Targeting of government-funded group active in Hebron hills brings punitive measures closer to Israeli cabinet
  • oakey66@lemmy.worldEnglish
    312·
    22 days ago

    What’s the difference when the IDF is fully providing support for their extreme acts.

    • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
      12·
      22 days ago

      This needs said over and over.

      The settlement of the West Bank used to be a slow walk of annexation. Now, it’s not even slow.

      The Israeli civilian government is actively annexing the entire region. They are rounding up native residents and putting them into interment camps. They are openly discussing expanding their activity into their northern neighboring country, Lebanon. The military is serving as shock troops for the naked displacement of locals. The IDF is conducting air strikes on a totally defenseless demilitarized neighboring country that is already under total military occupation. While using a separate, unrelated war as a brazenly cynical excuse to just start attacking anyone whose land they happen to want next.

      Thes sanctions are a band aid applied to a mortar wound to the chest. This is so wildly disproportionate to the needs of the situation that I genuinely feel it is far more offensive than doing nothing.

      • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        21 days ago

        It’s really, really not. If the people of the US accepted the fact that their political system is just one big fraud, then maybe they’d stop pinning their hopes for change on it and consider alternatives that may actually yield some success.