🧵"Until Gaza is erased"
I'm sure many of you heard of genocidal hit song Harbu Darbu (20M views on YT), but I haven't seen almost any mention of another contemporary Israeli hit song, not as popular as HD ("only" 1.8M views), but the lyrics are actually worse: "Shager" (launch)
The word "Shager" (launch), comes from the phrase "2, 3, Shager". It refers to the countdown before a drone's missile launch. Phrase was popularized in Israel after a video released by IDF spokesperson went viral. There have been many cultural references to the phrase ever since.
"Knocking on rooftops" refers to the known IDF practice, of dropping a small bomb before dropping a larger bomb on a building. It's supposed to serve as sort of an evacuation warning.
"The 10 plagues" refers to the biblical 10 plagues of Egypt.
"Plague of the Firstborn" ("Death of the Firstborn") refers to the last Plague of Egypt, when every firstborn Egyptian - young/old/male/female and livestock - died simultaneously.
"For every flower of ours we handed them a bouquet" - "flower" is military codename for casualty.
"Who's Crazy?" refers to a popular Israeli military rallying cry. A soldier or a commander would ask "Who's crazy?" and the soldiers would shout collectively "I'm crazy!"
"We wanted to dance in nature" refers to the October 7th Nova rave, where 347 civilians were massacred.
"Hope is not yet lost" refers to a line from the Israeli national anthem, "HaTikva" ("The Hope").
"Doing fauda" (said in Arabic) seems to refer both to the Israeli action TV show Fauda and to the act of "doing fauda" itself (literally "making a mess/creating chaos")
"Sublime People" ("Am Sgula") is a phrase that refers to the concept of Jews as "The Chosen People".
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🧵You ask why we didn't take everything down?.. We didn't have enough explosives to do it... I think we pity them too much. These guys across the border planned to slaughter us, rape our women and burn our children"
In an extensive interview with Col. Avi Marciano, commander of the Hiram Brigade, Marciano expresses his belief that Israel has been too merciful towards Lebanese. The interview was published yesterday (June 6) on Ynet, for the occasion of Marciano leaving his position. Ynet calls him "The brigade commander who cleansed the Hezbollah villages".
Following are a few excerpts from the interview with this war criminal.
The full excerpt quoted in the beginning of the tweet:
""You ask why we didn't take everything down? Unfortunately, because we didn't have enough explosives to do it," he returns to the criticism. "I would like the general to come to me with a harsh criticism, say that I'm insolent and accuse me of being lazy because there are buildings that I didn't blow up and there is more work that I didn't complete. The system should have mobilized more here, and my criticism is also of myself that I probably didn't push hard enough. I think we pity them too much. Those guys across the border planned to slaughter us, rape our women and burn our children. We are a people who should strive to be in a struggle. Not because we don't like peace, but because we have no one to talk to on the other side."
""A collective memory had to be created among Hezbollah of complete annihilation of the very idea of annihilating the State of Israel," says Colonel Marciano. "Let them have a collective memory a hundred years in the future, that whoever plans to do 7/10 to Israel, this is the price they will pay. The main task I have set before me since the ceasefire was declared was to go house by house, warehouse by warehouse, and take out and blow up - and make sure that they would not have the ability to return here. As soon as the main maneuvering forces such as the paratroopers and the Golani and the reserve fighters cleared an area - we immediately entered it and began its systematic cleansing. We returned to the villages to make sure that no terrorist infrastructure remained in them.""
""We took the entire strip of large Shi'ite villages from the Manara area, Margaliot and Kfar Yuval to the Litani River - and we focused on them," he says. The principle that guided him and the soldiers of the brigade was clear and decisive, almost obsessive: "If you enter a place - don't leave it unless it is 'on the ground', completely annihilated"
Doron Kadosh, military correspondent for army-run radio Galey Tzahal (GALATZ), interviewed, by text messages, the ISIS-affiliated, Israel-backed gang leader Yasser Abu Shabab. According to Kadosh, Abu Shabab claimed that hundreds of Palestinian families already moved into the gang-run concentration camps, and that he's working closely with the PA, specifically with the mukhabarat (the PA's secret police)
In Jerusalem there's a Pride Parade today (yes, in the middle of a holocaust). Anti-genocide protesters tried to join with banners against genocide and starvation of Gaza and were brutally attacked by the police.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention - Israel, including the army and top Israeli officials, has been using that supposed "antisemitic trope" non-stop since the genocide began, in a much more vulgar and dehumanizing manner,