They must be extraordinarily stupid, above and beyond the usual neo-Nazi idiocy. I mean... no, I can't even think of anything to say. I'm dumb-founded.
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Jail terms for Israeli neo-Nazis
Eight teenagers have been sentenced to time in jail by a court in Israel for carrying out a series of neo-Nazi attacks that shocked the nation.
The eight, aged from 16 to 19, were found guilty of attacking religious Jews, gays and drug addicts, and the desecration of a synagogue.
The group, immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union, were sentenced to between one and seven years in jail.
Israel was founded in the wake of the Nazi Holocaust in which millions died.
One of those convicted was the grandson of a Holocaust survivor.
There was widespread revulsion in Israel when the existence of the neo-Nazi gang was revealed after their arrests in 2007.
Attacks filmed
Delivering his verdict, the judge at Tel Aviv district court said he handed down severe penalties in an effort to deter others from following their example.
Gang leader Erik Bonite, who is also known as Ely the Nazi, was sentenced to seven years in jail, the AFP news agency reported.
"The fact that they are Jews from the ex-Soviet Union and that they had sympathised with individuals who believed in racist theories is terrible," Judge Tsvi Gurinkel said as he handed down his verdict.
All eight lived in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, where the group made videos of their attacks and hoarded a cache of fascist memorabilia.
According to information released at the time, searches of their homes yielded Nazi uniforms, portraits of Adolf Hitler, knives, guns and TNT.
The gang members sported tattoos popular with white supremacists - including the number 88, code for Heil Hitler - H being the eighth letter of the alphabet.
Video clips found on computers seized by police showed the suspects dressed in typical skinhead neo-Nazi clothes, in the process of assaulting their victims, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported.
They were charged with offences including conspiracy to commit a crime, assault, racial incitement and the distribution of racist materials.
The suspects all migrated to Israel under the Law of Return, which allows anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent to become a citizen. But their links to Judaism are slender, with most qualifying for citizenship through grandparents or distant family connections.
The fact that they are Jews from the ex-Soviet Union and that they had sympathised with individuals who believed in racist theories is terrible
Judge Tsvi Gurinkel
from the BBC website
They must be extraordinarily stupid, above and beyond the usual neo-Nazi idiocy. I mean... no, I can't even think of anything to say. I'm dumb-founded.
first of all, they are probily not even jewish for the most part. in their haste of ethnic clansing out the palestinians/arabs the israeli goverment let in huge numbers of russians who a lot of the time faked jewish decent just to being able to leave russia, get some land/a house and some strat up money in a new country.
secondly the israeli police have let this group simmer and spread for quite sommetime, comerades form the anargist against walls collective already told me years ago that they would have fights with a local blood and honour chapter in tel aviv. And that the police didn't care.
and it was not that this nazi's were realy secretly or sommething, they had internet sites and walked around with triskel and black sun (mystikal SS-symbol) tattoos on visible places.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
This is getting weirder and weirder. Nazis in Israel, it's like a non-white in kkk. But I guess the Russian angle gives a better idea as to why it's happening, although Russia also suffered at the hands of nazis.
Also, I am surprised that there aren't many threads on Russian nazis, because it seems like there are more nazis over there than in any other place? Correct me, if I am wrong.
Anyway, back to topic.
Some of the Russians I know in Australia hate the stalinists more than the nazis.
The nazi invasion was long ago and only happened for a short while. The totalitarian government the stalinists put on lasted for decades. They remember Stalin with far greater fear than Hitler.
This doesnt represent the whole of Russian public opinion im sure, but it seems a common viewpoint.
Also these nazis grew up as gentiles in an Israeli society that I think its fair to say is SLIGHTLY adverse to non jews.
Yes I am leaning towards anarchism these days...
