Are Israeli settlers the vilest people in the world?
Posted by SueC on October 22, 2024, 4:59 pm
It seems to me that the Universe has organised a collective of the vilest people of all nations and arranged to dump them in the Middle East as Israeli settlers. I caught interviews Channel 4 did with a number of settlers last night about their plans to take over Gaza once the fighting has stopped. Extraordinary displays of religious and racial supremacy on display. And the genuinely shocking thing - not all of them were white Europeans or Americans. What should happen to the surviving Palestinians asked the reporter. Ireland, the UK, the US can take them said the settler. Zero empathy, zero concern. No awareness that other people can be attached to land, history, tradition, kith and kin.
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It's hard to think of anyone else that approaches their levels of obnoxious self-righteousness and sociopathic selfishness.
They are the "cousin kept in the attic" when it comes to the apartheid state; if too many people see their real nature it would be easy for support to disappear. The casual mantion of "settlers" on the msm news doesn't even begin to convey what horrendous maniacs they are....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
such unadulterated fascist that I think it's subversive to give them airtime
I don't have the link, Sue, but Caitlin Johnstone recently (2/3 days ago) did a complete post on encountering Israeli Jews when she was a student and records her shock and disgust at the way they treated brown-skinned citizens of whatever country they were travelling in. She says they treated her (a white "Western" woman) with respect, but were rude and insufferably arrogant with indigenous people. It's definitely worth checking out Caitlin's post, because it proves that this behaviour is long-standing, spanning generations, and an integral part of Israeli Jewish social conditioning.
Don't forget Abby Martin's encounters with them, either. (nm)
My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.
They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.
It was a very educational experience for me. I knew the Palestinians were being treated unfairly because my father had told me so, but I also had a great love of Jews and Jewish culture. I had visited Auschwitz and Dachau and Anne Frank's house in my travels, and I remember having some romantic ideas about kibbutzim. This was my first time directly encountering the reality that there is something unhealthy about Israeli society. Not Jews or Jewish culture, but Jewish Israelis. -- Cont'd at https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/we-really-are-the-bad-guys-and-this-really-is-the-evil-empire-9ec35b2759a8
No, he's never met a nice Jewish Israeli
Posted by Ed on October 22, 2024, 11:15 pm, in reply to "From a day ago:"
No, he's never met a nice Jewish Israeli And that's not bloody surprising man, 'Cause they're a bunch of arrogant bastards, Who hate black people.
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Where this would be the case? Granted its a small survey but...:
Study: 61% of Men Don't See Forced Sex With Acquaintance as Rape
When asked whether they viewed forced sex with a spouse as rape, only 8.5 percent of women and 7.3 percent of men said yes.
Over half of Israeli men - 61 percent - do not consider forcing sex on an acquaintance as rape, a study conducted by Tel-Hai Academic College recently found. Moreover, 41 percent of Israeli women share that view.
The study was conducted last fall by Dr. Avigail Moor, a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating victims of sexual violence. Moor asked her respondents two main questions: The first was whether they believed forced sex with an acquaintance constitutes rape; the second was whether they felt forced sex with a stranger constitutes rape. Respondents were asked to provide a simple yes or no answer. What Moor discovered is that many of those surveyed viewed these two circumstances quite differently. While 61 percent of men and 41 percent of women said they did not consider forced sex with an acquaintance to be rape, nine out of 10 respondents of both genders said that forced sex with a stranger is rape. When asked whether they viewed forced sex with a spouse as rape, only 8.5 percent of women and 7.3 percent of men said yes. The surveyed individuals included 160 women and 159 men who constitute a representative sample of the population aged 18 to 69.
"The importance of the study is that it empirically documents the public's tolerant attitude toward rape by an acquaintance, which is the most common form of sexual assault," said Moor. "In contrast to the law - which does not distinguish between rape in which the assailant knows the victim and rape in which the assailant is a stranger - the public doesn't view forced sex by a prior acquaintance as rape in every regard, and minimizes its severity. "Consequently, the justice system, and sometimes even the victims themselves, have trouble identifying a situation as rape, and therefore as a crime ... for which the guilty party must be punished," she continued. "As a result of this view, women who are raped by an acquaintance have trouble getting support ... and are even accused of creating the conditions for the incident to occur, while the attackers aren't denounced or punished."
When Moor asked respondents whether a woman should complain to the police if raped by a stranger, 54 percent of women and 52 percent of men said yes. When asked about rape by an acquaintance, 38 percent of women and 20 percent of men thought the victim should file a police complaint.
This may have slipped down the board without notice but the documentary covers the "hilltop" mob in detail (Daniella Weiss and her fellow lunatics) and is as enraging as you'd exepect. The discussion afterwards is very worthwhile too. One guy talks about how he was in the West Bank and was targetted by the IOF and shot in the leg.
https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/thread/1729155118.html...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Tremendous documentary and discussion. Just finished watching it. Very long but very worthwhile. nm
on October 22, 2024, 4:59 pm