🧵"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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Snowballing Nakba: on December 30th 1947, three Irgun men - Moshe Levi, Shimon Damti and Moshe Bodek - arrived at the gates of the oil refinery in Haifa, where Arabs and Jews worked side by side. The men threw several homemade bombs, killing 6 Arab workers and injuring 42.
2/8 Immediately after the bombing, Arab workers started attacking their Jewish co-workers, using rods and knives. 39 Jews were massacred, many were injured. Only about an hour after the incident started, British police arrived and dispersed the crowd.
3/8 The next day, on new year's eve, more than 100 Zionist militants arrived at nearby Palestinian villages of Balad al-Shaykh and Hawassa, where some of the Arab workers lived. The order given to the Haganah men was "to kill maximum adult men, destroy furniture etc."
🧵"One of the senior commanders in the sector ordered to shoot a man who waved a white flag and raised his hands, when he was unarmed and very far from the IDF forces. When he was told that the man was holding a white flag and you could see for sure that he was not armed, he replied: "I don't know what a white flag is, shoot to kill."
It took more than a year for Haim Har Zahav, Israeli journalist and army reservist, to see that the "war" he takes part in is immoral. He learned that while serving for 86 days in the infamous "Netzarim Corridor/Territory". And yet he continues to serve, claiming that most war crimes are actually in the "grey area".
A piece by him published in Ha'aretz yesterday is very revealing regarding the nature of the "fighting" in the Gaza Strip. Following are a few translated excerpts.
Regarding 5 Palestinians who tried to go back to North Gaza and were detained and interrogated:
"Towards evening the investigators had to decide which of the five would be released, if any, and who would be transferred for further investigation in Israel. "I can tell you've been here only a few days," one of the interrogators told me with a smile when I asked what the decision was and how to carry out the release of those who are not needed for further investigation. When I asked how he knew we were new, he smiled again and answered: "Because you are still taking captives."
"A human life in the Gaza Strip is worth less than the lives of the thousands of stray dogs that roam it looking for food. While there is a clear order that forbids shooting dogs, unless there is a real danger to the soldier when the dog's jaws are fixed on him, it is allowed to shoot humans without any real restrictions, except for the personal moral limits of the soldier holding the weapon."
🧵Another personal thread dedicated to an Israeli reservist who served during the first months of the genocide. This time it's Ariel Mualem, a D9 operator who served in Gaza.
In mid-December his unit raided Kamal Adwan hospital and abducted the hospital director, Ahmad Kahlout. Kahlout was then tortured by the Shin Bet and forced to give a "confession", on camera, for supposedly being a Hamas militant and for using the hospital as a "military base" of Hamas.
Mualem shared a video of the forced confession on his Instagram story, and wrote: "Take a good luck at this d*ck". In the following story we can see the hospital director being abducted, while cuffed. Mualem captioned the video "Human garbage🤮" and "Here he is, not such a hero after we got to him"
A year later, Ahmad Kahlout is still held captive in one of Israel's concentration camps. Kamal Adwan Hospital is still under constant attacks, in an area where Israel is currently implementing its "final solution", named The Generals' Plan.
Another photo from the same day features several half-naked Palestinian abductees outside the hospital.
Mualem captioned it: "Don't worry, we took care of the terrorists"
Ariel Mualem is a Combat Engineering D9 operator, a Heavy Machinery ("TZAMA") company nicknamed "The Cliff Cats".
One video he posted features a D9 bulldozing an already destroyed mosque, collapsing it completely.
🧵In a shameful piece made of propaganda and demonizing, dehumanizing lies, Ynet's pseudo-journalist Liran Tamari is doing a PR campaign for Ben Gvir's concentration camps, and praising the inhumane conditions in which Palestinian abductees have been living in. Praising torture.
I would've gotten you excerpts from the piece but I'm a bit too overwhelmed with disgust and rage today and I can't get myself to read this garbage again and again this time.
But here's the article (archived) in Hebrew: archive.md/W3JZC
🧵A mega-thread about a serious abductee abuse enthusiast who served as a reservist during the genocide.
Shlomi Amar was on reserve duty, in the 7014th Battalion of Menashe Brigade, for at least 6 months. He and his fellow terrorists were operating in Jenin and Tulkarm. Here's a chronologic thread of some things he thought would be appropriate to share on his Instagram story.
This is the first one, from 13.10.2023
It is captioned "The People of Israel lives and kicks, you sons of whores"
27.10.2023
Captions:
"A happy birthday weekend for me"
"May everyone have a peaceful Saturday, amen"
4.11.2023
The caption says "The People of Israel lives and breathes and kicks"
🧵Meet Michael Chayoth, trance music parties organizer and a sadistic IDF reservist in the 5060th Battalion
Here he can be seen kneeling on the back of a blindfolded, hand-tied Palestinian abductee, while pointing his gun at him. Chayoth captioned it: "Another day at the office"
Chayoth served in Hebron in the months after 7 October. Apparently, he picked up a hobby of posting photos of himself abusing Palestinian abductees .
Chayoth also like taking mirror selfies in Palestinian homes his unit invaded.