Israeli envoy: Syrian girls bite snakes

[Scurrilous]

In academic paper, Consul in Miami says Syria is barbaric and cruel, charges Syria girls bite snakes

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3228541,00.html

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"Members of the Miami Jewish community were shocked last week to receive an official email from the city’s Israeli Consulate featuring an academic article describing Syrian "barbarism and cruelty," authored by the Consul General Dr. Yitzhak Ben Gad.

The essay, which Ben Gad sent without approval and which directly counters Israel’s official stance, demonizes Syria by graphically describing
barbaric scenes which its author claims are typical Syrian practices: girls slaying snakes with their teeth and soldiers strangling puppies to drink their blood."


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"He alleges that at the time Syrian television showed adolescent girls training with the Ba’ath party militia caressing snakes while Assad and senior party members gazed at them approvingly. Ben Gad embellishes a graphic scene in which the girls bite the snakes and skin them with their teeth, blood dripping down their chins, and then the Syrian militiamen drink the blood. We certainly live in tough surroundings, the Consul General writes, as Syrians are well known for their barbarity.

Ben Gad, a member of the Likud known for his extremist Right-wing views, was appointed to the post in Miami by then Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom as one in a series of political appointments. His dubious CV, which is proudly displayed on the Consulate’s Web site, includes his authorship of a book against the Road map peace plan, called “The Roadmap to Nowhere” alongside his academic education in Middle Eastern affairs.

Upon receiving the scathing article in their inboxes, members of the Miami Jewish community complained to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. “I hope that the State of Israel will replace (Ben Gad) or will at least prohibit him from sending articles like this one,” a representative of the Miami Jewish community said."

[phantom power]

1. wait, don't tell me... then they play with babies on pitchforks?

[formercia]

2. It was probably survival training

I've eaten worse...

[Poll_Blind]

3. Anti-Arab racism:another Israeli export people are buying less and less of

Ben Gad is nuts and if it wasn't for the high level of racism which finds safety in Israel's ultra-right he would have been called on it by now. He's been expressing similar (though not as creative, my gosh, eating snakes?!) for years: he was dismissed from the Chicago Israeli consulate in the early 90's under similar circumstances.

How has this racist managed to survive so long in service to Israel? There's a question for you.

PB