Israeli settlers smash cars and set fires in attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank

Israeli terrorists

It's ethnic cleansing.

Those that came to the Americas are often referred to as 'settlers' and we know what happened then. It's...consistent.

This is Israel’s entire strategy. Expand with illegal settlers who steal land and engage in violence and then claim self defense when Palestine actually acts in self defense.

yup, also the headline doing the classic western downplaying of what's going on with "smash cares and set fires", while what they are actually doing is torching homes, beating and injuring residents, raiding villages and literally attacking Palestinians as a pogrom was called here: https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/2035572179970994613 all while the IDF stand around watching and protecting them. And all this cause one of them died in a freaking accident, yet this is how these losers react. Disgusting evil.

Israeli Nazis in the West Bank.

…or you can look at the history of the use of the word “settlers” and realize they’re doing pretty much what “settlers” have always done. They move in to other people’s land and remove them violently as they believe they’re entitled to that land. For Israel, that idea is contained within Zionism. Growing up, my imagined view of “settlers” came from school history books and consisted of covered wagons and Wild West homesteads. But those American settlers committed genocide on the American Indians. Americans called it Manifest Destiny; which like Zionism, is just another ugly, vicious form of nationalism. The world started moving away from colonialism over a century ago. Its consequences are alive and well today. The Middle East would be a much different place had it not been for British and French imperialism and its subsequent collapse after WWII. Borders were drawn without regard to various ethnic groups. In the case of the Palestinians and Kurds, their ancestral geography was divided out by UN drawn borders, that split those groups into minorities within these newly formed nations that once made up the heart of the Ottoman Empire. I blame my Great Grandparent’s generation for kicking this foreseeable and preventable problem down the road.

would u rather terrorists? killers? genocidals?

Just because the word settler was used in previous contexts doesn't mean the word is inaccurate because it's *connotation* is *not* that the settler is violent. Do we really think of every european expanding into America was just a raving racist, claiming even the children of natives should die, like Israelis say about Palenstinian children? Of course not. Hence, settler is too soft by removing the second part of this most violent act, namely the violence and hatred.

Settling the way a chicken vindaloo settles my stomach.

Could name them for how they act. Klansmen.

They’re illegal colonizers

well, that's what settlers do. this is tame in comparison to the history of states like texas, utah...

They are supported by the Israeli people not just the state.

It's okay when they do it

More like IDF sanctioned program.

it's their version of the KKK. They want to keep Palestinians in the West Bank in their place.

With immovable bipartisan support of it from the most powerful country in the world.

Radical Judaistic Terrorism.

They don't get a pass, the illegal occupation of the West Bank was called out years ago. It's just that for some reason the RoW doesn't do anything about it and israel just says it's fine. They should be being sanctioned to hell and back at the very least. Unfortunately their recent actions will have created a new batch of radicals that will hate anyone even remotely associated with them so peace in the region is not happening any time soon, and will likely cause issues everywhere else too.

They are extremists who use violence to achieve their aims.

/banned from world news

As it has been since the start.

Their own government will gladly attack their own people if needed. Their government is antisemitic.

As a comedian said, you could show an Israeli a video of them killing someone and they’d still accuse you of antisemitism

Couldn’t care less. That said criticism clearly isn’t working, so what exactly are we doing about it?

I don't know what antisemitism is, but f*** Israel.

Call me one. I'm fine with it

Jewish invaders murder Palastinian civilians and then have blood p*** on the news.

They've leveled chunks of Gaza and are stealing the leftover desirable bits of Palestine. It's ethnic cleansing, people need to stop playing into the soft speech. This is GENOCIDE.

When has settlers not been a euphemism for "genocidal assholes stealing other peoples land"?

Savages is a better term. Only a savage would do such a thing.

No, not letting state sanctioned terrorists take your things is antisemitism.

You can be sympathetic to their plight and condemn them for their injustices at the same time. Those things are not mutually exclusive. Your community having gone through difficulty is not an excuse to impose injustice on other communities.

76% of Israelis believe there are no innocents in Gaza.

Your opening remarks are downplaying just how popular these attitudes are amongst Israelis. The ‘good’ citizens - as you describe them - are in the profound minority with regard to views on Palestinians.  Also, I would encourage everyone to read a bit more into the political parties of the Israeli government and their respective party leaders. See for yourself if Netanyahu is simply a one-off political anomaly.