Sunday 22 March 2009

The most 'moral' army in the world?

Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF fashion 2009

"...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..."


A very disturbing story from today's online edition of the Israeli daily newspaper 'Haaretz' here.

Another story here alleges that IDF soldiers were given orders to fire upon the rescuers of injured Gazan civilians!

Following the damning testimony the other day from IDF soldiers involved in the January assault on Gaza that unarmed civilians were deliberately killed, do you still think that you have the most 'moral' army in the world, Mr. Barak?
More soldier's stories here.

(Thanx to 'Renegade Futurist' for pointing me in this direction.)

2 comments:

  1. wow, that's truly appalling. we can only look forward to a future beyond insane militarism and racism. -MB

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  2. Horrible stuff, they don't win any friends with this kind of sick stuff and all the human rights abuses that occur. Hopefully the new US admin will cut their military aid

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