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David__77

(23,863 posts)
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 12:01 PM Jul 21

Foreign pro-Palestinian activists attacked by Israeli settlers in northern West Bank

Footage emerges of Israeli citizens, reportedly from the illegal settlement of Esh Kodesh, assaulting and beating international pro-Palestinian activists in the northern West Bank, injuring several of them.

Video footage shows a group of men, some masked but others with their faces visible and sporting long pe’ot, or sidelocks, and tzitzit, attacking the activists and beating them with wooden clubs.

According to the “Staring the Occupation in the Face” organization, which campaigns against the settlements, the Israeli assailants came down from Esh Kodesh to attack the activists who were planting olive trees in the land around the Palestinian town of Qusra, south of Nablus.



The IDF forces did not arrest the assailants because they fled the scene, nor did they report the incident to the police, since some of them were masked.



https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/foreign-pro-palestinian-activists-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-in-northern-west-bank/

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Foreign pro-Palestinian activists attacked by Israeli settlers in northern West Bank (Original Post) David__77 Jul 21 OP
Gol-l-l-y: Who Could Have Expected That? The Magistrate Jul 21 #1
Interesting response to such barbarism. David__77 Jul 21 #2
They Got What They Asked For The Magistrate Jul 21 #6
This reminds me of things people have said about civil rights protesters in the US. David__77 Jul 21 #7
Always With the Single Sentence Replies The Magistrate Jul 21 #8
Just look at these two paragraphs. AloeVera Jul 21 #3
One need only do the simple thought exercise of reversing the situation to see the insanity. David__77 Jul 21 #4
Yes. But it works either way. AloeVera Jul 21 #5

The Magistrate

(96,043 posts)
1. Gol-l-l-y: Who Could Have Expected That?
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 12:26 PM
Jul 21

I suspect the 'activists' would have been sorely disappointed had no one attacked them....


"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."



The Magistrate

(96,043 posts)
6. They Got What They Asked For
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 03:31 PM
Jul 21

If you do not understand that is how non-violent protest works, that's a shame. It's something, like People's War, a good leftist ought to be familiar with. The point of the exercise is to provoke one's opponent to violence, which in the case of non-violent protest, is always disproportionate. The intent, anyway, is to show one's opponent in a bad light, in hopes this will result in increased support for your side, or less support for your opponent, anyway. Had they been met with tea and cakes, the demonstration would have been an abject failure.

The problem with the approach here, at least with me, is that I really do not give a fuck. I know perfectly well what the situation in the Jordan valley is, and on Oct. 6, 2023, I would have cared about injustice in the occupied territories. I don't now. Hamas and its supporters have made the cause of Arab Palestine an unclean thing.

The Magistrate

(96,043 posts)
8. Always With the Single Sentence Replies
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 04:09 PM
Jul 21

Of course they are boilerplate of the lowest water, so it's likely just as well you confine yourself to the usual duckspeak noises.

But still, it suggests a less than firm grasp of the subject, and an attempt, shall we say, to provoke disproportionate response. It takes you little if any effort to do what you do, so really just about any response to one of your comments is more than it deserves.

AloeVera

(1,556 posts)
3. Just look at these two paragraphs.
Sun Jul 21, 2024, 12:55 PM
Jul 21

IDF in a nutshell.

The IDF forces did not arrest the assailants because they fled the scene, nor did they report the incident to the police, since some of them were masked.

“The IDF views any attack and injury to citizens very severely and works to protect public order and security in the region,” the army said.


Bonkers.
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