Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank

thefz

Clearly defending themselves from Hamas.

grey-area

This is a pattern for Israel. Settlers attack, harass and kill Palestinians with impunity and have done for decades. It’s wrong.

collabs

> In the town of Abu Falah, near Ramallah, at least 80 settlers, some of whom were carrying firearms or clubs, gathered to stop Palestinians from harvesting their olives, using slingshots to hurl rocks at the farmers in view of Israeli military vehicles. When some of the Palestinians then picked up rocks to defend themselves, the Israeli military fired teargas in their direction. This has become beyond ridiculous. I have personally gone from full support for Israel to now not even supporting Israel's right to exist. And I can't be the only one. I feel sorry for the (clearly increasingly rare) "normal" people of Israel but they will soon need to move out of Israel to not be bundled in with the crazies.

bozdemir

Flying cars, Super Duper Intelligence, AGI and yet we can't even stop these, we can't even have peace on earth, we can't avoid conflicts. What good these technological advances are if we can't prevent ourselves being violent apes?

samyar

what about Palestinian settlers in Kurdish lands who occupy Kurdish olive farms? https://rudaw.net/english/categories/syria/775228 What about Turkey burning Kurdish forests for years and not a post about it? why is the world so hypocrite https://www.asparagusmagazine.com/articles/the-turkish-milta...

oliwarner

What's also bad about all this is that journos were told to be here by the "settlers" . Big international news didn't wake up that day and all decide to go to the same place, they were invited. The settlers know what they're doing and know how it looks internationally. While the IDF, government of Israel, and the Israelis who vote for it all vote for this, they consider themselves bulletproof. They're bragging as they ruin these Palestinians' lives. Just like Iran, this is extremism that has to be fixed internally at a very low level, but it also looks like they're just getting started. I'd make historical comparisons but I don't need to. As standalone events, these are bad enough to require action.

jimmydddd

We can't control terrible things that are going on all over the world. But we can decide if we want our tax dollars to be supporting it.

uchiha7itachi

Why is this flagged ?