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‘International Solidarity Movement’ Protester Is Welcomed in Israel

Posted on | April 17, 2012 | 57 Comments

And by “welcomed,” I mean busted in his punk face with a rifle butt.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the International Solidarity Movement, an alliance of Western leftists supporting Palestinian “armed resistance” against Israel. And my opinion of ISM is evidently shared by at least one member of the Israel military:

Denmark has demanded an explanation from the Israeli government for video footage showing a senior Israeli army officer striking a Danish activist in the face with an M16 rifle, an act which has been sharply criticised by the Israeli prime minister, president and chief of staff.
In the video, Lt Col Shalom Eisner, deputy commander of the Jordan Valley territorial brigade, is clearly seen slamming his rifle into the face of Andreas Ias.

Here’s the video:

Gator Doug headlines this:

Am I wrong for cheering when an anti-Semitic,
pro-terrorist hippie gets busted in the mouth?

“Wrong” is such a judgmental word, isn’t it? We mustn’t be judgmental about smelly hippie scum supporting “armed resistance” against Israel. So we are obligated to resist the temptation to do a fist-pump and yell, “Hit him again, Colonel Eisner!”

Created during the Second Intifada, ISM was the group that brought Rachel Corrie to Gaza for her memorable martyrdom:

“Rachel Corrie never seems to have had any concern for dead Israelis, instead writing indignantly to justify the Intifada by ‘international law and the right of people to legitimate armed struggle in defense of their land and their families.’ Dead Jews were utterly invisible to her, as she wrote home accusing Israel of ‘genocide,’ and arguing that U.S. support to Israel implicated all Americans in genocide.”

This Danish protester, a member of the same pro-terrorist ISM, was part of an attempt to stage another anti-Israel agitprop stunt:

Israel has branded the activists “provocateurs” who posed a security threat to the country. . . .
Over the weekend, Israel prevented hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists from entering the country to participate in a solidarity mission drawing attention to Israeli travel restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank.

Oh, boo hoo — “travel restrictions”! Have we forgotten Bus No. 32A? Have we forgotten Shiri Negari? Have we forgotten Simona Rudina and the other victims of the Dolphinarium bombing?

You know who probably hasn’t forgotten? Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner.

The hundreds of Israelis who perished as a result of attacks sponsored by Hamas, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and other Palestinian terrorist groups — the ISM peaceniks want us to forget all that.

They want us to strip current events of any historical context, so that the “travel resistrictions” in the West Bank and an Israelis officer’s reaction to a Danish provocateur can be portrayed as human-rights atrocities, forgetting all the genuine atrocities committed by the bloodthirsty goons with whom ISM wishes to show “solidarity.”

It is encouraging to see some solidarity among Israelis:

Dozens of reserve officers and soldiers who served with Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner, who struck an anarchist provocateur in the face Saturday, on Monday sent a letter in support of Eisner to IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, the Head of Central Command Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
“We, the officers and soldiers of the reserve battalion, served under Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner between the years 2008 and 2011,” says the letter. “During these years we carried out together different operations and training. In light of the media reports of the incident in the Jordan Valley on Saturday, April 14, 2012, we wish to express our support and appreciation for him as a person, as a friend and a commander with values and morals.”

Hit him again, Colonel Eisner!

Comments

57 Responses to “‘International Solidarity Movement’ Protester Is Welcomed in Israel”

  1. richard mcenroe
    April 17th, 2012 @ 1:50 am

    WEST/EISNER 2016!

  2. AnonymousDrivel
    April 17th, 2012 @ 2:14 am

    What is it with protestors and journalists thinking they have some sort of immunity card? Mess with the bull, get the horns, for better or for worse.

    You know when you collaborate with an enemy which is to say to act on their behalf, guess what? You’ve just volunteered in their army. You are now counting on the courtesy of strangers (which, by your act alone, are antagonists due to your own definition and incitement) who may not share your interests. You don’t get to act without consequences even if your actions are noble. If ignoble, I’d just as soon see you escorted from the exchange in cuffs or a body bag.

    Armies are serious business for whichever country they defend. To act outrageously outraged even as you hope for an outrage for propaganda purposes while antagonizing serious people is to risk karmic backlash. Or a chipped tooth. Useful idiocy is no shield.

  3. MrPaulRevere
    April 17th, 2012 @ 3:51 am

    This is just a guess, but I would wager Col. Eisner lost several relatives in the camps. He reminds me of the cops I knew as a kid who were a little rough around the edges but knew how to keep order in a neighborhood. The pot smokers from Denmark would be well advised to mind their own damn business.

  4. SDN
    April 17th, 2012 @ 6:41 am

    Next time, Col. Eisner, use the end with the bayonet attached. At least you’ll be sure one won’t be back.

  5. Bob Belvedere
    April 17th, 2012 @ 8:15 am

    Damn well put!

  6. Dil Diledoson
    April 17th, 2012 @ 8:25 am

    World without Jews is something that many claim is a must before this planet turns into heaven. sounds like a bit extreme call . But Jews in Israel with the support of non-Israeli Jews are taking active steps to make life of Arabs living in and around Israel into practical hell.

    Arabs and Israeli Jews, both turned values of life and respect into nothing. the worst is that both sides export their hate into the western society and unfortunately they do that with success. how you can solve a crisis while both sides claim that god’s wish is to have the opposite dead?

    those are facts.

  7. scarymatt
    April 17th, 2012 @ 8:42 am

    Yes, absolutely.  But not just with armies.  The Left’s twisted view of Civil Disobedience is that we’re all inspired by their courageous standing up to the man…but don’t inconvenience them!

    The whole point is to have our consciences shocked when we see the punishment they get for doing something that they believe should be legal, moral, etc., and eventually win us all over.

    Is there any evidence that current day stunts and whining like this play to anyone but the already convinced?

    I can understand a government being concerned about one of its citizens getting hit like this.  They obviously have a duty in that respect.  Hopefully, that’s all the Danes are doing here.

  8. Tennwriter
    April 17th, 2012 @ 9:19 am

    There is never going to be a world without Jews, but with others of the various races of Man on the globe.

    What there will be is an attempt by the Wicked One to send armies to destroy the Jews, but the King of Kings and the Lord of Hosts is going to arrive, and slay the armies of men.

    And I will behind Him, on a white horse, cheering Him on.

    “You missed one, see that anti-semitic hippie scum….Chop off his head!”

  9. Wombat_socho
    April 17th, 2012 @ 9:25 am

     Concern troll is concerned!

  10. JeffS
    April 17th, 2012 @ 9:29 am

    Brutal attack my ass.  Getting hit by the butt of an M4 (not an M16, as noted in the article)  will hurt, but it lacks the weight and size of, say, the butt of an M1 Garand or M14.  Or even an AK47.

    So, no broken jaw, no spitting out teeth, no massive bruising.  The stupid hippie s**t got off lightly.  Unfortunately.

  11. ThePaganTemple
    April 17th, 2012 @ 9:34 am

     Well, Dildo Son, maybe if we just stopped restraining the Israelis and allowed them to deal with their Palestinian/Arab/Muslim problems as they see fit, this would be over with, pretty quickly too. Unfortunately, the fact that we have put restraints on them for so long is precisely why things have gotten well past the boiling point. Had we acted differently, from the very beginning, there never would have been any hate imported here.

    But then again, why bother to explain all this to somebody who paints all Israelis and all non-Israeli Jews with the same broad brush?

  12. Adobe_Walls
    April 17th, 2012 @ 10:16 am

    Exactly, nothing like a well placed bayonet thrust to make one’s point.

  13. Adobe_Walls
    April 17th, 2012 @ 10:18 am

    Perhaps he should go to Israel and protest.

  14. ThePaganTemple
    April 17th, 2012 @ 10:21 am

    I wonder why ISM and others of their ilk aren’t bicycling through Syria, in places like Homs, Damascus, etc., protesting the Alawite Assad regime’s brutal treatment of the Muslim majority?

  15. Pathfinder's wife
    April 17th, 2012 @ 11:16 am

    Because Assad’s men would kill them…and dead Syrians killed by a tyrant don’t count for as much on the outrage scale as dead Arabs killed by Jews.

    I think the ratio is something like 10K to 1, maybe higher.

     

  16. richard mcenroe
    April 17th, 2012 @ 11:33 am

     We’ve stopped issuing bayonets.  The M4 is too short.

  17. richard mcenroe
    April 17th, 2012 @ 11:34 am

     You could educate hippies better if you just issued the grunts pugil sticks.

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  19. Ben David
    April 17th, 2012 @ 12:13 pm

    The incident came after “peace activists” tried to block the road, and hurled their bicycles at the soldiers.

    From Israel’s Yediot (mainstream daily):

    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4217392,00.html

  20. Philaver
    April 17th, 2012 @ 12:29 pm

    Nice to note that lt. Col. Diabet’s first name means “peace,” Heheh.

  21. Andrew
    April 17th, 2012 @ 12:49 pm

    How would you feel if someone assaulted an anti-abortion protester by hitting them with a rifle?

    Palestinians can’t win. People keep saying, “when will there be a Palestinian Ganhdi/MLK?” or whatever but when they do resort to non-violent resistance they get tarred as terror sympathizers anyways.

  22. Andrew
    April 17th, 2012 @ 12:50 pm

    Murder is awesome!!

  23. SDN
    April 17th, 2012 @ 12:52 pm

    And killing someone who is actively supporting those who would kill you isn’t murder.

  24. SDN
    April 17th, 2012 @ 12:55 pm

    That’s called foreseeable risk. War is not pretty. If the Palestinians or Muslims in general had wanted peace, they could have done what the Jews did: take in the displaced, resettle them, and move on. They chose to fight a war. Now they can eat the consequences.

  25. Andrew
    April 17th, 2012 @ 12:56 pm

    There is no evidence this specific activist supports terrorism against Israeli citizens.

    His only “crime” is violating Israel’s apartheid-style restrictions on movement in the West Bank that give preferential treatment to illegal settler-colonists and keep Palestinians in barbed-wire ghettos.

  26. Wombat_socho
    April 17th, 2012 @ 1:09 pm

     It’s a crime in Israel, goy. Go whine to somebody who cares.

  27. Wombat_socho
    April 17th, 2012 @ 1:11 pm

     Pro-life protesters aren’t in the habit of blocking roads and assaulting the police. Not even a nice try.

  28. Adobe_Walls
    April 17th, 2012 @ 1:20 pm

    Duct tape. It wouldn’t have to be a bayonet even a sharp pencil to the eye would get the point across.

  29. Adobe_Walls
    April 17th, 2012 @ 1:23 pm

    Anyone who supports the “palestinians” in any way shape or form supports terrorism against Israel. The Israelis should have expelled all the Arabs from their nation in 48 and then again in 67.

  30. Adobe_Walls
    April 17th, 2012 @ 1:28 pm

    If Assad killed them they would become martyrs to their glorious cause. This would give them socially redeeming value (being dead not being martyrs).

  31. Adobe_Walls
    April 17th, 2012 @ 1:30 pm

    Anti-abortion protesters don’t invade other countries to support people who are at war with their gracious hosts.

  32. JeffS
    April 17th, 2012 @ 1:38 pm

     Palestinians routinely “assault” Israelis with rockets and weapons loaded with live ammo.  So I figure that anyone supporting ISM has earned a rifle butt in the face.  At the very least.

    There won’t be any Palestinian Gandhi or MLK.  Palestinians live for violence. 

  33. Adjoran
    April 17th, 2012 @ 2:26 pm

     Plainly, you are an idiot.  Israel provides the source of livelihood for Arabs in Israel and the surrounding areas.  What do “Palestinians” produce?  Their great inventions?

    The FACT is that had Western governments and oil companies not forced nomadic Arabs to claim ownership of lands they hadn’t claimed to own previously in order to have someone to lease it from, they would still be wandering the desert.

  34. Adjoran
    April 17th, 2012 @ 2:27 pm

     That’s the ticket – take it to the Man, Dil!  Get in their faces!

  35. Adjoran
    April 17th, 2012 @ 2:29 pm

    If the protestor initiates the conflict, disobeys lawful orders to disperse, and begs for it, they should not cry about being moved forcibly.

    And these are NOT “Palestinians” – they are Danish hipster dufuses who came to Israel to cause trouble. They got what they came for. Why aren’t you happy for them?

  36. Pathfinder's wife
    April 17th, 2012 @ 2:43 pm

    The Palestinian Arabs cannot win because they have been largely left there and used like pawns by other Muslim/Arab states, by Western leftists (once Israel wasn’t going to be busom buddies with the Soviet Union), and by the radicals within their own society who realized they could make some nice bank off of the whole thing (you will also notice that the bigshots aren’t the ones getting shot and that they don’t seem to have much compunction about using their own people as human shields).  It is utter political cynicism.

    Now, to be fair, that are people within Israeli politics who are just as dirty, just as cynical, and just as cavalier with their own people, and the more Israelis become angry (rightfully so), then the more they pander and can potentially gain power.  Since they are not statesmen and don’t really give a damn about anything other than getting theirs, it is very dangerous to have them in positions of power in an environment that demands statesmen and decent leaders who care for their people.

    These “peace protestors” from other countries are really in their own little way helping that process along — so even if their intentions are good (which I strongly doubt with many of them) they are creating a climate in which evil is going to prosper.
    Good job hippies!

  37. Kyle Kiernan
    April 17th, 2012 @ 2:52 pm

    To be correct, she got hit with either the magazine or the grip, and it wasn’t a full arm strike but more like a shove from about 8 inches away.  Not even any blood.

    I know it will never matter to the folks framing the “atrocity” but its just one more twisting of the facts in the narrative wind.

    What I enjoyed more was the bikes over the rail into the ravine.  “Screw you, you can go fetch!”  Who hasn’t wanted to do that to a Critical Mass circle jerk before?

  38. JeffS
    April 17th, 2012 @ 2:54 pm

    I prefer a PR24.  You have more techniques available.

  39. Pathfinder's wife
    April 17th, 2012 @ 2:55 pm

    I might also add: protests that block roads here are a hazard and a pita; roadblocks in that part of the world have the potential to become quite dangerous; plus our protests do not regularly contain foreigners who ultimately will not suffer any potential consequences, so your analogy in trying to clear what these protesters did is a bit…stretched.

  40. K-Bob
    April 17th, 2012 @ 4:28 pm

     Before I hit play, I was hoping it was the butt end, delivered with authority.

    This was the equivalent of getting a frisbee in the teeth. Not much damage at all.

    I confess to replaying it several times, though.  Just to “be certain of my opinion.”  Or something.

  41. scarymatt
    April 17th, 2012 @ 4:30 pm

    Yeah…that seems like the minimum amount of damage that one could inflict with that weapon.  A real punch in the nose would be much worse.

  42. K-Bob
    April 17th, 2012 @ 4:32 pm

    You keep using that word, “facts.” I do not think it means what you think it means.

  43. K-Bob
    April 17th, 2012 @ 4:36 pm

    Pfft.  Big Oil and global warming will have killed off all the white horses by then.

    Start working on your mutant, six-legged, giant alligator saddle designs.  You can always paint him white.  If they let us have paint.

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  46. ThePaganTemple
    April 17th, 2012 @ 7:15 pm

     I wonder what he (or was it a she) said to the Colonel? She clearly got in his face, and seems to have said something, but you can’t hear it in the video.

  47. ali3nation
    April 17th, 2012 @ 8:12 pm

    Heheh,shmuck it also means hello and goodbye which is what the Danish turd got told with the rifle.

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  49. JeffS
    April 17th, 2012 @ 10:20 pm

     Or something.  We must be sure of our facts, mustn’t we?

  50. Taxpayer1234
    April 17th, 2012 @ 10:50 pm

    Wut?  The “anarchist provacateur” got exactly what he came for.  Why is he sniveling so?