I saw this on reddit but i couldn't figure out who was who

i guess the soldier is clearing the area of anyone who wants to plant on the farm? he's clearing the farm of protesters?

It seems it takes a high caliber of bigotry to be able to stomach that work. I'm amazed at their level of indoctrination; it must take strong belief to hold such a double standard in that environment.

I would like to be able to know what is truly going on here. The situation is indecipherable. One of the first things that I noticed was the individual that jumped on the tractor and then next the individual working the furrowing that was made by the plow. He was using the shovel dressed in absolutely clean black clothes with clean black dress shoes.

I do not pretend to know the players or the field of play and this video is not a program.

I do think that there is a great deal of theatre going on over there albeit many perceived and real grounds.

>> ^rich_magnet:
It seems it takes a high caliber of bigotry to be able to stomach that work. I'm amazed at their level of indoctrination; it must take strong belief to hold such a double standard in that environment.


Nope, it takes a way of life and a means of living that life. If it was not these people, someone would take their place and the money they are paid to do it.

Israel was a strange country. In the summer and fall of 1992 you'd have found me in either Tel Aviv or within the walls of the old city of Jerusalem. I often went for long walks in the evenings and it happened several times that on Allenby Street or maybe Dizengoff that an Israeli would strike up a conversation and then quickly jump to explain how "we are the same you and me, but the Arabs are animals." Or it was dogs. Or cockroaches. It always shocked me and I'd look at my watch and say something about being late.

I'd been having a wonderful time playing backgammon and chain-smoking Nelsons with the Palestinian and Egyptian friends I'd made at the open-sided cafes in Arab east Jerusalem.

Israeli racism is not unique. Franz Fanon wrote the definitive work on the racism of colonialism. (The Wretched of the Earth)

Gabriel Ash is an Israeli journalist, originally from Romania. Ash's article "Diagnosing Benny Morris: The Mind of a European Settler" is a lucid and powerful indictment.

http://dissidentvoice.org/Jan04/Ash0126.htm


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Israeli historian Benny Morris crossed a new line of shame when he put his academic credentials and respectability in the service of outlining the "moral" justification for a future genocide against Palestinians.

Benny Morris is the Israeli historian most responsible for the vindication of the Palestinian narrative of 1948. The lives of about 700,000 people were shattered as they were driven from their homes by the Jewish militia (and, later, the Israeli army) between December 1947 and early 1950. Morris went through Israeli archives and wrote the day by day account of this expulsion, documenting every "ethnically cleansed" village and every recorded act of violence, and placing each in the context of the military goals and perceptions of the cleansers.

Israel's apologists tried in vain to attack Morris' professional credibility. From the opposite direction, since he maintained that the expulsion was not "by design," he was also accused of drawing excessively narrow conclusions from the documents and of being too naive a reader of dissimulating statements. Despite these limitations, Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugees Problem, 1947-1949 is an authoritative record of the expulsion.

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