Israeli right wing group (Hazit) plans on plastering the country with the poster shown below. If I didn’t know better I would assume its a joke. Bad Photoshop job plus he looks so kind.
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I have often discussed the repulsive ideology of the Israeli Orthodox settler movement. Jews outside Israel may not be aware of the central role Israeli rabbis play in this movement and its ideology. Because Israel is a “Jewish state” many of these Rabbis are actually on the government payroll. Their role in the Gaza war is [...]
One of the key reasons I started this weblog, was to unburden myself through writing about my Israeli army experiences serving in Hebron. The series of articles City of the Dead describes my personal encounter with the settlers in Hebron way back in 1990. While I have analyzed these experiences for the past fifteen years, Gideon [...]
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Although the reference may be apt for New Orleans, I refer in my title to Hebron. The events I wrote about in my series (see here for links) took place over fifteen years ago. As Gideon Levy relates in the article below, things have only gotten worse in the interim.
I finally complete the series.
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I try to avoid as much as possible reading articles or listening to reports about the dismantlement of the settlements in Gaza. But you can’t seem to avoid it. The amount of news coverage is astonishing. It is almost impossible for me to look at this event from a political perspective. For one thing, I [...]
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Uri Avnery starts his article about the lynching of a young Palestinian boy by Gaza settlers with these words: “All the world saw the horror on TV…” But the fact is that despite the pro-settler claims that the world media is “biased” against Israel, the only place I could find this story (even after a [...]
The Orthodox Anarchist (don’t ask, just visit the site) brings an excellent video about Jewish terrorists, created by PBS Frontline.
This article brought me back to my own bad days in Hebron. It has been a while since I wrote on this topic, but I am ready to write a bit more. By the way, I wouldn’t say, as the author of the article does, that the settlers “do the governments bidding.” The settlers do [...]
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