Israeli forces fire teargas at schoolchildren holding West Bank sit-in

Settlers have basically always been terrorists. They are sent out into already lived in land so that an army can "defend" them when people already living there fight back against invaders stealing their land.

That is correct.

The whole "settler" terminology is propaganda at its finest. Settlers weren't colonizers...no no nooo. Settlers are building their homes in "unsettled" land where no man has ever step foot! But...they some how happen upon fully built homes and some strange creatures that look like them and sometimes even speak their language...and yet they are like the wind. You hear it, but you cannot make out its words when its presence is clearly felt. Cognitive dissonance isn't even a strong enough phrase at this juncture.

Genocide wanna-be

Invaders don’t let them call themselves settlers

Terrorist thugs. With backing from a pedophile terrorist organization called Israel

You can just say Israelis. Terrorists is redundant.

Settlers? Is this like untamed frontier territory or something?

God promised them this barbed wired road 3000 years ago

What? They're settlers, they want to settle in the land by displacing Palestinians. Most colonisation projects around the world were like this. This is what Americans did to Indians, and what the Europeans did before them.

Why? Is it because the first thought of an average American is "Palestinian schoolkids are all terrorists who totally deserve getting teargassed and worse" ? 

Upgrading from explosive ordinance to chemical warfare? love that for them

Says Israelis, not American cheese-dicks playing war games with ChatGPT

I prefer O for Occupation.

And what a plot twist this has become… never again, right?

ironically, they're doing a good job of shaping future terrorists with the things they're doing.

Literally. This is third-hand information, you get what you paid for it, but my brother was on a trip and met someone who had been (was still in?) the IDF... that's exactly what she said. We have to kill the children because they're going to grow up to be terrorists.

Israel is regime of religious lunatics. Fk Israel.

this. very few if any israeli founders went thru the holocaust and when holocaust survivors got to israel they had a terrible time and were seen as failures who gave up on zionism to stay and be murdered in europe. israel is so weird man

> Israeli’s have become what they feared eh, if you look at history, the zionists and founders of Israel didn't really care about the holocaust, they [only cared about the PR value of the holocaust](https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1181/zionism-and-holocaustabuse/), not the victims as [they hated said victims](https://mondoweiss.net/2019/05/the-strong-weak/). they never feared becoming the Nazis, they learned what they could from it. And this went on even during the holocaust, they only cared about how they could use the holocaust to promote Israel and zionism: > As early as September 1942, when most of Europe’s Jews were still alive, the Zionists were thinking of creating a memorial to them. The creation of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, was proposed. This was seen as “the very last opportunity to score any financial success”.39 At this time the Jewish Agency had not even acknowledged that there was a holocaust. Tom Segev comments: > > "There was no clearer, more grotesque, even macabre expression of the tendency to think of the holocaust in the past tense: while the Yishuv discussed the most appropriate way to memorialise them, most of the victims were still alive." > > Gerhard Riegner, the World Jewish Congress representative in Geneva during the war, articulated how the Zionist movement saw the holocaust. He believed that: > > "Auschwitz was not only a national memory belonging to the Jewish people … it was also an important political asset. Among other things it served the diplomatic efforts of both the WJC and Israel." > > For Zionism the proposed Jewish state was eternal. The Jews who died in the holocaust would have died anyway. This is not dissimilar to the fascist idea that the state is everything, the individual is nothing. Ben-Gurion only cared about the state not the people they claimed Israel was founded to "protect". [Here is a link](https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1181/zionism-and-holocaustabuse/) to the many quotes, speeches, thoughts, writings by these ppl on the holocaust, and I'll just quote one by Ben-Gurion showing this insanity: > In spite of the certainty that genocide was being carried out, the Jewish Agency executive did not deviate appreciably from its routine ... Two facts can be definitively stated: Ben-Gurion did not put the rescue effort above Zionist politics and he did not regard it as a principle task demanding his personal leadership. > > Ben-Gurion was clear that in the event of “a conflict of interest between saving individual Jews and the good of the Zionist enterprise, we shall say the enterprise comes first” > > From the outset of the war the Zionists took a conscious decision that their priority was the building of a Jewish state, not the rescue of Jews from Europe. They actively opposed Jews going anywhere but Palestine. When Britain agreed to the Kindertransport - the admission of 10,000 Jewish children from Germany after the Krystallnacht pogrom - David Ben Gurion was furious. > “If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.” - Ben-Gurion (Quoted on pp 855-56 in Shabtai Teveth’s Ben-Gurion in a slightly different translation). Zionism had nothing to do with Judaism, talking about Herzl's version here and the now revisionist Zionism that is the zionism of today, hence why many religious Jews called out and wanted nothing to do with Herzl and his ethnonationalist movement. But I digress, a lot of history here to go into and all that. Just look at how Israel has always treated holocaust victims: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/one-third-of-israeli-holocaust-survivors-live-in-poverty-advocates-say https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-abuses-holocaust-survivors https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7627438/ https://kb.osu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/367cb008-aa0c-5da7-ac6d-8f62a4e0ac7a/content https://palestinenexus.com/articles/zionists-holocaust-survivors https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=4060

Yup, they have become what they feared, what they collectively had to endure. On the one hand, judaism is kinda primed to be super racist, right? They are the “chosen people” and this makes them extra special. They have a god given right to certain lands. Their history has examples of putting to the sword all non-hebrews. But on the other hand there is also a rich history and theology of being welcoming to others, to foreigners, to the sick, poor, widowed and orphaned. A deep sense of personhood, of the sanctity of life. A most curious sort of thing this sort of split. Over the centuries Jews were conquered, exiled, chased off, had blame placed on them for stuff they couldn’t possibly have been responsible. They were prevented from owning property. From weaving and blending into larger society. Most infamously they, as a group, endured what industrialized murder had to offer. Terrible things. So, to see the modern state of Israel fall into the same sort of vilification of others, the demonization of there neighbors, to do to Palestinians what was done by Nazis, Russians, poles, Spaniards, Romans and even themselves, is kinda maddening. And it is more deeply maddening that the crimes that the state of Israel commits are tolerated, they are accepted and even condoned. Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, etc. all have a right to exist. They have a right to live in peace same as the rest of us. But Netanyahu and his predecessors are not bringing peace. Not for anyone.

Good luck making it to presidency as an anti-Zionist without Mossad using a heart attack gun on you.

That or I would tell them any and all financial and military aid would end entirely unless they completely remove themselves from all territory that is not designated for them and write their constitution to include Palestinian rights

You might be surprised when pigs fly then because the remaining AIPAC Democrats are going to be primaried and it will become the only major party not beholden to Israeli related donor backing. The only question is -- who is going to fill that substantial fundraising gap for liberals and progressives? If a large group doesn't step up, moderates and the left will get trounced by conservatives in campaign funding.

Hard to do that as an American when the majority of politicians are bankrolled by AIPAC

Scaly who loves Israel is a new type of guy

funny how Lebanon is an actual democracy that isn't in a constant state of suspended elections