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An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed that there were “hostage situations” in the southern city of Ofakim and the nearby kibbutz of Beeri.

Hamas said it had taken “dozens” of Israeli soldiers hostage and moved them to the Gaza Strip as footage emerged appearing to show gunmen in military fatigues leading a group of mostly barefoot women down a street in Israel.

The announcement and video verified by NBC News came hours after Hamas launched a deadly land, air and sea attack and fired a huge barrage of rockets at Israel.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just to clarify, you understand they’re all semites and they’re all from that particular region?

Like, it isn’t Israelite land any more than its Palestinian land and at a certain point, these claims of “it was ours first” just continue the cycle of violence, oppression and war crimes.

They are all both perpetrators and victims.

[-] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but his belief that it's his homeland is more valid than their belief it's their homeland because a bunch of weirdo evangelical Christians who pull the strings of the largest military in the world think Jews need to be in Israel for the end times to commence.

[-] danhakimi@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

The word "antisemitism" has a long, complex history you can read about on wikipedia. It was largely promoted by antisemites for some time. But now, it's the standard term for racism against Jews, and we largely find debates about the use of the term tedious and pointless. We don't mind calling it Jew-Hate, but people recognize the term antisemitism, and it works.

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