Shooting through the border fence at a memorial protest in the Golan Heights. The number of dead outnumbers the original IDF account number of injured, the injured outnumbered the IDF account by tenfold. So once again the IDF story is very suspect. IDF usually reserves a different fate for Israeli Jewish protesters, the dissidents are arrested in midnight raids on their homes, imprisoned on made-up charges "validated" by a rubber stamp conviction in their court system, ahem... Just Like Everywhere Else In The World and once they've disappeared into the Israeli penal system they're out of the public eye and the IDF sadists can do whatever the Hell they want with them. IDF, like every other Police State Entity, prefers helpless victims. And, they do it all in the name of My God. Isn't that wonderful, kids? To enhance the Blasphemy, a lot of "christian" people who have an even more spurious claim to have replaced the Jews as the "chosen people" encourage the worst behavior from the IDF in order to bring on the near-annihilation of Israel as a nation, the Jews as a race and thus clear their own claim to being "Chosen People". 24566
Tag: Israeli Defense Force
Libyan humanitarian aid ship to Gaza undaunted by Israeli Navy death threat
While Israel releases redacted portions of its internal investigation of the Mavi Marmara Massacre, another aid ship steams toward the Gaza Blockade. The cargo ship Amalthea carries humanitarian aid from Libya and is due to cross into Gazan waters on Wednesday, barring interception by the Israeli navy in international waters. 18666
Who were the 1,415 victims in Gaza?
Americans aren't accustomed to seeing their adversaries as human. The victims of our wars remain faceless and nameless, and maybe as a consequence we accept that our military "doesn't do body counts." Not only do we minimize the number of civilians we kill, but their deaths are commodified as "collateral." Our military proxy in the Middle East does the same. In last year's attack on Gaza, Israel calculated its casualties in three digits. Those killed behind the confines of Gaza may be faceless to Americans and Israelis, but they leave behind loved ones and dependents, and of course, they had names. 11951
Krav Maga is martial art of war crime
I recently overheard a karate instructor mention an Israeli hand-to-hand fighting technique called Krav Maga being adopted by paramilitary forces worldwide, which of course excites the youngsters. So I looked it up. Speaking for social justice bloggers everywhere, I have to admit, Israel is just a gift that keeps on giving! Exhibit 1: online images of Krav Maga fighters are color coded to show which is the attacker. 10753
Turkish TV series AYRILIK shows IDF crimes in Gaza, unauthorized portrayal
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has summoned Israel's ambassador in Ankara to complain that a TV series on Turkey's state television station TRT1 is inciting anger at Israeli human rights abuses in Palestine. The drama series AYRILIK ("Farewell") is set in current day Gaza, against a backdrop of the brutality of the occupation and military incursions. Israel most objects to scenes of IDF forces shown killing civilians and children. One might ask, what would you have the IDF shooting? 10084
Picture of Israeli worth 20 Palestinians
At first glance the trade betrayed a racist inequity. This week Israel agreed to release twenty Palestinian women in exchange for one Israeli held captive by Hamas. Not for the release of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, just for proof that he was still alive. 9587
Israeli mushroom cloud smoking gun
What does the Israeli Internet Megaphone look like in the flesh? Take a look at who's peddling the Weapons of Mass Destruction meme against Iran. It's the same Smoking Gun Mushroom Cloud scare.
IDF targets al-Jazeera on West Bank
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Pam “Heil Hitler” Pilger gets it all wrong
Much is being made of the irony that the anti-health teabagger who shouted "HEIL HITLER" at a Jewish man who spoke in favor of universal health care, was herself wearing an ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES t-shirt. Irony? I think the association originates from more than "irony." 8449
If others can kill, Israel wants permit too
June 6th is the 42nd anniversary of Israel's seizure of Gaza. At right is a UK newspaper ad placed by the Anti-Defamation League, one of Israel's myriad damage control engines, when UK students were calling to boycott Israel over its attacks in Gaza. 400,000 killed in Sudan, so Israel should get a pass on its 1,300 victims in Gaza? It sounds like the IDF expects allowances to be made for its periodic ethnic cleansing, permits maybe, like polluters trade carbon credits. The US Humane Society euthanizes 5.4 million dogs every year, no doubt it's just a double standard to demonize Israel for bagging their 1,300 in Gaza. 7971
Our own IDF propagandist blows gasket
More from our IP-swapping blog spammer in Newark NJ: He pretends to be a NYU law student, although he trolls here 24/7; he says he's read over 1000 books on the Middle East, but his comments never stray from pro-Israel website talking-points --even his "personal anecdotes" can be traced to Israel Internet Megaphone PDFs. 7784
DIME weaponry? Is this the Pentagon’s idea of a humanitarian weapon?
Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor who gave medical treatment to the wounded in Gaza when this Palestinian concentration camp was assaulted by the Israeli military, has an excellent interview recorded on Grit TV. Of great interest is where he discusses the Israeli-Pentagon use of DIME weaponry during that conflict, within the first few moments of this video report. He posits the idea that DIME is somehow seen as being a 'humanitarian' weapon of choice by the Pentagon? Check it out and see why he believes that is what they actually think? Dr. Mads Gilbert: A Physician in Gaza
Israeli soldiers admit targeting civilians
“That’s the beauty of Gaza. You see a man walking, he doesn’t have to have a weapon, and you can shoot him.” --One of the testimonies collected by the Rabin pre-military institute, surveying IDF soldiers about war crimes reported to have been committed in Gaza, in the Times Online article Israeli soldiers admit to deliberate killing of Gaza civilians. 7004
Middle East Media Research Institute (Poor MEMRI), yet another conduit for Israeli military disinformation campaigns
Middle East Media Research Institute or MEMRI as they call themselves, is another conduit for Israeli military disinformation campaings directed at the media. They are used a lot against antiZionist bloggers by the Israeli funded Internet Megaphone directed spammers, who often go to their materials posted on youtube. Source Watch reveals that their funding comes from the American Right but that they were co-founded by Meyrav Wurmser and Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military intelligence, both of whom were early critics of the Oslo accords. 6592
The Gaza Zoo massacre- a look at Israeli military propagandist version of events?
Israel blew up a lot of schools in Gaza and destroyed the Gaza Zoo killing many of the animals there with gratuitous gunfire and not just gratuitous bombs. Here is what the Israeli military told the Jewish State back home about why they did this. See Hamas Booby Trapped School and Zoo ...As one can see, it is essentially a variation of the old time worn out excuse by both the US and Israeli militaries, that the opposition forces were cowardly and hiding themselves behind children, and in this case of the Israeli Gaza Zoo rampage hiding themselves behind even zoo animals! 6590
Gaza child photo
I am the soldier who slept in your home.
When Voices For Creative Nonviolence activist Kathy Kelly visited Colorado Springs, she spoke of survivors of a family in Gaza who returned to their home to find a message left etched on their wall by an IDF soldier, it read "Sorry." Kelly saw in it the glimmer of hope that Israeli soldiers were beginning to show some humanity. Hasbara efforts have taken this gesture a reservist's letter step further. You can read it below uncut. Does it look to you like these propagandists need some counseling advice? Probably the rapist is the last person who should be asking his victim to be calm, especially by recounting the details of the violation, and especially if the rapist is unrepentant and laying out the justification for his act. Parental Advisory: Graphic Insensitivity. 6534
Denise was Mitch was Mary was Ronald
Etc, etc. Lest comment responses be perceived to address a fresh GIYUS, hasbara, cyber-friend of Israel. "They" parrot the same Internet Megaphone IDF propaganda talking points: Gaza is not occupied, there was no genocide, Israel's birthright to exist is a moot point, Zionism is neither racism nor Apartheid, anti-Arab Professor Bernard Lewis, the greenhouses gifted by Israel, CAMERA articles, etc. 6530
Wikipedia and those romantic Zionists
In researching the evolution of Zionist terrorism, from clandestine militias like Bar-Giora, to Hashomer, Haganah, Etzel, and the pro-Nazi Stern Gang, I came upon this opening paragraph in Wikipedia. Describing Bar-Giora, it began: "On September 28, 1907, a group of activists from Poalei Zion gathered in Yitzhak Ben-Zvi's tiny Jaffa apartment. There was no furniture, the men sat on the floor in a circle and used a crate for a desk." Some helpful Wiki elf was obviously feeling sentimental. 6446
Was Sharon quote really not genuine?
Are quotes being fraudulently attributed to Israeli ministers (as NMT's indignant Israeli PR visitors are insisting)? We decided to look into the Ariel Sharon "fabrication" about who controls of America. Let's just say our hasbara critics are going to wish they'd tempered their indignation. In the process, we found more indecorous pronouncements, which we've included with direct attributions from the Israeli press. Tokhis oyfn tish. 6345
Israelis indignant at being called Nazis
Jewish leaders object to Nazi imagery at rallies. Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem museum and memorial, called for the Holocaust to be left out of contemporary political discourse. 6204
Israelis unscathed by fierce fire fights
Despite barring entry to journalists, confiscating cameras, and shooting reporters outright, photographs emerge from Gaza of the IDF's horrific misdeeds. There are pictures of the dead, of the wounded, of the bodies charred by white phosphorous, of schools and hospitals destroyed. And of course the stories emerge of UN workers fired upon, of families forced inside houses which were then shelled. 6187
Israeli Defense Force does Gaza
Letting women pass 5985
Israeli fury seals a Single State Solution
Israel's relentless and unrepentant program to exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza, will yield but a single outcome. And it would certainly please the Palestinians, if they live to see it. First, if Palestine is deprived of viability as an independent state, Israel is left with only a single state solution. Second, with Israel convinced that its security from rocket fire depends on every last Arab neighbor being interned or interred, there is no other choice but cloistered Apartheid. Will the international community long tolerate a feudal theocracy constantly inflaming the resentment of its indigenous laborers? 5944
Rahm Emanuel joined IDF in Gulf War
"Emanuel, the son of an Israeli terrorist, Benjamin M. Emanuel who was a member of the Irgun, an underground terror organization in Palestine under the British rule, is someone who volunteered with the Israeli (not the US) army in 1991. It is not clear to what extent Emanuel will influence foreign policy as Obama’s chief of staff and thus keep the 'special relationship' that gave Israel a blank check for endless wars." --Mazin Qumsiyeh, Ph.D