War on Gaza: Douchebags Show Their True Colours

Just when we thought that the Arab Spring would be blowing change through the region, the wonderful people known as Israelis remind us that the self-same attitudes which they displayed in Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza during the winter of 2008 can be brought back to vogue. Not long after thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv demanding that their government provide them with cheaper housing (known as the J14 Movement; notice that the rights of Palestinian Israelis, whose lands have systematically been appropriated by the state, are never addressed), Israel retaliated against a shooting attack by bombing civilians in Gaza--although there is absolutely no evidence that anybody in Gaza shot anybody in Eilat.

Now, a feisty young Israeli has associated these two phenomena: he is using his presence on facebook to demand that Gaza be "flattened" to make way for cheap housing for immigrants from the Ukraine, Poland and Moldova (eg, Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Leibermann). Thank you, Shlomi Cohen, for proving to us that the ugliness that is Zionist thuggery has survived the Arab Spring.