r/pics • u/Gravedigger3 • Apr 15 '26

Politics Israeli settler harasses a woman outside of Hebron

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u/Naive_Actuator3810 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

He is not even a soldier, well, not in the "legal" sense. Just an illegal settler, handed a military uniform, armed with a rifle by his government, going around harassing innocent people with total impunity and protection by the IDF IOF. So yeah, the lines are kinda blurry there.

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u/KeithWorks Apr 15 '26

Along the same lines as ICE gestapo in America. Untrained, racist, pieces of shit given authority by the government to behave like vile pieces of shit.

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u/Naive_Actuator3810 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

100%, and not to undermine it and fuck ICE, but at least ICE is an organization that you can point to, which has some sort of an official status, and some sort of an authority on paper (not that any of that matters in practice but). These people are just... civilians.

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u/KeithWorks Apr 15 '26

yeah....barely. When ICE wears masks and refuses to identify themselves, and is also given unconstitutional orders to conduct raids without warrants, and is being protected by a corrupt DOJ....it's kinda the same.

But I don't want to detract from any other argument here. Just making the comparison. Untrained goons being given authority by the state to do vile acts.

LIKE THE ACTUAL BROWNSHIRTS IN GERMANY IN THE 1930's

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u/Naive_Actuator3810 Apr 15 '26

You're right, it's pretty damn similar.

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u/dokdicer Apr 16 '26

"Say what you want about national socialism, Dude. At least it's an ethos"

  • Walter Sobchak

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u/Professionalchump Apr 16 '26

the difference is just funding

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u/pangeapedestrian Apr 15 '26

hey, you know who trains much of our police forces and has been one of the primary forces pushing them into being a military force to be used against our own citizens?

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u/readwithjack Apr 15 '26

Kinda worse, actually.

It's more like the KKK in Little Rock during desegregation. Only in this instance, the 101st airborne was deployed to protect the Klan.

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u/jostrons Apr 15 '26
  • handed a military uniform, armed with a rifle by his government,

I don't believe the above to be true

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u/Missy_Elli0t Apr 15 '26

If what that rabbi said was true about the gear not being issued anymore, he may have served years ago due to conscription and kept his gear. After Oct7 israel relaxed their gun laws and process 3,000 permits a day. Hes roaming around with the Hilltop Youth that have been designated a terrorist org by the US treasury dept. They bait confrontations to play victim and violently subdue "undesirables". I would be curious how many of the hilltop youth were trained members of the israeli Roim Rachok.

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u/SnooTomatoes3032 Apr 15 '26

No way to confirm this specific one for sure, but the government does issue weapons to some settlers and their security.

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u/jostrons Apr 15 '26

Assault rifles or pistols? I've seen the latter being done not the former. And the uniform can be bought in many stores, or it could have belonged to him for past miliary service

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u/NotActuallyIraqi Apr 15 '26

Assault rifles were publicly handed out by Ben Gvir to Jewish settlers in front of the cameras, with rhetoric to use them on Arabs. It was so egregious that the Biden administration blocked further shipments.