Shameful shaking
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IDF butts to the rescue
B. Michael wants troops to expose their butts instead of performing more shameful acts
The army is in tumult. Some soldiers took off their pants and shook their rear ends in the face of their occupied subjects. What a humiliation. What a shame. Who would have thought that our children, our best sons, the cream of the crop, were capable of such abominable acts?
For many years we have not seen commanders so angry at their subordinates. The investigation was completed with uncharacteristic speed, and the owners of the butts in question were identified, tried, and sent to 21 days in military prison. In jail. In the slammer.
Several weeks ago, a police officer was convicted of gravely wounding a civilian. He shot him. Just like that. Both the court and the Police Investigation Unit decisively ruled that the police officer had no reason to shoot the civilian and cripple him for the rest of his life. The court convicted the policeman and handed down a six-month suspended sentence. From court, the police officer went straight home like a free bird. Not to jail.
Had this policeman really been cruel to his victim and exposed his butt to him (instead of just shooting him,) there is no doubt that he would be going straight to jail. For 21 days at least. Yet this merciful cop did not unleash his butt at the victim. He merely shot him. Therefore, there was certainly room to go easy on him.
(The man shot by the policeman happened to be Arab, by the way, but I have no doubt in my mind that this fact had no effect on the sentence.)
This will not be the first time I find myself at the margins of the camp, but for some reason I am not fully shocked by the exposure of IDF buttocks. When examining the plethora of IDF actions in the West Bank, it appears to me that this rectal gesture is among the lesser incidents. I feel it is so minor that it would be a good idea to actually encourage this lovely gesture and issue orders to that effect. I think it should become an official and legal IDF substitute for a long and embarrassing list of other military deeds.
Naked raids, nude bombers
Butts instead of shots. Rear ends instead of blows. Rectums instead of a bat. Behinds instead of a gunship, humiliation, and ruin. What’s wrong with that?In my pinkish dream, I am already listening to a morning news report informing us that an elite unit raided the Kalandiya refugee camp late at night. The fighters reached the center of the camp, took off their pants, and shook their butts in all directions. All our troops returned to their bases fully dressed. What’s wrong with that?
I was still dreaming when an excited military correspondent reported that a Palestinian shepherd told him that a team of the elite “Rectum Reconnaissance Unit” did not fire at him, even though he was holding a stick, but rather, launched a pale and shiny buttock in his direction. What’s wrong with that?
When I also saw in my dream cells belonging to Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and Hizbullah pulling open their jackets in public, and instead of explosive belts there was nothing there aside from naked flesh – I knew that I’m truly dreaming about the days of the Messiah.
Yet now that the dream is over, we must say something serious too: If there is something which I find outrageous about this entire buttocks story, it’s not the act itself, but rather, the commotion that followed it. I am not annoyed by the soldiers who did the deed, but rather, by the grave faces of their commanders and the shocked facial expressions of self-righteous critics.
Because the various types of occupation workers – the army, Shin Bet, and police – engage in acts that are much more shameful, disgraceful, and painful on a daily basis. Yet somehow the critics don’t see all that. They know very well how to look the other way. The only thing they see is an exposed butt. And that’s bad, and shameful.
