BOMBARDIAMO
L'ESERCITO ISRAELIANO Chiamate lo 00972 025839749, vi
risponde l'esercito sionista...
Chiamate, chiamate, chiamate, bombardateli di chiamate anche
dall'Italia e ditegli in tutte le lingue di smettere di massacrare i
palestinesi a Gaza.
Non capita spesso di avere a tiro di voce i soldati israeliani
Nella speranza di reclutare collaboratori, l'esercito sionista ha fatto
piovere su Gaza questo volantino, con un indirizzo e-mail ed un numero
da chiamare per dare informazioni sui resistenti. Invitiamo tutti e
tutte a chiamare da una cabina e ad esprimere come la pensare, oppure a
prendere per i fondelli l'operatore, come ha fatto in maniera
esilarante il tizio la cui chiamata è trascritta qui sotto:
Israel collaborator recruiter punked
Transcript, The Electronic Intifada, 4 January 2009
The flyer sent to The Electronic Intifada.
In addition to bombs and missiles that have killed an ever increasing
number of Palestinian civilians, Israel has dropped millions of flyers
on the occupied, besieged Gaza Strip.
One such flyer, an image of which was sent to The Electronic Intifada,
seeks to recruit Palestinian collaborators. Signed by the "Israel
Defense Forces command," and addressed to the "the residents of the
Gaza Strip," the flyer states: "You hold the responsibility for your
own fate!" It invites Palestinians to call or email the Israeli army
"to inform us about the location of rocket launching sites and the
terrorist gangs that made you hostages of their actions." Because
collaboration with an occupier is universally viewed as one of the
worst forms of betrayal, the flyer warns "For your own safety, please
maintain secrecy when you call us."
EI decided to call the number provided. What follows is a translation
of the Arabic conversation between an EI editor and an Israeli officer
who identifed himself using the Arabic name "Abu Ibrahim."
Israel has used cash, but has sometimes attempted to blackmail
desperately sick Palestinians by witholding access to medical care
unless they collaborate. Israel may also hope that the humanitarian
catastrophe it has deliberately created in the Gaza Strip will make
Palestinians more vulnerable to this kind of exploitation.
EI: Hello
Israeli officer: Hello
EI: How are you?
Israeli officer: Praise be to God, who am I talking to?
EI: You are speaking to Ahmad.
Israeli officer: Welcome Ahmad.
EI: How are you, what is your name?
Israeli officer: I'm Abu Ibrahim, sir. Where are you from Ahmad?
EI: I'm from Gaza
Israeli officer: Where in Gaza, my brother?
EI: We'll talk about that in a minute, but I saw one of the flyers you
dropped on Gaza.
Israeli officer: Oh yes that's right ...
EI: I have some information for you on members of terrorist groups that
are in Gaza.
Israeli officer: Oh I hope so...
EI: We're on the same side against terrorism ... I have names for you
too, if that will help you at all.
Israeli officer: Of course that will be helpful.
EI: You don't know what the terrorists are doing here in Gaza and we
want to be saved from them ...
Israeli officer: Yes, I think everyone should do exactly what you're
doing because we're all fed up with them. All they do to us is bad
things.
EI: Exactly, the people in Gaza feels the same but the world can't hear
our voice.
Israeli officer: Oh they will hear sir. You know they've [people of
Gaza] started to phone us and ask for help, and ask us what they should
do, and we've helped a lot of them. They thanked us for that and we
want to help more people.
EI: But you know the terrorist groups are all over the Strip. I mean
there's no place in the Strip where there aren't terrorists. They're
all over the place.
Israeli officer: You just wait. We'll get to them, you'll see.
EI: But as you know, it's not easy for one to talk from Gaza, to give
you information, it's not an easy thing.
Israeli officer: Look, firstly it's not easy, second thing, we've got
other ways to reach you, very good ways not on this line and in the end
your assistance to us will end up helping you too. Every person who
doesn't have to be hurt in Gaza helps us and helps you. We benefit and
you benefit. We want to destroy this Hamas leadership who are hiding,
afraid for their lives. They are hiding and others are being killed
because of them. What are we fighting eachother for? Over nothing!
EI: Ok, let's talk ... let me give you some of the information and then
we'll talk some more. Do you have a pen?
Israeli officer: Yes. I have a pen and I'm writing.
EI I want to give you names of the biggest terrorist organizations, not
just in Gaza, but in all Palestine.
Israeli officer: Ok, let's see
EI: Ok, the first one ...
Israeli officer: You mean to tell me they're all from Hamas?
EI: All of them are people ... you'll see. The first one, his name is
Ehud Barak [Israeli minister of defense].
Israeli officer: Ehud Barak? By God there's no one like you ...
EI: Second, Gabi Ashkenazi [Israeli army chief of staff]
Israeli officer: Do you know him?
EI: Of course. The third one is...
Israeli officer: Wait a minute, one at a time ...
EI: No write it down, I don't have time. The third one is called Ehud
Olmert [Israeli prime minister].
Israeli officer: Look, just a minute ...
EI: You think that terrorists are only men? There are also women.
Terrorist organizations have women too. The fourth is Tzipi Livni
[Israeli foreign minister].
Israeli officer: First, I see that you're very clever and very
experienced and you should ...
EI: And then the fifth's name is Yuval Diskin [head of Israel's "Shin
Bet" death squads]. Write it down and record it my beloved. These are
the names of the biggest terrorist leaders in the whole of Palestine
and in the whole of the Middle East.
Israeli officer: You know what I think? I think you're not from the
Strip.
EI: Aaaah. You think I'm not from the strip? But you take information
on terrorists from any place right?
Israeli officer: Now you're not benefiting at all. You're not helping
yourself and you're not helping anyone else. If you were really from
the Strip ...
EI: Didn't I just tell you that there were a number of terrorists in
the strip? Record it. There's a group of terrorists. They're the
biggest terrorists in the world. They call themselves the "Israeli
Defense Force" but they're not defending anyone. They're a terrorist
gang.
Israeli officer: You know ...
EI: A terrorist, sectarian, racist gang.
Israeli officer: I just want to say a few words to you ...
EI: OK, talk, but I can't hear you very clearly because of the noise of
the terrorists bombs and rockets ...
Israeli officer: Ah, terrorist bombs and rockets? I understand what
you're getting at ...
EI: Let me ask you something, dear Abu Ibrahim ...
Israeli officer: Is there anything else, or is it just you who wants to
talk?
EI: OK go ahead ...
Israeli officer: Oh it's my turn? Oh thanks there's no one like you.
Look sir, even if you weren't from the Strip, the thing is you're still
an Arab.
EI: Are you an Arab Abu Ibrahim?
Israeli officer: Me? No I'm not an Arab. I'm a Jew but I was born here.
EI: So what's your name?
Israeli officer: I'm Abu Ibrahim.
EI: So you don't want to give me your name?
Israeli officer: And you, you too don't want to ...
EI: As far as the Israelis are concerned all Arabs are called Ahmad or
Muhammad so what's the difference?
Israeli officer: So you want to know my full name, if I asked you your
full name ... let me say a few words to you. Look, I'm a Jew and I'm
from the Israeli Defense Forces. But unlike you, my great, great, great
grandfathers were all born here, going back thousands of years. We
never left the country. You Palestinians have never been a nation. The
Palestinians settled here recently, only a short time ago. What's that
got to do with me?
EI: Ok, the person who wants to help the people of Gaza talks like that
about the Palestinians? You deny their existence?
Israeli officer: Look, I'll tell you ...
EI: You really want to help the Palestinians and this is what you say?
Israeli officer: Of course ... I am also helping the Arabs who live
with us to get into Israel, you also ... Don't mind me saying, but I'm
sure now, from your accent, that you are not from the Strip. You're not
from Gaza. But that's OK. I'm prepared to talk to you.
EI: You know why I'm happy to talk to you? Because every minute I waste
your time, you ... I like to waste your time because you're a member of
the terrorist IDF.
Israeli officer: That's OK. You're not wasting my time. I'm happy to
talk to people like you. Why? Because you're in the wrong but you don't
know you're in the wrong. So if I talk to you it's possible you'll
start to understand your mistake.
EI: I don't want to waste any more of your time. Let me say something
to you.
Israeli officer: By God you're a person I enjoy talking to.
EI: OK, your army that was defeated in Lebanon is also going to lose in
Gaza.
Israeli officer: That's possible. If that's what you know, maybe you
know what you're talking about.
EI: OK, farewell my beloved Abu Ibrahim.
Israeli officer: Maybe we'll see each other under better circumstances.
EI: Yes, I hope it will be at the International Court in The Hague.
Israeli officer: That's alright.
EI: Yes, go and find some collaborators somewhere else. You won't find
any here.
Israeli officer: And in this you're also mistaken but that's OK ...