What’s the difference between the torching of mosques at a Galilean Bedouin village and at a West Bank village? Nothing, except that the latter won’t get all the “defenders of democracy” rushing for photo-ops at the site! | Raging Rechavia “Rick” Berman gives you the week’s top stories as they ought to be told. A weekly feature on +972
by Rechavia “Rick” Berman
Welcome one and all to the Weekend Holyland Wrap. Israel is the name, self-destruction is the game, and we only pretend to have shame.
The two big events in the past week were the shocking – shocking, I say! – seepage of the disgustingly-named “price tag” pogrom tactic into sovereign Israel, and what some saw as the equally shocking failure of Prime Minister Bibinocchio to pass the recommendations of the Trachtenberg Committee in the cabinet.
As y’all have no doubt heard, some Judeo-fascist or other desecrated the mosque in the Galilean Bedouin village of Tuba-Zangriyya, setting fire to the place and spraying “Death to Arabs” and “Price tag Palmer” – the latter being the settler who was murdered by rock-throwers near Hebron a week or two before.
The choice of Tuba-Zangriyya is of course extremely ironic, since it happens to be home to a tribe of Bedouins who are highly loyal to the State of Israel and have been since its inception, serving with distinction in the IDF and everything. I have to wonder if it wasn’t chosen on purpose, to make the point that, as the racist saying goes, “A good Arab is a dead Arab.”
The act sparked almost universal outrage, with figures from the terrible Abe Foxman to the mortality-defying President of Israel, Shimon (father of the settlements) Peres condemning the act. Why did these luminaries not express similar outrage at identical acts committed against mosques east of the Green Line? Because they realize deep down what this means – that the two state solution is a mirage. That if the Settlers are uprooted from where they are and brought back into sovereign Israel, they will simply continue their hateful tactics and foment civil war between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel – who, make no mistake, they do not tolerate any more than they do the “Dafawis” (dafa is Arabic for “river bank,” as in “West Bank”).
The police actually have a suspect in custody, and astonishing though this may seem, said suspect studies at the yeshiva headed by Yitzhak Ginzburg, one of the main supporters of the mein-kampfish “King’s Torah,” the book that states that the Chosen People may kill the babies of their enemies for deterrence or revenge.
The youngsters in the village have been rioting since the incident, burning down a few public buildings to show their displeasure. Then, on Yom Kippur’s eve, someone else, probably another fascist Jew, saw fit to desecrate two cemeteries in Jaffa, one Muslim and one Christian. This caused some stupid hothead to throw a Molotov cocktail into a (thankfully unoccupied) synagogue. The civil war is well on its way.
Meanwhile, the social protest and its political fallout refuse to fade away. The Trachtenberg Committee, a socioeconomic panel formed by PM Netanyahu following the summer’s demonstrations, has presented its report, which was roundly rejected as insufficient by anyone who had anything to do with J14 , seeing as the report includes nothing regarding public housing and claims that Israel’s taxation policy is on the whole “sound.” Yet Bibi tried to ram Trachtenberg’s recommendations through a cabinet resolution, with no time for the ministers to study them and no prep work to ensure he had the votes. Result? He was humiliated, and the defeat ignited talks of a crumbling coalition and the scent of blood in the water and elections in the offing.
But the reality remains that none of the Bibster’s partners has any interest in moving the elections up, and so after flattering Lieberman’s Israel Beiteinu party a bit more, Netanyahu had his resolution approved. It won’t mean a thing, of course, as anything the Treasury doesn’t like will simply be neutered.
So to recap: We will continue to make less and pay more, while waiting helplessly for the fanatics, god-wankers and nihilists on both sides to successfully ignite a full scale civil war. Good news? Look for ’em elsewhere. This tour is not responsible for any illusions, sympathies or misconceptions that may have been misplaced on our trips. Please collect your senses and check your comments where appropriate. Thank you for flying the crazy skies.
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