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Israeli political establishment coming out to try calm things:




 

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Quite the barrage happening right now...

Yea it's scary. Iron dome [current munition supplies] aren't designed for this sort of sustained barrage. And if it's scaring the feck out of people, God only knows what the IDF reaction is gonna be. Many more will die needlessly. Feels way out of control.
 

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I think it would make it very difficult for the Israeli government not to relinquish all territories ceased in 1967 if Israel was categorically and wholeheartedly accepted as a state by all Arab nations.
This is only my personal opinion. The problem I also suspect is, that it is the existence of Israel that angers the Arab states. They believe that Islam will triumph over Israel eventually. To accept Israel as a state would be blasphemous.
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I think it would make it very difficult for the Israeli government not to relinquish all territories ceased in 1967 if Israel was categorically and wholeheartedly accepted as a state by all Arab nations.
This is only my personal opinion. The problem I also suspect is, that it is the existence of Israel that angers the Arab states. They believe that Islam will triumph over Israel eventually. To accept Israel as a state would be blasphemous.
Forget the other Arab nations for a moment. We're discussing Palestinians here who are being evicted. If they accept Israel as a state, will the evictions stop?
 

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Israeli political establishment coming out to try calm things:
Too fecking late. Like Trump when they had already breached the Capitol. Send in the army, gain control of the streets. Prosecute every lyncher and complicit police officer. Only way.
 

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man watching the BBC coverage and then CNN, then seeing the actual tweets from people on the ground especially in Gaza.. this world is so fecking broken - hope Western governments and media feel some shame one day when Palestine is liberated (though they will just pretend they supported them all along)
That's very optimistic. I don't think Palestine will even exist in 20 or 30 years time.
 

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Yea it's scary. Iron dome [current munition supplies] aren't designed for this sort of sustained barrage. And if it's scaring the feck out of people, God only knows what the IDF reaction is gonna be. Many more will die needlessly. Feels way out of control.
Just heard something about Hamas using their longest-ranged rockets ever in this barrage, reaching points inside of Israel for the first time from Gaza.
 
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Forget the other Arab nations for a moment. We're discussing Palestinians here who are being evicted. If they accept Israel as a state, will the evictions stop?
The Palestinians are mostly Sunni Muslims, and from Israel's perspective they are basically a side issue compared to Iran. So, no it wouldn't stop unless all Arab nations complied.
 

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Saw a quote online which stated "The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand for nonviolent resistance". That's what the last few days feel like for me
 

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The Palestinians are mostly Sunni Muslims, and from Israel's perspective they are basically a side issue compared to Iran. So, no it wouldn't stop unless all Arab nations complied.
So even if Palestinians accept Israel but other countries don't, you think the evictions won't stop. Yet you still believe the Palestinians are the aggressors today and Israel is just 'retaliating'?

Let's say Palestinians' first response is to accept Israel. Then what? What else would you like them to do in order for evictions to stop?
 

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Just heard something about Hamas using their longest-ranged rockets in this barrage, reaching points inside of Israel for the first time from Gaza.
They've been using the Iranian F5's for some hours. Doubt they have too many though. Hezbollah are going to get in on the act and start firing from the North too. They are already ranging up dummies. A country under siege, with an angry population within at simmering point whipped up by right wing politicians against a minority whilst that minority also riots against their grievances. Right wing politicians making policy. It cannot end well.

The more under siege they feel; the more aggressive they will be. Biden and Putin both support them to the point they'll allow pretty much anything... which is fecking scary with Netanyhu talking about 'punishing them hard for a long time to come.'
 

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The Palestinians are mostly Sunni Muslims, and from Israel's perspective, they are basically a side issue compared to Iran. So, no it wouldn't stop unless all Arab nations complied.
So, basically, you're asking for the impossible. And until that time Palestinians just have to sit on their hands as they're evicted from their homes and blown up.

That's actually sounds fine to you?!
 

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So even if Palestinians accept Israel but other countries don't, you think the evictions won't stop. Yet you still believe the Palestinians are the aggressors today and Israel is just 'retaliating'?

Let's say Palestinians' first response is to accept Israel. Then what? What else would you like them to do in order for evictions to stop?
The PLO affirmed Israels right to exist back in 1993, before Hamas truly rose to power. It got them nowhere. The land theft and displacement just continued regardless.
 

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Saw a quote online which stated "The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand for nonviolent resistance". That's what the last few days feel like for me
I couldn't have worded it better myself. The audacity of well-off Western citizens to throw their morality around is an interesting psychological concept.

I know it is just a movie but this was an important theme throughout the Gandhi movie. So much emphasis on Indians 'retaliating' with violence.
 

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What's with the vast amount of Indian blokes on Twitter stating their pride and "standing with Israel"? Do Indians really hate Muslims that much? Do they not see the parallels between the British occupation of India?
 

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So even if Palestinians accept Israel but other countries don't, you think the evictions won't stop. Yet you still believe the Palestinians are the aggressors today and Israel is just 'retaliating'?

Let's say Palestinians' first response is to accept Israel. Then what? What else would you like them to do in order for evictions to stop?
He is willing to blame pretty much everyone and every country in the world apart from Israel for the inhuman acts committed by Israeli soldiers on Palestine civilians. People have given him ample number of chances being patient to come to the right realization but that pretty much seems a lost cause. It's pretty clear the stance here is that all the problems are started by the Palestinians and Israel have never done anything wrong and have always just acted in self defense. It's a lost cause.
 

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So even if Palestinians accept Israel but other countries don't, you think the evictions won't stop.
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Yet you still believe the Palestinians are the aggressors today and Israel is just 'retaliating'?
Yes
Let's say Palestinians' first response is to accept Israel. Then what? What else would you like them to do in order for evictions to stop?
It wouldn't happen, would it?
Muslim countries hate the existence of Israel. Ask them yourself.
 

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What's with the vast amount of Indian blokes on Twitter stating their pride and "standing with Israel"? Do Indians really hate Muslims that much? Do they not see the parallels between the British occupation of India?
Right wing islamophibic nutjobs supporting these acts is hardly the most surprising thing right now. People in here are morally bankrupt.
 

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So, basically, you're asking for the impossible. And until that time Palestinians just have to sit on their hands as they're evicted from their homes and blown up.

That's actually sounds fine to you?!
Ask yourself why it's impossible, then think about it.
 

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What's with the vast amount of Indian blokes on Twitter stating their pride and "standing with Israel"? Do Indians really hate Muslims that much? Do they not see the parallels between the British occupation of India?
I've noticed this myself in the last few years. Right wing, nationalist nutjobs from different countries seem to support each other
 

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No


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It wouldn't happen, would it?
Muslim countries hate the existence of Israel. Ask them yourself.
So let me get this straight. You have absolutely no problem with removing people from their homes? It is their own fault essentially? And you don't consider that to be Israeli aggression?
 

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Apologies @Sultan as you didn’t ask me, but this is my basic understanding of the issue:

The buildings in question are owned by an organization which aims to settle Jews in Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem (and I’d assume elsewhere). This organization purchased the buildings/land in the 80s (I think) from two Jewish Trusts which owned the land originally going back to the 19th century. From 1948-1967 East Jerusalem was occupied by Jordan and the Jewish owners and residents were forced to leave. Jordanian authorities subsequently used the buildings to house Palestinian refugees coming from the other direction. After Israel conquered East Jerusalem in 1967, they transferred ownership back to the two Jewish Trusts, and an arrangement was apparently eventually reached whereby the Palestinian residents would be permitted to stay indefinitely in exchange for rent and recognition of the owners. However it seems the Palestinian families dispute aspects of this, or claim they agreed to it under false pretenses. Anyway, the settler organization which subsequently purchased the buildings/land from the trusts is seeking to have the families evicted on the basis that they have not paid rent in decades and that they have extended/modified the properties without legal authority.

The moral (and probably legal) problem for Israel is that while the state has a process whereby Jewish owners of land which came under Jordanian control in 1948 could reclaim that land following 1967, no such process exists for Arab owners of land who were dispossessed and forced out of Israel in 1948, and who subsequently came under Israeli control in 1967 - such as the residents in question in this case. So a loophole exists and is being exploited by organizations with a particular ideological agenda, stamped with the legal authority of the state. And as the organization’s agenda does not significantly conflict with the state’s interest, and in fact may be understood as serving it depending on your outlook, Israeli authorities are happy to acquiesce. The case, then, has acquired a symbolic significance beyond the immediate practicalities.

As for the settlers themselves, in this case I would assume they are extremely ideologically driven, given the environment in which they seem determined to embed themselves in.

*(edit): loophole is the wrong term here. It’s an unequal law being used to enforce what it is essentially designed for - advance the Jewish presence across the land.
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Ask yourself why it's impossible, then think about it.
Yeah it's impossible, not to mention an incredibly nonsensical stance to have, because Palestine's right to peace with Israel shouldn't be decided on anything other than those two nation's diplomatic agreements. Nobody can be this obtuse.
 

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Mate I think you've had your say and shown how completely blind you are towards the acts committed by Israel over the years. You'd blame the Arabs if there was an earthquake over there.
Not true. If Muslims are the people of God, and Islam is the true faith, then they're totally justified in their view of Jewish occupation of Israel. Islam will eventually triumph over Israel, it's just a matter of time.
 

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What's with the vast amount of Indian blokes on Twitter stating their pride and "standing with Israel"? Do Indians really hate Muslims that much? Do they not see the parallels between the British occupation of India?
I wouldn't say so. Only these Hindu right wing extremists.
A lot of Palestinians got scholarships and studied in India. PLO had a mission in India from the 80s. That said after modi came to power the hate against the Muslims are on the rise.
There were lots of high profile Palestinians who are not Muslims. Hanan Ashrawi is a Christian.
 

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That's the bottom line. They are fundamentalists, they believe the entire land should belong to them (or "us") and the people in power support them. Getting rid of the Palestenians allows them to take control of the land and once they do that, the chances of them being evicted are low. Even if they are evicted, they come back. And the army is quietly in support of that, supposedly for security reasons - but at the end of the day, the army takes orders from the govenment.


Being of Jewish descendence allows you to become a citizen and once that happens, no one is going to tell you where to live.

It's not about taking jobs from the Palestenians, as they normally do jobs Israeli don't want to do - such as contruction.
Thanks for the reply, Amir.

Can anyone wanting to better their economic life falsely claim to be Jewish and move to Israel, is there any checks?
 

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why do they support Israel? don't they want Jesus to conquer everything?
1) they believe the existance of the State of Israel is fulfillment of prophesy

2) they believe that the Jews are God’s chosen people

Because of this, American conservative evangelicals see any strike against the state of Israel as a strike against biblical prophecy and God’s will. This leads to conservative politicians pandering to this belief to secure votes from the American evangelical voters through supporting Israel’s military and domestic/foreign policy.
 

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Lapid’s statement is the best from an Israeli politician I’ve seen tonight, calling out the far-right gangs by name:

 

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You don't know the history between Indian Hindu and Catholic relations with Muslims?
I'm of Pakistani descent, so I'm well aware of the history and relationship between Hindus and Muslims. I was just commenting on a trend I'd noticed in the last few years - I actually remember in the last GE here in the UK there was right wing Hindu propaganda aimed at getting British Indians voting for the Tories and smearing Labour.
 

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Hi Sultan, thank you for the tag. I too wish both sets of people peace and normality but I'd like to make it clear for anyone who may think otherwise that I'm not Israeli. I'm from Indonesia and my background is actually Muslim albeit in name only, no one in my family is actually practicing. Anyway -- I just happen to have taken international law as my major at law school years ago and I did a few coursework on this conflict, and I also happen to agree with Israel's positions more often than not, but I don't think I'm best qualified to answer your questions.

But broadly speaking these aren't evictions in my book, it's settler colonialism and is very much rooted in extremist Jewish nationalism brought into the mainstream by a racist and a bigot by the name of Meir Kahane, who was actually a Brooklynite. Netanyahu is in bed with people of his ilk.
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1) they believe the existance of the State of Israel is fulfillment of prophesy

2) they believe that the Jews are God’s chosen people
Thank you. Do they believe that then the Jews would become Christians in the end? Or what would happen to the Jews and Israel according to them?