🧵"We're burning their village. It's good that we're burning their village"
Channel 14's panel member asks singer Kobi Peretz why he sings "May your village burn" in front of soldiers, while ICJ case still pending. He's met with ridicule from the panel members and Peretz himself.
Peretz, a very popular singer, was kicked out of an army base where he was scheduled to perform. He says it was because of a "bad apple" officer who didn't like him regularly singing "May your village burn" & handing out Tefilin in performances in front of soldiers.
The incident:
Peretz came on Channel 14's talk show "HaPatriotim" to speak about the whole ordeal. At the end of the segment he is asked which song's the most popular among soldiers, and turns out it's actually "May your village burn". He sings it also on his regular shows, including weddings.
The host of "The Patriots" is Yinon Magal.
The guy who's worried about The Hague case is law professor Moshe Cohen. Apparently, according to Magal, he's the token leftist of the show.
The one who says it's good that the IDF burns Gaza is racist publicist-propagandist Yotam Zimri.
Note that besides Peretz's genocidal remarks and insistence on promoting the religionization of the genocide, he also bring up the thoroughly debunked story of a pregnant Israeli woman allegedly having her stomach cut open on October 7th. Magal tries, and fails, to correct him.
This aired on NOW 14 on March 10th, 2024.
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🧵If you think the phenomena of IDF soldiers documenting their crimes & sharing them online is new, or that it's somehow caused by Netanyahu's right wing government or Oct 7 events, I've got news for you: it's not.
In 2010, ex-soldier Eden Abergel posted these photos on Facebook:
Abergel named the album "Army... The most beautiful time of my life :)"
The images went viral and caused an international outrage. In interviews with different media outlets, Abergel said she sees nothing wrong with her actions.
IDF spokesperson commented that the photos are "blatant and ugly behavior that will be investigated", but ultimately Abergel wasn't punished in any way, supposedly because her actions demanded only an in-house disciplinary hearing, and she was already out of the army at the time.
🧵"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.
Head of Moshav Margaliyot, Eytan Davidi, calls to flatten the ridge above the Moshav, where Lebanese villages Hula & Markaba are located
Maragliyot is built on the ruins of the depopulated village of Hunin. Most refugees ended up in Hula, which also suffered a huge massacre in 48
More heads of Upper Galilee localities calling for ethnic cleansing of Southern Lebanon:
🧵Soldiers committing war crimes and posting on social media, thread # who-knows-how-many:
1/8 Soldiers enjoy checking out a ring they looted.
2/8 Seen quite a few of these already: Israeli soldiers with displaced/murdered children's teddy bears. I bet that if the child is still alive he'd have loved to have his teddy bear to hug at night. Instead, a psychopath soldier uses it for his amusement and a few likes on social
3/8 Another form of looting that's exceptionally despicable is the looting of musical instruments. Like the Nazis, turning beautiful melodies into the noise of evil murderous supremacy, sounds for masking the cries of dying children.
Remember Iranian-born Eliyahu Yossian? He's now being invited to give lectures in public schools!
Reminder: he talks about the "secular-liberal disease", how we need to be more "middle eastern" (meaning violent), castrate "Arab rapists" and generally just kill a lot more Arabs.
Following are some reminders about who Eliyahu Yossian is:
In the first month of the war he was a big hit on all the popular media platforms, including the most mainstream ones.
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"They will come to Europe, they will come everywhere, this abscess"
Excerpts from a conversation on Israeli radio between right-winger Emily Amrusi, ex-spokesperson for Yesha Council, & "Zionist leftist" Yuval Elbashan, a social activist, regarding Gaza's "Flour Massacre"
2/8 "We're cleaning the world's most stinky toilet" says Amrusi
I thought this discussion, about starving kids and morality, is quite revealing regarding the nature of Israeli political spectrum, so I uploaded the whole thing here for whoever's interested:
3/8 "We'll never receive the support of the world. They only like slaughtered Jews, it was true in 1945 and apparently true in 2024"
Elbashan sounds genuinely concerned about the starving children but still supports the war, of course, and claims the world is always against us.