Weird how these people who preach diversity to us can’t seem to make it work in their own country.
It’s almost like the concept itself is fundamentally unworkable.
I mean, if Jews can’t make their own system that they invented work, what else can we conclude other than that it just simply does not work?
Scores of Israeli settlers have gone on a violent rampage in the northern West Bank, setting alight dozens of cars and homes after two settlers were killed by a Palestinian gunman.
Palestinian medics said one man was killed and four other people were badly wounded in what appeared to be the worst outburst of settler violence in decades.
The deadly shooting on Sunday, followed by the late-night rampage, immediately raised doubts about Jordan’s declaration that Israeli and Palestinian officials had pledged to calm a year-long wave of violence.
Palestinian media said about 30 homes and cars were torched. Photos and video on social media showed large fires burning throughout the town of Hawara – the scene of the fatal shooting earlier in the day – and lighting up the sky.
In one video, a crowd of Jewish settlers prayed in front of a burning building. Earlier, a prominent Israeli cabinet minister and settler leader had called for Israel to strike “without mercy”.
Late on Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry said a 37-year-old man was shot and killed by Israeli fire. The Palestinian Red Crescent medical service said two other people were shot and wounded, a third person was stabbed and a fourth was beaten with an iron bar. Ninety-five others were being treated for teargas inhalation.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, condemned what he called “the terrorist acts carried out by settlers under the protection of the occupation forces tonight”.
“We hold the Israeli government fully responsible,” he added.
The European Union said it was “alarmed” by the violence in Hawara and that “authorities on all sides must intervene now to stop this endless cycle of violence”. The UK’s ambassador to Israel, Neil Wigan, said “Israel should tackle settler violence, with those responsible brought to justice”.
As videos of the violence appeared on evening news shows, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appealed for calm and spoke against vigilante violence. “I ask that when blood is boiling and the spirit is hot, don’t take the law into your hands,” he said in a video statement.
The Israeli military said its chief of staff, Lt Gen Herzl Halevi, had rushed to the scene. It said troops were being reinforced in the area as they worked to restore order and search for the gunman.
Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israeli settlements in the Nablus region, said settlers burned at least six houses and dozens of cars in Hawara, and he reported attacks on other neighbouring Palestinian villages. He estimated about 400 Jewish settlers took part in the attack.
“I have never seen such an attack,” he said.
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Prominent members of Israel’s far-right government called for tough action against the Palestinians over the shooting.
The Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, a settler leader who has been put in charge of much of Israel’s West Bank policy, called for “striking the cities of terror and its instigators without mercy, with tanks and helicopters”.
Using a phrase that calls for a more heavy-handed response, he said Israel should act “in a way that conveys that the master of the house has gone crazy”.
I’ll side with the Palestinians on principle, but it would make sense that there are also Jews who are not being fairly treated.
The question is: why did they put Israel inside of Palestine? Why would that make sense to anyone?
Were they planning to invent this whole charismatic Christian movement that supports Zionism? Even if that is the case, they could have just told them to support the Jews wherever they were, and said the Bible says they’re supposed to do that. The current incarnation of Christian Zionism is based on literally nothing other than random verses and they easily could have done the same thing if Israel was somewhere else.
Maybe it’s just a quirk of history that Israel got placed inside of Palestine instead of in Africa, South America, Siberia, or literally anywhere else on earth. I can’t see how it benefits the Jews.