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Walmart under fire for selling IDF children's costume
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Published: 27.10.15, 18:22
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1. Not the best
Shimon ,   Poleg   (10.27.15)
I personally don't get any joy when I see Jewish children dressed up as soldiers. I would never let my son dress up like this. He'll have 3 years to wear a uniform when he's 18 and then Milum. I still do Miluim and wear my uniform and it is not fun but part of life. The irony is that many of the Jewish children who dress up like this in Israel on Purim and in the US are often ultra-religious Haredi children who will never in reality ever have to wear this uniform and it is a play fantasy thing.
2. Fagin Sheikh comment
Shimon ,   Poleg   (10.27.15)
Genius comment! both anti-Jewish and anti-Arab racism together in one phrase. At least shows no bias and is equally offensive to all Israelis and Palestinians!
3. You folks need to lighten up, really ,...
split   (10.27.15)
4. Shimon @ 1 ,...
split   (10.27.15)
How about sending school children to field trips to show their 'moral' support for IDF and making them sign artillery shells that about to explode in Gaza and those picnicking crowds with children on the hills cheering every blast over Gaza? ,... This sort of crap doesn't bother your crowd but IDF uniform for halloween at Walmart's shelf that's a lack of sensitivity ,... Damn hypocrites ,...
5. To 4
Shimon ,   Poleg   (10.28.15)
My son and daughters have never been on such field trips and I am not familiar with this. With respect to Picnics overlooking Gaza I assume you are referring to the CNN report last summer which showed 7 ignorant people on plastic chairs near Sderot. War is a serious thing and I can assure you that people that cheer bomb blasts on the Israeli side have never fought or had combat experience. Anyone who has had battle experience would never cheer at a bomb blast or want his children to sign artillery shells. War unfortunately is a necessary fact of life here in the middle East. The vast majority of Israelis and Palestinians desire a peaceful settlement and want to get on with their lives.
6. Just to be fair..
Chuck ,   U.S.A   (10.28.15)
They should have a costume of a member of Hamas, that way all the palestinian kids can dress up like them and start killing people...oh wait thats reality.
7. #4 That was Lebanon, nebish
Benji ,   US   (10.27.15)
The little girls came out of a bomb shelter for air during the Lebanon War started by Hezbollah. They had to take cover from thousands of missiles fired at Israel while their fathers and brothers were fighting. They wrote to Nasrallah with Love on shells destined back to Lebanon. And there were no Israeli children picnicking near the Gaza border. They too were in shelters. But we don't expect you to get the facts straight.
8. #4 Walmart should also sell a costume of a Polish peasant
A ,   Belgium   (10.28.15)
with a pig in one hand and his son in the other, enjoying watching the trains going past to Auschwitz, while drawing his finger across his throat.
9. "We don't expect you to get the facts straight"
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (10.28.15)
if he ever did get one fact straight, I think I'd faint.
10. # 7 ,...
split   (10.28.15)
What's the difference idiot, Lebanon or Gaza? My point, look at yourself what you doing to your kids instead pointing a finger on Walmart or anyone. And please don't call it war, a regular army with the newest war toys provided by US on one side and practically defenceless sheepherders and civilians on the other side ,...
11. #10 Maybe you're right
Benji ,   US   (10.29.15)
No one would have blamed the kids in Sderot for doing the same thing after thousands of rockets were fired on them and they were forced into shelters. Nothing defenseless about the Palestinians. Sheepherders and civilians don't fire rockets at neighbors or operate multi-million dollar weapons industries to attack their neighbors.
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