Israeli settlers steal Palestinian farmers’ land in occupied West Bank
Israeli settlers steal Palestinian farmers’ land in occupied West Bank
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Israeli settlers steal Palestinian farmers’ land in occupied West Bank
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A headline that would be accurate any time in the last 70 years.
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Quit calling them settlers. They're invaders, and should be treated as such.
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(pst, settlers are invaders)
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They are war criminals that deserve to be punished
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Colonists
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Do you know any time where settlers are not invaders?
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Early human history and the Falkland islands. But that's it.
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The beehives burned by Israeli settlers at Salah Awwad’s farm
Even bees lost their home too...
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clearly those were Hamas spies!
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More Israeli war crimes. It must be a day ending in y.
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TLDR; Israeli ... steal Palestinian... land.
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That's nothing new. These war criminals have been doing this since the very beginning of their existance.
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Again and again and again for decades.
As much as I'm appalled at the violence (from both sides), it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone (least of all Isreal) that Palestinian factions would eventually respond with violence to constantly being pushed further into a corner.
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Like they have been doing for eighty years?
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Exactly
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That's nothing new. The Israeli government solely consists of war criminals and it was all planned by them.
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Oh boy here I go colonizing agaaain
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Ultimately all the Nazi's scapegoating was merely a means for for those they saw as the best people to expand their power and dominion as well.
I don't take this as a lesson about the Jewish people specifically being bad, I take this as the historically belabored lesson that humanity at large isn't worth saving from its own many self-inflicted crises brought on by greed and power lust using technologies we never, ever cared to respect since their inceptions. We don't respect or care for this earth, or even ourselves amongst ourselves, despite our great power of invention we wield as irresponsibly as a orangutan with a shotgun.
Bring on the climate change. Bring on the AGI. The Earth will weather it as it has every prior mass extinction. Hell, the Devonian mass extinction was ALSO the result of a runaway evolutionary mistake, we aren't the first attack on Earth's biome from within due to catastrophic evolutionary consequences, and we likely won't be the last. Other creatures will suffer, yes, but at least if we are thwarted, that suffering will have an end at some point. Plus they already are. We decimate ecosystems to build strip malls, and stick the handful of species we find cute or some utility in in cages for humans to gawk at and/or labs to bisect. Then we declare them protected.
As long as we continue to have dominion over surface life, including ourselves, the needless suffering of this planet and most of humanity BY the privileged class of humans dejour will be without end, because we are deeply, intrinsically, irrevocably broken, cruel, and self-destructive.
Oh and this current conflict, here's further evidence we also refuse to learn even from recent, intimate, traumatic history. Everyone biding their time, waiting for their turn to punch down. A whole bunch of new cruel people, being cruel to some other people, who'll end up being cruel to them.
Then we dream of cooperating to a degree that we can develop a presence on other more hostile worlds, when we can't even consider peace on the only one, and an abundant one at that, perfectly suited to our biological needs. What a joke.
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"In other news, ice is cold"
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Rinse and repeat
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Just an FYI, OP dedicates his account to spamming anti-Israel articles from Al Jazeera.
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Oh was that the issue? The following is a post I've compiled using mostly Israeli or Jewish sources:
Reports
#Nakba
Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs
Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in '48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew
'I Saw Fit to Remove Her From the World'
Zionist Militia’s Efforts to Recruit Nazis in Fight Against the British Are Revealed
#Recent Events
Using an Attack Dog, Israeli Women Soldiers Forced Palestinian Women to Undress
Cigarette Burns, Beatings, Attempted Sexual Assault: Settlers and Soldiers Abused Palestinians
Israeli Settler Documented Shooting Palestinian at Point-blank in the West Bank
Israeli tank fires on car near Gaza City
Hundreds Involved in Attacking Arabs and Leftists, but Israel Police Arrest Only Four
Far-right Israeli Knesset Member Zvi Sukkot to Head Subcommittee on the West Bank
Perspectives
#Videos
Dr. Gabor Maté (Holocaust Survivor)
Here's an interview regarding recent events.
Katie harper interviews political scientist and activist, Norman Finklestein
At 1:43:50, Finklestein asserts that Israel would bomb a residential area, wait for people to come out and call an ambulance, and then bomb the ambulance.
Katie Harper interviews journalists and political activists regarding recent events.
At 00:24:15, Ali asserts that Israel is willing to shoot their own civilians as evidenced by the Hannibal Directive, verifiable events, and testimonies such as Yasmin Porat's where the IDF was shooting indiscriminately and even fired tank shells into Israeli homes.
#Articles
How colonizers weaponize rape: reflections from the Palestinian case
Opinion | Dying in Southern Gaza: 'I Want to Go Home. At Least I’ll Die After Drinking Fresh Water'
Opinion | Amid the Mourning, Israel's Settlement Enterprise Celebrates a Great Victory
Testimonials
Israeli Soldier's Explosive Tell-All: "Palestinians are right to resist" - Former IDF soldier talks about how he realized that his actions were perpetuating apartheid, and that Palestinians were right to resist through any means.
Tantoura Ethnic Cleansing Testimony - Yosef Diamant [There is a whole-ass documentary for those interested.
Breaking the Silence - Israeli NGO where IDF veterans testify their experiences. Some examples:
My little сука, I hope this is enough for your little putrid heart! <3
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Israeli tank fires on car near Gaza City
Dr. Gabor Maté (Holocaust Survivor)
Katie harper interviews political scientist and activist, Norman Finklestein
Katie Harper interviews journalists and political activists regarding recent events.
Israeli Soldier's Explosive Tell-All: "Palestinians are right to resist"
Tantoura Ethnic Cleansing Testimony - Yosef Diamant
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As intended.
Israel's strategy with the West Bank is masterful. Wholly and completely evil, but masterful.
Either the Palestinians just accept their lot, in which case Israel incrementally takes their land through their "settler" proxies, or the Palestinians (entirely justifiably) try to fight back, in which case the IDF goes in and kills a bunch of them, and Israel takes their land anyway.
It's fucking despicable, but it works, and if one is devoid of morality, empathy or simple human decency, that's all that matters.
Modeled perfectly after the settler-colonial tactics of the US taking over native land.
Nope.
Don't get me wrong, they're both genocides.
But America just kept pushing the survivors west a couple thousand miles at a time, and at least they got some land. Even if there was no where to displace them to, America would have just killed them all.
Israel is compacting people in a box, physically and psychologically it's torture. Then, when some snap and do some crazy shit, they kill a bunch of people and make the box smaller
They've been doing it for the whole 70 years Israel has existed.
And it gives right wing extremist politicians a constant Boogeyman and without any real threat to themselves, and keeps them in power. So its never going to change.
Modelled after the settler colonial tactics of the Americans, British, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Boer, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, Chinese, Germans etc etc
Settler colonialism is an old evil, we saw it do immense damage in the 18th and 19th centuries. Many of us live with its legacy and are still picking up the pieces.
That just isn't true, the majority of the population of American Indians died via disease without ever meeting a European. Also, Americans on many occaisons had virtually no qualms with just committing outright genocide, whereas Israel actually needs "tactics" to try to cover it up.
It was done all over the world for millennia long before that.
Some days, you know, it's not always all about American indigenes.
I love that you name-drop the US when it was the English, Spanish, Dutch, and French that raped every continent and genocided entire cultures before the idea of the United States even existed.
Oh, and don't forget that the IDF have been reported on (and even video taped themselves) stealing money, jewelry, and anything else valuable they can grab in Gaza while they're there.
It's funny, it's pretty similar to what the US government did when they sent in settlers out to the west. Once over enough settlers staking out clams of land, it ended up crowding out the native Americans which led to conflict, and then you ended up with Custer killing bison on the Great plains.
I think the significant part there though is that it's what the US government did almost 200 years ago. Not that that excuses it, but it was a much more primitive and ignorant world then, and at least some of it can be ascribed to that primitiveness and ignorance.
Doing the same thing in the modern world though - that's just pure, unmitigated evil.