The supremacist organization Lehava published a video on its website yesterday showing two former Palmach fighters from the Hagana, boasting about how they castrated Arabs upon orders from David Ben-Gurion himself.
It’s an old clip taken from a documentary made in 2010 called “Nevelot” (bastards). The movie tells about the lives of two men, Meir Lavetovsky and Yitzhak Weinstein, who were the inspiration for a TV show that went by the same name and also based on a book by Yoram Kaniuk.
I did not see either the movie nor the documentary. I could not find much information about the two, but a bit of googling shows Meir lost a grandson in a terror attack. He later died after he was stabbed in broad daylight by a mental patient who had been released from hospital.
Lehava, of course, chose to post a clip that serves their disgusting agenda, which is why I translated it.
The ultra right-wing site Hakol Hayehudi notes today that this was not the only case, and tells a detailed story of a “famous” castration story that took place in the Bet She’an area [Heb]. According to the site, castration was chosen over death, as an “eye for an eye” punishment that would also provoke less anger among the Arabs.
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Elisabeth
Richard Silverstein wrote about this issue once:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2010/06/17/amos-horev-castrated-palestinian-in-blood-vengeance/
Anne O'Nimmus
What “English subtitles”?
They aint there!
sh
Lehava plasters lurid posters all over Israel’s towns during the main Jewish (and possibly summer) holidays and hold information sessions for the public, preferring to use places that have a certain resonance, like Netanya’s Park Hotel.
Appalling story that utterly wrecks Ben Gurion’s reputation as a spartan intellectual civilian who practiced yoga.
Aaron
The mentality of those who posted this video is more than likely racist, thuggish and sadistic. However, as far as the old men in the video…if their victim really was a rapist, I can’t see any problem with what they did. In general I can’t see a problem with taking the law into one’s own hands in cases like this, regardless of racial/intercommunal enmities.
Philos
Aaron is Batman
Kahalani
Wow, someone cut off the balls of a man who raped a 9-year old girl. What a shame. Funny how Samuel L. Jackson in “A Time to Kill” elicits sympathy when he shoots and kills the white rapists of his young daughter….but these men are written about with disgust. I have a feeling the author would be making apologies if the story was about Arabs mutilating a Jew….ie the shoe was on the other foot.
Ami Kaufman
@kahalani – Your feeling’s wrong.
Kahalani
@Ami Kaufman – you do realize that the Palestinians were mutilating innocent Jewish civilians (who committed no crime) during 1947 and 1948. This includes cutting off genitals, gouging eyes, and cutting off feet and hands. I have yet to see any articles on this or anyone at 972 condemning it, inculding yourself.
Ami Kaufman
@kahalani- No, I didn’t realize, because I didn’t see a Palestinian supremacist website posting it and boasting about it. I wouldn’t know, either, since I don’t read Arabic. Also, I critique my own society in an attempt to change it. Can you realize that, Kahalani? By the way, do you have a real name? Or would you prefer to keep hiding behind a fake or only a surname?
Avi Kahalani
comment deleted and user banned because he is an asshole mother fucker.
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yes, I said that even though it’s against the rules of the site.
Avi Kahalani
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Carol
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Kahalani called himself Carol
Binyamin
A thought experiment for those Jews who support what they did: were there any Jewish men who raped Arab women? You bettcha, Take a look at Benny Morris’ book “1948.” No less than six gang rapes by Jewish soldiers are documented, and only because there was a report about them in the IDF archives. How many other instances went unreported? (BTW, Morris has an account of an Arab soldier coming to the rescue of a Jewish girl about to be raped by subordinates.)
If it was OK to do this to Arab rapists, then it would be just as fine to do it to Jewish men who were rapists of Arab girls, n’est pas?
Of course what is really at work here is the most rank form of racial incitement.
Binyamin
Another thought experiment: if Ben-Gurion was prepared to do this to the Arabs, what was he, and what was Zionism, not prepared to do?
Of course, these actions had nothing to do with “biblical vengance.” What was being taught to the Arabs was that the Zionists had no moral boundaries that would limit them in their fight against the Arabs.
Jim
I’m not familiar with Lehava’s agenda, nor Ami Kaufman’s. For so many years we were told how wonderful the Israeli soldier was: the bravest, the best, the most humane and and on and on. The international human rights groups as well as some brave scholars have documented the torture and murder of Arabs by Israel, but like this video these things are rarely discussed in the media.
This is another example. This shows how Israel and the zionist media have covered up how barbarous the Israelis are and Ami writes a few sentences about this. This should be front page news on America’s newspapers.
While covering up atrocities they have committed and telling lies how wonderful they are, they say the most disgusting things about their enemies. For forty years Jews pushed the lie that Germans made soap from Jews fat and lampshades from Jews skin during WW II. This, like so many other things was exposed as a complete lie in the 1980′s.
There should be more discussion of atrocities committed by the Israelis and it should be in the mainstream media. Then the USA wouldn’t be bombing every Arab country into oblivion for the benefit of Israel.
Unlike the German soldiers that were beaten to a pulp after WW II until they “confessed” to whatever they were charged with (truthful or not) these Jews are freely admitting the atrocities they have committed.