israeli forces latest fashion line
March 21, 2009 | Category: How Outrageous, Uncategorized
includes dead babies next to their teddy bears, mothers weeping on their children’s graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques, a bruised young Palestinian woman…
disgusting
repugnant
repulsive
sick
appalling
outrageous
disturbing
vulgar
anti-semitic, too
…
these are just some words that don’t even begin to describe these designs and slogans printed on t-shirts israeli occupation forces order to mark the end of their (barbaric) training /field duty. Here are few examples Uri Blau highlights in his article in Haaretz:
A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription “Better use Durex,” next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him.
A sharpshooter’s T-shirt from the Givati Brigade’s Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull’s-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, “1 shot, 2 kills.”
A “graduation” shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby, who grows into a combative boy and then an armed adult, with the inscription, “No matter how it begins, we’ll put an end to it.”
A drawing of a soldier next to a young woman with bruises, and the slogan, “Bet you got raped!”
“We won’t chill ’til we confirm the kill” were banned in the past (the IDF IOF claims that the practice doesn’t exist), yet the Haruv battalion printed some last year.
“Let every Arab mother know that her son’s fate is in my hands!” had previously been banned for use on another infantry unit’s shirt. A Givati soldier said this week, however, that at the end of last year, his platoon printed up dozens of shirts, fleece jackets and pants bearing this slogan.
“It has a drawing depicting a soldier as the Angel of Death, next to a gun and an Arab town,” he explains. “The text was very powerful. The funniest part was that when our soldier came to get the shirts, the man who printed them was an Arab, and the soldier felt so bad that he told the girl at the counter to bring them to him.” honestly, so sad to have such job.
In 2006, soldiers from the “Carmon Team” course for elite-unit marksmen printed a shirt with a drawing of a knife-wielding Palestinian in the crosshairs of a gun sight, and the slogan, “You’ve got to run fast, run fast, run fast, before it’s all over.” Below is a drawing of Arab women weeping over a grave and the words: “And afterward they cry, and afterward they cry.” [The inscriptions are riffs on a popular song.]
Another sniper’s shirt also features an Arab man in the crosshairs, and the announcement, “Everything is with the best of intentions.”
“We came, we saw, we destroyed!” - alongside images of weapons, an angry soldier and a Palestinian village with a ruined mosque in the center.
A shirt printed after Operation Cast Lead in Gaza for Battalion 890 of the Paratroops depicts a King Kong-like soldier in a city under attack. The slogan is unambiguous: “If you believe it can be fixed, then believe it can be destroyed!”
is this how israel’s ‘basic law of human dignity and liberty’ truly defined? reminds me of how I loved LM’s post on israel’s Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty being filed in ‘Humour’.
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(images from Haaretz and Mondoweiss)
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thecrazyjogger
on March 22nd, 2009shameful.
disgusted
Hala
on March 24th, 2009I am speechless, I saw it elsewhere and I just could not understand the purpose behind such actions. I think we should always expect more surprises from Zionists.
Areej
on March 30th, 2009i can’t even begin to describe how humiliating and disgusting something like this is….and the fact that the world is letting something like this be “normal”