Anyone following my blog knows that I am pro-Israel in my world view.  I believe they are God’s instrument in the world and the rebirth of the nation only shows that God is up to something again.

However I do call a spade a a spade and I came across a story which revolted me in a big way.

Check out the above picture – it’s a t-shirt worn by some rogue Israeli soldiers at completion of their basic training.  It shows a pregnant woman with cross hairs and titled, “1 shot 2 kills.”

It’s not official and investigations have shown that they are manufactured in small numbers and spread across multiple divisions – perhaps up to a dozen t-shirts a time.  Other t-shirts have the following:

• Soldiers standing over a woman with the caption, “”Bet you got raped!”
• A gun pointing to a head with the caption, “Confirming the kill.”

This kind of rhetoric is usually reserved for the enemies of Israel and so I found this report disappointing and disgusting.  Hamas and Hezbollah are experts in glorifying the death of innocents and it seems as if some of this has now rubbed off on silly undisciplined elements of the Israeli forces.

An anti-Israeli world view will point their anti-Semitic fingers at Israel for the smallest of things.  My concern is that actions like these only add fuel to the fire.  It’s good to see that the official response from the IDF is one of disgust and condemnation.  I wonder what the response would have been if the other side had done this – probably more jumping and dancing on the streets.

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