One dead and dozens injured after Israeli settlers storm West Bank village

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/12/one-dead-after-israeli-settlers-storm-palestinian-village-in-west-bank


Dozens of angry Israeli settlers have stormed into a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, shooting and setting houses and cars on fire. Palestinian health officials said one Palestinian man was killed and 25 others were wounded in the attack.

The violence was the latest in an escalation in the West Bank that has accompanied the war in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli rights group said the settlers were searching for a missing 14-year-old boy from their settlement. After the rampage, Israeli troops said they were still searching for the teen.

The killing came after an Israeli raid overnight killed two Palestinians, including a Hamas militant, in confrontation with Israeli forces.

Palestinian health officials say more than 460 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces since the war erupted in October.
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Sickening.
Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you.

[Phoenix61]

1. That quote is from the New Testament.

I think they are a lot more about an eye for an eye. I’m so over people fighting and killing over who’s sky daddy is the biggest bad ass.

[RockRaven]

12. The principle of the statement is cross cultural and predates the Old Testament

by a millennium, according to extant written records... so if they want to go "eye for eye" based on an appeal to antiquity (instead of, I dunno, for example, using modern moral reasoning) they are still fucking up.

[summer_in_TX]

14. The Mosaic command is parallel to the Golden Rule: "Whatever is hurtful to you, do not do to any other person."

[malaise]

38. THIS

Rec

[malaise]

17. I'm an atheist - but the origin of that quote has long been disputed

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The origin of the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” has been attributed to the Christian Bible, Buddhism, Confucianism, and ancient Egyptian tales. The diversity and age of these sources confirm the Golden Rule's enduing value and applicability today—and in particular, to presentations.

I try hard to live by my moral code and never defend groups or nations for partisan reasons.
Genocide and war crimes continue in Gaza with a lot of Western countries, including US complicity

[Beastly Boy]

23. Does your moral code permit shielding groups or nations for partisan reasons?

Body of missing teenage shepherd found in the West Bank

After a 24-hour search for the missing 14-year-old shepherd, Binyamin Achimair, his body was discovered in the same region where he went missing, Israeli media reported on Saturday.

The IDF confirmed the cause of death as being a terrorist murder, with security services currently in pursuit of those believed responsible.

Due to the nationalist motive of the murder, the investigation was handed over to the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-796779

[malaise]

24. Your position on these matters is

Pellucidly clear - I pass
That is all

[Beastly Boy]

25. So is yours.

Which makes the deflection to my position in response to the question about your moral code as you described it a rather predictable response.

[obamanut2012]

27. The best response you can make

[Beastly Boy]

35. In the absence of a better response. Indeed.

[Think. Again.]

2. Haven't they been doing this kind of thing for a while now...

...with no reaction from rightwinger netanyahu?

[gay texan]

3. Gonna say about 3000 years

It never ends

[dflprincess]

4. It's a never ending game of "I got you last." nt

[yorkster]

9. The settlers have support from Netanyahu.

[Bettie]

5. Someone will be along shortly

to tell us that this is just fine because they are all "Hamas", thus they deserve anything the settlers want to do to them.

[Patton French]

8. You think it's really that simple?

NT

[Mossfern]

10. Well, I'm coming along

to say that I have never supported the settlers in the West Bank and that they are a detriment to any peace plans in the area. I don't recall any posters here who support Israel saying "they are all Hamas", have you? If so, can you provide a link please?

[WarGamer]

6. Who will step up?

[Mossfern]

19. I thought I did.

[Celerity]

7. pics from now and also 3 days before October 7

now

and

Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on 5th day of Sukkot holiday through Bab al-Qattanin (Gate of the Cotton Merchants), in Old City of eastern Jerusalem, on 04 October 2023 [Mustafa Alkharouf - AA]

Thousands of Israeli extremists have stormed the Al-Aqsa compound during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 4th, 2023 [Getty Images]

[malaise]

18. Shhhhhhhhh!

The truth hurts. Only some are chosen.

[obamanut2012]

28. I remember when the invasion of the mosque happened

Appalling.

[Beastly Boy]

34. Just a clarification: The claim of Israeli extremists storming the Al Aqsa mosque is false.

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Not because the Israelis pictured in the photos are not extremists, but because they didn't storm the Al Aqsa mosque.

Al Aqsa mosque is just one structure in the Al Aqsa compound, aka the Temple Mound, the holiest site in Judaism where the Jewish Temple and the Holy of Holies and the Arc of the Covenant once stood.

The Jewish extremists, in violation of the Jewish law but not the agreement between Israel and Jordan, the legal custodian of the compound, entered the site, not the mosque. Bab al-Qattanin (Gate of the Cotton Merchants) is the gate to the compound, not to the mosque. The rumors of the mosque being stormed were just that: viral rumors. This didn't preclude various Arab sources (including yours) who claim to be serious journalists from spreading these rumors as legitimate news items.

[EX500rider]

36. "Israeli extremists have stormed the Al-Aqsa compound"

"Stormed" or entered peacefully while praying as those photos suggest?

[leftstreet]

11. unfuckingbelievable n/t

[dsp3000]

13. Fuck Israel

I hate that our foreign policy is handicapped to undyingly support their bull shit religious objectives, destroying lives in the process. We provide them full backing yet they spit in our faces time and again. Bombing a hospital when our president was EN ROUTE, posting pictures of killing families and their remains, bombing Iranian embassies and now this. And we have to tip toe

[LowerManhattanite]

15. This was happening like mad BEFORE 10/6...

…swooping in, running people out of their homes, torching the houses and cars to drive them out, then hiding behind the IDF’s skirts once they came in to chill sh*t out.

But the world didn’t give a f*ck.

[malaise]

22. Correct

So here we are

[Voltaire2]

32. The IDF shows up to prevent retaliation by

the Palestinians.

[David__77]

16. The consequences for the US of current events will be long lived.

And not favorable.

[obamanut2012]

29. Wtf

[malaise]

30. Indeed

Rec

[marble falls]

31. The bigotry was strong in that one!

[no_hypocrisy]

21. Netanyahu is keeping those "settlers" angry for a reason:

to "re-claim" their land under a variety of ruses, e.g., extra-judicial justice, eminent domain, or whatever. They view Palestinians living on their own land to be "squatters" and they must be removed. And as a result, the land is transferred to Israeli Jews without having to compensate for the acquisition of land.

Furthermore, this MO might mean if Israel goes after Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Israel "captures" territory of southern Lebanon, that too, will be a means to expand Israeli territory as they won't relinquish it after the conflict.

[obamanut2012]

26. Thank you for posting, Malaise

Horrifying.

[Voltaire2]

33. Israel needs to withdraw from all occupied territories.

Now would be the time to go.

[Basic LA]

37. A naked land grab. A throwback to history.

It's a hijacking of someone else's land, like our settlers did to the Indians here back in less enlightened times.

When indigenous people, the Indians, resisted our settler invasion and occupation, they were called Savages and slaughtered because we wanted their land.

Nowadays, in more modern times, when indigenous Palestinians resist settler invasion & occupation (and even when they don't) they are called Terrorists and slaughtered, because Israel wants their land.

In the old days, the US sent the Cavalry to back up and spearhead the settlers' land grab and displacement of the indigenous people.

General Sheridan said "The only good Indian is a dead Indian."

Nowadays, similarly, the US arms and facilitates Israel's 'cavalry,' the IDF, in the settler invasion, occupation, and land grab of Palestinian land.

Some things never change--like settler land grabs with US support.

[malaise]

39. So did the Europeans in Central and South America

And they all used and use race and religion to defend evil.

[Basic LA]

42. Exactly so.

And we look back and say what a cruel and horrible period in history that was. Thank goodness no civilized country today would charge in and steal someone's land that way, burning indigenous families out of their homes & farms & stealing everything from them. Surely not.
And surely Uncle Sam would never be a part of it. Never!

Oh wait. We're not only part of it, we finance it and provide diplomatic cover for this atrocious throwback to continue.

[Eugene]

40. Israel finds the body of a teen whose disappearance sparked a deadly settler attack in the West Bank

Israel finds the body of a teen whose disappearance sparked a deadly settler attack in the West Bank (Associated Press)

Al-MUGHAYYIR, West Bank (AP) — Israel’s army said Saturday the body of a missing Israeli teen was found in the West Bank after he was killed in a “terrorist attack,” as violence escalated across the Israeli-occupied territory where tensions have simmered for months.

The disappearance of 14-year-old Binyamin Achimair sparked attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages on Friday and Saturday. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in a statement on social media urged people not to take the law into their own hands.

On Friday, Palestinian Jehad Abu Alia was killed and 25 others were wounded in the attack on al-Mughayyir village, Palestinian health officials said. On Saturday, Israeli troops delayed for several hours the ambulance carrying the 26-year-old man’s body for burial, witnesses said.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-west-bank-7e75e1ef8f5307946d24f8b9a190fd66

[NickB79]

41. So the Israelis attacked in response to the Palestinians murdering a child?

Funny how the OP and a few other posters in this thread failed to mention that.

Not saying I agree with vigilante justice, but it certainly alters the initial narrative a bit.

[LowerManhattanite]

43. The teen was still "missing" at the time...

…a body hadn’t been found.