Israël en m.n. Palestijnenslachter en oorlogsmisdadiger Netanyahu, stellen
dode militairen boven levende ‘collega’s’ en ‘uiteraard’ (voor Israël) boven burgerslachtoffers, zeker als die burgers Palestijnen
zijn, maar ja die worden door Israël niet als mens gezien…..
Een dode Israëlische militair, die 37 jaar geleden om het leven kwam door een
domme beslissing van de legertop, werd door Rusland overgedragen aan Israël, althans wat er nog van hem over was en dat was niet veel meer
dan het uniform en het schoeisel dat hij droeg……
Netanyahu
gebruikt deze militair, Zacharia Baumel in zijn
verkiezingscampagne, hij zou dode militairen naar huis halen…… Meer daarover in het hieronder opgenomen artikel.
Zowel Israël als de Palestijnen en Syrië hebben een ‘leger aan dode
militairen’ achter de hand, om te gebruiken voor
onderhandelingen…… Hier moet aan toegevoegd worden dat Israël de
dood van militairen in het verleden gebruikt als excuus voor agressie
tegen burgers, zowel Palestijnse, Libanese als Syrische
burgers……
Het
aantal gedode burgers aan de kant van de Palestijnen, Libanezen en Syriërs staat al lang niet meer in verhouding tot het aantal gedode Israëlische militairen, niets nieuws zoals uit het begin van deze zin
blijkt, maar al vanaf de illegale stichting van de staat Israël…… Het vreemde aan de zaak is dat blijkbaar het grootste deel van het Israëlische volk ook vindt dat hun dood minder erg is dan dat van een militair, terwijl militairen er juist zijn om de de klappen op te vangen en burgers te beschermen……
Voor de oorlog tegen de Palestijnen in 2006 claimde Israël dat 2 van haar militairen werden gevangen genomen in de Gazastrook, terwijl men wist dat dit de 2 dood waren, daar de tank waar ze in zaten werd opgeblazen met een raket…… Daarop ondernam het Israëlisch leger een ‘zoekactie’ (lees: begon een oorlog tegen de Palestijnen in de Gazastrook) om de 2 te bevrijden, daarbij werden een paar duizend Palestijnse mensen vermoord door het Israëlische leger…… De zoveelste massamoord op rekening van Israël en dat op valse gronden…….
Netanyahu
is als de dood dat hij niet zal worden herkozen, waarna de weg
openligt om hem te vervolgen vanwege corruptie en grootschalige
fraude, vandaar dat hij de laatste weken steeds schunniger
opmerkingen maakt.
Zo heeft
Netanyahu al laten weten geen probleem te hebben met de volgens Israël meer dan 300 vermoorde Palestijnen aan de grens van de Gazastrook, zogenaamd op Palestijns
gebied……* Onder deze 300 meer dan 50 kinderen, duidelijk te herkennen medische hulpverleners en journalisten……. Ook heeft massamoordenaar Netanyahu beloofd dat hij
alle nederzettingen op de West Bank zal legaliseren als hij wordt
herkozen, sterker nog: hij zal dan zelfs de West Bank annexeren……
Ongelofelijk
dat de westerse regeringen hier niet op hebben gereageerd door
openlijk hun afschuw uit te spreken over de woorden van Netanyahu….
Blijkbaar ziet men commentaar leveren op de psychopathische agressie van Netanyahu ook als ‘het verstoren van het vredesproces’,
de dooddoener van westerse regeringen als Israël zich weer eens van
haar terroristische kant laat zien, bijvoorbeeld na het zoveelste
bloedbad te hebben aangericht onder Palestijnen, alsof
oorlogsmisdaden van Israël het vredesproces tussen Palestijnen en Israël niet verstoren……
Het
volgende artikel werd gepubliceerd op Mondoweiss en werd geschreven
door Yossi Gurvitz, een ex-militair die volkomen terecht stelt dat
Palestijnen alle recht hebben om militairen van het Israëlische bezettingsleger dood te schieten, immers je loopt daar als een
bewapende Israëlische militair op een illegaal bezet stuk land. (één op één te vergelijken met de strijd van vooral communisten
en anarchisten tegen de nazi-Duitse bezetter in Nederland tijdens
WOII)
A
soldier dead 37 years is Russia’s gift to Netanyahu, in last days
of campaign
Ceremony
at the Russian Ministry of Defense on April 4 when military effects
belonging to the late Zachary Baumel, killed in Lebanon in 1982, were
handed over to prime minister Netanyahu. From the PM’s twitter feed
Zecharia
Baumel was killed in one the most needless and stupid battles of the
First Lebanon War, a war full of many such battles.
Baumel,
a young reservist, was made a false sacrifice by the Government of
Israel on the altar of the hallucinatory concept of controlling
Lebanon. The government owes him an apology, and must ask his pardon.
It is hard to believe that the belated transfer of the remains of his
body to Israel merits the title of apology; let us, then, begin this
discussion with the old burial prayer: “I hereby ask of pardon and
forgiveness. Everything we did was for your honor, according with the
tradition of Yisrael. Go in peace, and rest in peace.”
One
does not fight the dead. Their love, their hate and their jealousy
have long since vanished; never shall they have a part in anything
that happens under the sun.
But
as for fighting those who misuse them – well, that’s quite a
different matter.
Let’s
begin with the facts. Baumel, a tank commander, was killed on June
11, 1982 in the Battle of Sultan Yaakub, in which an Israeli division
managed to stumble into an ambush by Syrian commando forces. While it
was known he was killed, his body – and that of two of his comrades
– was never recovered. As is customary in the Middle East, the
victors who held the battlefield (in this case, the Syrians and some
Palestinian militias) took the bodies in the hope of one day
parlaying them into some advantage. Baumel’s destroyed tank was
driven through the streets of Damascus in a ghoulish triumph; in
1993, Yasser Arafat presented Yizhak Rabin with one half of Baumel’s
dog tags. Obviously someone else was holding the other half, in
anticipation of some reward.
(The
Syrians and the Palestinians aren’t alone in this. Israel has a
whole graveyard, The Graveyard of the Enemy Dead, where bodies are
kept until their time on the market comes.)
A
week or two ago, Russian troops acting with Syrian troops transferred
secretly to Israel the contents of a whole graveyard from the Yarmuq
Refugee Camp, which the Syrians have taken from some militia. The
Russians claimed it was held by some ISIS affiliate, but one should
be careful about such Russian claims. Be that as it may, on Wednesday
the Israeli public was surprised to hear that the IDF has conducted
“an intelligence operation,” as a result of which the bodily
remains of Baumel were identified.
The
IDF and Netanyahu’s office bombarded the media with news of an
“operation”, colonels with initials instead of names spoke of
their part in the glorious operation, and everyone blessed Military
Intelligence.
Nobody
said anything about Russians. In fact, military censorship forbade
any mention of
Russian involvement, at first.
Given
this partial information, my first horrified thought was “Oh my
God, the fuckers did it again.”
Israel
has developed an obsession with its war dead – an obsession which
became deeper as the country had no actual wars. In godforsaken 2004,
the only good of which could be said was that it was better than
2006, I was duty editor – twice – when Gazans blew up a tank and
Armored Personnel Carrier. One was in the middle of the Strip; the
other was near the Egyptian border, in a thin strip called
Philadelphy Route.
There
isn’t much left when a tank blows up.
Nevertheless,
IDF brass gave the order, and soldiers obeyed, that the area near the
explosions is to be combed – literally combed – in search after
body remains. Soon I was watching IDF soldiers crawling in the dust,
looking for the remains of their comrades.
Under
fire.
Which
killed at least one soldier.
Now,
I have no problem with the Palestinian militiamen who blew up tanks
and fired at enemy soldiers. War is war. If you’re carrying a gun
in an occupied territory, you’re basically asking for it. I served
for two years in Gaza, during the First Intifada. I insisted then
that if some Palestinian would shoot me, that would certainly be
annoying, but I would not bear a grudge, nor should anyone bear one
in my name. It was my choice to serve in an occupied territory and
carry a gun.
I
did have a huge problem with the military – and the Israeli public.
See, normally an army is supposed to take the shots instead of the
civilians. But during the horrid years of the Second Intifada, the
pyramid was reversed. The number of dead soldiers was relatively low,
but the number of dead civilians hit the roof.
And
the civilians seem to like it that way. The general sentiment was
that it’s pretty bad if a bus blows up, but it’s much worse if a
tank blows up. Military lives were deemed to be of more importance
than civilian life. And this attitude moved from dead soldiers to
pieces of dead soldiers. I was appalled at the fact the order to
crawl under fire to get some body parts met with no refusal from the
soldiers; and the general public seemed to think this was perfectly
normal.
That
is, we had a whole new pyramid. At its base were civilian life; they
counted for little. Above them, soldiers’ lives. They mattered
more. And then, at the apex, soldiers’ bodies. It seemed totally
reasonable to risk the lives of soldiers in order to get soldiers’
body parts. I was not sure who lost his mind, me or the
country.
That
was bloody 2004. Then came fucking 2006. The Lebanon War began when
Hizbullah fired a rocket at military vehicle which was moseying about
near the Lebanon border. Two soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad
Regev, were killed on the spot. Hizbullah hijacked the bodies and
were gone with them before the IDF understood what happened. The fool
commanding the division, Gal Hirsch (he’s running for the Knesset
in the “Shield of Israel” party, his chances non-existent),
ordered a tank to guard the destroyed vehicle. Hizbullah destroyed
the tank. The number of dead was now eight, and once the Chief of
Staff sold
his shares portfolio,
the war started.
The
IDF and the PM (then Ehud Olmert) pretended Goldwasser and Regev were
alive, even though IDF forensics knew they were dead a few hours
after the rocket attack. When a rocket hits a vehicle, there isn’t
much left of the soldiers. There was enough blood on the spot to know
Goldwasser and Regev were dead. Olmert and the army took the country
to war on false pretenses: they claimed they were alive and promised
to get them back.
When
it all ended, thousands of dead and unknown number of traumas later,
Hizbullah negotiated for the bodies. Natch. Israel gave almost all of
its Hizbullah captives. The government, which was in serious trouble
at the time – one poll showed Olmert with 2% support, versus
Hizbullah’s leader Nasrallah, with 4% – did its best to convince
the public there’s a chance Goldwasser and Regev are alive, in
order for the deal to pass. The media ate it up.
Of
course, they were dead and Olmert knew it for months. When the
Hizbullah truck opened and two coffins were brought out, with the
Hizbullah representative sadistically crying, “Here they are!”,
the country went into shock.
And
it still supported the deal. After all, dead soldiers are more
important than living soldiers.
So,
when the news came of Baumel’s body being brought to burial, I
found myself hoping: not again, not again, no more risking of lives
over dead bodies.
The
next day (Thursday), Netanyahu met with Putin in Moscow. A Russian
honor guard presented Netanyahu with
a coffin draped in an Israeli flag and
supposed to contain Baumel’s combat tank suit and boots.
Somebody
fucked up badly, because an IDF colonel spoke the night before of
examining Baumel’s combat suit, in Israel, and of the meticulous
care he and his unit – never identified – had taken of making
certain it was indeed Baumel’s suit. I guess someone forgot to
update the Russians; either that, or this was one of Putin’s little
jokes.
In
short, the whole affair was a propaganda stunt from start to finish.
The point was to portray Netanyahu, five days before the elections,
as someone who can bring dead soldiers home. Which is precisely how
the media played it: “bringing the son home.”
But
Baumel is dead, has been dead for 37 years, life ending in a dreadful
last hour and a semi-second of a flash. The officers who sent him –
and 19 of his comrades – to a pointless death were not punished;
the politician who sent the army there, Ariel Sharon, overcame that
debacle and became a prime minister. And now the remains of Baumel
are being used in a cynical ploy to ensure Netanyahu’s reelection.
A trick which might just work: after all, dead soldiers are more
important than live soldiers, who in turn are more important than
live civilians.
We
have badly misused you, Zecharia Baumel. Rest now in peace. We beg
your forgiveness, and perhaps not everything we did was for your
honor. Beg mercy for us, for we shall need it.
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Zogenaamd Palestijns gebied, daar de Gazastrook in feite één grote Israëlische openluchtgevangenis is, beter gezegd een getto te vergelijken met dat
van Warschau tijdens WOII…..
Zie ook:
‘Israëlische kolonisten verantwoordelijk voor branden op de West Bank‘
‘Duitse razzia’s: jacht op ondersteuners van Hamas en het verdrukte Palestijnse volk‘
‘Israël vermoordde doelbewust journalisten‘
‘Israëlisch leger ontkent moord op invalide Palestijn‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)
Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving, krijg het niet op orde.
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