[Marxism] Israeli soldiersâ T-shirts reveal the countryâs ruthless state of mind

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PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 425, April 3,  2009 
âDead babies, bombed mosquesâ  
Israeli soldiersâ T-shirts reveal the countryâs ruthless state  of mind 

The Israeli newspaper Haâaretz created a storm of controversy recently when  
it revealed that Israeli soldiers were designing, buying and wearing T-shirts  
such as the following : 
    *   A sharpshooter's T-shirt shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a  
bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, "1 shot, 2 kills."  
    *   A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use 
Durex,"  next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother 
and 
a  teddy bear beside him.  
    *   The Lavi battalion produced a shirt featuring a drawing of a soldier 
next  to a young woman with bruises, and the slogan, "Bet you got raped!"  
    *   The Haruv battalion printed T-shirts declaring, "We won't chill 'til 
we  confirm the kill". "Confirming the kill" means shooting a bullet into an  
enemy victim's head from  close range â a practice the army claims doesn't 
exist.  A shirt has an image of a child with the slogan "Smaller - harder!", a  
reference to the difficulty of hitting smaller targets from a distance.  A 
shirt for soldiers of the Lavi battalion, who spent three years in the  West 
Bank, reads: "We came, we saw, we destroyed!" - alongside images of  weapons, 
an 
angry soldier and a Palestinian village with a ruined mosque in  the center.  
Some sniper T-shirts have featured  a drawing of a Palestinian boy - not a 
terrorist - with  the slogan 'Don't bother running because you'll die tired'.  
There is a Golani infantry brigade T-shirt of a soldier raping a girl, and  
underneath it says, 'No virgins, no terror attacks.' 
Why are such pictures and slogans so popular? Israeli sociologist Dr. Orna 
Sasson-Levy said  that this revolting phenomenon is "part of a radicalization 
process the entire  country is undergoingâ There is a perception that the 
Palestinian is not a  person, a human being entitled to basic rights, and 
therefore 
anything may be  done to him."  
Adapted from "Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF  fashion 
2009", by Israeli journalist Uri Blau, printed in Israelâs leading  newspaper 
Haâ
aretz on March 20, 2009. Full text at : 
_http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072466.html_ 
(http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072466.html) 
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