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| amatullah |
| 01/23/03 at 22:18:02 |
| From the haaretz (Israel paper) Judeo-Nazis Even hardcore leftists had a problem when the God-fearing Yeshayahu Leibowitz dubbed the settlers "Judeo-Nazis." Less than 30 years later, the professor's words were translated into reality in a graffiti scrawled on a wall in the Jewish enclave in Hebron. A few weeks ago photographer Shabtai Gold's lens caught the phrase "Arabs to the crematoria" beside a Magen David on a wall in the enclave. Since then, someone blurred the shocking inscription. Not far from it, on another wall, someone wrote "Arabs - sub-humans." That kind of graffiti pops up often in the streets of Jerusalem. Leftists have found that the slurs remain on the walls a long time so to hasten the city's action against them, they've found a chilling, but effective way to get them removed - they paint a swastika beside it. As in every attempt to tie the Holocaust to local phenomenon, this column's publication on December 31 of selected quotes from a petition by Holocaust survivors and second generation survivors resulted in protests by survivor organizations. But the photo from Hebron only amplifies the the message of the petition, which appears today in full in the Hebrew edition of Ha'aretz. The sentence "the lessons of the Holocaust must be a cultural code for education to humanist values, democracy, human rights, and tolerance and against racism and totalitarian ideologies" receives added meaning in light of the letter sent by Y., a conscript posted for the last five months in Hebron. "I want to let you know about one of the first experiences I had in Hebron in my second week of service in the city," he writes. "While guarding the sukka on David Hamelekh Street, near Gross Square, during minha services, two Arab children came out of the casbah. Seven worshippers from inside the sukka pounced on them, and I and my buddies had to separate them. The ruckus continued and we all suffered the settlers' fists in our faces and other parts of our bodies, as well as curses and shouting. Those who suffered the most violence, slurs and curses were the Israeli police stationed in the city. Their main target were the Druze and Bedouin as well as the people of The International Presence in Hebron. Innumerable times I have been forced to intervene between the settlers and them. "The attacks, vandalism, and racist slogans are only a drop of what the Arabs of Hebron suffer daily. These actions have turned us, combat fighters, from protectors of Jews from Arab attackers to a force that protects the Arabs from the Jews. Often I've heard settlers complaining that we prevent them from beating up Arabs, breaking into their shops and vandalizing their property. And thus, they say, we do not protect the Jewish interests in the city,. And I innocently thought my job was to preserve the Jewish and Israeli law in the city." By Akiva Eldar |
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