Palestinian Teenager Released From Prison After Slapping Israeli Soldiers
29th July 2018
This illustrates the ‘psychological judo’ for which Gandhi was so famous — for this sort of thing to work, one has to be working with people who, by and large, exercise moral restraint.
As a German friend of mine once pointed out as we were walking out of the movie Gandhi, if India had been colonized by Germans rather than the British, the first time Gandhi had engaged in ‘civil disobedience’ some subaltern would have shot him in the head and left his body for the dogs, and his superiors might have mildly remonstrated with him.
Similarly, this chick is fortunate that Israel is culturally a Western nation and adheres to Western norms of behavior. If Palestine were being run by Arabs and a Jewish girl slapped some Palestinian soldiers, she would have been shot and probably raped first. And nobody official would have blinked an eye. (Just look at the reactions of Arab nations to brutality by their police, or the reactions of Fatah officials to actual terrorist atrocities if you doubt it.)
Eventually this chick is going to pick the wrong soldier to slap, and she’s going to wind up dead. Sure, there will be a lot of propaganda hand-wringing and pearl-clutching on the part of the international press, but she’ll still be as dead as Rachel Corrie. Kids these days are accustomed to the indulgence in their anti-social behavior that they receive in culturally advanced (if that’s the right term) nations; even kids in marginal places like ‘Palestine’ get the wrong idea from what they see on the tube and think that they’re invulnerable because of age or sex. Sooner or later they pull that shit on the wrong people and it ends very badly.