The Hard Realities of Israel

I was browsing the U.S. Indymedia site and I saw a post by this Jewish person of Iraqi decent who was born in Israel and immigrated to the United States. He entered an Israeli 60th celebration event. As he walked in the celebration area he had some interesting reflections.

One of interesting reflections came from a poster highlighting Moshe Dyan who was the defense minister during the 6 Day war when Israel's occupation included the Golan Heights, Gaza, Sinai, and the West Bank. Moshe Dyan later said that the war and occupation were unnecessary. When asked whether the Syrians provoked the occupation of the Golan heights he explained that they did not. Moshe Dyan described how the Israeli military would provoke the Syrians into firing. They would send a tractor plough into the demilitarized zone near the strain boarder. They would tell the tractor to advance towards the Syrian boarder. They knew that the Syrians would eventually fire. If they did not fire at the first advance the tractor would advance further. It would keep on advancing till the Syrians fired. The Israelis would then respond with artillery and eventually the air force.

Next he saw a poster of Ben Gurian announcing the birth of Israel. He reflected on how his grandparents were sprayed with DDT when they arrived in Israel. The European Jewish elites who founded the country and dominated the government had a low opinion of Jewish people from the neighboring middle east areas. Today the western descended Jews have most of the wealth and dominate the government. He reflected on the speech Ben Gurian made to the Israeli military on the various skills Jewish immigrants from Iraq needed to be taught to be civilized. Ben Gurian also emphasized that they be prevented from kidnapping women and raping them.

He saw some other posters that he called more propaganda. Then he reflected on a law in Israel that prohibits Jews and Palestinians from getting married and living in Israel. He also saw a poster of a Israeli soldier holding a Palestinian's hand who was having difficulty walking. He noted that when he was in Israel he never saw an Israeli soldier holding a Palestinian's hand unless the soldier was arresting the Palestinian. He eventually could not look at what he called propaganda any more and left.