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.
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.