For those who think the IDF does no wrong
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Anonymous
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Sucks to be on the losing side, even if you started it? That seems to be the essence of all the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel bleating. No shouting at the top of your lungs for reforms among the Palestinians? They must once again be the blameless, helpless victims of the Big Bad U.S. tax dollars and the disappointingly successful society created from nothing by Israel. If only those supremely innocent Palestinians had done something productive in the last 80 years, but it seems they were too busy diverting foreign aid to build terror infrastructure and plotting sweet revenge for their seemingly endless series of military defeats. No time to build a successful society, it seems.
How sad for them, indeed. |
Anonymous
Who do you think is going to ultimately win this? The people who have been there for 1000s of years and never left, even in the face of state-sponsored starvation and genocide? Or a bunch of white European Jews who can't even get all the Judaic rabbis and scholars to agree that zionism is a birthright? |
Anonymous
Newsflash, this is actually the “nice, polite” version of Israeli intolerance and racism. Trust and believe, there are MILLIONS of Israelis whose words and actions are no less repulsive than what we see from Weiss. Americans are finally beginning to open our eyes to the diseased scourge of Zionism, but it will be a long, drawn-out process for many. |
Anonymous
Wait and see. My money is on the newcomers who have been demonstrably successful in less than a century, rather than on "the people who have been there for 1000s of years" with no perceptible advancement. |
Anonymous
| Can't wait for my next trip to Israel! Hoping to get on one of those genocide tours led by Daniella Weiss where I get to see bombs being dropped over Gaza to slaughter mostly children. Also super excited to join a settler raid and terrorize non-chosen families as well a "right to rape Palestinians" protests. |
Anonymous
I heard you get the VIP treatment if you're a prospective homebuyer and live in certain areas of New Jersey where the purchasing of stolen houses and land is openly advertised. This is not a joke. Any American who buys land (and there are many) in occupied territories should lose their American citizenship because they're breaking international law. |
Anonymous
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CBS Evening News
From 8 years ago Who could these US benefactors be??? It's only a 3 minute video. |
Anonymous
People are not falling for your Zionist propaganda anymore. |
Anonymous
The US has given Israel over 300 billion dollars over the years. No wonder they are so “advanced” compared to their neighbors |
Anonymous
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A very insightful article. There are just too much information and examples to pick only a few. Please read if you want to know how dirty and soulless the IDF is, and the real reason why mothers, children, the elderly, the handicapped, teachers, doctors, and nurses are being deliberately killed. The pathetic thing is that Israelis in government and the military seem to think that the ILD shields them from war crimes accusations.
New Republic: The Scariest Unit in the Israeli Army Is Not an Elite Fighting Squad It’s the International Law Department, which gives the [IDF] permission to kill 15 to 20 civilians per combatant death and pastes a veneer of properness over IDF operations. Strikes on homes are usually done with “dumb bombs.” These munitions do not have precision equipment, their weight made up instead with extra explosive. When no place is safe, families shelter together. As a result, families are eradicated together. The International Law Department’s allowance of 20 or more civilians slain in exchange for the mere possibility of killing a single target disgusted enough officers that they blew the whistle on the technology and the mentality that made family annihilation a de facto common policy. Another common practice is the use of a “combat zone” or “kill zone”—a deadly radius around an army unit’s dug-in position. Anything or anyone entering this zone is shot or shelled. No signposts or banners mark the outer rim, and there is no forewarning of the kind the IDF boasted about during the war’s earlier air campaign. |
Anonymous
Galling when the facts don't work in favor of your preferred narrative? |
Anonymous
Don't attack, suffer no consequences, even fabricated consequences emanating from the fevered imaginations of the desperate losing side. |
Anonymous
How many billions have the Palestinians in Gaza received? And what have they done with it? The consensus seems to be $40B in the last three decades, including $11B from the U.S. but not counting clandestine aid from Iran. It's obvious it mostly went to the construction of terror infrastructure; there's no obvious evolved economy, democratic government, or civil society in place. Some of that aid has however gone to schools devoted to indoctrinating Gazan children into lives as terrorists - see today's illuminating Op-Ed in the WaPo. |
Anonymous
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From a more moderate Jewish perspective considering that almost the entire world recognizes that Palestine and Palestinians exist and that two states should exist.
A Jewish Meditation on the Palestinian Genocide By Sheryl Ono We all were told that Palestine was barren and uninhabited before the Zionist movement in the early 1900s. In truth, half a million Arabs were living there when European Jews first showed up to declare it Eretz Yisrael, the land of the Jewish people, biblically ordained. Arabs were the majority population for at least thirteen centuries and enjoyed a good relationship with the small Jewish community in Palestine. But as the European immigrants bought up land, they began evicting the Arabs who had been farming it. Tensions spilled over to periodic violence, which continued back and forth in the decades before the UN vote on partition. “Of course the Palestinians resisted Zionism,” said Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter in England. “As long as someone knocks on that window and says ‘I used to live there two thousand years ago,’ it’s okay. But if he begins to live in my house, I will try and kick [him] out. It’s a natural right of colonized people to try and kick out the colonialists… Now, Israelis don’t understand it. Israelis don’t know that they colonized Palestine. They really think they came to an empty land and these nasty Palestinians started to attack them.” Pappé has said that he believed the same while growing up in Haifa and serving in the army. It was not until his doctoral work at Oxford, when Israel began declassifying military files from the period, that he was first confronted with the truth. I have been afraid to put my thoughts in print, knowing what will come back at me. I am even more worried about the state of my relationship with friends and family. Months ago, my much-loved cousin asked, “can’t we agree to disagree?” In any other circumstance my answer would be unequivocally yes. But the voice of my parents would echo in my head if I agreed to overlook this subject. Over the years, they returned to a question that gnawed at them: how did ordinary Germans carry on with their lives and stay silent? My parents never forgave the silent ones, never would set foot in Germany, never would buy a German car. I can’t agree to disagree. |
Anonymous
Palestinians can't even build a fkn house on their land without proper Israeli permits. These permits sometimes take dozens of years to resolve and are often rejected. So Palestinians "illegally" build their own houses, on their own property, in their own state, which are then bulldozed by the IDF. This is separate from scumbag settlers stealing existing houses and buildings with the help of illegal Israeli courts (that have no jurisdiction under international law) and then, under the barrel of a gun, evicting Palestinians who have lived there for decades and multiple generations. |