You Will Anyway: Leaked Video Always Requires a Response

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Leaked Video Always Requires a Response

Senior Israeli politicians and religious figures have condemned an incendiary video showing a hall packed full of Jewish extremist teenagers cheering the death of a Palestinian toddler murdered in an anti-Palestinian hate crime earlier this year.

Guardian

My first question: Surely they're condemning the action of the Israelis and not the airing of the video? But, I wouldn't be certain had I not read further.

The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, immediately condemned its “shocking images”, which he said displayed “the real face of a group that poses danger to Israeli society and security”.

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Even MPs associated with the hardline pro-settler right joined in. “The evil ideology of price tag is not the path of religious Zionism,” said Bezalel Smotrich of the Jewish Home party. “That surreal dance with the picture of the baby who was murdered in his sleep represents a dangerous ideology and a loss of humanity.”

Shocked. Didn't see that coming. It can't be that years and years of brutal Israeli occupation, oppression and slaughter of Palestinians as official policy has anything to do with what's happening. Or the fact that the crime has not yet been solved.

[In the video g]uests also sing: “Let me with one blow get revenge on the Palestinians for my two eyes.”

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Underlining the fact that this was not a unique event, the owner of the wedding hall told the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth: [...] “There are dozens of these kinds of weddings every month. Every time, after the adults leave, the youngsters remain, the teenagers, and they begin with their dancing and those songs."

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“Those kids were literally awash with hatred,” recounted one guests at the wedding. “I’ve attended these kinds of weddings for several years, and those songs repeat themselves – but the weapons and the punctured photograph of the toddler Ali Dawabshe were a real crossing of a red line.”

Surprised?

The video emerged alongside a report of a knife attack by a Palestinian on Israelis on Thursday.

Way to go, Guardian. "Balance" that report. And not for the first time.

The assailant was shot dead.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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