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This isn't about a few 'bad apples.' Israel is annexing the West Bank (responsiblestatecraft.org)
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We were planning to visit the village of Ras ‘Ein al-’Auja in the northern West Bank. But three weeks before the trip, all 700 residents of the village fled due to violence from nearby settlers. When we drove through the ruined remains of the village, we saw groups of Israeli settlers having a picnic.

We were able to visit the village Fasa’il al-Wusta in the Jordan Valley. When we visited, six out of eight families had fled. Two weeks later, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) demolished the home of the family we visited. Now only one of those families is left.

As the world’s attention is fixed on the war that President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started with Iran, Israel’s far-right government is quietly pursuing full-scale annexation in the West Bank. What we saw was a microcosm.

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[–] 26 points 5 months ago (11 children)

What?

This has been known for months if not years, and has not been quiet.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    News has become the old Slowpoke meme because they aren’t actually doing journalism anymore with very few exceptions

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Israel keeps killing all the real journalists.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You’re not wrong at all, but don’t let capitalism off of killing the overall industry

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This is a seriously reductive take on the surge in settler violence in the West Bank since the ceasefire in Gaza. Maybe you can add something to the thread than just dismissing the article as old news.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    The "ceasefire" is already relatively long ago.

    Israel is 100% following the nazi guidelines, and adding some more on top. There is no surprise because they are doing everything that is expected, and was to expect long, long ago.

    I'm not dismissing the article as old news, I'm complaining that articles are all pretending to be shocked when this is completely expected and proves that countries that do nothing are completely complicit.

    I want articles saying instead "Israelian genocide intensifies as western countries show no care".

    Pretending that every new thing that happens is "oh no, now things are starting to begin to maybe become bad" doesn't help anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Seriously reductive perhaps, yet 100% true and old news, no reason to dictate anybody's reaction in my opinion but you do you.

    Could you leave a list of acceptable responses to news articles that you approve? We'll try to accommodate your needs.

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    • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    ALSO THE SAYING IS "A FEW BAD APPLES SPOIL THE BUNCH"

    Literally. You put a bunch of apples in a container and a couple of them are rotten, the others are going to spoil too.

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    [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    At least the Nazis were simple and easy to quantify. Contemporaneous fascism is so much more complicated…

    (of course it really isn’t though)

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The methods they use to control public thought certainly are more complicated, though.

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  • [+] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    What are you talking about? From star to finish, the Nazis had almost a solid 12 years in power, and that’s not including the several years they built power beforehand. There was nothing “quick” about it.

    Fascism has always had a slow creep into power and has always taken a long time to root it out wherever it has been. Remember Victor Orban? And how long it took to get him out of power?

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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Always has been 🔫

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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Well, their book specifically calls for genocide so I suppose this is essentially a return to form for them.

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Those bad apples have long ago spoiled the bunch.

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Reminder that not only does the vast vajority of Israelis support this, nearly half of them support the final solution.

    Supporting genocide but thinking they should just stop short of killing every single one of them seems contradictory to me, but what do I know, I'm not a Zionist

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