Excerpt from John Pilger’s 2002 update to his 1974 report, Palestine is Still the Issue.
video link | hat tip
There are those who would lend reason and rhyme to this “shitting of houses”, that it’s a necessary evil committed by soldiers who are under fire and have no alternatives, or is an atrocity committed only against sworn enemies of the Israeli state.
As Palestine Video states in the introduction to the video clip, it’s a pattern, noted here as well:
Israeli house-cleaning: on the looters
As’sad AbuKhalil, The Angry Arab News Service, 21 March 2009
From Jean Said Makdisi’s (1990:190) memoir, Beirut Fragments:
“After the Israelis left [Beirut in 1982], […]
Gradually, we discovered that what had seemed like a single incident had become, in fact, a trademark and taken on far more serious dimensions.The Israeli soldiers, wherever they had been, had defecated in choice places. On books, furniture, clothes, and carpets; on bedroom floors; near toilet seats and in bathtubs; on school desks; and in shop windows, people found the rotting feces. Someone swore she knew of one house near the airport where the distraught housewife had discovered feces in her washing machine and dishwasher. One man, we heard, went to his office and saw on every single desk except his own the offensive, stinking pile. Triumphantly, he sat at his desk and gloated over his unhappy colleagues. Then he opened his drawer, and there, neatly lying among the files, was his bequest from the Israeli army.
And so, after all the ruin and tragedy, after the destruction and pain, the dead and the dying, the lacerated bodies and blinded eyes, the burned and disfigured faces, the widows and orphans—after all this there was left only a great heap of excrement. The fires had died, snuffed out in a mound of dung. A ghastly joke, symbol of an overriding contempt, a cosmic stink had become the memorial to those months of agony. (thanks Robert)