Conflict between Palestine and Israel escalates

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I'm guessing this is based on personal experience, but be sure you're pointing out things that were actually said, and not just maliciously bad twitter translations. There's a lot of those going around.
Pretty sure I saw Fox and Tom Cotton say something like that.

Although some of the fights on (I think) CNN were pretty much all these points but by seperate people. A lot of the MSM were saying that Hamas are terrorists. Dont back them (Don't worry about Israel. They're our friends.)

Geraldo going on Fox and saying, 'maybe this was an overreaction on Israels part' was weird... and there were only a couple of others on other networks saying the same thing. Usually then shouted down

So.... sort of. The Liberals were certainly saying it in a nicer fashion
 

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The settlers must have been chasing people who attacked them. Invisible people, probably.
Before arguments come up talking about Gazans attacking settlers to add “plausibility” to this, a couple things. Israeli settlers have no right to colonize the areas they’re settling, as they do so utilizing Israeli courts who have zero authority over the region, so if anything they’re just fighting a calculated and organized invasion (which Israeli politicians openly participate in and organize). Secondly, Gaza isn’t East Jerusalem. They aren’t contiguous, they don’t have unified governing bodies, they are entirely separate entities save their mutual cause and oppression.
 
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Before arguments come up talking about Gazans attacking settlers to add “plausibility” to this, a couple things. Israeli settlers have no right to colonize the areas they’re settling, as they do so utilizing Israeli courts who have zero authority over the region, so if anything they’re just fighting a calculated and organized invasion (which Israeli politicians openly participate in and organize). Secondly, Gaza isn’t East Jerusalem. They aren’t contiguous, they don’t have unified governing bodies, they are entirely separate entities save their mutual cause and oppression.
Seems like Israel is trying to provoke Hamas into "breaking" the cease fire by flagrantly doing the things that caused Hamas to launch rockets in the first place. As far as I know they also aren't lifting the siege, which was supposed to be a thing they would do some time after the truce that ended Operation Protective Edge. A condition of that truce is that they would "discuss" among other things lifting the siege which apparently never resulted in anything substantial apart from more starvation and poisoning.
 

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Israeli settlers have no right to colonize the areas they’re settling, as they do so utilizing Israeli courts who have zero authority over the region
It's not just that, but the fact this is done through the courts rather than the government is a key aspect of the PR legitimisation. It creates an argument that this is just individuals using their rights of freedom of movement to settle, build, and economically exploit the land, and they just happen (conveniently enough for Israel) to be Israeli Jews.

This occurs on the back of lack of administration of the Palestinian territories, and the destruction of Palestinian economic production. The former means that much land did not appear to have clear recognised owners, thus was vulnerable to being claimed. The latter means that owned land becomes economically unviable, thus useless to hold, and so it is likely to be sold by the owner; the Palestinians then lack the money to buy the land, so it goes to vastly wealthier Israeli Jews.

Israel could block this; it could for instance transfer legal control of the land to Palestinian authorities. Of course it does not, because the current situation is so beneficial to its strategic aims of taking it all.
 

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Israel didn't sterilize any Black Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants. They actively helped them migrate to Israel, and in that process provided healthcare, which in some cases included birth control, which isn't permanent. Their "admission" was telling doctors to stop prescribing birth control if there was any doubt that the women, who spoke a different language, didn't fully understand the birth control they were receiving. Messing with someone's health without complete informed consent is worthy of criticism. Saying the Israeli government admitted to doing so deliberately is false. Saying it was sterilization is false. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-to-put-the-ethiopian-israeli-birth-control-controversy-to-rest

The picture on the right is one man feeling another man's hair, and then they take a selfie together. The man who's face is covered is doing duck lips for the picture, while another black man out of frame laughs at the selfie. No crime was commited, no complaints were made, nobody was captured, no rewards were paid, after a couple minutes everyone went their separate ways, and the only one upset about any of it was the photographer who took that picture. https://observers.france24.com/en/20180501-shocking-photos-migrants-humiliated-tel-aviv

There is no $8700 reward for capturing African refugees. There was an up to $8700 hiring bonus for people who wanted to work for Israels immigration authority. https://www.newsweek.com/israel-immigration-refugees-asylum-civilians-africans-780941
 
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Apparently, the editors of mainstream media legacy outlets are creating artificial both sides framing.
 
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So, if the Palestinians are evicted from Israel, that’s not type of genocide
Would you call it an apartheid then?
Depends, do we include occupied Palestine? If yes, than clearly yes. The unfair treatment and forced evictions of Palestians based on a racist law to make neighborhoods "Jewish" is indicative of an appartheid-like regime.
 

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Hmm, the IDF is celebrating the end of its military actions
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Now, the IDF killed about 250 people, ~70 of them children.
They're counting literally every civilian casualty as a killed terrorist
 

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time to pretend that opposition to Israeli policy is antisemitism and then fabricate an uptick in "antisemitism" because of it.
 

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Well, Netanyahu is ousted.

Not so shockingly, the new guy isn't apparently any better. May even be worse.