Comment on Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers'

• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What is their purpose in living in the west bank? Genuine question, don’t deflect.

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  • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The reason vary. Security and ancient connection to Judea and Samaria are the main ones.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ancient connection

      Not relevant to current geopolitics or international law.

      Security

      Settlers building houses way outside of Israeli areas does not enhance security in any meaningful way. Case in point, you literally just claimed they were being ethnically cleansed.

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      • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        In 1947/48 Jews were ethnically cleansed from the West Bank and Jerusalem. Afterwards they were expelled from most Arab and Muslim countries.

        Yes, many scholars think the settlements in the West Bank are against international law.

        Settlements do something for security. Israel is a tiny country and the West Bank is the high ground overlooking the coastal plain. From some points in the West Bank attackers can shell the main population areas easily, as has happened in the past. So taking land alleviates that strategic weak point. An attack on a settlement is one less attack on Israel or gives advance notice of bigger attacks. It also gives the IDF legitimacy to operate in the area to protect civilians. That’s the reasoning behind them.

        Now, I‘m against settlements and the land theft and oppression of Palestinians that results from it.

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• nayksmono@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you calling evacuating colonies “ethnical cleansing?”. The colonies are illegal under international laws. They have no right to be there

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  • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Jews lived in the West Bank and Jerusalem for centuries before 1948. Jerusalem was majority Jewish since the 19th century. Especially the eastern part was Jewish. Sheik Jerra used to be a Jewish neighborhood until 1948. Hebron had an old jewish community until the progrom in 1929.

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