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Following Orders
By Batya / August 7, 2007
For decades, popular wisdom insists that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only the German soldiers had refused to follow orders. Of course, that naively takes for granted that your ordinary German had some moral objections to persecuting, dragging to ghettos and murdering Jews.
Two summers ago, in Israel, many soldiers were terribly upset by their orders to evict, exile innocent law-abiding Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and Northern Shomron.
Thirty-eight years earlier the world saw Israeli soldiers cry uncontrollably after liberating the kotel, the Western Wall. What a difference when we saw soldiers crying, in 2005, as they didn't have the guts to go with their morals and feelings. We saw soldiers breaking down, because they knew that they were obeying evil laws made by immoral politicians. The Nazi soldiers didn't cry when they murdered Jews.
Many of the soldiers of Disengagement, two years ago suffered the worst of Post Traumatic Stress, and that's why yesterday IDF soldiers from an elite fighting unit refused to evict innocent, patriotic Jews from homes in Hebron.
Today's soldiers are stronger than their elder brothers. Yasher kocham!
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God, that would be outrageous. These houses are nice, but also utilitarian and made for large families. When Batya gets pulled, a couple of seventy-somethings from Jaffa and their three sons and five daughters-in-law and fifteen grandkids should be moving in. I guess if you enjoy having the refugee camps around, though, you'd rather just use the place for target practice. The only words for those who would destroy all this infrastructure is, in the words of the inimitable Mandy Vutshkes, Gai kaken oifen yam.
Dont worry, crack troops led by Olmerts two draft dodging sons and the mighty soldiers of Yesh Gvul will smash the refuseniks. Only the leftist elite can refuse service and have all expense paid vacations in Paris and NYC. Rightist scum have to sit in the back of the bus
Good thought Joey, except the palestinians will probably use the houses for target practice instead as they have done in Hamasastan (I mean Gaza).
I have a wonderful cousin, a kind and thoughtful person who believes that Hashem wants him and his family to help redeem Judea and Samaria for the Jewish people. When I visited him at his charming, government-subsidized home near Qiryat Sefer, I just kept thinking, Damn, after cuz gets yanked out of here, I hope that Palestinian jackasses don't blow the place up, it'd make a great home for a big-ass family of resettled refugees.
Same for your home in Shiloh. It's actually not so bad that the government subsidized all those extra bedrooms. You might not be using them, but the future residents sure will. So keep 'em clean, please.
Shame on you for supporting and fomenting dissent within the IDF. Shame on you for the asinine comparison with Nazis. Shame on you for that awful hat.
Keep your orange shirt and mouthful of spit handy: Shiloh is not that far down on the list.
Anon, key word: “when the Nazis BECAME” -although that’s still disputable, the least you can agree to is that Germany didn’t remain a democracy for long.
Germany was a democracy when the Nazis became the leading political party. I think a better objection to the comparison is that the German government’s official policy and practice was to kill jews in death camps. As far as I know, the Israeli government has not enacted laws to put palestians in gas chambers and kill them.
So is the implication really, REALLY that there are parallels between the Israeli government and Nazi Germany? I mean…really? Agree or disagree with disengagement all that you want, but how about rational, logical arguments rather than emotion-driven polemics. Perhaps, just perhaps, many of the soldiers were crying and breaking down doing something that they did believe was right; certainly difficult fundamentally but still absolutely correct.
The comparison between Nazis and Israeli politicians is ludicrous and quite frankly offending. “evil laws made by immoral politicians”? Please! Even if you think the laws were wrong, you should at least be able to see the difference with Nazi Germany, which was not a democracy, something that for all the corruption of its elites and mismanagement of public affairs, Israel still is.
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