Jean-Pierre Perrin compiles, in a note Liberation June 25, a list of "humiliation" suffered by the French diplomatic corps, inflicted by Israeli soldiers. And this particular lese flag perfectly filthy :
But the most shocking incident was the occupation of the residence of French consular agent, Majdi Chakkour in Gaza during the Israeli attack in January . In his absence, Israeli soldiers have completely ravaged places - yet reported to the Israeli army - a large sum of stolen money, jewelry of his wife, his computer and destroyed the theory upon which he worked. And they defiled with excrement the French flag.
This last sentence brings back memories of discussions with a Lebanese friend. Telling me (again - Arabic is whining) countless atrocities during the Israeli invasion of 1982, my friend told me about the propensity of soldiers to the Jewish state defecate everywhere. In the long wave of robberies, murders, looting ... this story seemed to defecate face of this trend throughout the Mediterranean romantic exaggeration.
But over time I realized that this aspect of the scatological "interventions" Israel was widely circulated among my Arab interlocutors, and totally unknown to the side of my house. To a famous article of Amira Hass in Haaretz in 2002, which introduced the issue related to the comfort of the Israeli soldier.
is fairly typical kind of "myth" that Palestinians and Lebanese know and have been reporting for years, but the Western media completely obscure because it is probably a lie invented by the Arab anti-Semitic. Until the day it's published in an Israeli newspaper, and then this "myth" Palestinian finally reached the status of historical truth. A bit like the famous "Nakba", which the Palestinians have so hackneyed long ears, until, finally, the "new historians" we Israelis have discovered in the late 80's that the Arabs had known since 1948.
skuas IDF adventures are documented in English, so fragmentary, and almost no French. So here I give you a review of this subject sickening. The translations are my own, the reader is invited as always to read the original texts in English to avoid repeating my errors of translation.
begin this tale of the brave Israeli soldier in a hostile environment by memories of Jean Said Makdisi, Beirut Fragments :
After the departure of the Israelis (Beirut 1982), we have begun to hear the most extraordinary aspects of the occupation. The arrests, harassment, shootings, looting: it was what everyone expected, and indeed, this had occurred. But the most unexpected thing, when you heard about it for the first time, caused a hesitant laugh. Gradually, we discovered that what seemed initially an isolated incident, was actually a brand name and had taken much larger size.
Israeli soldiers, wherever they lived, had defecated in selected venues. On books, furniture, clothing, carpets; on the floor bedrooms near toilets and in bathtubs, on the desks of schools and into shop windows, people have found rotting feces. Someone swore she knew a house near the airport where the housewife in distress had discovered feces in her washing machine and dishwasher. We heard that a man went to his office and saw these stinking manure and offensive to all offices, except on his own. Triumphantly, he moved to his office and bragged of his unfortunate colleagues. Then he opened his drawer and there, carefully installed in the middle of his files, was the legacy of the Israeli army.
And so, after the destruction and tragedy, after the destruction and suffering, death and dying, their bodies slashed and eyes blinded, their faces burned and disfigured, widows and orphans - after all this, all that remained was a large pile of excrement. The fires were extinguished, smothered by a pile of manure. A terrible joke, a symbol of defiance than a cosmic stench had become a monument to the memory of those months of agony.
Noam Chomsky also mentions this aspect of the invasion of Beirut in The fateful triangle :
In the same building, Israeli soldiers broke into the apartment of Professor Khalidi, who holds Chair of the Department of Biochemistry, American University of Beirut. They have completely looted, stealing objects of art, ancient pottery, kitchen utensils, tools, etc.. Sculptures were thrown into the street. The lecture notes and books that were not stolen were thrown to the ground, then the soldiers "have defecated above "and" smashed raw eggs on the stack. "
Farther:
Berber At the hospital, the Israelis had bombed several times, "the clinic physicians and apartments were looted during the four days of Israeli occupation, according to the doctors present." Chairs were broken, garbage and food scattered everywhere, soldiers were drawn on the carpet with lipstick have defecated in pots and pans, stolen tapes, conferences, cameras, etc.. A mosque on the main axis east-west was desecrated. "Many of the carpets were stolen, it has defecated on others, and cans of beer were spilled, according to witnesses living near the mosque.
Another time, same morals. This tradition is mentioned in 1995 in Palestine in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law :
48. Even in my city [Ramallah], a family was awakened Wednesday, October 19, 1994 at two o'clock in the morning by a group of officers (four or five according to the testimony of the occupants) using a megaphone to order all residents to leave the house. They came to arrest a suspect who turned out to be a child of the family, a young student. Leaving the family outside the group of officers entered the house and systematically ransacked every room: armchairs, sofas and beds were ripped open, cupboards emptied and their contents thrown on the ground, destroyed the kitchen, appliances into pieces and broken, food containers returned, including jars of olives that have been emptied on the terrace, notebooks and textbooks torn. To top this feat military, one of the men defecated in the hall and threw his feces on the beds. This happened seven hours before the attack in Tel Aviv on the same day and can in no way be considered an act of revenge.
Seven years later, in December 2002, Samah Jabr tells the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs :
We've all been subjected to pornographic images broadcast by the Israelis when they occupied stations Palestinian television. These soldiers did not hesitate to urinate and defecate all over Palestinian properties in the offices and the apartments they occupied.
The article has made it known abroad this strange form of "warfare" of the most ethical army in the world was published by Haaretz in 2002 under the pen Amira Hass, the title leaves little to the imagination: " Someone even managed to defecate into the photocopier . It describes the behavior of the Israelis during the siege of Arafat's offices in April 2002. After they left, Palestinians resume possession of the Ministry of Culture.
In other offices, all high-tech equipment and electronics were destroyed or disappeared - computers, photocopiers, cameras, scanners, hard drives, mounting hardware worth several thousand dollars, television sets . The broadcast antenna on the roof of the building was destroyed.
The boxes have disappeared. A collection of Palestinian art (mostly handmade embroidery) disappeared. Perhaps these objects have been buried under piles of documents and furniture, perhaps they have been stolen. Furniture were fired from one place to another, broken by the soldiers, and put in batteries. Gas stoves for heating were overturned and thrown on the pile of scattered papers, books thrown, disks and disks, and windows shattered.
In the department for the promotion of art with children, the soldiers were stained walls with gouache paintings they found there, and destroyed the children's paintings hanging there.
In every room of the various departments - literature, cinema, children's culture and children's books, records, pamphlets and papers were piled up, soiled with urine and feces.
There are two toilets on each floor, but the soldiers urinated and defecated everywhere else in the building, several rooms where they had lived for about a month. They made their needs on the ground, in empty flower pots, even in drawers out of business.
They defecated in plastic bags, and they were scattered in several places. Some of them broke. Someone even managed to defecate into a photocopier.
The soldiers urinated into empty mineral water bottles. These have been scattered by the dozens in all parts of the building, in cardboard boxes, piles of garbage and rubble, on desks, in offices, in the furniture smashed, between books for children who thrown to the ground.
Some bottles were opened and the yellow liquid had spilled and left the spot. It was particularly difficult to penetrate in two stages the building because of the acrid smell of feces and urine. Soiled toilet paper was also scattered everywhere.
In some parts, near the pile of feces and toilet paper, scraps of rotting food were scattered. In a corner in the room where someone had defecated in a drawer full of boxes of fruit and vegetables had been abandoned. The toilets were overflowing with abandoned bottles filled with urine, feces and toilet paper.
"What our camp be pure." This is the philosophy of my fighters.
Not only because it sums up our teaching, but because it constitutes the essence of their belief and their national heritage. A belief and a legacy we all share: religious and secular Israelis, right and left, the army and elsewhere. It is a source of pride and confidence, even in difficult times.
But then, enlighten us, Danny Zamir, you who "direct [z] program premilitary Itzhzak Rabin, this unbelievable scatological obsession of your "fighters", that they come from? It comes from their "philosophy" and "our teaching" and "the essence of their belief," or their "national heritage"?
Or is it just their what they eat?
