Reece, thanks for posting about these murders. A young child, age 13, was killed on Monday from the same village. Then the settlers went on a rampage and the IOF shot and killed three more young men.
A lovely array of posts and vids of hellacious acts by two groups with ancient ancestral ties who despise each other. One group has been thrown from Europe back to their original geographic stomping grounds bereft of any real ties to the land, but desperate to find space to be free of hatred. Only to be met by another desperate group who also were of the poor. Conflict was inevitable. And it has continued through today.
Each side claimed their right to the land. As time passed the conflicting claims have only intensified as outside financial interests have chosen sides, each new ally trumpeting support for the increasingly desperate pleas of the respective combatants. Till now when both sides claim the right to condemn the other’s genocidal intent. While both sides cheer their righteous response to the other’s hate driven assaults, which seem to occur during demarcated prayer periods.
The righteous shall prevail! An eye for an eye till everyone is blind.
Your comment is utter nonsense. There are not two equivalent and competing claims to historic Palestine. Palestine belongs to the Arabs who live there and who have lived there for millennia. European Jews never had a legitimate claim to a land their ancestors, as Europeans, have no historic connection to. The Zionist state has been a European settler colonial project from the beginning. You don't get to go to someone else's home and kick them out claiming your ancestors from 3,000 years back lived there. And you don't get to claim god promised you the land based on a convenient mythology. That's psychotic.
Right on, Cara! I don't know who said this, but it sums up the situation: “The people who will die for their land, those are the people the land belongs to. The people who kill for the land, those are the people the land does not belong to.”
you thoroughly misinterpret my comment-apparently for your own zealous beliefs, which are frankly, utterly beyond the scope of my concerns.
Still, you write with passion and that concept is what I was plumbing. When people speak in absolutes, especially when invoking the past, one can be assured that nothing peaceful, reasoned and considerate of others will result.
Rather than engage in proper interpretations i’ll happily concede the field to another zealot with one eye.
Thanks to your post and the courage of the people of the West Bank we know that the Zionists of the 48 Land are rattled - though worse - vindictive and even more brazenly callous.
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Reece, thanks for posting about these murders. A young child, age 13, was killed on Monday from the same village. Then the settlers went on a rampage and the IOF shot and killed three more young men.
if they are striking Israel : YEAH and a HALF!!
A lovely array of posts and vids of hellacious acts by two groups with ancient ancestral ties who despise each other. One group has been thrown from Europe back to their original geographic stomping grounds bereft of any real ties to the land, but desperate to find space to be free of hatred. Only to be met by another desperate group who also were of the poor. Conflict was inevitable. And it has continued through today.
Each side claimed their right to the land. As time passed the conflicting claims have only intensified as outside financial interests have chosen sides, each new ally trumpeting support for the increasingly desperate pleas of the respective combatants. Till now when both sides claim the right to condemn the other’s genocidal intent. While both sides cheer their righteous response to the other’s hate driven assaults, which seem to occur during demarcated prayer periods.
The righteous shall prevail! An eye for an eye till everyone is blind.
Your comment is utter nonsense. There are not two equivalent and competing claims to historic Palestine. Palestine belongs to the Arabs who live there and who have lived there for millennia. European Jews never had a legitimate claim to a land their ancestors, as Europeans, have no historic connection to. The Zionist state has been a European settler colonial project from the beginning. You don't get to go to someone else's home and kick them out claiming your ancestors from 3,000 years back lived there. And you don't get to claim god promised you the land based on a convenient mythology. That's psychotic.
Right on, Cara! I don't know who said this, but it sums up the situation: “The people who will die for their land, those are the people the land belongs to. The people who kill for the land, those are the people the land does not belong to.”
That is the best 'in a nutshell' explanation of the complex historical background to the ongoing conflict
you thoroughly misinterpret my comment-apparently for your own zealous beliefs, which are frankly, utterly beyond the scope of my concerns.
Still, you write with passion and that concept is what I was plumbing. When people speak in absolutes, especially when invoking the past, one can be assured that nothing peaceful, reasoned and considerate of others will result.
Rather than engage in proper interpretations i’ll happily concede the field to another zealot with one eye.
Thanks to your post and the courage of the people of the West Bank we know that the Zionists of the 48 Land are rattled - though worse - vindictive and even more brazenly callous.