The comment in question was in reply to another comment that alleged that Jews came from Susiya and it was a remark that the original inhabitants of Susiya apparently spoke Yiddish. That could be expanded to an even more sarcastic remark, that the earliest inhabitants were Neanderthal, hence they surely spoke Yiddish. Where would that be on Eli’s scale of racism?

However, if it does not matter were Jews came FROM, why they have to go to TO Susiya?

Kolumn9: perhaps you are right that faxers could damage IDF, but what kind of military force lacks defenses against this method of attack? For that matter, IDF does not have to print all those faxes. Not too mention that 12,000 is not such a high number. It really puzzled me what damages can be done by relatively few faxes, but after collecting some data, I got an idea.

One data point is that allegedly IDF does not have idea what to do with all the female conscript that it has, as the command is reticent in assigning them all to combat duties. This leads to overstaffing of clerical positions with young female conscripts who would have to sort faxes and dump the faxes that are annoying to the command.

The second data point is that on occasion the young female conscripts may be influenced by unfriendly messages and they loyalty can be somewhat compromised. That could describe the case of Anat Kamm.

On one hand, IDF has almost unlimited womanpower, and if they are short, they can extend conscription to Haredi girls, thus there is no resource problem to organize a fax brigade with the capacity of sorting up to a million faxes per day. And I assume that the operational capacities of IDF command cannot be diminished even by all Iranians faxing all day long. On the other hand, the loyalty of the fax brigade (or fax platoons etc.) could be susceptible to messages that are well formulated and in Hebrew.

I also don’t connect to a notion of justice which can even begin to discuss these lands as somehow belonging to Israel in any reasonable sense. These are Palestinian lands, and the very concept of (Israeli) “state lands” is absurd in this context. I don’t think that Israeli sovereignty over these people and their lands is legitimate or just.

Finally, appealing to some sort of legalistic argument (“but the High Court ruled!”) is a joke. Palestinians don’t exactly get a fair shake at the hands of the legal Israeli authorities.

But you know, everyone can have their own moral code, and not all of them have to make reference to universal human values or a belief in the inalienability of human rights (dignity, movement, self-determination, etc.). You can also turn colonialism and racism into a moral code if you want. It tends to work out badly for all involved, but hey, whatever.

I don’t think there’s much point in foreigners bombarding Israeli authorities, to be honest. The whole point of the present action was to show the Israeli authorities that a significant number of israelis oppose land theft and ethnic cleansing. However, your mileage may vary, and if there’s a real demand for making it possible for non-Israelis to appeal directly to Israeli authorities, that could definitely happen.

But if you want to read something that isn’t absurd settler propaganda, you can take a look at the many links in Hebrew and English on the following page. http://sos-susya.org/

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4259338,00.html

The right to freedom of the speech or organization does not extend to operations designed to damage the work carried out by the government, military, corporations or individuals.