Showing posts with label Israeli Jews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israeli Jews. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2012

‘Price tag’ tactics of West Bank Jewish settlers

This is Israel. It's the part that the "chosen" don't want you to know about.
It's the same as it's always been for thousands of years.
Revenge, retaliation, repeat.
I don't find a political message here, unless the world has finally accepted, vandalism and intimidation as political.
The children from Nazi Germany acted in this manner, Right before......


With their hoodies, covered faces and cans of spray paint, they may in some ways look like average teenage vandals out for a night of trouble.

But on the streets of Arab East Jerusalem, some young Jewish people are up to more than just graffiti. They are part of what has become known as price tag gangs and they are risking their safety to send a very political message.

Price-tagging is the term they use for a range of acts, from vandalism to arson attacks and religious desecration. They carry out these crimes as an act of revenge - they say there is a price to be paid by Arabs for attacks on Jewish homes and businesses.

They are also warning their own government with these price tags that there is a price to pay for any attempt to give what they believe is Jewish land to the Palestinians as part of the fragile peace process.

They come from the hilltops of the West Bank, Arab territory that has been occupied by Israel since the war of 1967.


 

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

A provocative documentary on Israelis, Arabs, and sex

What a brilliant idea!
It's definitely thought provoking.


Several filmmakers have tackled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But few have approached the thorny subject quite like French Jewish filmmaker Yolande Zauberman and her Lebanese writing partner Sélim Nassib: through the prism of sex.

In their new documentary “Would You Have Sex With an Arab?”, Zauberman and Nassib take to the streets of Tel Aviv at night, prowling bars and clubs, cafés and underground soirées, in search of Israeli Jews and Arabs willing to answer a startling question: Would you have sex with a member of the other community?

The responses, ranging from militant refusal to candid confessions of illicit one-night stands and longterm love affairs ending in heartbreak, are funny, surprising, confusing, and sometimes quite moving.