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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Basically - Apartheid environment, but the settlers feel like now is the opportunity to push, so there is a rush to see who can take/claim/push out Palestinian land, homes, belongings.

Apartheid doesn't mean every one of the ruling class is evil, but that the bullies (they exist in any population) now have a target that can't fight back, and if they do happen to fight back, the police/military takes the bullies side. Is there someone high up in the military sending out civilian death squads to tiny villages? No. But there is an environment where self appointed death squads can exist and the military will defend them if they meet resistance - That is what Apartheid does. Systematically removes the ability of a people to seek justice, have fairness, or even feel safe.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This shows it's not about Hamas. It was never about Hamas. There is no Hamas in the West Bank.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hmm

A Hamas spokesman is among more than 60 members of the militant organization detained by Israel in overnight raids across the West Bank

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/middleeast/hamas-spokesperson-detained-west-bank-intl/index.html

[–] PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lib.lgbt 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Settler colonial states and using the terrorists they radicalised as an excuse to do more genocide, name a more iconic combo

America is so jealous rn

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This shows you know nothing, you never really knew anything to begin with. There are in fact Hamas members in the West Bank. They're just not the ruling government.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not the same. If Israel wants to go after terrorists, that's one thing. But that's not what we're seeing. We're seeing civilians targeted en masse, without food, water, medicine, fuel, electricity. It's genocidal and it must end

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh really? Inform us how Israel should target these terrorists hiding under schools and hospitals than.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You think withholding food and water to civilians is acceptable?

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Gazumi@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Genocide continues. (The alternate summary)

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel really needs to just dismantle these illegal settlements like they did in Gaza in 2005.

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bold of you to call for a direct comparison to something that led to the current situation with Hamas.

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel pulling out of Gaza is what let Hamas take over and cause terror for over 15 years.

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I don't think anything short of a full blown military occupation could have prevented that. Maybe that's where this is going to end up, I don't know.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why aren't they reporting on this in western media?!!1! /s

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

Hamas probably didn't tell them to report it.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


To do so, they would need to travel across land that is dotted with Israeli settlements, where the risk of violence, high even in ordinary times, has risen dramatically in the two weeks since Israel went to war with Hamas.

Abed Wadi put the image of the masked men with axes and chainsaws out of his mind and joined the funeral convoy bringing the bodies back from the hospital to Qusra.

Last weekend was the beginning of olive season in the area, but residents who depend on the harvest for their income said they would not go to the groves on the outskirts of the village for fear of settlers shooting.

There had already been a significant increase in violence by Israeli settlers this year, even before the Hamas attack, according to UN data, with more than 100 incidents reported each month and about 400 people driven from their land between January and August.

According to B'Tselem and Yesh Din, another Israeli human rights group which monitors West Bank violence, the intimidation and forced displacement reported in Wadi al-Siq has been repeated in communities across the territory since 7 October.

Video footage filmed by Adra's cousin, Basel, shows the settler who allegedly beat Rabai and the Israeli soldier standing a short distance away from the group of Palestinian neighbours.


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[–] dumdum666@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is disgusting - Israel should do everything to stop this.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

Israel won’t stop with it unless Western world, I assume especially US do something about it.