Tell me again - Why does the US Government support this?

[kpete]

When Ahmed Owedat returned to his home 18 days after Israeli soldiers took it over in the middle of the night, he was greeted with an overpowering stench.

He picked through the wreckage of his possessions thrown from upstairs windows to find that the departing troops had left a number of messages. One came from piles of faeces on his tiled floors and in wastepaper baskets, and a plastic bottle filled with urine.

If that was not clear enough, the words "Fuck Hamas" had been carved into a concrete wall in the staircase. "Burn Gaza down" and "Good Arab = dead Arab" were engraved on a coffee table. The star of David was drawn in blue in a bedroom.

"I have scrubbed the floors three times today and three times yesterday," said Owedat, 52, as he surveyed the damage, which included four televisions, a fridge, a clock and several computers tossed out of windows, shredded curtains and slashed soft furnishings.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/palestinians-return-home-israeli-troops-faeces-graffiti?CMP=twt_gu

[Fred Sanders]

1. Check out photo number 9 at the post link, the writing left by IDF on a school blackboard.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5350637

[cheapdate]

2. It's a long story and the answers aren't very satisfying.

[Rapillion]

3. It's simple

Follow the money.

[PDJane]

4. The US has vowed to support Israel. The military gets massive support.

Israelis are fed hatred for the other; they tend to believe that the Palestinians are not entitled to their own land, for various reasons that make no sense to me.

That means that when they get a chance to take out their hatred, they do. They torture and jail children, they destroy homes, and they steal. Of course, they steal and destroy; it's the same kind of thing that American troops are fed. It makes them good soldiers, but bad citizens.

This is an outcropping of the fear that Israelis are fed from the cradle.

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[kelliekat44]

6. Tell me again why we don't read this stuff in our papers or hear it on our news outlets? nt