The below-linked video is from the the Walid Shoebat Foundation and shows an interview (in Hebrew with English sub-titles) of Tamar Fogel, surviving daughter of the Fogel family, who were slaughtered as they slept in their beds by Palestinian killers in the settlement of Itimar. The clip also shows scenes of the funeral. Since most of western media has chosen not to show these scenes, I have chosen to do so.
Note: There is also mention of Johnathan Pollard (in a US prison for spying for Israel). I am not a supporter of Johnathan Pollard, but it's a small segment of the film.
http://shoebat.com/videos/tamarFogel.php
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"We will continue to expand our land"???
That is the most substantive statement in the entire interview. Assuming that the words of an understandably traumatized 12 year old girl have substantive political significance, it reveals that at least some Israelis are determined to take, seize, more land, necessarily at the expense of their neighbors. There is a word for that policy: "Lebensraum."
Otherwise, it is a rather insipid piece of political propaganda, but the teddy bears are cute. You really can't sanitize this by blithely excising Jonathan Pollard. His assignment shows that Israel (quite realistically) understands that its national interests are not identical to those of the United States. Americans should acknowledge this also. On the other hand, I agree that after 28 years, (twenty would have been more than enough), he should be paroled to Israel.
Siarlys,
I don't have a strong view on that, but she is a 12 year old girl. Keep in mind that the Jews consider that land to be Judea and Samaria. They also have a historical claim.
Gary, I recently picked up a double VHS of the movie "Exodus" at a library sale for ten cents. I just finished watching it. When it was a current movie, I never did get to see it all the way through - just portions on someone else's TV now and then. It's still moving, still worth watching, and a marked contrast to current Israeli government policy. A few germane points:
The old man who was an Irgun leader was not wrong when he said, a just solution isn't going to do us any good, the Arabs can claim as much justice for their side.
The muktar who had always been friendly to the neighboring kibbutz, whose men wouldn't fight the Jews until the Grand Mufti's Nazi-trained legion showed up to "make them fight like lions," was realistically portrayed as upset by partition because "you've made me a minority in my own land."
So, the Jews consider that land to be Judea and Samaria. Unfortunately, the land didn't sit there vacant from the time the Romans dispersed the Jewish population. There are people whose families have lived in portions of the land for centuries. The reason Zionism worked at all is that there was indeed a fair amount of vacant unused land. Otherwise, there would have been little immigration to begin with.
In fact, some Arab Christians can trace their distant cousinship to some of the Jewish families who never left the area. One branch of the family accepted Jesus as Messiah, the other did not.
When you have to displace people from their homes in order to "expand our land," the word "Lebensraum" becomes a much more apt analogy than "apartheid." As I've mentioned before, the Polish Home Army, Jewish resistance forces, and communist-led Polish resistance, all took every opportunity to slaughter German settlers in Polish land cleared of sub-Aryan occupants, and were considered heroes for it.
I don't advocate that course for Jewish settlements in the West Bank, but its an understandable reaction. The Israeli government needs to get the more isolated settlements removed, and negotiate a land swap for the ones closer to the border in defensible positions.
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