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A T-shirt printed at the request of an IDF soldier in the sniper unit reading 'I shot two kills.'
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Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF fashion 2009
By Uri Blau
Tags: Israel News, IDF, Gaza

The office at the Adiv fabric-printing shop in south Tel Aviv handles a constant stream of customers, many of them soldiers in uniform, who come to order custom clothing featuring their unit's insignia, usually accompanied by a slogan and drawing of their choosing. Elsewhere on the premises, the sketches are turned into plates used for imprinting the ordered items, mainly T-shirts and baseball caps, but also hoodies, fleece jackets and pants. A young Arab man from Jaffa supervises the workers who imprint the words and pictures, and afterward hands over the finished product.

Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills." A "graduation" shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby, who grows into a combative boy and then an armed adult, with the inscription, "No matter how it begins, we'll put an end to it."

There are also plenty of shirts with blatant sexual messages. For example, the Lavi battalion produced a shirt featuring a drawing of a soldier next to a young woman with bruises, and the slogan, "Bet you got raped!" A few of the images underscore actions whose existence the army officially denies - such as "confirming the kill" (shooting a bullet into an enemy victim's head from close range, to ensure he is dead), or harming religious sites, or female or child non-combatants.
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In many cases, the content is submitted for approval to one of the unit's commanders. The latter, however, do not always have control over what gets printed, because the artwork is a private initiative of soldiers that they never hear about. Drawings or slogans previously banned in certain units have been approved for distribution elsewhere. For example, shirts declaring, "We won't chill 'til we confirm the kill" were banned in the past (the IDF claims that the practice doesn't exist), yet the Haruv battalion printed some last year.

The slogan "Let every Arab mother know that her son's fate is in my hands!" had previously been banned for use on another infantry unit's shirt. A Givati soldier said this week, however, that at the end of last year, his platoon printed up dozens of shirts, fleece jackets and pants bearing this slogan.

"It has a drawing depicting a soldier as the Angel of Death, next to a gun and an Arab town," he explains. "The text was very powerful. The funniest part was that when our soldier came to get the shirts, the man who printed them was an Arab, and the soldier felt so bad that he told the girl at the counter to bring them to him."

Does the design go to the commanders for approval?

The Givati soldier: "Usually the shirts undergo a selection process by some officer, but in this case, they were approved at the level of platoon sergeant. We ordered shirts for 30 soldiers and they were really into it, and everyone wanted several items and paid NIS 200 on average."

What do you think of the slogan that was printed?

"I didn't like it so much, but most of the soldiers wanted it."

Many controversial shirts have been ordered by graduates of snipers courses, which bring together soldiers from various units. In 2006, soldiers from the "Carmon Team" course for elite-unit marksmen printed a shirt with a drawing of a knife-wielding Palestinian in the crosshairs of a gun sight, and the slogan, "You've got to run fast, run fast, run fast, before it's all over." Below is a drawing of Arab women weeping over a grave and the words: "And afterward they cry, and afterward they cry." [The inscriptions are riffs on a popular song.] Another sniper's shirt also features an Arab man in the crosshairs, and the announcement, "Everything is with the best of intentions."

G., a soldier in an elite unit who has done a snipers course, explained that, "it's a type of bonding process, and also it's well known that anyone who is a sniper is messed up in the head. Our shirts have a lot of double entendres, for example: 'Bad people with good aims.' Every group that finishes a course puts out stuff like that."

When are these shirts worn?

G. "These are shirts for around the house, for jogging, in the army. Not for going out. Sometimes people will ask you what it's about."

Of the shirt depicting a bull's-eye on a pregnant woman, he said: "There are people who think it's not right, and I think so as well, but it doesn't really mean anything. I mean it's not like someone is gonna go and shoot a pregnant woman."

What is the idea behind the shirt from July 2007, which has an image of a child with the slogan "Smaller - harder!"?

"It's a kid, so you've got a little more of a problem, morally, and also the target is smaller."

Do your superiors approve the shirts before printing?

"Yes, although one time they rejected some shirt that was too extreme. I don't remember what was on it."

These shirts also seem pretty extreme. Why draw crosshairs over a child - do you shoot kids?

'We came, we saw'

"As a sniper, you get a lot of extreme situations. You suddenly see a small boy who picks up a weapon and it's up to you to decide whether to shoot. These shirts are half-facetious, bordering on the truth, and they reflect the extreme situations you might encounter. The one who-honest-to-God sees the target with his own eyes - that's the sniper."

Have you encountered a situation like that?

"Fortunately, not involving a kid, but involving a woman - yes. There was someone who wasn't holding a weapon, but she was near a prohibited area and could have posed a threat."

What did you do?

"I didn't take it" (i.e., shoot).

You don't regret that, I imagine.

"No. Whomever I had to shoot, I shot."

A shirt printed up just this week for soldiers of the Lavi battalion, who spent three years in the West Bank, reads: "We came, we saw, we destroyed!" - alongside images of weapons, an angry soldier and a Palestinian village with a ruined mosque in the center.

A shirt printed after Operation Cast Lead in Gaza for Battalion 890 of the Paratroops depicts a King Kong-like soldier in a city under attack. The slogan is unambiguous: "If you believe it can be fixed, then believe it can be destroyed!"

Y., a soldier/yeshiva student, designed the shirt. "You take whoever [in the unit] knows how to draw and then you give it to the commanders before printing," he explained.

What is the soldier holding in his hand?

Y. "A mosque. Before I drew the shirt I had some misgivings, because I wanted it to be like King Kong, but not too monstrous. The one holding the mosque - I wanted him to have a more normal-looking face, so it wouldn't look like an anti-Semitic cartoon. Some of the people who saw it told me, 'Is that what you've got to show for the IDF? That it destroys homes?' I can understand people who look at this from outside and see it that way, but I was in Gaza and they kept emphasizing that the object of the operation was to wreak destruction on the infrastructure, so that the price the Palestinians and the leadership pay will make them realize that it isn't worth it for them to go on shooting. So that's the idea of 'we're coming to destroy' in the drawing."

According to Y., most of these shirts are worn strictly in an army context, not in civilian life. "And within the army people look at it differently," he added. "I don't think I would walk down the street in this shirt, because it would draw fire. Even at my yeshiva I don't think people would like it."

Y. also came up with a design for the shirt his unit printed at the end of basic training. It shows a clenched fist shattering the symbol of the Paratroops Corps.

Where does the fist come from?

"It's reminiscent of [Rabbi Meir] Kahane's symbol. I borrowed it from an emblem for something in Russia, but basically it's supposed to look like Kahane's symbol, the one from 'Kahane Was Right' - it's a sort of joke. Our company commander is kind of gung-ho."

Was the shirt printed?

"Yes. It was a company shirt. We printed about 100 like that."

This past January, the "Night Predators" demolitions platoon from Golani's Battalion 13 ordered a T-shirt showing a Golani devil detonating a charge that destroys a mosque. An inscription above it says, "Only God forgives."

One of the soldiers in the platoon downplays it: "It doesn't mean much, it's just a T-shirt from our platoon. It's not a big deal. A friend of mine drew a picture and we made it into a shirt."

What's the idea behind "Only God forgives"?

The soldier: "It's just a saying."

No one had a problem with the fact that a mosque gets blown up in the picture?

"I don't see what you're getting at. I don't like the way you're going with this. Don't take this somewhere you're not supposed to, as though we hate Arabs."

After Operation Cast Lead, soldiers from that battalion printed a T-shirt depicting a vulture sexually penetrating Hamas' prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, accompanied by a particularly graphic slogan. S., a soldier in the platoon that ordered the shirt, said the idea came from a similar shirt, printed after the Second Lebanon War, that featured Hassan Nasrallah instead of Haniyeh.

"They don't okay things like that at the company level. It's a shirt we put out just for the platoon," S. explained.

What's the problem with this shirt?

S.: "It bothers some people to see these things, from a religious standpoint ..."

How did people who saw it respond?

"We don't have that many Orthodox people in the platoon, so it wasn't a problem. It's just something the guys want to put out. It's more for wearing around the house, and not within the companies, because it bothers people. The Orthodox mainly. The officers tell us it's best not to wear shirts like this on the base."

The sketches printed in recent years at the Adiv factory, one of the largest of its kind in the country, are arranged in drawers according to the names of the units placing the orders: Paratroops, Golani, air force, sharpshooters and so on. Each drawer contains hundreds of drawings, filed by year. Many of the prints are cartoons and slogans relating to life in the unit, or inside jokes that outsiders wouldn't get (and might not care to, either), but a handful reflect particular aggressiveness, violence and vulgarity.

Print-shop manager Haim Yisrael, who has worked there since the early 1980s, said Adiv prints around 1,000 different patterns each month, with soldiers accounting for about half. Yisrael recalled that when he started out, there were hardly any orders from the army.

"The first ones to do it were from the Nahal brigade," he said. "Later on other infantry units started printing up shirts, and nowadays any course with 15 participants prints up shirts."

From time to time, officers complain. "Sometimes the soldiers do things that are inside jokes that only they get, and sometimes they do something foolish that they take to an extreme," Yisrael explained. "There have been a few times when commanding officers called and said, 'How can you print things like that for soldiers?' For example, with shirts that trashed the Arabs too much. I told them it's a private company, and I'm not interested in the content. I can print whatever I like. We're neutral. There have always been some more extreme and some less so. It's just that now more people are making shirts."

Race to be unique

Evyatar Ben-Tzedef, a research associate at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism and former editor of the IDF publication Maarachot, said the phenomenon of custom-made T-shirts is a product of "the infantry's insane race to be unique. I, for example, had only one shirt that I received after the Yom Kippur War. It said on it, 'The School for Officers,' and that was it. What happened since then is a product of the decision to assign every unit an emblem and a beret. After all, there used to be very few berets: black, red or green. This changed in the 1990s. [The shirts] developed because of the fact that for bonding purposes, each unit created something that was unique to it.

"These days the content on shirts is sometimes deplorable," Ben-Tzedef explained. "It stems from the fact that profanity is very acceptable and normative in Israel, and that there is a lack of respect for human beings and their environment, which includes racism aimed in every direction."

Yossi Kaufman, who moderates the army and defense forum on the Web site Fresh, served in the Armored Corps from 1996 to 1999. "I also drew shirts, and I remember the first one," he said. "It had a small emblem on the front and some inside joke, like, 'When we die, we'll go to heaven, because we've already been through hell.'"

Kaufman has also been exposed to T-shirts of the sort described here. "I know there are shirts like these," he says. "I've heard and also seen a little. These are not shirts that soldiers can wear in civilian life, because they would get stoned, nor at a battalion get-together, because the battalion commander would be pissed off. They wear them on very rare occasions. There's all sorts of black humor stuff, mainly from snipers, such as, 'Don't bother running because you'll die tired' - with a drawing of a Palestinian boy, not a terrorist. There's a Golani or Givati shirt of a soldier raping a girl, and underneath it says, 'No virgins, no terror attacks.' I laughed, but it was pretty awful. When I was asked once to draw things like that, I said it wasn't appropriate."

The IDF Spokesman's Office comments on the phenomenon: "Military regulations do not apply to civilian clothing, including shirts produced at the end of basic training and various courses. The designs are printed at the soldiers' private initiative, and on civilian shirts. The examples raised by Haaretz are not in keeping with the values of the IDF spirit, not representative of IDF life, and are in poor taste. Humor of this kind deserves every condemnation and excoriation. The IDF intends to take action for the immediate eradication of this phenomenon. To this end, it is emphasizing to commanding officers that it is appropriate, among other things, to take discretionary and disciplinary measures against those involved in acts of this sort."

Shlomo Tzipori, a lieutenant colonel in the reserves and a lawyer specializing in martial law, said the army does bring soldiers up on charges for offenses that occur outside the base and during their free time. According to Tzipori, slogans that constitute an "insult to the army or to those in uniform" are grounds for court-martial, on charges of "shameful conduct" or "disciplinary infraction," which are general clauses in judicial martial law.

Sociologist Dr. Orna Sasson-Levy, of Bar-Ilan University, author of "Identities in Uniform: Masculinities and Femininities in the Israeli Military," said that the phenomenon is "part of a radicalization process the entire country is undergoing, and the soldiers are at its forefront. I think that ever since the second intifada there has been a continual shift to the right. The pullout from Gaza and its outcome - the calm that never arrived - led to a further shift rightward.

"This tendency is most strikingly evident among soldiers who encounter various situations in the territories on a daily basis. There is less meticulousness than in the past, and increasing callousness. There is a perception that the Palestinian is not a person, a human being entitled to basic rights, and therefore anything may be done to him."

Could the printing of clothing be viewed also as a means of venting aggression?

Sasson-Levy: "No. I think it strengthens and stimulates aggression and legitimizes it. What disturbs me is that a shirt is something that has permanence. The soldiers later wear it in civilian life; their girlfriends wear it afterward. It is not a statement, but rather something physical that remains, that is out there in the world. Beyond that, I think the link made between sexist views and nationalist views, as in the 'Screw Haniyeh' shirt, is interesting. National chauvinism and gender chauvinism combine and strengthen one another. It establishes a masculinity shaped by violent aggression toward women and Arabs; a masculinity that considers it legitimate to speak in a crude and violent manner toward women and Arabs."

Col. (res.) Ron Levy began his military service in the Sayeret Matkal elite commando force before the Six-Day War. He was the IDF's chief psychologist, and headed the army's mental health department in the 1980s.

Levy: "I'm familiar with things of this sort going back 40, 50 years, and each time they take a different form. Psychologically speaking, this is one of the ways in which soldiers project their anger, frustration and violence. It is a certain expression of things, which I call 'below the belt.'"

Do you think this a good way to vent anger?

Levy: "It's safe. But there are also things here that deviate from the norm, and you could say that whoever is creating these things has reached some level of normality. He gives expression to the fact that what is considered abnormal today might no longer be so tomorrow."
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  1.   For how long more?? 00:43  |  Reuven 01/01/09
  2.   a masterfull portrait.... 00:27  |  another shimon 01/01/09
  3.   Disgusting to say the least 00:28  |  Chris Linthwaite 01/01/09
  4.   # 1 Reuven 00:30  |  Antonio 01/01/09
  5.   That´s outrageuos!!! 00:34  |  Elias 01/01/09
  6.   It`s becoming clearer and clearer that Israel is losing it 00:36  |  newageblues 01/01/09
  7.   idf fashion 00:38  |  zoe 01/01/09
  8.   To hypocrite Reuven #1 00:40  |  Mitch Katz 01/01/09
  9.   T-shirts as training 00:44  |  Alan 01/01/09
  10.   That shows the real nature of IDF 00:44  |  Elias 01/01/09
  11.   To Reuven 00:50  |  Ian 01/01/09
  12.   Palestinians do the screen printing 00:51  |  Arnold 01/01/09
  13.   idf fashion 00:52  |  zoe 01/01/09
  14.   funny how haaretz is the only one to publish this drek 00:57  |  don 01/01/09
  15.   BUT WHY? 00:00  |  judith 01/01/09
  16.   "A certain expression of things." Sure is! 00:00  |  Maureen Ann 01/01/09
  17.   Who cares 00:04  |  Death Adder 01/01/09
  18.   Typical 00:05  |  Hosam 01/01/09
  19.   Sick people x 100 00:07  |  Citizen of the World 01/01/09
  20.   venting 00:08  |  Observer 01/01/09
  21.   "We have met the enemy... 00:13  |  Knott Bushman 01/01/09
  22.   Is this the same Uri Blau that runs Neturei Karta? 00:13  |  Aaron 01/01/09
  23.   To Chris Linthwaite (#3). Give your `fake` humanitarianism a rest 00:15  |  flyingdoc57 01/01/09
  24.   To Reuven 00:15  |  Human 01/01/09
  25.   Chris LWe agree! 00:22  |  Brad 01/01/09
  26.   Reuven 00:32  |  Peter 01/01/09
  27.   cry me a river 00:35  |  daniel 01/01/09
  28.   Who is behind this campaign to discredit our IDF? 00:36  |  something is fishy. 01/01/09
  29.   To #1: Do we have to ignore the pictures and blame Haaretz? 00:43  |  Andre 01/01/09
  30.   Most Moral Army in the World 00:48  |  Matt 01/01/09
  31.   IDF fashion 2009 00:50  |  EED 01/01/09
  32.   There are crazy people everywere - Antonio #4 00:51  |  Reuven 01/01/09
  33.   Afraid of the Truth, huh, Reuven? 00:54  |  Cali 01/01/09
  34.   for reuven 00:54  |  alberto 01/01/09
  35.   These are facts 00:56  |  Dan 01/01/09
  36.   What would Theodor Herzl have said to this? 00:59  |  Markus Grafenburg 01/01/09
  37.   Lintwit you are disgusting 00:00  |  Bilbi 01/01/09
  38.   Reuven #1 00:06  |  Nick 01/01/09
  39.   One in spirit with the Death`s Head Battalions slaughtering Jews 00:06  |  Ivar 01/01/09
  40.   dead palestinian babies 00:10  |  manuel escott 01/01/09
  41.   #1 Reuven of Tornto: 00:11  |  Yitzhak 01/01/09
  42.   #10 Markus 00:13  |  Yitzhak 01/01/09
  43.   Not left wing, in left field. 00:17  |  a wandering Jew 01/01/09
  44.   not my army, thank you very much 00:19  |  matan 01/01/09
  45.   The Media War Is Lost 00:21  |  leo 01/01/09
  46.   dead palestinian... 00:25  |  Michael 01/01/09
  47.   Idiots. A disgrace to our nation. 00:26  |  Niv 01/01/09
  48.   Dead Israeli babies, Hamas fashion, 1987-2009 00:35  |  Steven A. 01/01/09
  49.   I am shocked... 00:36  |  Chris 01/01/09
  50.   To #1 Reuven of Toronto 00:40  |  Canadian 01/01/09
  51.   This is SICK!!!! 00:48  |  Haaretz Fan 01/01/09
  52.   in need of a history lesson 00:55  |  rjames 01/01/09
  53.   The mirror looks ugly today 00:58  |  David 01/01/09
  54.   no 10 Markus 00:59  |  steve 01/01/09
  55.   A number of countries are at war with Israel. 00:02  |  Gary 01/01/09
  56.   The shirts are not the real problem. 00:05  |  Daniel 01/01/09
  57.   Where are the stories about how Hamas treats Gazans? 00:06  |  Aaron 01/01/09
  58.   The weekly `Death to Israel` rallies in Tehran. 00:06  |  Gary 01/01/09
  59.   Naughty Israeli T-shirts 00:07  |  Scott A. Joseph, MD 01/01/09
  60.   it hurts me 00:09  |  Carlos Rodrigues 01/01/09
  61.   Stupid 00:11  |  Philippe 01/01/09
  62.   Correction 00:13  |  Philippe 01/01/09
  63.   Truly disgusting 00:16  |  6f 01/01/09
  64.   A SHANDA! 00:18  |  Rabbi Gershon Steinb 01/01/09
  65.   Note from Reuven "For How Long More?" 00:18  |  Carl Rosenberg 01/01/09
  66.   This is common 00:20  |  Yossi 01/01/09
  67.   To israel people 00:23  |  Kalle 01/01/09
  68.   Shame, Ashamed, Disillusioned 00:27  |  Roy David 01/01/09
  69.   IDF Fashion 00:29  |  Alberto 01/01/09
  70.   Most Moral IDF 00:30  |  Ussishkin 01/01/09
  71.   Disgusting 00:34  |  Jan Jenkins 01/01/09
  72.   T- SHIRTS 00:35  |  Leon 01/01/09
  73.   Unacceptable 00:36  |  bronxite10 01/01/09
  74.   To #3 00:37  |  Alex 01/01/09
  75.   1. 00:39  |  Ussishkin 01/01/09
  76.   A disturbing but necessary article 00:40  |  Abe 01/01/09
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  78.   IDF fashion 2009 00:49  |  WHG 01/01/09
  79.   Vulgar 00:50  |  Lynne 01/01/09
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  85.   Defeat of all Jewish morality 00:10  |  BDF 01/01/09
  86.   T Shirts 00:13  |  Edifice 01/01/09
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  93.   IDF Fashion 2009 00:45  |  Abu Rayyan 01/01/09
  94.   Disgusting and extremely disturbing! 00:03  |  Kathryn 01/01/09
  95.   Not a Defeat for all Jewish Morality 00:05  |  Lynne 01/01/09
  96.   BURNING DOGS 00:13  |  Muslim 01/01/09
  97.   To all the shocked and disgusted.... 00:18  |  Jasper 01/01/09
  98.   Do you think there are Trigger Happy Lads in the IDF? 00:30  |  Monitor 01/01/09
  99.   Denying the Holocaust is a Piece of Cake vs. These Showoffs! 00:41  |  Monitor 01/01/09
  100.   Chris Lengthwit 00:42  |  Sean 01/01/09
  101.   #48, Steven 00:47  |  Aaron (#22, not #57) 01/01/09
  102.   Suicide belt kills 17, Israeli tanks and missiles kill 1000`s 00:04  |  Sarah 01/01/09
  103.   Speechless! 00:07  |  Al 01/01/09
  104.   Aaron: no, the IDF tries to minimise IDF casualties 00:13  |  AT 01/01/09
  105.   Unbelieveable 00:14  |  MAX 01/01/09
  106.   Uri Blau - Google him and see what you get 00:15  |  Miriam Ashkelon 01/01/09
  107.   to # 89 Its the zoinst army not jews stupid 00:17  |  Refugee 01/01/09
  108.   To# 91 1500 palestinians are not people? 00:28  |  Refugee 01/01/09
  109.   To all my critics 00:35  |  Reuven 01/01/09
  110.   Brutal but its BOTH sides 00:37  |  Vadim 01/01/09
  111.   What happened to us? 00:47  |  Israeli 01/01/09
  112.   just what they want 00:48  |  Moshe 01/01/09
  113.   Israel is no longer a Western country 00:14  |  Arik Silverman 01/01/09
  114.   Following the Teachings of Moses 00:32  |  Arik Silverman 01/01/09
  115.   Refugee of course 1500 Palestinians are people! 00:25  |  Meo 01/01/09
  116.   Jasper thanks for the link 00:43  |  Meo 01/01/09
  117.   Barak`s Moral Army 00:45  |  galalean 01/01/09
  118.   Male Midianite children were future enemies of Israelites 00:49  |  MMM 01/01/09
  119.   Media Holocaust..... 00:51  |  Maria 01/01/09
  120.   Solution: The Saudi Plan, avoiding both Lebanon & Gaza atrocities 00:52  |  Ivar 01/01/09
  121.   Where can I get one of the shirts? 00:03  |  Colin Wright 01/01/09
  122.   its not surprising the idf nurtures this sort of indifferent 00:04  |  eric 01/01/09
  123.   Sarah...innocent children and women...Israel warned them! 00:07  |  Maria 01/01/09
  124.   Dead Palestinian Babies and bombed mosques 00:10  |  Yslevy 01/01/09
  125.   A dream/nightmare coming true 00:12  |  Honi 01/01/09
  126.   Isn`t it obvious who the enemy is? 00:23  |  AA 01/01/09
  127.   Sarah don`t blame Israel for Hamas disregard for Gazans lives 00:30  |  Meo 01/01/09
  128.   T shirts 00:39  |  Miki 01/01/09
  129.   Really 00:41  |  zkt83 01/01/09
  130.   Slogans of War 00:03  |  Dennis 01/01/09
  131.   this is what war does 00:08  |  Sarai 01/01/09
  132.   Miriam Ashkelon 00:09  |  Paul 01/01/09
  133.   Dead Palestinian Babies.... 00:15  |  Maree Flores 01/01/09
  134.   T shirts 00:19  |  Grant 01/01/09
  135.   incitation 00:53  |  franky 01/01/09
  136.   Reuven`s comment 00:54  |  Giorgio Forti 01/01/09
  137.   IDF fashion 00:23  |  Elina 01/01/09
  138.   And the chasm between American Jews and Israelis grows wider..... 00:33  |  Hanna 01/01/09
  139.   IDF FASHION 2009 00:19  |  ABRACADABRA 01/01/09
  140.   great i want one of these t-shirts! 00:22  |  stephane 01/01/09
  141.   Steven A 00:34  |  Palestinian Brit 01/01/09
  142.   Jasper No 93 00:37  |  Palestinian Brit 01/01/09
  143.   Gorgio - Israel`s what? 00:40  |  Palestinian Brit 01/01/09
  144.   wrong and right and in-between 00:46  |  Toni 01/01/09
  145.   Israel has become Putinized 00:48  |  SD 01/01/09
  146.   The only test is the investigation of crimes 00:18  |  a wandering Jew 01/01/09
  147.   Bilbi you are disgusting 00:25  |  Mohammad 01/01/09
  148.   holier than thou thin skinned frauds 00:28  |  Steve 01/01/09
  149.   The TRUTH IS NOW OUT!!!!! 00:35  |  Sam 01/01/09
  150.   militant society, macho slogans 00:35  |  shuki 01/01/09
  151.   Ignore Reuven 00:52  |  Me 01/01/09
  152.   no title 00:16  |  christoph 01/01/09
  153.   idf 00:00  |  victor 01/01/09
  154.   They are gentiles, so what 00:01  |  Oscar T. 01/01/09
  155.   Disgusting but.. 00:09  |  Fahmi Natour 01/01/09
  156.   #89 Meo 00:09  |  Chris Linthwaite 01/01/09
  157.   steve 00:11  |  zoe 01/01/09
  158.   The IDF fashion has always been to save lives. 00:11  |  Akram Zekaria 01/01/09
  159.   not got it 00:22  |  Murray 01/01/09
  160.   Please : Print my "Soul searching in the Mideast" 00:27  |  Akram Zekaria 01/01/09
  161.   Targetting pregnant mums, 00:31  |  Neutered Observer 01/01/09
  162.   why is the left dead in israel? 00:40  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/01/09
  163.   To all the IDF Soldiers 00:51  |  Miriam 01/01/09
  164.   I CONGRATULATE THEM 00:51  |  indrajaya 01/01/09
  165.   This Is Sick, Twisted, And Does Not Foster Esprit De Corps 00:20  |  Jeff Northridge 01/01/09
  166.   No wonder they fire rockets... 00:50  |  Murat 01/01/09
  167.   what`s all the fuss? 00:53  |  steve 01/01/09
  168.   totally tasteless 00:03  |  Lynn 01/01/09
  169.   what does that mean.It`frightening 00:06  |  shrink 01/01/09
  170.   Moral high ground 00:08  |  Barry 01/01/09
  171.   even for a psycho such things are not normal 00:11  |  kabardian tscherkess 01/01/09
  172.   The Talmud teaches this is OK 00:16  |  Barton 01/01/09
  173.   Reading about this in the USA 00:28  |  janet 01/01/09
  174.   IDF has responsibility to stop this atrocious practice 00:34  |  Samuel 01/01/09
  175.   #100 Reuven 00:36  |  Antonio 01/01/09
  176.   Your WW2 compassion is up... 00:36  |  EG 01/01/09
  177.   Another reason to denounce my jewishness!!! 00:41  |  Yoav 01/01/09
  178.   A hard army 00:50  |  Jim 01/01/09
  179.   So appropriate 00:51  |  Ummsaifullah 01/01/09
  180.   Why some people are blaming HAARETZ?! 00:52  |  JustMe 01/01/09
  181.   Israel losing support in America 00:53  |  An American 01/01/09
  182.   is that the best thing that you could come out with? 00:01  |  mo 01/01/09
  183.   t-shirt 00:02  |  solly 01/01/09
  184.   is that going to make it right ? 00:05  |  mo 01/01/09
  185.   Military: Not Heroes 00:21  |  mcl 01/01/09
  186.   very sad story 00:38  |  Eliot 01/01/09
  187.   chris linthwaite,read the article,it says an "arab" oversees the 00:45  |  more BS 01/01/09
  188.   Disgusting 00:52  |  Liat 01/01/09
  189.   having children to pass out candy in celebration of murdering 00:54  |  2 way street 01/01/09
  190.   Refugee #99 it`s hard to fight palestinians "man to man" when 00:04  |  leave LA refugee 01/01/09
  191.   If someone made Tshirts like this about Jews somewhere else in th 00:06  |  Dafna 01/01/09
  192.   Kids with guns 00:08  |  Mark Lincoln 01/01/09
  193.   To Steven 00:12  |  Nina 01/01/09
  194.   Fair Journalism 00:22  |  Reply 01/01/09
  195.   THIS IS WHAT YOU GET ON A SLOW NEWS DAY 00:34  |  chuckmeister 01/01/09
  196.   This Is Sick and Twisted, agreed. Jeff, you might 00:35  |  Sceptic 01/01/09
  197.   more BS (very apt) 00:36  |  Joan 01/01/09
  198.   Compliments to "more BS" on the 00:40  |  PCR 01/01/09
  199.   IDF and democracy in Israel 00:45  |  Sam 01/01/09
  200.   #1, Haaretz is fine! 00:47  |  Poco Loco 01/01/09
  201.   Moral compass 00:52  |  BazMann 01/01/09
  202.   treat others as you would like to be treated 00:53  |  Dana 01/01/09
  203.   #133 00:58  |  Chris Linthwaite 01/01/09
  204.   Sounds like teen spirit! 00:59  |  Steve G 01/01/09
  205.   Bany 00:03  |  Palestina 01/01/09
  206.   The reason why the criticism of Israel is one sided 00:07  |  Comradio 01/01/09
  207.   reuven, bilbi, et al 00:09  |  23skidoo 01/01/09
  208.   posing 00:14  |  james 01/01/09
  209.   Leanworks 00:37  |  Leanworks 01/01/09
  210.   Disgusting 00:46  |  Mahira Chishty 01/01/09
  211.   Israel: Collective Psychosis 00:48  |  Jim Klein 01/01/09
  212.   IDF Shirts 00:58  |  Dana Lee 01/01/09
  213.   IDF t shirs 00:05  |  robert g wilson 01/01/09
  214.   joan,i see you still like spreading your islamic BS 00:12  |  more BS as usual 01/01/09
  215.   Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques 00:12  |  pacha mohamed sadok 01/01/09
  216.   PCR of ireland,I`m just stating facts as evidenced by 00:15  |  more BS 01/01/09
  217.   Liat,how would you feel if jewish children were encouraged 00:17  |  u r disgusting 01/01/09
  218.   If any more proof was needed... 00:18  |  Antonius 01/01/09
  219.   Dead Palestinian babies 00:36  |  Antonia 01/01/09
  220.   Stop Letting Our Enemies Define Us! 00:44  |  UsedToPostHere 01/01/09
  221.   Dayenu 00:46  |  Liora 01/01/09
  222.   Dayenu 00:46  |  Liora 01/01/09
  223.   To the American Doctor Joseph 00:58  |  DMGMD 01/01/09
  224.   "Sick" is right by my estimation. 00:09  |  christoph 01/01/09
  225.   Meo #107 you still droning on 00:14  |  Roo 01/01/09
  226.   I am disgusted and speechless 00:15  |  American 01/01/09
  227.   Nice Shirts, correct attitude! 00:16  |  steve dill 01/01/09
  228.   Dead Palestinian Babies tee shirt 00:19  |  Joel Dubow 01/01/09
  229.   Appalling 00:38  |  BazMann 01/01/09
  230.   no excuse (to Judith) 00:41  |  titus 01/01/09
  231.   to reuven #1 00:48  |  Titus 01/01/09
  232.   Purely Barbaric 00:50  |  Idris 01/01/09
  233.   Antonio 00:54  |  TonyL 01/01/09
  234.   shame 00:57  |  Aiya 01/01/09
  235.   Imagine 00:58  |  Bazmann 01/01/09
  236.   ROO .. Your Links Are BS 00:18  |  GZLives 01/01/09
  237.   IDF t-shirts. 00:19  |  magda 01/01/09
  238.   @114, steve, you are absolutely right!!!! 00:24  |  vladimir 01/01/09
  239.   Joel Dubow 00:24  |  PCR 01/01/09
  240.   Antonio - #123 00:26  |  Reuven 01/01/09
  241.   These T-shirts are in protest for the media lies 00:33  |  Avi 01/01/09
  242.   To DMGMD (# 140). Here`s some more "disgust" for you, friend. 00:39  |  flyingdoc57 01/01/09
  243.   Inhumane and Disgusting 00:46  |  Chris Majors 01/01/09
  244.   "flyingdoc" another dissembler... 00:51  |  BBSNews 01/01/09
  245.   36. "What would Theodor Herzl have said to this?" 00:51  |  flimflam 01/01/09
  246.   Out of Control 00:51  |  Shai 01/01/09
  247.   From what I have seen......... 00:03  |  Ahmad in Ramallah 01/01/09
  248.   Roo doesn`t like the truth? 00:11  |  Meo 01/01/09
  249.   Sceptic # 137 I Didn`t Miss The Context 00:13  |  Jeff Northridge 01/01/09
  250.   Respect and fear 00:17  |  George Rupp 01/01/09
  251.   It Used To Be "Only In America". Now It Transformed To "Only In 00:31  |  Eli 01/01/09
  252.   # 145 Joe Dubow. Have you seen world head lines today? 00:38  |  Maureen Ann 01/01/09
  253.   Peace 00:39  |  Arabia 01/01/09
  254.   Terrible ! 00:41  |  Cath 01/01/09
  255.   venting 00:47  |  donna 01/01/09
  256.   Here in Israel 00:48  |  Fernando 01/01/09
  257.   I`m really confused now 00:51  |  observer 01/01/09
  258.   Disgusting (4th try) 00:53  |  Baruch Gold 01/01/09
  259.   Steve Dill says Israel did it`s best to avoid war in Gaza 00:59  |  newageblues 01/01/09
  260.   Obscene T-Shirts 00:01  |  Bonita Caracciolo 01/01/09
  261.   American #143 00:03  |  Jo Jo 01/01/09
  262.   Mohammad # 113 00:05  |  Sukkoth 01/01/09
  263.   WHAT`S THE BIG DEAL 00:06  |  Scott L. Havsy 01/01/09
  264.   # 3 Linthwaite 00:15  |  Sukkoth 01/01/09
  265.   t shirts 00:25  |  Ingsoc 01/01/09
  266.   Dehumanization 00:46  |  Sub-human 01/01/09
  267.   Who celebrates murder? 00:59  |  Stan Levine 01/01/09
  268.   never forget 00:07  |  Hannah 01/01/09
  269.   Flashback 00:16  |  JE 01/01/09
  270.   great fashion! 00:17  |  Mark 01/01/09
  271.   IDF fashion 2009 00:22  |  Peter 01/01/09
  272.   IDF Racist T-Shirts 00:33  |  Bob Brady 01/01/09
  273.   response from rest of the world 00:40  |  mystic 01/01/09
  274.   I feel sick, like I just discovered my wife cheating! 00:47  |  david 01/01/09
  275.   #54, Steve: Read the final sentence in "Der Judenstaat"! 00:51  |  Markus Grafenburg 01/01/09
  276.   Israeli t-shirts 00:53  |  mage 01/01/09
  277.   The Colonisation Process 00:57  |  Maryanne 01/01/09
  278.   How do I order some? 00:11  |  Davey 01/01/09
  279.   Stop letting our enemies define us 00:11  |  UsedToPostHere 01/01/09
  280.   dead palestinian babies idf fashion 00:15  |  magda 01/01/09
  281.   brutalised soldiers over the years 00:21  |  sweis 01/01/09
  282.   Refreshing 00:34  |  Ali or Eli :-P 01/01/09
  283.   Haaretz 00:45  |  jafortier 01/01/09
  284.   #148 00:54  |  Joan 01/01/09
  285.   the nature of t shirts 00:08  |  mimi 01/01/09
  286.   The topic actually keeps me occupied... 00:22  |  christoph 01/01/09
  287.   To those of yououtraged by this... 00:24  |  Ralph Goldenmouth 01/01/09
  288.   Are there any more photos? 00:33  |  Raymond Flynn 01/01/09
  289.   alls fair in love and war 00:55  |  armand 01/01/09
  290.   IDF fashion 00:06  |  Yocheved 01/01/09
  291.   IDF officers at fault 00:20  |  Tony Price 01/01/09
  292.   Thanks Haaretz 00:22  |  Me 01/01/09
  293.   Heartbreaking 00:56  |  Braulio 01/01/09
  294.   all is not fair in war 00:12  |  me 01/01/09
  295.   Re: but why? - judith. 00:30  |  George 01/01/09
  296.   comment 00:54  |  moe 01/01/09
  297.   all is not fair in love or war 00:31  |  newageblues 01/01/09
  298.   Put faith in Jesus, not guns 00:51  |  R 01/01/09
  299.   Necessary expose 00:01  |  David 01/01/09
  300.   its not surprising the idf nurtures this sort of indifferent 00:19  |  eric 01/01/09
  301.   ROO The Israel Supreme Court BANNED it.When can we expect 00:33  |  PETER SM 01/01/09
  302.   NEWAGEBLUES "all is not fair -"Unless it appears in theArab media 00:37  |  PETER SM 01/01/09
  303.   #119 Jeff Northridge..the twisted mind 4th try 00:39  |  maoriboy 01/01/09
  304.   CONDEMN it by all means.Don`t lie & call it IDF fashion 00:11  |  PETER SM 01/01/09
  305.   HAHA!! 00:12  |  Elvis 01/01/09
  306.   Is this what "Chosen People" do? 00:26  |  Noel Wythe 01/01/09
  307.   Slanderer 00:42  |  Bob 01/01/09
  308.   Do not pass your children through the fire to Molek 00:43  |  bob 01/01/09
  309.   Racist, sexist T shirts 00:50  |  Angela White 01/01/09
  310.   IDF fashion 00:30  |  Mihaeli Feldmann 01/01/09
  311.   it`s worse than u think 00:40  |  shiri 01/01/09
  312.   Stix & Stones(&CARBOMBS) may break my bones 00:41  |  Ari ben Yisrael 01/01/09
  313.   t-shirt i shot 2 dead 00:44  |  christine clarke 01/01/09
  314.   #169 Noel : G-d gave more than 10 Comm`s; He also gave us Land 00:52  |  Robert 01/01/09
  315.   Judith honey your kids haven`t had to live with intafada and end 00:54  |  lily 01/01/09
  316.   Scott Havsy: Scalps & Other Trophies 00:09  |  Morgan 01/01/09
  317.   N.WHYTE He that has not sinned let him cast the 1st stone 00:27  |  PETER SM 01/01/09
  318.   idf fashion 00:31  |  R G 01/01/09
  319.   Where can I get one? 00:32  |  Davey 01/01/09
  320.   Einsatzgruppen 00:33  |  Lavrentii 01/01/09
  321.   soldiers vs pregnant women 00:10  |  sam 01/01/09
  322.   Cipora Julianna Kohn 00:19  |  Joan 01/01/09
  323.   New fashion 00:26  |  Sarah 01/01/09
  324.   genocidal maoriboy 00:42  |  Ivo 01/01/09
  325.   Horrifying and Embarassing 00:46  |  Aviva 01/01/09
  326.   i am speechless it`s disgusting 00:21  |  kubra al 01/01/09
  327.   And yet we are SO MORAL, right? 00:36  |  Michal 01/01/09
  328.   vulgar fashion 00:17  |  j.shea 01/01/09
  329.   #322 00:22  |  lola 01/01/09
  330.   war creates monsters 00:28  |  peacetolstoy 01/01/09
  331.   Miriam, 163. 00:41  |  Helle Elena 01/01/09
  332.   #203 Chris 00:37  |  #133 Maree 01/01/09
  333.   GOD Bless The HAARETZ. 00:44  |  Amnon 01/01/09
  334.   Terrorist T-shirts 00:01  |  bor edwell 01/01/09
  335.   Hitler would be proud! 00:21  |  Sad Citizen 01/01/09
  336.   Extremely Shocking!!! 00:42  |  Eeman 01/01/09
  337.   "I stiill think we have the most moral amy in the world" 00:55  |  Dan 01/01/09
  338.   T-shirts 00:27  |  I love the IDF 01/01/09
  339.   to all the europeans who read the israeli newspaper.............. 00:58  |  calanit 01/01/09
  340.   Honest Jews 00:03  |  Tony B. 01/01/09
  341.   t-shirts 00:10  |  john 01/01/09
  342.   Sadness 00:30  |  Ian Mackenzie 01/01/09
  343.   where can you buy theses shirts online ? 00:36  |  fred thurston 01/01/09
  344.   Dan of course your army is moral.Don`t waste your time with Jew 00:43  |  Meo 01/01/09
  345.   Sickening! 00:49  |  Bob 01/01/09
  346.   where? 00:51