Friday Jul 21

Absolutely repulsive

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Israeli girls write mes­sages on a shell at a heavy artillery posi­tion near Kiryat Shmona, in north­ern Israel, next to the Lebanese border, Monday, July 17, 2006.

I found these here and his com­ments to them are just as repul­sive and narrow-​minded as the pic­tures them­selves:

It really warms my heart to see those little girls writing on the shells. Arabs have been teach­ing their kids to hate Israelis for how long now? Israel has long been the target of Arab nations. It’s so freakin asinine how people and more specif­i­cally Muslims/Arabs get upset when Israel starts defend­ing itself. I really think we’re prob­a­bly seeing the begin­ning of World War III. I knew it’d happen within 5 years.

I am not sure, but perhaps people aren’t seeing pic­tures like these:

It’s depraved enough that things such as this are even hap­pen­ing, but to then write on the shells - and that young girls are doing it - is… is too much. Absolutely narrow-​minded, degen­er­a­tive, vile and sick­en­ing. I’m out of words.

For fuck’s sake. Do we need to fly people to these places and give them a local guided tour through the blood­shed before they regain their human­ity?

Some­times I just cannot under­stand how people - human beings - can be so loathe­some to one another. When I see things like this it really chills me. I’m out.

Edit: Just some­thing I heard today, as a caption for the above photos - “Israel’s Hitler Youth”…

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10 comments

  1. 1. Pia Waugh
    Jul 21, 17:07

    Wow. I’m stunned. This is the most dis­turb­ing photo I’ve seen in a while. Thanks for posting it Pascal. I hope that with time people every­where can find some com­pas­sion and under­stand­ing for cul­tures other than their own. It all needs to start with the chil­dren, and edu­cat­ing kids to have such hate and dis­re­gard for life as this…. well, it just starts the cycle again doesn’t it.

  2. 2. Paul Wayper
    Jul 21, 18:18

    The problem with the whole middle east is that, col­lec­tively, it’s been fight­ing itself for cen­turies. The mod­er­ates have died, long ago, leaving only the fanat­ics with the bastard courage to commit atroc­i­ties on eachother in retal­i­a­tion for the atroc­i­ties com­mit­ted on them. There is no “peace road map”, there will be no end, until the entire area is declared an unown­able, unin­hab­it­able waste­land, either by nuclear or chem­i­cal methods. That’s my uncom­pro­mis­ing posi­tion.

    There are too many fac­tions, too many under­ground resis­tance move­ments, too many people that believe in mar­tyr­dom. There is too much oil and gas under­ground and too many holy sites on top to leave the area uncon­trolled. There is too much money and arms flowing into the place from outside fac­tions who wish one or another country to succeed. It’s a lost cause.

  3. 3. dylunio
    Jul 21, 21:34

    It’s sad to se how death to others is taught as a good thing.
    I have no idea how they sleep at night.

  4. 4. Ashley
    Jul 22, 01:13

    A person is wrong. Against every­thing you believe in. A whole army is behind you. Which is the more humane solu­tion?

    Destroy­ing them
    Destroy­ing your­self
    Destroy­ing what they believe, in an attempt to har­monise
    Destroy­ing what you believe, in an attempt to har­monise
    Ignore every­thing

    It’s an inter­est­ing ques­tion. How many alter­na­tives are there to the above? Another inter­est­ing ques­tion is: “Will word­press allow me to post HTML,” which I’m hoping you’ll edit for me if it doesn’t, Pascal.

  5. 5. Pascal
    Jul 22, 02:55

    Com­pro­mise.

    Ashley: you didn’t include any HTML in your comment…?

  6. 6. Hal
    Jul 22, 04:11

    I echo your sen­ti­ments, it’s absolutely repul­sive.

    Defend­ing your­self is one thing, lit­er­ally breed­ing hate is another.

  7. 7. Erik
    Jul 22, 07:43

  8. 8. Pascal
    Jul 22, 10:32

    I very much dis­agree. I’m no psy­chi­a­trist, but that only pro­motes the hatred. I think it is absolutely wrong to allow chil­dren, young people of such an age as depicted in the first three pho­tographs, to engage in such acts of hatred - it only pro­motes it and these feel­ings will be very dif­fi­cult to over­come in their later stages of life.

    Con­cern­ing your response, on your blog:

    Edit: I’ve made a new entry for the your response. It is here.

    Cheers. :)

  9. 9. Pascal
    Jul 22, 10:18

    Erik: I com­pletely missed your response to my blog entry on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to George Bush.

    I agree with your entry - I didn’t really point out that Ahmadine­jad wasn’t the most accept­ing guy either. Calling for the destruc­tion of Israel is def­i­nitely not some­thing that goes down well when stated pub­licly on the polit­i­cal land­scape, but from reading the letter one does gain an under­stand­ing - at least an insightt - into why so many Arabs are angry with the actions of Israel.

    I suggest for those who still have not read the letter to give it a read. It’s avail­able on Wik­isource, here.

    Thanks for linking to it in your recent blog entry.

  10. 10. Don Lapre James
    Dec 28, 08:32

    Wow…… Don’t know what to say other than it will take many gen­er­a­tions of evo­lu­tion­ary change, the teach­ings by parents and other adults, to learn I guess.
    Who is going to start it??

    Jim
    Don Lapre James
    webmaster@linuxrocks.org http://www.linuxrocks.org  

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