Israeli Army T-Shirt Mock Gaza Killings

hapy
By hapy

One, printed for a platoon of Israeli snipers depicts an armed Palestinian pregnant women caught in the crosshairs of a rifle, with the disturbing caption in English: "1 shot 2 kills".

Perhaps the most shocking design shows a Palestinian mother weeping next to her dead baby's grave, also in the crosshairs of a rifle.

It suggests it would have been better if the child had never been born, with the slogan "Better use Durex".
Above a ninja figure, yet another shirt bears the slogan "Won't chill until I confirm a kill".

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090320/twl-israeli-army-t-shirts-mock-gaza-...

By Stone Cold• 5 Apr 2009 21:46
Stone Cold

Freedom of expression is quite limited . Try to live with it.

By anonymous• 5 Apr 2009 20:56
anonymous

Anti Israel bans and anti support for wars for a change.. ban the bomb... ban Israel.... bad people out here showing their true colors. but i can take it,, from the screen or in person.. Same as when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the world all over started a hate complain against all people from Japan, even when they had lived in a new country for 2-3 generations. Oh well sad people anyway..Have a great day.

By anonymous• 5 Apr 2009 18:52
anonymous

agree with anything that Israel is doing. However, I don't even think the Israeli army would condone these awful T-shirts. The people who are wearing them should be kicked out of the army.

My thoughts are my own, but I doubt my Mum would agree with some of them.

By Happy Happy• 5 Apr 2009 11:36
Happy Happy

I recognize your flag, like my own!

Salam

By Justbecause.....• 4 Apr 2009 23:34
Justbecause.....

distrubing and sick

By anonymous• 4 Apr 2009 19:40
anonymous

you really need to settle down.. it is not good to see what you write here in Ql and have it deleted by big brother, if you can not play with the kids here leave the sand pit. bye .

By anonymous• 4 Apr 2009 19:37
anonymous

to help you more researching the “flag” 1861... try http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/il_hist.html

sleep well all.. big day at work tomorrow...

By PaulCowan• 4 Apr 2009 18:23
PaulCowan

Palestinians say that, "truthfulvisitor"? What's your source for this information? What rational person could believe such a bogey-story.

I thought we had already had the T-shirt discussion a couple of weeks ago, but maybe that was another forum.

If you look at this story sensibly, its significance is the way in which entire units of the Israeli army have come to regard Arabs as subhuman vermin who should be exterminated. It's not clear whether Army training encourages that view (while regretting public expression of it) or if it simply does nothing to discourage it. The psychology of racial superiority evident in the T-shirts shows that human nature doesn't change and the same triggers that Hitler used in the 30s to dehumanise the Germans can still be used 70 years later by the Zionists.

All armies are prone to xenophobia and a willingess to tolerate extreme and gratuitous brutality. By tolerating it, commanders make atrocities almost inevitable. That is why we have had Qana, Jenin, Sabra and Chatila and now reports of war crimes from Gaza. It is also why we had My Lai, Srebrenitsa, Auschwitz and Abu Ghraib.

The IDF may publicly threaten to court-martial soldiers wearing some of these T-shirts, but its history of whitewashing atrocities lends no credibility to the threat. On the contrary, it seems likely that it secretly favours these comradely celebrations of the "Purity of Arms" and the superiority of Jews over the goyim.

By truthfulvisitor• 4 Apr 2009 15:56
Rating: 3/5
truthfulvisitor

yes, these t-shirts are in very poor taste and soldiers shouldn't be let off if they wear them.

QL generally, as a forum, has threads full of torrents of non-stop abuse - vitriolic sewaged hatred - towards Jews and Israelis as a group. Furthermore, Palestinians tell their children that the Jews bake their bread with the blood of Arab children ... or that they are worse than pigs and monkeys, "the vilest of creatures."

And yet, I've never read any kind of objection posted on this forum about how dehumanising this kind of abuse is.

Since this kind of abuse, towards Jews as a group, is apparently ok, it is hard to take the collective wailing and breastbeating here too seriously.

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"let's slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini" Mae West

By Stone Cold• 4 Apr 2009 15:45
Stone Cold

removed by mod

By bleu• 4 Apr 2009 15:34
bleu

El Bueno, and you WOULD LIKE TO IMMIGRATE TO CANADA??? Believe me, you won't be happy there.

By Happy Happy• 4 Apr 2009 15:33
Rating: 2/5
Happy Happy

EL BUENO, you’re the reason why I wasted my time researching the “flag”. Otherwise, he would’ve gone unnoticed! Please hear me out:

1- Not all of the Israelis are Zionists. (He expressed his dislike of Israeli T-Shirts).

2- You should salute this QLer with the “flag”, at least now you know who you’re up against.

3-Zionists are among us everywhere, including at workplace, they’re just too coward to reveal it.

4- Be smarter and don’t lose temper, you’re risking yourself out of QL, and others are wreaking havoc in cold-blood, as usual.

Wait until some good rational discussion comes up, and show your intelligence.

Salam

By cynbob• 4 Apr 2009 15:00
cynbob

You really make me laugh!

You are getting upset about a QLer that has the Israeli flag as their avatar.

Yet, here you are with an American icon--Clint Eastwood as your avatar?

Isn't that a little hypocritical?

H-E-L-L-O!

By anonymous• 4 Apr 2009 14:05
anonymous

We are both living at Mesaieed and working with in 5 min drive from our homes. I wonder???? I could be one of your managers at work...considering that you are only a SECTION HEAD...how do you feel about that my new best friend..

By Mandilulur• 4 Apr 2009 13:51
Mandilulur

If you read Ha'aretz (gasp, oh the horror!)you will see that Israelis deplore these T-shirts as well.

Mandi

By ummjake• 4 Apr 2009 10:16
ummjake

express themselves as they see fit. I didn't get upset when another QLer had the Israeli flag with a big red hash through it and "Boycott Israel -- Supporter of Terrorism" as his sign-off phrase. That's his right, same as it is for jackfrost to have his avatar/picture.

As rude and offensive as the t-shirts are, I actually would support anyone's right to wear them publicly (as I would similarly support the right for anyone to wear another offensive t-shirt). But this situation is different; they're soldiers in the IDF, they're not civilian citizens, so different rules apply to them.

"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."

-- Maya Angelou

By EL BUENO• 4 Apr 2009 10:06
EL BUENO

ummjake and Scarlett thanks for the advice .. nothing new, they used to get full support from you. I think it is something you have been tought.. enjoy

BE AFRAID..

By Scarlett• 4 Apr 2009 09:56
Scarlett

there are those in every race, religion, whatever, that have no conscience or heart. Also unfortunately, they can make the front page of every single newspaper.

El Bueno...everyone has the right to their own ideas and avatars...chill...

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the main difference between a dog and man.

-Mark Twain-

By EL BUENO• 4 Apr 2009 09:53
EL BUENO

I will take the matter to higher level..thanks

BE AFRAID..

By bestinbusiness• 4 Apr 2009 09:48
bestinbusiness

It is Really shameful of all the Other Countries that We cant do anything even WE know they are doing WRONG.

By ummjake• 4 Apr 2009 09:42
ummjake

I'd read the same thing as you, so thanks for setting the record straight.

This is very offensive behavior; the government realizes what a PR debacle this has become, and the soldiers should have known better. I hope the individuals who created/bought/wore these t-shirts were severely disciplined.

And El Bueno -- jackfrost can have whatever picture/avatar he wants for himself. Tolerance, my friend...

"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."

-- Maya Angelou

By Living_in_Qatar• 4 Apr 2009 09:27
Living_in_Qatar

Psycho paths!!!

By EL BUENO• 4 Apr 2009 09:24
EL BUENO

Israeli soldiers are kind of cowards and chicken group who raise hands with victory when they kill children.

[removed by mod - if you continue posting this message your QL account will be blocked]

BE AFRAID..

By adey• 4 Apr 2009 08:37
Rating: 4/5
adey

Braveheart showed the world what happened to Long Shanks and his boys!

Remove the Lion Rampant!!! :P

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365

not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the

many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers

were given. Satan - 10."

By SAMAEL• 4 Apr 2009 08:20
Rating: 3/5
SAMAEL

oooooooooooooook

____________________________

By EL BUENO• 4 Apr 2009 07:57
EL BUENO

[mod note: DO NOT make unprovoked personal attacks on other QLers. QL is an open forum that welcomes all nationalities and religions.]

By adey• 4 Apr 2009 07:23
Rating: 5/5
adey

I am a long way off for being an apologist for the IDF but can I just offer a slight correction to the OP; I read a more detailed report on this last week and these are not 'Israeli army' T-shirts. Rather these are T-shirts that some individual soldiers have had made. The official army response is that anyone wearing such a T-shirt at any time will be disciplined.

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365

not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the

many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers

were given. Satan - 10."

By anonymous• 4 Apr 2009 07:13
anonymous

It is always the lost that need my guidance

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