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A squad commander from Ram’s Givat Brigade, named as Aviv, recounted his misgivings about orders to break down doors with armored vehicles and shoot anyone inside, floor by floor.

What kind of soldiers could follow order to rape, murder and destroy everything in their path? Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children’s graves, a gun aimed at a child, rapes, sexual sadism bombed-out mosques and churches, etc., are the favorite images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design to wear on their shirts.

Baby Killers: “We Came, We Saw, We Destroyed!”

By Ralph Forbes

An Israeli sharpshooter’s T-shirt shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull’s-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English:

“1 SHOT, 2 KILLS”

A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription “Better use Durex (a condom popular in Israel),” next to a

picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him.

A “graduation” shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby . . . 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. 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!”

“Confirming the Kill” (shooting a bullet into an enemy victim’s head from close range, to ensure he is dead), or desecrating Muslim and Christian religious sites, raping, torturing and murdering female or child non-combatants.

“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!” It has a drawing depicting an Israeli soldier as the Angel of Death, next to a gun and an Arab town.

A Palestinian in the cross-hairs 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 cross-hairs, 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.”

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.”

“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 or Golem 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