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[-] blitzkrieg@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago

Yet you'll hear everyone say "Hamas is the reason for all the problems".

Well, Hamas doesn't exist in the west bank, so why are people there getting killed and their land stolen by Israeli settlers and the IDF?

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Hamas exists in the West Bank but they’re not in power. Still wouldn’t excuse illegal settlements even if they were in charge

[-] blitzkrieg@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

So, the problem isn't Hamas, the problem is Israel wants to invade Palestine and take all of the land. That is their true purpose.

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

And genocide the Palestinians.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Hamas is a problem too and funded through Iran so I think they’d still be an issue even without the settler bs

[-] blitzkrieg@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

We have just established that Israel wants to take all Palestinian lands, that is the problem.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

There can be and is more than one problem. Iran and their network of paramilitary forces throughout the region is a problem with or without Israel.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago

Without Israeli settler colonialism there would be no Hamas

[-] blitzkrieg@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's what most western people refuse to understand.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Are you saying that receiving money from Iran inherently makes one a problem?

Please stop justifying genocide

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yes please also stop justifying genocide by disagreeing with a basic statement like "HAMAS is also a problem"

Please stop using whataboutism to justify genocide.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's not whataboutism, both are wrong.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The tiny settlement overlooking the Bedouin village of Ein Rashash is named “Angels of Peace”, but, says Sliman al-Zawahri, its residents have visited only violence, fear and despair on his family.

This week the Bedouin community packed up most of their belongings and drove all the women, children and elderly people from the West Bank ridge they had called home for nearly four decades, perched above a spring and beside an archaeological site.

Men from Angels of Peace are part of a broad, violent and very successful political project to expand Israeli control of the West Bank that has accelerated, say activists, since the 7 October attacks by Hamas launched a war with Israel.

“This has been the most successful land-grab strategy since 1967,” said Yehuda Shaul, a prominent activist who is director of the Israeli Center for Public Affairs thinktank, and a founder of Breaking the Silence, an NGO that exposes military abuses in occupied areas.

Along with demolitions, evictions and restrictions on movement and construction, the attacks on herders created “a coercive environment that contributes to displacement that may amount to forcible transfer, a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva convention”.

In the most extreme cases, villagers are so frightened of travelling on roads controlled by settlers that Israeli activists from groups that try to protect Bedouin communities – living with them, walking with them as they herd flocks and documenting abuses – are bringing them food and water.


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[-] library_napper 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, it's another Nakba

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