How many other Shuva’el Ben-Natans are in Gaza now, fired up with enthusiasm for murdering Gentiles?
ed note–as always, a laundry list of ‘must knows’ that every Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about this.
Firsto, just for the record ladies and Gentile-men, we applaud the Jewish author of this piece, both for his sense of humanity and his sense of morality. Murder is murder, no matter if the perp is a Jew or a Gentile, and as history has shown, when Jews murder Gentiles and another Jew calls the murderers out publically for it, they pay a price.
However, what is missing from the author’s piece is the fact that for Jews, meaning the followers of Torah Judah-ism, killing Gentiles is not murder, but rather a ‘mitzvah’, meaning a religious obligation.
Furthermore, this is not some ‘new’ or novel idea that began with the emergence of ‘Judea Resurrecta’ in the last century. It–the same ‘leaven of the Pharisees’ condemned by Jesus Christ–has been baked into the cake of Judah-ism going back to the very beginning of the entire affair and is still sitting there as an open secret for any and all curious Gentiles who want to better understand the peculiar energy that makes Jews tick the way that they do (and especially when it comes to violence against non-Jews) to read for themselves, to wit–
‘When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess and drives out the many nations larger and stronger than you, and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not save alive anything that breathes, for you are a people holy to the Lord your God who has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession…’ –Book of Deuteronomy
Again, ladies and Gentile-men, this is nothing novel or new. It has been part of the thought processes, behaviorisms and modus vivendi of the Hebrews, Shebrews, Israelites, Judah-ites, Judeans–whatever combination of vowels and consonants one chooses to use in describing them–going all the way back 3,000+ years. Just as alligators, crocodiles, sharks, hyenas and other dangerous predators have always hunted and killed other animals for their own continued existence, likewise, the Hebrews, Shebrews, Israelites, Judah-ites, Judeans, Jews, etc, have always behaved this way and always will, because it is in their spiritual nature to do so.
And our Jewish author knows this better than anyone…
As a Jew, he knows what it is that his religion teaches about the rest of us and why all the blood, guts, gore, and Gentile-cide taking place in Gaza has a perfectly understandable explanation, which is that ‘Judah-ism is as Judah-ism does’, and vice versa.
Nevertheless, we will still give him credit for stating what needs to be said–that murder is murder, no matter who is pulling the trigger or lighting the wick on the Molotov cocktail. Now if only we can get him to reveal the fact that as far as the peculiar energy driving all of this is concerned, i.e. the Torah Judah-ism, Jews murdering Gentiles isn’t murder, but rather a ‘mitzvah’, meaning a religious obligation which every pious Jew is commanded to do, and especially when it comes to ‘redeeming’ the ‘promised land’.
By Sebastian Ben-Daniel for Middle East Eye
Someone ‘normal’, in the dictionary definition, is an ordinary guy, rational: not abnormal. Accounts of the funeral of the soldier Shuva’el Ben-Natan seem abnormal to me.
Eulogising him, his brother said: ‘We want revenge! You entered Gaza to take revenge on as many people as possible, women, children, anyone you saw, as many as possible, that’s what you wanted. And on this day, a year after that day of Simchat Torah, thinking we would slaughter the enemy, slaughter them all, expel them from our land here… All the people of Israel will be entitled to take revenge for your death, blood revenge, not revenge by just burning houses, not revenge by burning trees, not revenge by burning cars, but blood revenge for the blood of God’s servants that has been spilled.’
Then one of his fellow soldiers added: ‘You were the happiest, the most optimistic and the goofiest person in the unit. We first saw this in Gaza when you burned a house down without permission, to cheer everyone up.’
His friend Shlomi concluded, ‘I promise you, we will enter Lebanon again, and Gaza, and every village in Samaria, and we will take revenge, and we will fight to the end and we won’t stop. When you were in Gaza, they called you ‘Shuvi the Madlik’ (arsonist) because when you came out of a house you would set it on fire. And we will burn as well. What will we burn? Shubik, what shall we burn? Let them start feeling afraid! Until redemption comes – we will fight all the way to the Temple Mount!’
All the mainstream Israeli media that covered the funeral cut these segments. In a long piece in the Friday night newscast Ulpan Shishi, Ruti Shiloni reported only the eulogies that not did not include confessions of war crimes. The latter evidently did not strike her as unusual or newsworthy.
Subsequent reports addressed the coopted media in Iran and Al Jazeera journalists suspected of being Hamas fighters, and then TV presenter Danny Kushmaro in a normal journalistic act detonated the explosives that blew up a house during a broadcast.
While on leave from the army exactly one year ago, Shuva’el Ben-Natan shot and killed Bilal Saleh, 40, while he was picking olives near his home. Saleh was unarmed and posed no mortal threat to anyone, but Ben-Natan shot him to death.
During October of last year, this was a modus operandi among many settlers in the West Bank, who capitalised on the 7 October massacre to torment Palestinians during the olive harvest. Samaria regional council head Yossi Dagan hastened to declare on that Saturday that nothing had happened. Dagan is a close associate of Ben-Natan’s father, who runs the Rechelim Yeshiva from which the killers of Aisha a-Rabi came.
Although the case remained open, and although Ben-Natan told people close to him that he wanted to murder women and children, he was subsequently sent to fight in Gaza. To make the guys in the reserves happy, he burned down a house – probably more than once, hence the nickname ‘Shuvi the Madlik’.
No one witnessing this thought it was a problem; on the contrary, Ben-Natan was normal and well-liked. The IDF evidently thought so, too, because after Gaza they sent him to Lebanon. The tragic coincidence from his standpoint is that, had he not been granted immunity for the murder of Bilal Saleh, he would most likely be alive today. Under arrest, but alive.
If the same things said at Ben-Natan’s funeral were scripted in a satirical skit about a religious group, they would be termed ‘anti-semitic’.
But to the people at that funeral, among them a government minister who proposed dropping an atom bomb on Gaza, the eulogies sounded perfectly normal. The same goes for the soldier’s friends and the IDF officers present. Not just normal, but reasons for pride, notable in his obituary and in how Ben-Natan should be remembered: as the guy determined to murder women and children, the more the better, a guy who goofed around by burning down the houses of Palestinian families.
In today’s IDF, how many Shuva’el Ben-Natans are there who have set out to take revenge by murdering children – specifically, right now, in Gaza?
Does anyone still think that the mass killing in Gaza is not due, at least partly, to the same thirst for revenge that animated the eulogies at the funeral of Shuva’el Ben-Natan?
According to recent investigations by leading foreign journalists, quite a few. Ample evidence has accumulated of children being shot in the head and chest.
In Israel, of course, all of this is received with the usual responses– ‘it did not happen, it’s fake news. And if it did happen, it was unintentional, and if it wasn’t unintentional, the guy was a bad apple, so why generalise? And anyhow there are no innocents in Gaza, and the guilty party is Hamas, it’s all their fault.’
But these are neither bad apples nor fools. A religiously observant Israeli Jewish soldier, in a pogrom in the village of Um Safa, set fire to a house with a family inside, bracing a chair against the door to ensure that a mother and her children would be burnt alive. Is he in Gaza right now?
Aviad Frija proudly verifies for the media that he indeed killed a person who had laid down his weapon (unfortunately it turned out that the victim was Jewish). Will he end up serving in Lebanon due to the shortage of combat soldiers?
Three soldiers in the Kfir Brigade shoot to death a child in a car and are acquitted because the weapons were not tested. An officer sprays bullets from a bridge on Road 443. A soldier shoots a baby in a village in the West Bank because he saw car headlights. The ‘mosquito procedure’ forces Gaza civilians to become human shields for soldiers searching Hamas’ tunnels because the lives of Gazans are worth less than a drone battery. Religious Zionist officers call for the destruction of villages and starvation for civilians and are then offended when they are called ‘death eaters’.
Does anyone still think that the mass killing in Gaza is not due, at least partly, to the same thirst for revenge that animated the eulogies at the funeral of Shuva’el Ben-Natan?
Since last October, many settlers have been recruited into local civil defense units and issued weapons by the military. Wearing Israeli army uniforms and carrying Israeli army weapons, these settlers have perpetrated countless ideologically motivated attacks against Palestinian residents in the occupied territories. The police do not investigate because the suspects are ‘soldiers’. Nor does the army investigate, because these incidents ‘are not a military activity’. And the violence rages on, while oversight falls between the cracks.
In today’s Israel, ministers call unhesitatingly for ethnic cleansing, people celebrate death on the internet, soldiers burn houses and their friends are entertained.
On Friday, a Hezbollah rocket killed two civilians in the village of Majd al-Krum, an Arab community. In comments on the media reports, readers heaped praise on the missile that had killed residents who were unlucky enough to be Arabs, and this response has become the norm. Commenting openly, using their full names, readers stated that ‘two people died – that’s nothing’, ‘it’s unclear why the post is so glum’, and much more along the same lines.
Of course, if an Arab schoolteacher had written anything remotely like that on social media, she would have been arrested and blindfolded. Arab mourners at funerals who have called explicitly for murder have been treated summarily like a ticking bomb.
But in today’s Israel, ministers call unhesitatingly for ethnic cleansing, people celebrate death on the internet, soldiers burn houses and their friends are entertained, and an entire public prefers to abandon hostages to torture provided they get a piece of land in Gaza for themselves.
From the hate weddings of a decade ago we have now graduated to hate funerals – and there is not the slightest shred of an investigation, perhaps suggesting that something unusual might be happening. Maybe the Jewish terrorists are in fact the normal ones here, and the few folks who are shocked are the ones who are crazy.