Everyone (who reads The Australian that is) knows that wild-eyed Palestinian kids are indoctrinated by the Palestinian Authority to hate their doe-eyed Israeli occupiers. And everyone knows that without such incitement to hate the cuddly Israeli troops who kick in their doors, and beat, arrest, imprison and torture their nearest and dearest (aka 'terrorists') Palestinian kids would be raining flowers on these beautiful souls in uniform (see my 28/11/08 post Janet's Dream).
However, once these warm & fuzzy Israelis are out of uniform, and out of the country, strange things happen*:-
"Sa Pa is a beautiful place in northern Vietnam. A peaceful market town nestled between green mountains, streams and rice terraces. Colorful birds fly around in the misty air, and several pigs and a stubborn water buffalo can be spotted in the distance. For the Israeli tourist, the place hosts a different animal - the local women of the Hmong tribe, dressed in black, who have learned to recite a children's song in Hebrew, and sing it repeatedly in the hope that the visiting overlord might agree to buy a handicraft from them for several pennies. If you continue the trek a little further, you can encounter the women of the Dao tribe, who have learned to say 'Come and fuck me' in Hebrew. Yes, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was right - these women's teachers were asses. No, actually why insult the asses? Their teachers were plain Israelis like me and you. The global traveling season is now at its peak. Hordes of tourists are storming Thailand and Laos, South America and Kenya. And the battle has already been decided. The Israeli, any Israeli, has become an icon of evilness, ugliness, corruption and exploitation. There is no use searching for ways to change the behavior of Israelis abroad. This is a lost cause.
"Travel Independent is the online Mecca for tourists worldwide. The website offers accurate, concise and helpful reviews on any destination in the world. And this is what the site has to say about us in its summary on India: 'Aside from Indians you will find travelers from all over Europe, USA and Australia/NZ, including as in Nepal/Thailand and South America a large number of Israelis many of whom are fresh out of the army and seem to do everything they can to further worsen their reputation with locals and foreigners alike'. Travel Independent isn't anti-Semitic. As a travel destination it gives Israel very warm recommendations. The Hmong women aren't anti-Semitic either, and neither are the people of Japan, Peru or Tanzania, or most of the western travelers who witness this humiliation. A new form of hatred towards Israelis is developing among people who don't even have a clue where the country is. An 'anti-Semitism' that has nothing to do with God or Judaism.
"For his part, the Israeli traveler goes out of his way not to be identified as an Israeli, not due to security concerns but simply for fear he will not be welcome. And he makes great efforts not to go where other Israelis go, not for the sake of exclusiveness, but simply because he knows that his countrymen will be the first ones to screw him over. The Israeli pig is the product of years-long and ongoing cultural corruption. He will force the locals to watch episodes from the reality show Big Brother and give them Israeli nick-names just for laughs. His language is poor, and he is utterly uninterested in broadening his horizons. He is hostile towards Arabs and hostile towards foreigners in general and feels obligated to cheat them whenever he can (empty the buffet; sneak 6 people into a double room at night so as not to come out 'a sucker'.) He takes over drug and women trafficking hubs just for the sense of power and bullying. And this image can no longer be altered. Look at them and see us: a violent horde that treats the world as yet another policing mission, a destination that needs to be conquered and subdued. No wonder that in Hebrew the verb 'to do' refers both to the act of sexual conquest and to the completion of the Israeli traveler's tough, military-style trip abroad: 'I did Bolivia'." (Our reputation-our fault, Yehuda Nuriel, ynetnews.com)
As the late Julius Sumner Miller would have said: Why is it so? Janet?
[*See also my 4/12/08 post Zionist S & M.]
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7 comments:
well at least young Israelis are out there traveling [ I guess Israelis are the New American travelers that people love to hate ]and not stuck in some refugee camp to reap sympathy form the naive west, digging holes and preparing the next suicide bomb attack against some innocent school children on a Bus in tel Av iv ..
I'm not sure of the purpose of either this post or the previous one about S&M. The claims being made in both of these are not justified by the quality of evidence provided. By running them, I fear that you detract from the legitimate arguments that are put forward in this and other articles. More importantly, I fear that you may be allowing hatred to cloud your thinking. This is the very thing that has corrupted the Israeli polity. And it always ends in disaster.
Gaston
I would like to know what you are smoking? You criticize Israeli policy , what to build a fence to stop made suicidal Palestinians from reaching their virgins, I would say you should be looking at Palestinian policy or lack of it Fatah fighting hamas, Palestinian Muslims killing Palestinian Christians.
It is not Israeli's that live in poverty whist their rich Arab brothers across the sands with all their oil build palaces and frequent brothels and casinos in the west, I would be concentrating your criticism on the Palestinains to wake up and join the 20 th century>
The Israeli's have achieved all they have with out Oil..I'd say the israelies have done ok ..
It seems like it's okay to discuss these matters in the Israeli press but verboten to anyone else. Are we to remain silent?
Gaston, it's the culture of endless war and domination which is corrupting the soul of Israel. Expose a festering sore to the sunlight might effect a cure.
The only hope is for the Palestinians to keep fighting amongst themsleves whilst Israel moves ahead and registers even more High tec companies on the NASDAQ. all the rest is crap you can keep going on about the plight of the Palestinians but we can all see that not only did the Jordanians kick them out because they are troublemakers but their Arab brothers couldn't give a shit about them.
Pretty soon even the West will wake up & get fed up with the Palestinains continually begging for money and crying poor, its only a question of time.
Anon 9:36
If my Government was blindly supporting a Palestinian state that was stealing ever more Israeli land under the guise of self-defence, I would indeed be critical of the Palestinians and of my Government.
Anon 9:48
I agree that a culture of endless war is corrupting, and that this is the core problem. I also agree that a culture of endless war can manifest in aberrant behaviour among some warriors (on both sides). The problem I have is that the article shows no respect for the humanity of Israelis which is as important to me as the humanity of Palestinians. Just finished reading a book called "Dark Hope" - worth a read if you can get hold of it.
Gaston said By running [these posts], I fear that you detract from the legitimate arguments that are put forward in this and other articles.
Gaston, I agree with both of your posts here. When living in Oman, many of the men there visited Thailand for sex and had very little respect for the workers. Australians do the same. And the Japanese. Not all, but enough.
I agree with this quote, too, from Gaston: The problem I have is that the article shows no respect for the humanity of Israelis which is as important to me as the humanity of Palestinians.
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