Redneck reaction to crimes in Beit Hanoun
Ever been struck by the extent of the mean-spirited (nay, hateful), racist, denialist reader comments to articles in Ha’aretz and Y-Net (especially Y-Net)? Here’s but a small taste of what I mean and it constitutes another indicator of the prevailing racism and disturbing zeitgeist of Israel-defender-at-all-costs circles. These are comments in response to the appended article on the atrocities in Beit Hanoun in YNet (see below for article):
“They brought it on themselves”; “this is more fauxtography/ from Paliwood”, “IDF didn’t go far enough”
This Neanderthal racist ignoramus is illustrative:
35. Finish the job…stay the course…bomb them all.
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Charmers aren’t they? A real light unto the nations. So much light heat the world is catching fire with the hatred of their racist sense of entitlement and denial. One sees all too clearly how MK Lieberman has a clear constituency. God help us, but more to the point, G_d help them. Intensive psychotherapy right away.
Another sad illustration of how the racist redneck Israelis and their supporters just don’t get it.
And will this latest Israeli barbarism in Beit Hanoun stop the home-made, mostly non-lethal, rockets fired into Israel to stop the daily humiliation and stranglehold of the occupation Israel imposes on the beleaguered Palestinians there? No, it will not and Israel will continue to undermine its own vaunted security.
Listen to the muffled voice of your own small peace movement Israel, there is no military solution.
You have to treat the Palestinians like human beings first. End the siege. End the conditions of war and the occupation, the cover of which allows more illegal Israeli settlements on the sly, which is in part why it is Israel that doesn’t really want peace and Israel that has almost never been a genuine peace partner, not the PA.
The article follows.
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Beit Hanoun: It was like a Tsunami
Y Net :: 7 November 2006 | Ali Waked
(VIDEO): 57 graves dug for Palestinians killed in IDF Operation Autumn Clouds. Palestinians report hundreds of homes damaged
Israeli forces pulled out of a battered northern Gaza town on Tuesday after their biggest operation in the Palestinian territory in a year, leaving residents to bury their dead.
“This is the worst raid we have ever witnessed,” Said Khalil Yazji, a 45-year-old resident and police officer. “The Israeli army has brought destruction into every single street and nearly into every single house. This is the tsunami of Beit Hanoun.”
Israeli forces killed five gunmen and a civilian and wounded 13 people on Tuesday in raids on three other areas in the northern Gaza Strip, staging grounds for rocket attacks on southern Israel, militant groups and hospital officials said.
“The Israelis leave one area and enter another,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said. “We have spoken to the American administration and to the Europeans that such a situation cannot help restoring security and stability,” he said. “If Israel wants peace and security, it has to stop shedding Palestinian blood,” Abbas explained. Beit Hanoun’s mayor, a member of the governing Islamic group Hamas, said some 40 homes were destroyed and 400 damaged during the fighting. The local mosque was completely destroyed except for its tower. [How would they feel if it was a synagogue?]
A resident of the town, Muhammed Abu Uda said, “Every day of the operation we heard from the media what was happening, because we were closed up in the house, but what we saw this morning doesn’t come close to what we heard on the radio and television.”
“It’s obvious that someone came and deliberately destroyed sidewalks. They destroyed potholes and we are drowning in sewage. There isn’t a home without a bullet hole in it, and that is in the best case – in the worst case the house is partly or completely destroyed,” Abu Uda said.
“The local crews are drowning in work. All the roads are blocked, water and electricity infrastructure have crashed. There is no water, no electricity, and the roads are full of sand mounds and rocks the soldiers set up as blockades. Everything here is ruined and there is so much death,” Abu Uda explained.
Beit Hanoun was slowly becoming a large mourner’s tent as people went about the task of identifying the dead. Graves were briskly dug, following the murder of 57 Palestinians in last week’s operation.
Many families still don’t know if their loved ones are among the dead or have left the town. “There are 10-15 unclaimed bodies in various hospitals and people who don’t know where their sons are rushing from hospital to hospital trying to see if he is among the dead,” said Abu Uda, “but after all this and after the days of mourning are over we will be left with the scars this operations has left on the children. I just want to say – go explain to the people on your side that this operation will not stop the rockets.”
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