Wingnut Israeli Settlers

I watched the Frontline documentary about radical Kahanist settlers in Israel, you know, the guys who murder Arabs and plant bombs at Arab girls' schools.

It was an enlightening program, and I learned more about Israeli terror cells than I imagine I would ever learn from the MSM in 10 years of viewing/reading. But the thing that stuck me the most about the program was how much these guys look and act like the so-called antiglobalization slackers that show up at protests in Seattle and elsewhere.

All the guys were pretty skinny, mostly 20 something, with flannel shirts and wool skull caps. They had scraggly beards and longish hair and danced around like they were on ecstacy (or whatever slackers take nowadays). All that was missing were a few hackeysacks, and I swear you could have been at Woodstock III (or some analogous event, God I'm out of touch).

The big visual difference was the women. They probably didn't shave or wear makeup, but they all wore dark hats or scarves and modest dresses with sensible shoes. Nobody showed anybody their tits (at least not on Frontline).

Of course, the biggest differences were not visual. The Kahanists were celebrating the release of some of their brethren from jail on suspicion of murder. They are looking to drive the Arabs out of Israel and then to establish a Jewish theocracy. They aim to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount and rebuild the Temple. I'm pretty sure slackers aren't looking to kill anyone or to establish a religious tyranny.

That there are such intractable conflicts and irrational elements in Israel leads me to affirm my long held belief that Israel/Palestine will not have peace until the Crusader States are reorganized and a Christian king sits on the throne of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. As luck would have it, Elizabeth II of Britain is the rightful heir to that throne, and she has a couple of extra sons one of whom could easily be seconded to the Middle East to rule as King. The other could be named Prince of Antioch.