awakening – Mondoweiss

Neuer Beitrag veröffentlicht bei https://melby.de/portman-and-perlman-and-the-liberal-zionist-awakening-mondoweiss/

Portman and Perlman, and the liberal Zionist awakening – Mondoweiss

Master violinist Itzhak Perlman is one of the most beloved Jewish public figures of the last half-century. His personal story; his birth to Holocaust survivors; his skills, modesty and playfulness, have made him an unassailable example of the humane, artistic, thinking Jew.

In a Billboard interview, after the release of the documentary film “Itzhak,” Perlman said it was “problematic” meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for tea after receiving last year’s Genesis Prize (shown in the movie), but that he felt he must honor the office.

The Genesis Prize is an award of four years’ standing given to recognize outstanding Jews’ “dedication to the Jewish community and Jewish values.” It aims to inspire “unity throughout the global Jewish community and the State of Israel.”

Regarding a hypothetical invitation to meet President Trump, Perlman said, “My argument about respecting the office? In this case I would definitely make an exception.” Perlman shows that limits can be reached.

The question is, can they be reached for him regarding Israel?

In refusing to appear at a ceremony with Netanyahu to accept her Genesis Prize this spring, Natalie Portman has illustrated that the dilemma of the liberal Zionist remains bleak. The key of liberal Zionism has been to count experiences of Arabs as exceptions to a generally wholesome Zionist project. As Palestinian Arabs find more voice in American media, pretending to that general blamelessness becomes harder.

Jewish Israelis live in a hothouse atmosphere of Jewish nationalism and existential threat. Among younger American Jews, Pew Research Center found there is a big drop-off in belief that support for Israel is important to Jewish identity, presumably due to their experience and practice of coexistence with non-Jews in the US.

There is a divergence between behavior of the older, Zionist-minded donors to Jewish Federations and the mass of American Jews.

It is hard for liberal Zionists to abandon Zionism once they accept it. While they don’t resist acknowledging the unjustness, cruelty, and dishonor built in to the project, they balk when it comes to abandoning the basic concept of “the one and only Jewish state,” as PM Netanyahu evokes at every possible occasion,

Functionally, there is no difference between a liberal Zionist and Netanyahu, a theme that should be emphasized. When the romance of “the one & only” is accepted, the ills are all there, inherent in the imposition of a Jewish state in an already populated land, leading to the recent slaughter of Gaza refugees.

Jewish life is hemmed with prohibitions to help protect human life, and we praise ourselves for our superior ethical nature. We should remind ourselves that history is full of cruel forces that believed they were fighting against barbarism and for civilization.

Looking to the example of how long it took the Zionist movement to take over Jewish institutions in the last century, the anti-Zionist movement among Jews faces a long fractious struggle to victory. Does that struggle, important in Jewish life, have any relevance to the struggle of Palestinians?

After the IDF began its human turkey shoot at the Gaza border, liberal Zionist Peter Beinart wrote, “Our community’s complicity in the human nightmare in Gaza should fill every American Jew with shame. The first step toward ending that complicity is to stop lying to ourselves.”

The “New Jew,” a proud, confident Jew, was meant to be created in the Zionist movement as a cure for what was diagnosed as the fatal meekness of the “unnatural” scholarly or mercantile Jews of Galut (exile). The aim and slogan was to “Negate the Diaspora!”

Historian Yitzhak Conforti writes that “the idea of the new Jew is an expression of the radical revolution that Zionism aspired to create in the life of the Jewish people.” In political Zionism, “the new Jew is a modern person stripped of historical baggage.”

Not only is the “New Jew” meant to be a proud creation, the state he creates is to be “invincible.” It is legitimate to ask whether we have made ourselves into something shameful, in our pursuit of strength and dignity. Shameful, as recognized early in the first aliyah period by cultural Zionist Ahad Ha’am (1856-1927) who raised the alarm that political Zionism imagined it could push Arabs of Palestine aside. Lo zeh haderech, “This is not the way,” he wrote.

After Natalie Portman’s startling refusal to be honored by the ”Genesis” Prize, is it unimaginable to think that Itzhak Perlman might honor the Palestine civil society appeal to boycott Israel?

If Mr Perlman is a Mondoweiss reader — not impossible — we may hear from him. He is known to be an avid supporter of social justice causes, and refused an opportunity to perform in North Carolina in protest of the anti-LGBT law HB2 two years ago.

The “major” American Jewish organizations, now anchored in Israel “advocacy,” are paralyzed from action. In a statement deaf to the sentiments of most Americans if not to their donors, the American Jewish Committee weighed in on Gaza: The AJC stands “shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel” and praises the Trump administration.

“We thank Washington for this moral clarity, when too many others suffer from moral fog.”

It is left to individual American Jews of prominence to break the taboo on speaking frankly on Israeli conduct. This will be a sign of the sentiment of everyday Jews making changes the ”major” Jewish organisations have not. Maybe they will carry Itzhak Perlman with them.

The movie “Itzhak” is in theatrical release, and will be televised in PBS’ American Masters series.

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