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This is the way
that the „BRAVE” IDF ELITE see
themselves.
1. The t-shirt
says “My first bullet, his last
breath.”
2. Written in Hebrew “The Smaller
They Are, The Harder It Is!”
3. Written in Hebrew “We Won’t Chill
Till We Confirm The Kill”
4. “Better Use Durex”
5. Written in Hebrew “If You Believe
It Can Be Fixed, Then Believe It Can
Be Destroyed!”
6. Written in Hebrew “Let Every Arab
Mother Know That Her Son’s Fate Is
In My Hands!”
7. Written in Hebrew “One Shot -Two
Kills & Displaying a pregnant Muslim
woman”
8. Written in Hebrew “Only God
Forgives”
Brave to be fighting against
Palestinian civilians, crying babies,
weeping mothers, pregnant mothers,
raped girls, etc…
Dead babies,
mothers weeping on their children’s
graves, a gun aimed at a child and
bombed-out mosques – these are a few
examples of the images Israel
Defense Forces soldiers design these
days to print on shirts they order
to mark the end of training, or of
field duty. The slogans accompanying
the drawings are not exactly anemic
either: 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. A sharpshooter’s
T-shirt from the Givati Brigade’s
Shaked battalion shows a pregnant
Palestinian woman with a bull’s-eye
superimposed on her belly, with the
slogan, in English, “1 shot, 2 kills.”
A “graduation” shirt for those who
have completed another snipers
course depicts a Palestinian baby,
who grows into a combative boy and
then an armed adult, with the
inscription, “No matter how it
begins, we’ll put an end to it.”
There are also plenty of shirts with
blatant sexual messages. For example,
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!”
A few of the images underscore
actions whose existence the army
officially denies – such as
“confirming the kill” (shooting a
bullet into an enemy victim’s head
from close range, to ensure he is
dead), or harming religious sites,
or female or child non-combatants.
In many cases, the content is
submitted for approval to one of the
unit’s commanders. The latter,
however, do not always have control
over what gets printed, because the
artwork is a private initiative of
soldiers that they never hear about.
Drawings or slogans previously
banned in certain units have been
approved for distribution elsewhere.
For example, shirts declaring, “We
won’t chill ’til we confirm the
kill” were banned in the past (the
IDF claims that the practice doesn’t
exist), yet the Haruv battalion
printed some last year.
The slogan “Let every Arab mother
know that her son’s fate is in my
hands!” had previously been banned
for use on another infantry unit’s
shirt. A Givati soldier said this
week, however, that at the end of
last year, his platoon printed up
dozens of shirts, fleece jackets and
pants bearing this slogan.
Quelle
Written in
Hebrew “One Shot -Two Kills &
Displaying a pregnant Muslim woman” |
