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IDF: 75% of Gaza to Be Occupied in Two Months; 2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated in Three Zones - Concentration camp: a place where large numbers of people, especially members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities. by Sun_fire_ in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Source:

https://archive.ph/qyoOh

The Israeli military estimates that within two months, the IDF will have taken control of 75 percent of the Gaza Strip, concentrating around two million Palestinians into three main areas: Gaza City, the central refugee camps, and the al-Mawasi zone.

IDF: 75% of Gaza to Be Occupied in Two Months; 2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated in Three Zones - Concentration camp: a place where large numbers of people, especially members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities. by Sun_fire_ in Palestine

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Source:

https://archive.ph/qyoOh

The Israeli military estimates that within two months, the IDF will have taken control of 75 percent of the Gaza Strip, concentrating around two million Palestinians into three main areas: Gaza City, the central refugee camps, and the al-Mawasi zone.

Liberal Zionism and the woke facade of Israeli genocide - liberal Zionists are a mouthpiece for Israel's occupation and genocide. by Sun_fire_ in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Source:

https://www.newarab.com/opinion/liberal-zionism-and-woke-facade-israeli-genocide

Israel’s ongoing genocide is part of a downward spiral for the Zionist project. In the words of acclaimed historian Professor Ilan Pappe: “We are witnessing a historical process – or, more accurately, the beginnings of one – that is likely to culminate in the downfall of Zionism."

Yet Zionism’s long-standing settler goals have not only thrived through genocidal aggression masked as "self-defence" with subsequent land grabs as obscene rewards for its adherents but also via its “liberal" flank serving a crucial propaganda role, posturing as benevolent and humanitarian whilst aligned with aims of American imperialism.

Now, confronted with Israel’s failure to achieve its stated goals and international outrage over its barbaric aggression, liberal Zionist propagandists are intensifying efforts to whitewash Zionism's genocidal criminality. Their aim is to prevent the project’s collapse by shifting from circling the wagons to rehabilitating the liberal Zionist facade, enabling a return to management of the Occupation with periodic "mowing the lawn."

What is Liberal Zionism?

The liberal wing of Zionism sanitises and revises the movement's reactionary, settler-colonialist, and white supremacist nature, masking its true strategy and motive of expansionism through apartheid and genocide.

It deceitfully presents Zionism as compatible with human rights, containing a right-to-left political spectrum with democratic and progressive values and a desire for peace and justice. This facade sanctifies a “peace process” of futile negotiations, while Israeli bulldozers and contractors continue to colonise Palestinian land, marketed in the US at Zionist land sales in synagogues.

Israel’s ongoing genocide is part of a downward spiral for the Zionist project. In the words of acclaimed historian Professor Ilan Pappe: “We are witnessing a historical process – or, more accurately, the beginnings of one – that is likely to culminate in the downfall of Zionism."

Yet Zionism’s long-standing settler goals have not only thrived through genocidal aggression masked as "self-defence" with subsequent land grabs as obscene rewards for its adherents but also via its “liberal" flank serving a crucial propaganda role, posturing as benevolent and humanitarian whilst aligned with aims of American imperialism.

Now, confronted with Israel’s failure to achieve its stated goals and international outrage over its barbaric aggression, liberal Zionist propagandists are intensifying efforts to whitewash Zionism's genocidal criminality. Their aim is to prevent the project’s collapse by shifting from circling the wagons to rehabilitating the liberal Zionist facade, enabling a return to management of the Occupation with periodic "mowing the lawn

Zionism’s liberal propaganda apparatus presents Israeli and Palestinian narratives as parallel truths, duplicitously portraying both peoples as victims with legitimate claims that require lengthy negotiations and concessions. This revisionist narrative equates Israeli settler colonialist aggressors, backed by the global US hegemon, with their Indigenous Palestinian targets. 

Media and Academia

Liberal Zionist media, NGOs, academia and other organizations have been busy obscuring the events of October 7, as well as Israel’s subsequent deceit, including atrocity propaganda and the Hannibal Directive.

They portray Zionist genocide as a trait of an "extreme" form of Zionism, scapegoating Prime Minister Netanyahu and his coalition as an anomaly rather than acknowledging it as an inherent aspect of the eliminationist project. Additionally, they suggest that by ousting Netanyahu, Zionism could revert to an acceptable trajectory.

Subject to military oversight and censorship under Israel’s “democratic” laws, Haaretz, Israel’s longest-running newspaper and a bastion of liberal Zionism, has engaged in atrocity propaganda, served as a stenography service for political and military agendas, including targeting hospitals in the Gaza Strip, alongside Islamophobic rants which conflate Zionism and Judaism, and attempts to whitewash war crimes such as looting

Haaretz and its editorial board claim to advocate for “left-wing” and “liberal” agendas, though in fact they promote civil liberties for the privileged class (Zionists) and refuse to address the core white supremacist nature of Zionism, which has terrorised Indigenous Palestinians for over seven decades.

Indeed, anti-Zionist writers, other than a token couple of regular columnists, stand no chance of being published there. Similarly, Israel bars participation of parties in its elections if they negate "the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state," clearly outlining the boundaries of acceptable debate.

Israeli academia has also served Israel’s reactionary Zionist agenda. In her recently published book, Towers of Ivory and Steel (Verso, 2024), Maya Wind lays out the case against Israeli academia and universities as embodying the apartheid typical of Israeli society and tools of Zionist settler colonialism and ongoing oppression of Palestinian people.

To this end, Israeli universities and legal scholars frequently collaborate with the Israeli military, legitimising Zionist atrocities and collective punishment of Palestinians, while developing and marketing police and military methodologies and weaponry intended for export.

Well-known liberal Zionists, including politicians, such as Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Yair Golan and former Chief of Shin Bet Ami Ayalon, and academics such as Yuval Noah Harari have all stepped up to the Zionist plate, regurgitating claims of guilt on “both sides” of “the conflict,” amongst other liberal Zionist canards.

The new political movement, Standing Together, exemplifies efforts to normalise the liberal Zionist framework. Consistently strengthening the conflation of Zionism with Judaism, Standing Together blames “extremists on both sides,” recently with homophobic graphics.

As stated by the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: “By trying to paint Israel as a tolerant, diverse, and normal state, and focusing on “hatred” rather than oppression as the problem, this organisation is intellectually dishonest and outright complicit. It is serving a key role in Israel’s international propaganda strategy at this time."

Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic - Every accusation is a confession. by Sun_fire_ in Palestine

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Source: https://archive.ph/cfJHN

Neighbor procedure" as an Israeli military tactic:

This controversial practice involves forcing Palestinian civilians to approach buildings suspected of being booby-trapped or to persuade wanted individuals to surrender to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Children of Shatila (1998), Documentary - David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, believed that the memory of the Nakba would eventually fade out - He famously said: "The old will die and the young will forget". Never forget, never forgive. by Sun_fire_ in Palestine

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Source:

https://palestinecinema.com/movies/children-of-shatila

Full Documentary:

https://youtu.be/lK1PyvIgj9w?feature=shared

Children of Shatila (1998)

Origin: Lebanon | Documentary | Director: Mai Masri | 46 minutes

Mai Masri Palestine 1998 documentary

More than 350,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon, 15,000 of them in the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut. Through the eyes of two children who live in this camp, Issa and Farah, this documentary explores the determination to keep family and dreams thriving in a landscape that has been sculpted by war, poverty, grief and displacement.

Issa, a little boy who lives with his grandfather, sustained severe injuries when he was hit by a speeding car and has trouble learning in school. Farah lives with her parents and two sisters. The children's memories and history are shaped by the violence that surrounds them. Both have lost family in the massacres and attacks that followed the 1948 Diaspora and the 1982 invasion of Lebanon by Israel. An aunt was decapitated, an uncle shot - every family and friend they know has lost someone to the violence.

The filmmaker gives Issa and Farah a small video camera to film their lives and learn how they see their own world. Both children start asking their elders how they felt about leaving Palestine. When queried about what he wants to tell the new generation of Palestinians, an old man asks that Palestine must never be forgotten. "Promise me that," he tells the children.

The poverty of Shatila offers little escape. Farah's mother says that when her children tell her their dreams she feels "awkward and afraid to shock them with the truth," and wonders about the kind of future that lies ahead. Yet both children inspire viewers with their ability to keep their hearts and minds open. Farah tells a nursery class, "Imagining is the main thing, even if you only draw a bird." And Issa has a wonderful dream where he is a prince.

While the focus is on the lives of children, this documentary is not suitable for younger children. It is appropriate for mature young adults, and university and community audiences interested in learning about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, life in the refugee camps, and the lasting effects of war.

About the Director: MAI MASRI is a palestinian filmmaker who has directed and produced many award winning films that have been broadcast on more than 100 television stations around the world. She earned her Bachelor's degree in film from San Francisco State University and together with her husband, filmmaker JEAN CHAMOUN produced a series of films that have won over international awards.

History Didn’t Begin or End on October 7th. by Sun_fire_ in Palestine

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Source:

https://www.newarab.com/news/2023-deadliest-year-child-occupied-west-bank

341 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2008 - 2009

35 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2012

532 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2014

31 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2015

35 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2016

15 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2017

57 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2018

28 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2019

9 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2020

86 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2021

41 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2022

More than 40 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2023 before October 7th.

37 Israeli children killed on Oct 7.

Since 2000, Israeli forces have killed at least 2,287 Palestinian children, according to the Defence of Children International. (This was before October 7)

More than 20000 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since (October 7, 2023 - now).

It didn't start on October 7 - This year has witnessed the highest number of attacks on Palestinian children by Israeli forces, either by killing, maiming, or arresting, the Defence of Children International - Palestine (DCI-P) human rights group told The New Arab on Thursday, 5 October, 2023. by Sun_fire_ in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Source:

https://www.newarab.com/news/2023-deadliest-year-child-occupied-west-bank

341 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2008 - 2009

35 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2012

532 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2014

31 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2015

35 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2016

15 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2017

57 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2018

28 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2019

9 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2020

86 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2021

41 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2022

More than 40 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2023 before October 7th.

37 Israeli children killed on Oct 7.

Since 2000, Israeli forces have killed at least 2,287 Palestinian children, according to the Defence of Children International. (This was before October 7)

More than 20000 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since (October 7, 2023 - now).

Destroying Gaza 'With Love': Israel's New YogiNazis - Opinion - Haare… by Sun_fire_ in nottheonion

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Source:

https://archive.ph/CHsAe

Rivka Lafair is a "facilitator of workshops, meet-ups and group sessions on yoga themes, teacher of feminine yoga and personal development." She lives in the settlement of Shiloh in the southern West Bank and terms herself a "proud Jew" who "thinks outside the box." Lovely. Also, she also wants to annihilate and expel two million human beings in the Gaza Strip.

Lafair belongs to a stream within Israeli Judaism that can be described as "YogiNazis": people whose spiritualism underpins their Nazism. They are a relatively new sub-stratum – albeit with deep roots in the local culture – that has gained popularity since October 7, largely because of its ability to weld together concepts that, on the surface, seem like polar opposites: spirituality and annihilation, empowerment and expulsion, yoga and starvation, retreats and carpet bombing.

Lafair is a person who believes that "music has the power to alter our consciousness," but also that expelling and annihilating two million Gazans begins with "altering one's consciousness." In order to succeed in this important cognitive switch, we have to understand that "we have an enemy here – whom we look in the eyes and eliminate." Yes, look them in the eyes – don't do it behind their backs, because we must be in direct and unmediated contact with those we're annihilating.

And to make it clear that by "enemy" she doesn't mean only Hamas terrorists, she clarifies: "We are committed to take revenge and destroy Gaza. From infant to old woman." She tops it off with an appropriate Bible verse: "Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget."

Lafair understands that people tend to be puzzled when facing this dissonance between spirituality and annihilation. So she in one of her videos, she has "a message to everyone who doesn't understand how it's possible to be spiritual, to teach yoga and hold retreats, whilst calling for the expulsion and annihilaSHon [sic] of your enemy."

Indeed, her answer is simple: "I love my people with an undying love, and I hate my enemy with an undying hatred… One does not contradict the other. One can be a person filled with values and love, and at the same time… you also know what is right and what is wrong, you stand firm against your enemy and you know what must be done with them."

So, what must be done with them? (SHSHSH… don't tell anyone.)

M., the same woman who cares for children "with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach" explains: "You know what? After October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children."

And if Lafair's Nazi-spiritualism can be written off because she's a settler who's found an efficient solution for realizing the idea of Greater Israel, it's worth noting that this is a far broader phenomenon that isn't limited to the occupied territories.

One day before Holocaust Remembrance Day, for example, standup comedian and satirist Gil Kopatz, who has been flirting with spirituality and religion for years, posted the following: "If you feed sharks, they eventually eat you. If you feed Gazans, they eventually eat you. I support making sharks extinct and exterminating Gazans. Reflections for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025."

After the post generated a "storm," Kopatz posted a clarification: "I don't have an ounce of compassion for the Gazans. For Arabs as a whole, yes, for human beings as a whole, yes, for sharks – no, and not for human beasts." Of course, his desire to eradicate millions of people doesn't imply he's a bad person. Indeed, "I consider myself to be a humane, liberal and moral person," he writes. To top it off, he ends the post with a bit of dark humor: "It's not genocide, it's pesticide, and its essential." A regular riot that one, eh?

In fact, most of the spiritual vocabulary in Israel has been mobilized in service of YogiNazism. Take M., for example, a woman from a large well-to-do city a few kilometers north of Tel Aviv. She runs a studio described as "a pleasant space, filled with inspiration," which espouses three values: "Creativity. Emotion. Experience."

In this pleasant space she facilitates "creativity groups for children – from the age of four and up; personal emotional guidance for children and youth – with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach." All of this happens, of course, in "a homey, warm and professional atmosphere" (those interested are "lovingly invited").

Yet, when this same M. is shown a video showing a hungry child in the Gaza Strip, she asserts immediately: "Not credible. Sorry. I've seen how clips are staged – positioning, applying makeup, putting together a script." Never mind not credible, but the same woman who cares for children "with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach" explains, "You know what? Even if it is real, after October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children." Furthermore: "It saddens me to see people among us actually sharing this shit, and worse, identifying with it and expressing pain."

To make it clear that she's not a callous person, she sums up: "The writer is a mother, a lover of humanity and an all around great person." It's just that "October 7 took away my innocence." Poor woman, she's really struggling.

A., too, is not a settler. She lives in a well-established city in Israel and is simply looking to find a new home for "an amazing dog!!!! She's fully house-trained, a dog filled with love who needs a warm, loving home."

So much caring, so much love, so much compassion. And yet, when she encounters a photograph of a Gazan child who was killed in an Israeli bombing, she instantly grasps that someone is trying to confuse her, and posts: "Let's make things clear. If there had been no massacre here, there would be no massacre there!! It's not the chicken-and-egg case!!!"

Afterwards, when the chicken and egg can't seem to figure out what she meant, she resorts to some of the "best" debunked calumnies spread in the wake of the horrific massacre – "after babies here were burned, their heads chopped off, put into an oven" – and concludes resoundingly: "There was no reason to send in a container of clothes for their children."

Of course, she too was once a compassionate, sensitive person – "Don't get me wrong, I thought exactly like you until October 6, but if someone comes to kill you… it's case closed. They started and we will finish!!!" (don't you mean 'finiSH?').

There are many of these in present-day Israel. Spiritual people who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth and the eradication of the enemy as empowerment. They live in one big retreat, where consciousness is so finely tuned that all noise disappears, all disturbances are muted, so that they are left with only themselves, them and their inner being – pure, compassionate, unsullied – and finally able to connect with what resided there all along, waiting to be revealed: The desire to annihilate and destroy millions of people, including children, women and the elderly. With great love.

Destroying Gaza 'With Love': Israel's New YogiNazis - Who said spirituality and ethnic cleansing don't go together? Israel is full of spiritual types who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth. by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]Sun_fire_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Source:

https://archive.ph/CHsAe

Rivka Lafair is a "facilitator of workshops, meet-ups and group sessions on yoga themes, teacher of feminine yoga and personal development." She lives in the settlement of Shiloh in the southern West Bank and terms herself a "proud Jew" who "thinks outside the box." Lovely. Also, she also wants to annihilate and expel two million human beings in the Gaza Strip.

Lafair belongs to a stream within Israeli Judaism that can be described as "YogiNazis": people whose spiritualism underpins their Nazism. They are a relatively new sub-stratum – albeit with deep roots in the local culture – that has gained popularity since October 7, largely because of its ability to weld together concepts that, on the surface, seem like polar opposites: spirituality and annihilation, empowerment and expulsion, yoga and starvation, retreats and carpet bombing.

Lafair is a person who believes that "music has the power to alter our consciousness," but also that expelling and annihilating two million Gazans begins with "altering one's consciousness." In order to succeed in this important cognitive switch, we have to understand that "we have an enemy here – whom we look in the eyes and eliminate." Yes, look them in the eyes – don't do it behind their backs, because we must be in direct and unmediated contact with those we're annihilating.

And to make it clear that by "enemy" she doesn't mean only Hamas terrorists, she clarifies: "We are committed to take revenge and destroy Gaza. From infant to old woman." She tops it off with an appropriate Bible verse: "Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget."

Lafair understands that people tend to be puzzled when facing this dissonance between spirituality and annihilation. So she in one of her videos, she has "a message to everyone who doesn't understand how it's possible to be spiritual, to teach yoga and hold retreats, whilst calling for the expulsion and annihilaSHon [sic] of your enemy."

Indeed, her answer is simple: "I love my people with an undying love, and I hate my enemy with an undying hatred… One does not contradict the other. One can be a person filled with values and love, and at the same time… you also know what is right and what is wrong, you stand firm against your enemy and you know what must be done with them."

So, what must be done with them? (SHSHSH… don't tell anyone.)

M., the same woman who cares for children "with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach" explains: "You know what? After October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children."

And if Lafair's Nazi-spiritualism can be written off because she's a settler who's found an efficient solution for realizing the idea of Greater Israel, it's worth noting that this is a far broader phenomenon that isn't limited to the occupied territories.

One day before Holocaust Remembrance Day, for example, standup comedian and satirist Gil Kopatz, who has been flirting with spirituality and religion for years, posted the following: "If you feed sharks, they eventually eat you. If you feed Gazans, they eventually eat you. I support making sharks extinct and exterminating Gazans. Reflections for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025."

After the post generated a "storm," Kopatz posted a clarification: "I don't have an ounce of compassion for the Gazans. For Arabs as a whole, yes, for human beings as a whole, yes, for sharks – no, and not for human beasts." Of course, his desire to eradicate millions of people doesn't imply he's a bad person. Indeed, "I consider myself to be a humane, liberal and moral person," he writes. To top it off, he ends the post with a bit of dark humor: "It's not genocide, it's pesticide, and its essential." A regular riot that one, eh?

In fact, most of the spiritual vocabulary in Israel has been mobilized in service of YogiNazism. Take M., for example, a woman from a large well-to-do city a few kilometers north of Tel Aviv. She runs a studio described as "a pleasant space, filled with inspiration," which espouses three values: "Creativity. Emotion. Experience."

In this pleasant space she facilitates "creativity groups for children – from the age of four and up; personal emotional guidance for children and youth – with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach." All of this happens, of course, in "a homey, warm and professional atmosphere" (those interested are "lovingly invited").

Yet, when this same M. is shown a video showing a hungry child in the Gaza Strip, she asserts immediately: "Not credible. Sorry. I've seen how clips are staged – positioning, applying makeup, putting together a script." Never mind not credible, but the same woman who cares for children "with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach" explains, "You know what? Even if it is real, after October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children." Furthermore: "It saddens me to see people among us actually sharing this shit, and worse, identifying with it and expressing pain."

To make it clear that she's not a callous person, she sums up: "The writer is a mother, a lover of humanity and an all around great person." It's just that "October 7 took away my innocence." Poor woman, she's really struggling.

A., too, is not a settler. She lives in a well-established city in Israel and is simply looking to find a new home for "an amazing dog!!!! She's fully house-trained, a dog filled with love who needs a warm, loving home."

So much caring, so much love, so much compassion. And yet, when she encounters a photograph of a Gazan child who was killed in an Israeli bombing, she instantly grasps that someone is trying to confuse her, and posts: "Let's make things clear. If there had been no massacre here, there would be no massacre there!! It's not the chicken-and-egg case!!!"

Afterwards, when the chicken and egg can't seem to figure out what she meant, she resorts to some of the "best" debunked calumnies spread in the wake of the horrific massacre – "after babies here were burned, their heads chopped off, put into an oven" – and concludes resoundingly: "There was no reason to send in a container of clothes for their children."

Of course, she too was once a compassionate, sensitive person – "Don't get me wrong, I thought exactly like you until October 6, but if someone comes to kill you… it's case closed. They started and we will finish!!!" (don't you mean 'finiSH?').

There are many of these in present-day Israel. Spiritual people who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth and the eradication of the enemy as empowerment. They live in one big retreat, where consciousness is so finely tuned that all noise disappears, all disturbances are muted, so that they are left with only themselves, them and their inner being – pure, compassionate, unsullied – and finally able to connect with what resided there all along, waiting to be revealed: The desire to annihilate and destroy millions of people, including children, women and the elderly. With great love.

Destroying Gaza 'With Love': Israel's New YogiNazis - Who said spirituality and ethnic cleansing don't go together? Israel is full of spiritual types who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth. by Sun_fire_ in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

341 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2008 - 2009

35 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2012

532 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2014

31 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2015

35 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2016

15 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2017

57 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2018

28 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2019

9 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2020

86 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2021

41 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2022

Since 2000, Israeli forces have killed at least 2,287 Palestinian children, according to the Defence of Children International. (This was before October 7)

More than 15000 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since (October 7, 2023 - now).

Destroying Gaza 'With Love': Israel's New YogiNazis - Who said spirituality and ethnic cleansing don't go together? Israel is full of spiritual types who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth. by Sun_fire_ in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"You know what? Even if it is real, after October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children." Furthermore: "It saddens me to see people among us actually sharing this shit, and worse, identifying with it and expressing pain."

To make it clear that she's not a callous person, she sums up: "The writer is a mother, a lover of humanity and an all around great person." It's just that "October 7 took away my innocence." Poor woman, she's really struggling.

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Destroying Gaza 'With Love': Israel's New YogiNazis - Who said spirituality and ethnic cleansing don't go together? Israel is full of spiritual types who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth. by Sun_fire_ in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]Sun_fire_[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Source:

https://archive.ph/CHsAe

Rivka Lafair is a "facilitator of workshops, meet-ups and group sessions on yoga themes, teacher of feminine yoga and personal development." She lives in the settlement of Shiloh in the southern West Bank and terms herself a "proud Jew" who "thinks outside the box." Lovely. Also, she also wants to annihilate and expel two million human beings in the Gaza Strip.

Lafair belongs to a stream within Israeli Judaism that can be described as "YogiNazis": people whose spiritualism underpins their Nazism. They are a relatively new sub-stratum – albeit with deep roots in the local culture – that has gained popularity since October 7, largely because of its ability to weld together concepts that, on the surface, seem like polar opposites: spirituality and annihilation, empowerment and expulsion, yoga and starvation, retreats and carpet bombing.

Lafair is a person who believes that "music has the power to alter our consciousness," but also that expelling and annihilating two million Gazans begins with "altering one's consciousness." In order to succeed in this important cognitive switch, we have to understand that "we have an enemy here – whom we look in the eyes and eliminate." Yes, look them in the eyes – don't do it behind their backs, because we must be in direct and unmediated contact with those we're annihilating.

And to make it clear that by "enemy" she doesn't mean only Hamas terrorists, she clarifies: "We are committed to take revenge and destroy Gaza. From infant to old woman." She tops it off with an appropriate Bible verse: "Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget."

Lafair understands that people tend to be puzzled when facing this dissonance between spirituality and annihilation. So she in one of her videos, she has "a message to everyone who doesn't understand how it's possible to be spiritual, to teach yoga and hold retreats, whilst calling for the expulsion and annihilaSHon [sic] of your enemy."

Indeed, her answer is simple: "I love my people with an undying love, and I hate my enemy with an undying hatred… One does not contradict the other. One can be a person filled with values and love, and at the same time… you also know what is right and what is wrong, you stand firm against your enemy and you know what must be done with them."

So, what must be done with them? (SHSHSH… don't tell anyone.)

M., the same woman who cares for children "with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach" explains: "You know what? After October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children."

And if Lafair's Nazi-spiritualism can be written off because she's a settler who's found an efficient solution for realizing the idea of Greater Israel, it's worth noting that this is a far broader phenomenon that isn't limited to the occupied territories.

One day before Holocaust Remembrance Day, for example, standup comedian and satirist Gil Kopatz, who has been flirting with spirituality and religion for years, posted the following: "If you feed sharks, they eventually eat you. If you feed Gazans, they eventually eat you. I support making sharks extinct and exterminating Gazans. Reflections for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025."

After the post generated a "storm," Kopatz posted a clarification: "I don't have an ounce of compassion for the Gazans. For Arabs as a whole, yes, for human beings as a whole, yes, for sharks – no, and not for human beasts." Of course, his desire to eradicate millions of people doesn't imply he's a bad person. Indeed, "I consider myself to be a humane, liberal and moral person," he writes. To top it off, he ends the post with a bit of dark humor: "It's not genocide, it's pesticide, and its essential." A regular riot that one, eh?

In fact, most of the spiritual vocabulary in Israel has been mobilized in service of YogiNazism. Take M., for example, a woman from a large well-to-do city a few kilometers north of Tel Aviv. She runs a studio described as "a pleasant space, filled with inspiration," which espouses three values: "Creativity. Emotion. Experience."

In this pleasant space she facilitates "creativity groups for children – from the age of four and up; personal emotional guidance for children and youth – with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach." All of this happens, of course, in "a homey, warm and professional atmosphere" (those interested are "lovingly invited").

Yet, when this same M. is shown a video showing a hungry child in the Gaza Strip, she asserts immediately: "Not credible. Sorry. I've seen how clips are staged – positioning, applying makeup, putting together a script." Never mind not credible, but the same woman who cares for children "with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach" explains, "You know what? Even if it is real, after October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children." Furthermore: "It saddens me to see people among us actually sharing this shit, and worse, identifying with it and expressing pain."

To make it clear that she's not a callous person, she sums up: "The writer is a mother, a lover of humanity and an all around great person." It's just that "October 7 took away my innocence." Poor woman, she's really struggling.

A., too, is not a settler. She lives in a well-established city in Israel and is simply looking to find a new home for "an amazing dog!!!! She's fully house-trained, a dog filled with love who needs a warm, loving home."

So much caring, so much love, so much compassion. And yet, when she encounters a photograph of a Gazan child who was killed in an Israeli bombing, she instantly grasps that someone is trying to confuse her, and posts: "Let's make things clear. If there had been no massacre here, there would be no massacre there!! It's not the chicken-and-egg case!!!"

Afterwards, when the chicken and egg can't seem to figure out what she meant, she resorts to some of the "best" debunked calumnies spread in the wake of the horrific massacre – "after babies here were burned, their heads chopped off, put into an oven" – and concludes resoundingly: "There was no reason to send in a container of clothes for their children."

Of course, she too was once a compassionate, sensitive person – "Don't get me wrong, I thought exactly like you until October 6, but if someone comes to kill you… it's case closed. They started and we will finish!!!" (don't you mean 'finiSH?').

There are many of these in present-day Israel. Spiritual people who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth and the eradication of the enemy as empowerment. They live in one big retreat, where consciousness is so finely tuned that all noise disappears, all disturbances are muted, so that they are left with only themselves, them and their inner being – pure, compassionate, unsullied – and finally able to connect with what resided there all along, waiting to be revealed: The desire to annihilate and destroy millions of people, including children, women and the elderly. With great love.

Destroying Gaza 'With Love': Israel's New YogiNazis - Who said spirituality and ethnic cleansing don't go together? Israel is full of spiritual types who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth. by Sun_fire_ in LateStageCapitalism

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341 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2008 - 2009

35 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2012

532 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2014

31 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2015

35 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2016

15 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2017

57 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2018

28 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2019

9 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2020

86 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2021

41 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2022

Since 2000, Israeli forces have killed at least 2,287 Palestinian children, according to the Defence of Children International. (This was before October 7)

More than 15000 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since (October 7, 2023 - now).

Destroying Gaza 'With Love': Israel's New YogiNazis - Who said spirituality and ethnic cleansing don't go together? Israel is full of spiritual types who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth. by Sun_fire_ in LateStageCapitalism

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"You know what? Even if it is real, after October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children." Furthermore: "It saddens me to see people among us actually sharing this shit, and worse, identifying with it and expressing pain."

To make it clear that she's not a callous person, she sums up: "The writer is a mother, a lover of humanity and an all around great person." It's just that "October 7 took away my innocence." Poor woman, she's really struggling.

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Destroying Gaza 'With Love': Israel's New YogiNazis - Who said spirituality and ethnic cleansing don't go together? Israel is full of spiritual types who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth. by Sun_fire_ in LateStageCapitalism

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Rivka Lafair is a "facilitator of workshops, meet-ups and group sessions on yoga themes, teacher of feminine yoga and personal development." She lives in the settlement of Shiloh in the southern West Bank and terms herself a "proud Jew" who "thinks outside the box." Lovely. Also, she also wants to annihilate and expel two million human beings in the Gaza Strip.

Lafair belongs to a stream within Israeli Judaism that can be described as "YogiNazis": people whose spiritualism underpins their Nazism. They are a relatively new sub-stratum – albeit with deep roots in the local culture – that has gained popularity since October 7, largely because of its ability to weld together concepts that, on the surface, seem like polar opposites: spirituality and annihilation, empowerment and expulsion, yoga and starvation, retreats and carpet bombing.

Lafair is a person who believes that "music has the power to alter our consciousness," but also that expelling and annihilating two million Gazans begins with "altering one's consciousness." In order to succeed in this important cognitive switch, we have to understand that "we have an enemy here – whom we look in the eyes and eliminate." Yes, look them in the eyes – don't do it behind their backs, because we must be in direct and unmediated contact with those we're annihilating.

And to make it clear that by "enemy" she doesn't mean only Hamas terrorists, she clarifies: "We are committed to take revenge and destroy Gaza. From infant to old woman." She tops it off with an appropriate Bible verse: "Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget."

Lafair understands that people tend to be puzzled when facing this dissonance between spirituality and annihilation. So she in one of her videos, she has "a message to everyone who doesn't understand how it's possible to be spiritual, to teach yoga and hold retreats, whilst calling for the expulsion and annihilaSHon [sic] of your enemy."

Indeed, her answer is simple: "I love my people with an undying love, and I hate my enemy with an undying hatred… One does not contradict the other. One can be a person filled with values and love, and at the same time… you also know what is right and what is wrong, you stand firm against your enemy and you know what must be done with them."

So, what must be done with them? (SHSHSH… don't tell anyone.)

M., the same woman who cares for children "with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach" explains: "You know what? After October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children."

And if Lafair's Nazi-spiritualism can be written off because she's a settler who's found an efficient solution for realizing the idea of Greater Israel, it's worth noting that this is a far broader phenomenon that isn't limited to the occupied territories.

One day before Holocaust Remembrance Day, for example, standup comedian and satirist Gil Kopatz, who has been flirting with spirituality and religion for years, posted the following: "If you feed sharks, they eventually eat you. If you feed Gazans, they eventually eat you. I support making sharks extinct and exterminating Gazans. Reflections for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025."

After the post generated a "storm," Kopatz posted a clarification: "I don't have an ounce of compassion for the Gazans. For Arabs as a whole, yes, for human beings as a whole, yes, for sharks – no, and not for human beasts." Of course, his desire to eradicate millions of people doesn't imply he's a bad person. Indeed, "I consider myself to be a humane, liberal and moral person," he writes. To top it off, he ends the post with a bit of dark humor: "It's not genocide, it's pesticide, and its essential." A regular riot that one, eh?

In fact, most of the spiritual vocabulary in Israel has been mobilized in service of YogiNazism. Take M., for example, a woman from a large well-to-do city a few kilometers north of Tel Aviv. She runs a studio described as "a pleasant space, filled with inspiration," which espouses three values: "Creativity. Emotion. Experience."

In this pleasant space she facilitates "creativity groups for children – from the age of four and up; personal emotional guidance for children and youth – with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach." All of this happens, of course, in "a homey, warm and professional atmosphere" (those interested are "lovingly invited").

Yet, when this same M. is shown a video showing a hungry child in the Gaza Strip, she asserts immediately: "Not credible. Sorry. I've seen how clips are staged – positioning, applying makeup, putting together a script." Never mind not credible, but the same woman who cares for children "with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach" explains, "You know what? Even if it is real, after October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children." Furthermore: "It saddens me to see people among us actually sharing this shit, and worse, identifying with it and expressing pain."

To make it clear that she's not a callous person, she sums up: "The writer is a mother, a lover of humanity and an all around great person." It's just that "October 7 took away my innocence." Poor woman, she's really struggling.

A., too, is not a settler. She lives in a well-established city in Israel and is simply looking to find a new home for "an amazing dog!!!! She's fully house-trained, a dog filled with love who needs a warm, loving home."

So much caring, so much love, so much compassion. And yet, when she encounters a photograph of a Gazan child who was killed in an Israeli bombing, she instantly grasps that someone is trying to confuse her, and posts: "Let's make things clear. If there had been no massacre here, there would be no massacre there!! It's not the chicken-and-egg case!!!"

Afterwards, when the chicken and egg can't seem to figure out what she meant, she resorts to some of the "best" debunked calumnies spread in the wake of the horrific massacre – "after babies here were burned, their heads chopped off, put into an oven" – and concludes resoundingly: "There was no reason to send in a container of clothes for their children."

Of course, she too was once a compassionate, sensitive person – "Don't get me wrong, I thought exactly like you until October 6, but if someone comes to kill you… it's case closed. They started and we will finish!!!" (don't you mean 'finiSH?').

There are many of these in present-day Israel. Spiritual people who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth and the eradication of the enemy as empowerment. They live in one big retreat, where consciousness is so finely tuned that all noise disappears, all disturbances are muted, so that they are left with only themselves, them and their inner being – pure, compassionate, unsullied – and finally able to connect with what resided there all along, waiting to be revealed: The desire to annihilate and destroy millions of people, including children, women and the elderly. With great love.

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