"Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills." A "graduation" shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby, who grows into a combative boy and then an armed adult, with the inscription, "No matter how it begins, we'll put an end to it." Read more of the twisted minds produced by the so-called most moral army in the world.
(thanks Nada)
4 comments:
Really, this is so upsetting, I don't know that I want the thanks.
Sick, sick, sick.
the degree of dehumanization of the Palestinians in the minds of these soldiers is quite astonishing.
The Haaretz article was really disturbing. It also brings into sharp focus the fact that so many Israeli soldiers are teenagers. Like in Abu Ghraib, dehumanization is facilitated by a kind of transnational "frat boy" culture. scary how people use the cover of "humor" to justify the violation of human rights.
I agree...teenagers with guns and hatred and a green light to shoot.
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