Conflict between Palestine and Israel escalates

[Seanchaidh]

95% sure they aren't.

It's difficult to be formally at war with something you don't recognize exists. But not impossible.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Start by targeting military personel only, snipers, car bombs, assassinations. Cars loaded with explosives drive straight towards military installations, explosives planted on the hulls of ships (actually feasible even with limited resources). Point is that it should be targeted at military targets with little to no chance of civilian casualties. The main defense of the Israeli government is that the opponents are terrorists, take that away and it becomes way harder to justify occupation and civillian deaths.

Also, I might be on a list now.

I mean, it's a good thought, but the IDF tends to plonk down bases in the middle of cities.

Kinda like Hamas

 

[Seanchaidh]

I mean, it's a good thought, but the IDF tends to plonk down bases in the middle of cities.

Kinda like Hamas

Israel complains about Hamas using "human shields". Meanwhile they do that as well as strap Palestinian children to the outside of their vehicles.

 

[Seanchaidh]

The what:

Israel raids office of children's rights group, confiscates computers, files

Israeli forces raided Defense for Children International - Palestine’s headquarters in the central occupied West Bank, confiscating computers and client files

www.middleeastmonitor.com

Possibly the why:

 

[Seanchaidh]

 

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[Samtemdo8]

Is Isreal's goal here to expand their territory via conquest and genocide?

 

[dreng3]

Is Isreal's goal here to expand their territory via conquest and genocide?

A lot of pro-settlement types will jump down your throat for calling it genocide. You can't use words like genocide and hurt their feelings, you have to call it ethnic cleansing.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

A lot of pro-settlement types will jump down your throat for calling it genocide. You can't use words like genocide and hurt their feelings, you have to call it ethnic cleansing.

"God wants us to live on this land, so it's really okay for us to do whatever we want to the people already living there, since God obviously hates them."

There's got to be a shorter term I can use for this mindset. How about... "manifest destiny"? Kinda rings a bell, now that I think about it....

 

[Seanchaidh]

Is Isreal's goal here to expand their territory via conquest and genocide?

Apparently. But the plan is to do it slowly enough that no one apart from Palestinians does anything substantial about it.

 

[Agema]

Is Isreal's goal here to expand their territory via conquest and genocide?

It's worked for them the last 75 years, why change now?

 

[Trunkage]

Is Isreal's goal here to expand their territory via conquest and genocide?

I would suggest reading the Torah/Bible. God demanded that they kill or forcibly convert everyone in the promised land, starting with Jericho. So, yes. Their, and the Christian, God demand it.

 

[Seanchaidh]

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labour-antisemitism-accused-purging-jews-over-claims

Starmer’s allies say he has taken a much harder line than Corbyn on antisemitism and made progress on tackling the issue. Jewish Voice for Labour contests this, arguing that the new Labour leader has instead taken sides in an argument among British Jews.

“Previous leaderships,” it states, “sought to hear from diverse Jewish perspectives. But the party now limits its engagement with British Jews to groups who claim to represent ‘the Jewish community’ but who in fact represent only one position within it.”

It adds: “The party is in effect collaborating with these groups to delegitimise Jewish dissent.”

I really wish Israel and its overseas supporters would stop intentionally resembling antisemitic caricatures.

 

[Seanchaidh]

PayPal and the ADL: A Match Made in Censorship Hell

PayPal has announced a partnership with the Anti-Defamation League to defund extremist and hate movements. The problem is that, for the ADL, that often means groups fighting against Israeli apartheid.

jacobinmag.com

 

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[Adam Jensen]

If Israel was a Muslim country, the US would have invaded them a long time ago.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

If Israel was a Muslim country, the US would have invaded them a long time ago.

Relevant reading from the great war and British mandate period;

History of Palestine - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And;

Understanding the Evangelical obsession with Israel

It has more to do with prophecy than politics.

www.americamagazine.org

The last link can be summarised by: christian evangelicals want all Jewish pp in Israel which they believe will then kickstart the second coming and therefore the apocalypse.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

The last link can be summarised by: christian evangelicals want all Jewish pp in Israel which they believe will then kickstart the second coming and therefore the apocalypse.

During which, they believe, they will all go to Heaven and get to laugh at all us sinners suffering here on Earth.

 

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

All this about Afghanistan and then Israel starts doing shit again. couldn't you guys just wait until the Afghanistan evacuation was over before being dicks again?