Can you pick out the blogger in this crowd?

There’s a somewhat prolific blogger amongst the Israeli soldiers dispatched to make sure Bil’in villagers lose their land at gunpoint.

Since first witnesseing the situation in that village, I’ve wondered what goes through the heads of the soldiers that get sent there. Do they think about what they see? Do they wonder about what they’re being ordered to do? Or, are they actually mindless automatons unable to see the humanity in the folks they’re charged with the task of brutalizing?

Turns out, in this case, it’s the latter.

It’s long been my theory that as soon as someone thinks something should exist, the internet magically creates it. I wanted to know what one of these sodliers thought. The wish has come true in php format. Granted, I wasn’t thinking many of them in the Bil’in regiment were harboring thoughts of going Refusenik all of a sudden. Some of them don’t exactly seem to enjoy their lot (though, others look as though they do), but I did want to know what they thought about all they saw and did.

As it turns, while my blogspot outpost offers the occasional nugget of insight from the human rights camp that regularly assists people in Bil’in against being wiped out in the name of “Greater Israel,” there’s a soldier just across the razor wire blogging about his own experiences in Bil’in, albeit from a more thuggish/racist standpoint. For an idea of what one of these guys is thinking, check out the blog, Only in Israel (an odd name since he seems to be working only in Palestine). I found this guy’s regular updates facsinating. Referring to the natural mob mentality of inherent to Arab people, looking at fellow Israelis who oppose the occupation as “speed bumps,” this guy is a good mouthpiece for the easily duped.

He hasn’t updated in a couple of weeks. I wonder if he was in Bil’in on Monday, and what his thoughts are about bullying around the group of teenaged Palestinian girls getting shoved and cornered by soldiers. Such displays of bravery are truly astounding. Would be interesting, if he was there, if he’d post something about it.

He occasionally makes the witty aside or weepy apology about a bit of settler violence (counted one apoogy so far out of thousands of possibilities), but it’s obvious that any support of Palestinian people, human rights or international law is synomous with “hate crime” to this guy.

Anyhow, here’s to looking forward to the next trip to Bel’in. Hope to see my fellow blogger there and let him know that on this side of the Green Line, he’s Only in Palestine.

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