What's more provocative?
A- Jewish settlers attacking Palestinian farmers and preventing them from harvesting fruits on their own land, an act which serves no purpose other than making the settlers feel big and the Palestinians feel humiliated, and which makes the Jews look bad in the process; or
B- Left-wing (presumably) Israeli activists peacefully escorting said farmers to their fields and acting as human shields to protect them from the afore-mentioned
Well, the IDF says B, and as we all know, the army is always right.
The Israel Defense Forces is demanding that Palestinian farmers not allow Israeli and foreign sympathizers to escort them during the olive harvest to places where military protection is needed against abusive settlers, Palestinian sources in the Nablus region told Haaretz. An Israeli security source confirmed the report, saying that IDF officers have been influenced by statements of settlers, who say they are enraged during the harvest by the presence of Israeli leftists who act as provocateurs. A 2005 memo to soldiers from the Civil Administration regarding the olive-picking season states: "Involvement of various entities, Israeli and foreign, is expected, as an 'aid' to the Palestinians in the harvest and as a motive for creating provocations."
In what ways are the lefties provocateurs? The only theory I can come up with for that interpretation is if you start with the assumption that the settlers have the God-given right to smash Palestinian trees and the occaisonal skull. Now, I don't happen to know what verse that's from, but if the good salt-of-the-dune folks over in Itamar say God gave them the ok, I guess I'll have to take their word for it. It's funny, though, God seems to have said the same thing to a bunch of other folks, too (Inquisition, Cossacks, KKK).
Oh, God, you umpteen-timing whore. And here we thought you only whispered sweet nothings into our collective ear. Where's a daytime talk show host when you need them?
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