Israel: Because this makes TOTAL sense...

These homeless Palestinian orphans were pushed out of their village by Israeli "settlers"...

The illicit nation of Israel is at it again*, speaking out of both sides of their mouths, and spreading human misery. To the absolute surprise of no one, the most recent outrage involves a gang of thuggish "settlers" (e.g., invaders).

Suspected Jewish settlers today attacked a mosque in the northern West Bank, burning holy books and spraying threatening graffiti in Hebrew on the building, Palestinian officials and Israeli police said.

Extremists broke into the mosque in the village of Yasuf, near the city of Nablus, and burned Muslim holy books and prayers carpets, while sprayed slogans on the floor reading “Price tag – greetings from Effi.”

I think the "settlers" misunderstood Happy Gilmore

What is "price tag" you ask? It is the practice whereby "settlers" vandalize, destroy, assault, and otherwise terrorize Palestinians and/or their property and religious institutions in retribution for their own governments actions to curb their land theft. That's right, when the International community condemns them, when the U.S. tries to end occupation, when their own country says "hey, time to curb the settlements" these goons attack the very people that these actions were intended to protect.

 

When your government tells you stop, attack a third party...Makes perfect sense to me.

So, what brought this about? Seems that Benyamin Netanyahu, Isreali PM, recently agreed to tenatively curb the West Bank "settlements", prompting the above irrational acts of lunacy. Did the rightist government have condemnation for the perpetrators? Of course,  ultra-rightist Likud-nik Ehud Barak did, but -typical for his rightist ilk- is was all about his people, not the damage this does to innocents: "This is an extremist act geared toward harming the government's efforts to advance the political process for the sake of Israel's future,"

As we all should; as we all should.

Finally, why do I say that the government is "talking out of both sides of their mouth", thus encouraging actions like this? Seems that no matter the agreement reached between the U.S. and Israel, no matter the lip service paid by Netanyahu and Barak, it's all bullshit. As Netanyahu himself stated five fucking days ago:

"Israel would resume building in settlements in the occupied West Bank when a 10-month moratorium expires next year...construction will resume...This is a one-time and temporary decision, not a freeze of unlimited and infinite duration."

Expect more of the same. More of the same. This is, after all, a nation that elected a war criminal** and civilian murderer as its head of state.

Violent occupation, murder, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide aren't made prettier because you say you do it in the name of God.

 

* I am emphatically not anti-Semitic. I am anti-Zionist. Zionism is a relatively recent political philosophy, less than 100 years old, that espouses racial hatred, religious intolerance and imperialism of the worst kind. Those who doubt that there is a distinction owe it to themselves to read "Beyond Chutzpah" by Norman Finkelstein. I have no problems saying that the Israeli government is immoral, illicit and in contravention of the basic laws of international human rights. The problem is Zionism, people, not Judaism...although, I tend to think the problem with most of the world's ills lie at the feet of religion, but that's a subject for another day.

 **Ooops, seems we did that too.