To Palestinians, Gaza is a symbol of resistance. To Israel, Gaza is a template to pummel and isolate that resistance.
On June 19, Israeli combat helicopters fired missiles into the camp, ostensibly as part of an arrest operation that ended up killing five Palestinians, including a 15-year-old girl named Sadeel Naghniyeh.
Then in early July, in the worst attack on the West Bank since 2002, the Israeli armed forces terrorised the inhabitants of Jenin for two days and killed at least 12 people, including children. The massive aerial and ground assault involved helicopter gunships, missiles, drones, armoured vehicles, bulldozers and more than 1,000 Israeli soldiers.
That is what happens, it seems, when Palestinians keep rebuilding – and keep existing. Indeed, Al Jazeera quoted 56-year-old camp resident Ahmed Abu Hweileh on the takeaway from the bloody escapade: “The message to the world and the occupation is that this camp will keep on going. They tried to destroy it and it came back up.”
Israel’s recent comportment in Jenin – and particularly the sudden use of air strikes in the West Bank for the first time in years – has invited comparisons to the Israeli modus operandi in the Gaza Strip, another location that has come to symbolise Palestinian resistance.
Al Jazeera is owned by the Qatari government.
Al Jazeera has been given many awards for fair and (relatively) unbiased journalism. Notably, many of the journalists at Al Jazeera are not Qatari.
Qatar is openly hostile to Israel.
Notably, Qatar does not consider the Hamas a terrorist organization. Hamas leaders are based in Qatar.
I am well aware that Al Jazeera is generally considered unbiased, but the conflict of interest is very obvious when it comes to coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Qatar is openly hostile to Israel.
So is anyone with a fully-functional brain. What is your point?
As if it’s been anything but that, ever in it’s existence? The PA is Gaza, Fatah is Gaza, Hamas is Fatah, there is no discernible difference between any Palestinian group whatsoever, as an identifiable discernable difference would mean one is more willing to work towards a lasting responsible peace with Israel than the other, and no Palestinian group, faction, camp, or town has ever honestly worked towards one, ever.
Play silly shell games for another 70 years, it’s cool, the Jews can wait. And defend themselves.
What does peace mean when Israel keeps stealing your land?
Arabs are from Arabia, Jews are from Judea. Hope that helps. And if it doesn’t we really couldn’t give a shit, if it’s not one thing with you people, it’s another, we’re pretty used to it by now. And we aren’t going anywhere.
Literally blood and soil nationalism.
It was never their land. They refused to accept every peaceful solution and attacked Israel.
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You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Jews in their own land, willing and able to defend themselves against the Arab colonizers, who could live in peace if they chose to, or you know, fuck off back to Arabia, which is their own land, at anytime, but choose not to.
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Judging by the pro-fash bootlickers infesting this post it sure looks like Israel’s shill farms have wasted no time slithering onto Lemmy.
Somehow Israel is a genocidal imperialist government driven by blood and soil nationalism, and it’s supposed to get a pass for…handwavy reasons…
- this was in response to terrorist attacks that originated from Jenin
- no innocents have been killed, only wounded
- (not from this article) about half a ton of gun powder and explosives were confiscated
Terrorism is the only possible way to deal with a violent oppressor. If you were on their side you’d be calling them guerrilla warriors. Remember in what kind of glowing coverage the US media used to talk about mujahideen?
I’ll let you in on a tiny secret: if the plastinians weren’t violent they would’ve already have a county (shhh)
LPT: if the truth isn’t on your side, just boldly lie.
The strategy of every pro-hama troll on here today it seems
Is this sarcasm? You’re saying if they stopped fighting back against invaders who want to take their land they…would have land? If only they’d give up their land, they’d have land? Do I have that right? I hope I’m just misreading this.
How is Israel in the wrong when it has been Palestine refusing solutions and starting wars at every turn?
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