It’s come full circle I’m afraid to say: Nazis trained dogs to hate and harrass Jews and now the IDF is returning the favor. Israeli TV reports that the IDF conducted a military ceremony at which it displayed the talents of its trained attack dogs–one of which was to attack upon hearing the Arabic: Allahu Akbar. Here’s the Haaretz story (English/Hebrew):
Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi on Monday told the Knesset plenum that at a canine unit ceremony held the day before, parents of the soldiers witnessed demonstrations proving these allegations.
“IDF dogs are trained to pounce and attack any Arab who shouts Allah Hu Akbar, as a Pavlovian reaction,” said Tibi. “So here I say: Allah Hu Akbar. Are there any dogs here to attack me?”
Speculations of such practice were exposed first by Israel Radio’s military correspondent, Carmela Menashe.
Let no one say that Israeli Palestinian MKs don’t have a ferocious satiric sense. I loved the double dare shout out to all the rabid rightist MKs who might have taken a run at him for introducing a Muslim chant in the Knesset (“Are there any dogs here to attack me?”).
Israel has a much vaunted armaments export industry which earns the country billions in foreign currency. Now they can add this innovative new product to their offerings. It won’t go over well in Muslim countries. But it should do quite nicely for countries like Denmark, Britain, Switzerland, France and Germany which have periodic bouts of unpleasantness fomented by their uppity Muslim residents. This should keep them in line and earn much needed export income for the Jewish state.
For those who question the story, it was witnessed by the Israeli parents of IDF recruits who attended.
So not only do we have Israeli racial profiling at airports in which dark-skinned, Arab or Pali-symp passengers are singled out for special harassment, now we have dogs trained to attack on hearing a Muslim praise his God. I say, with great shame, that what’s good for the goose should be good for the gander. I fully anticipate that Muslims will train their own dogs to attack on hearing Hebrew prayers like the Shma. And if you are a Jew who takes offense at this, think who brought it on. It wasn’t me. It was the racist dog-training ghouls in the IDF who thought this little kuntz up.
Through a possible editing error the original Hebrew version says the IDF has NOT denied the report, while the translated English version says the IDF has denied it. Since the Hebrew is the original my money is on the latter being correct. Which may be verified by the following non-sequitur non-denial issued by the IDF:
“One of the canine unit’s many capabilities is to train the dogs at locating the enemy when dressed both in uniform and as civilian. This is an ability that has proven itself in many cases.”
Unfortunately, dogs cannot distinguish between training that is racist and training that is not. Apparently, the IDF can’t either. Remember the impact that the Abu Graibh photos ad on the U.S. image in the Muslim world? It single-handedly upped Al Qaeda recruitment by hundreds of percent. What impact do you think this story will have on recruitment for anti-Israel acts of violence?
There is nothing racist about the undeniable fact that terrorists whimper Allah Akhbar immedieately before their cowardly attacks. The same can not be said for Hebrew prayers.
Apparently, the Israeli’s have proven they fully understand an actual cause and are once more directly answering it with effective/immediate response measures…While bleeding heart, anonymous clowns whine politically correct suicidal sniveling.
We can’t fix your stupidity but, we will ignore your cowardice rantings, child.
And you know this how? Through personal experience??
Not so fast, the Israelis aren’t doing so well I’m afraid. After every war the enemy comes back as strong or stronger than before & there are less people (aside fr. yr right wing buddies) supporting her than before. It’s not working out so well.
“The same can not be said for Hebrew prayers.” Really? What are all those IDF rabbi’s doing with the soldiers before the army attacks?
Step 1. Look at avatar.
Step 2. Skip to next post and ignore all posts with said avatar. Forget the handle.
Absolutely reprehensible. I’m utterly disgusted.
“What impact do you think this story will have on recruitment for anti-Israel acts of violence?”
Well, that’s of course all YOUR fault. If you librul geeks with your “reporting” and “truth” obsessions wouldn’t blurt out things like this, we could keep all of our drastic, but entirely justified methods nicely under the rug. 😉
What is really depressing is the overwhelming number of approving and Arab and Muslim hating comments at the Haaretz site.
Winghunter, you clearly know nothing about terrorist motives. If anything you’d know they pronounce there obedience to god and the prophet before killing themselves. You’ve proved you know nothing of substance about the arabic language or Islamic holy messages.
Why are you even on this site you trash?
There are no Muslims killing themselves in Palestine, the IDF is doing all the work for them.
I can’t tell what the motivation of this commenter was…irony? But pls. avoid insulting terms or yr comments may be moderated.
I don’t know if everyone has the same advertisements showing up on the web-page, but I found the Pongo T-shirt advertisement that I see quite amusing in an ironic sense (seeing the subject of your article). It starts with:
THE ISRAEL ARMY IS THE BEST ARMY IN THE WORLD !!!
And then you can order T-shirts of the Oketz Unit “Oketz Unit in Hebrew is printed in the bottom of the print. Oketz is the Special Canine Unit.”
Also:
The Givati brigade: “The unit has played a key role in combating Palestinian terrorists in recent years, particularly in the Gaza Strip.”
Sniper T-shirt: “The T-shirt have a big logo on the back that says “You can run but you’ll only die tired” in English and in Hebrew, and small Israeli army sniper logo on the front.” (It looks like that famous picture from the Spanish civil war!)
Duchifat Battalion: “Duchifat Battalion has been operating as a mechanized infantry battalion under the Armor Brigade, which carries out high-quality security operations in the area of JUDEA and SAMARIA” etc.
I wonder whether they’ll create a new K-9 unit T-shirt given this new story showing a dog attacking a Palestinian at prayer.
That picture of the sniper unit is really incredible though: I swear it’s that Capa picture of a member of the Republican forces being shot by the forces of Franco. Whether set in scene or not (there apparently is debate about this); this is what this iconic picture stands for.
I suppose they are just really ignorant, as I can’t image them really indentifying themselves with the Franco side…
I have never seen so many vicious, blackhearted people in my life Wow, this one really brought out the sick trolls, Richard. “Winghunter,” go back under your slime-covered rock.
I have never known anyone whimper “Allahu Akhbar,” since is it not a pronouncement to be “whimpered,” but is an acknowledgement of the greatness of God, spoken in Arabic. Shall we ridicule words and phrases spoken in Hebrew? Do we engage in such childishness unless we are so bankrupt of any other argument that it is all we can say?
With people like you living there, I am becoming more and more confident that the “State of Israel” is on a downhill slide to failure as a state and a society. I feel absolutely sorry for you, that racist, hate-filled scum like you, Wingnut, are the descendants of the Jews who endured and prevailed over one of the worst genocides in history. How dare you show yourself to the world, you reveal yourself to be nothing but contemptible rubbish in the guise of a human being. I certainly hope Richard bans you, and lowlifes like you, from this blog. You are a disgrace.
It is very insensitive to compare hunted Jewish minority with a Muslim majority: one of them wielded a knife at my chest after I bought oranges and left a store in Abu Tor (jerusalem)
The more you cater your appeasementto Arabs the longer the conflict will continue
So sad…
This is the weakest attempt at pro-Israeli damage control I’ve seen in a long time. I’m guessing Hasbara haven’t issued a generic response for their minions to use for this type of I/P story…
Give me just a small break. For hasbara, this a new low. Is this the best you can do?
The conflict is not going to go on because Israel has lost all legitimacy, and everyone knows it.
Copying the Nazi use of racist dogs is only one more nail in a coffin that was long ago sealed absolutely tightly.
I suspect the author of the offending comment WAS banned.
If so, that’s too bad really. People like Winghunter are necessary to convince normal human beings of the racism and psychosis inherent in the pro-Israel viewpoint.
Winghunter has not been banned.
“What impact do you think this story will have on recruitment for anti-Israel acts of violence?”
Hopefully, the response will be enormous.
I hope not, but I wouldn’t be surprised, richard.
Winghunter (aka Wingnutter) was not anyone to learn from. If you’re looking for Israeli psychosis, look no further than Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman, not to mention a whole boatload of them in the past 62 years.
You’re despicable.
My bad. I thought he was being facetious.