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What Henri is saying is that Jews lived peacefully under the Ottomans so they don't need to have a state of their own.
Henri Christophe
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The Ottomans was a secular state, I guess begining after the decline of Mongol empire or something around....
In it's last days of existence they indeed made the genocide against armenics, but I guess it was very inspired in eugenic philosophy of europeans of siegle XIX.
So, when a mentioneted Otomans, I was thinking in they as all, not just the events of World War and beyond.
Henri Christophe
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Exactly!!!
Jews deserve to have a state. But after this opportunity they made Apartheid and Genocide, and it is the biggest crime possible, so, I guess they should lose the right to have a state, at least to have a state in Holy Land.
I'm in favor of have others states of Israel outside the Holyland where they don't made genocide and apartheid.
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Israel could be bringing back the death penalty — but only for Palestinians
Proposed legislation to enable capital punishment would not apply to Jews
When Israel’s Knesset met in early December to consider legislation that would reintroduce the death penalty, supporters arrived wearing golden lapel pins in the shape of a hangman's noose.They're a dark twist on the yellow ribbons many Israelis wear in support and solidarity of those captured and held hostage in Gaza after the attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Terrorists deserve death,” said National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir as he arrived with the other members of the small, far-right party that’s driving the bill through the legislature with the full support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Given the ethical and moral considerations surrounding capital punishment, such a proposal almost anywhere in the world would be inherently contentious. But the new Israeli legislation, which has already passed first reading, is also explicitly and deliberately discriminatory.
It calls for a mandatory death sentence for any Palestinian who kills a Jewish Israeli citizen — but not for Jews who kill Palestinians.
“There is no such thing as a Jewish terrorist,” said Limor Son Har-Melech, of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, as she and the other noose-wearing supporters insisted the measure will deter militant attacks.
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And it would apply anywhere that Israel controls, including the occupied West Bank and, currently, half of Gaza.
Crucially, the bill would also eliminate any discretion judges have at sentencing — the death penalty would be the only punishment available, and therefore mandatory.
Called deeply racist
Civil liberty advocates and human rights groups have eviscerated the proposed legislation, calling it deeply racist. And some fear its provisions could be made retroactive to cover Palestinian prisoners — an estimated 9,000 people, according to Palestinian prisoners’ groups — already in Israeli jails.“There are hundreds of prisoners from the October 7th massacres that are held in Israel, and I think this law is about targeting and doing mass executions of them,” said Noa Sattath, executive director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
“It’s a celebration of death and revenge and brutality, which is the essence of this law.”
The push for the legislation comes during a repeatedly broken ceasefire in Gaza, following two years of war that has left most of the territory unlivable for its civilian population and split in half — one controlled by Israel, the other by Hamas.
And it comes amid the chance that Israel's coalition government may be facing elections in 2026.
Though Ben-Gvir has multiple convictions in Israel for inciting racism against Palestinians and for glorifying violence against Arabs — and is one of the country’s most toxic political figures — his capital punishment bill has supporters beyond his party’s far-right base.
Many Knesset members supporting the bill argue if Palestinians are sentenced to death, they won’t be released later in prisoner swaps and could not commit potential future offences.
No more 'nice payments'
A group promoting the proposed legislation is, ironically, called Choosing Life — something one of its members, Dan Lando, says is meant to remind any militant planning an attack that they should reconsider, given the consequence of the death penalty.“Israel is going to show these terrorists we are taking it seriously,” said the 77-year-old retired aerospace engineer, who, while disagreeing with the vulgarity of Ben-Gvir’s golden nooses, nonetheless supports the thrust of the legislation.
“If they go out with a knife or with a gun and intend to kill somebody, they will not get nice payments from the Palestinian Authority, they will get sentenced to death.”
For decades, the Palestinian Authority has paid benefits to the families of Palestinians held in Israeli jails for security offences or those who are killed in attacks on Israelis.
Israel has long viewed the practice as incentivizing terrorism, while Palestinians see it as a social safety net for families of those who have endured brutality and long detentions, often without charges or trials, under decades of Israeli occupation.
Recently, the Palestinian Authority announced it has abolished the payments.
Lando’s distaste for the practice has a personal connection. In 2017, his son-in-law, Elad Solomon, was one of three Israelis stabbed to death in the settlement of Halamish, or Neve Tzuf, in the Occupied West Bank, where Israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law and continue to be a source of conflict.
Lando's daughter and three grandchildren survived the attack by a 19-year-old Palestinian man by barricading themselves inside a room, until an off-duty soldier shot the attacker through a window.
The man survived and was sentenced to four life terms in prison.
The incident received extensive media coverage in Israel, including widespread condemnation that the attacker and his family stood to receive millions of dollars in support payments from the Palestinian Authority.
A double standard
When asked about the double standard of not including Jews who kill Palestinians in the proposed death penalty legislation, Lando said “there is no pandemic of Jews killing Palestinians.”“The Israeli government puts into jail Jews who kill Palestinians,” he said. “So I think there is justification to say only Palestinian terrorists will be executed.”
Both of those assertions — that it's unusual for a Jew to kill a Palestinian and that those who do are jailed for the crime — are blatantly false.
In Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says the Israeli offensive following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks has killed more than 70,000 people, including 20,000 children, with the UN describing Israel’s actions as amounting to genocide. Since the ceasefire brokered in October, nearly 400 other Palestinians have been killed.
In the occupied West Bank, the violence instigated by Jewish settlers or carried out by Israeli security services against Palestinians has also reached unprecedented levels.
‘We are killed everywhere, every day’
In the last two years, 999 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, according to UN figures; of those, 20 were murdered by Israeli civilians. In a further 12 cases, the agency says it's unknown whether the perpetrators were members of Israel’s military or settlers.Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says no Jewish perpetrators were convicted in any of those killings — and it suggests that Israel’s government effectively condones and encourages violence by giving settlers immunity for these crimes.
Additionally, human rights groups say almost 100 Palestinian prisoners have either been tortured to death or were killed while being held in Israeli jails.
“We are killed everywhere, every day, without any reason,” said Qaddura Fares, a former minister for detainees with the Palestinian Authority, saying that the death penalty is simply another tool for Israel to kill “another 40 or 50” Palestinians each year.
The only difference is that instead of being “killed by shooting or by a settler … it will come from the courts.”
The vast majority of Palestinians being held in Israeli jails are so-called administrative detainees, according to prisoners’ groups. Israeli law allows security services to hold Palestinians without charge or conviction for months. Only in very rare cases have Jews have been held under the law.
Law risks Israel’s isolation
Still, Fares said he believes some of the less extreme members of Netanyahu’s coalition may ultimately block the death penalty measure from becoming law — not to spare Palestinians but out of concern it could exacerbate Israel’s already significant diplomatic isolation.While some far-right members of the Knesset may see political advantage in pushing the death penalty, he said others may conclude the risks outweigh potential gains.
The legislation is being reworked and rewritten in a Knesset committee.
A new version of the bill may emerge, but Sattath, the Israeli civil rights advocate, says she believes any new draft will still exempt Jews.
The last execution in Israel was Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Nazi Holocaust during the Second World War.
He was captured in Argentina and brought back to Jerusalem for a trial, and he was hanged in 1962. The draft legislation contains no mention of the means of execution — although some Israeli publications speculate that lawmakers are poised to agree on lethal injection, not hanging, should the law be ratified by a simple majority of the Knesset’s 120 members, something that could happen as early as January.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-palestinian-death-penalty-9.7019609
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It is so many barbarity I stop to read here to don't be angrier!!
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Israel approves 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank
Israel's security cabinet has approved the recognition of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank as the government continues its settlement expansion push.Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a settler who proposed the move alongside Defence Minister Israel Katz, said the decision was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international law.
Saudi Arabia condemned the move. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said Israel's "relentless" settlement expansion fuels tensions, restricts Palestinian access to land, and threatens the viability of a sovereign Palestinian state.
Violence in the occupied West Bank has surged since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, further heightening fears that settlement expansion could entrench Israel's occupation and undermine a two-state solution.
The two-state solution refers to the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital, broadly along the lines that existed prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Since taking office in 2022, the current Israeli government has significantly increased the approval of new settlements and begun the legalisation process for unauthorised outposts, recognising them as "neighbourhoods" of existing settlements.
The most recent decision brings the total number of settlements approved over the past three years to 69, according to Smotrich.
The approvals come just days after the United Nations said settlement expansion had reached its highest level since 2017.
The latest approvals include the re-establishment of two settlements — Ganim and Kadim — which were dismantled nearly 20 years ago.
In May, Israel approved 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank - the biggest expansion in decades.
The Israeli government also approved plans in August to build more than 3,000 homes in the so-called E1 project between Jerusalem and the Maale Adumim settlement, which had been frozen for decades amid fierce opposition internationally.
Smotrich at the time said the plan would "bury the idea of a Palestinian state".
About 700,000 settlers live in approximately 160 settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now. It is land Palestinians seek for a future independent state.
Settlement expansion has angered Arab nations who have consistently said it undermines prospects for a two-state solution.
It has also raised concerns about the possible annexing of the occupied West Bank.
US President Donald Trump had warned Israel about such a move, telling TIME magazine that Israel would lose all its support from the US if it happened.
In September, the UK - along with other countries including Australia and Canada - recognised a Palestinian state, a significant although symbolic change in government policy.
Israel opposed the move, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying a Palestinian state "will not happen".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjg18xe0wwo
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IDF says it shot teen in West Bank after hurling brick at soldiers. Video appears to contradict that
After being asked about video, Israeli military says it is reviewing incident
The Israeli military said it was reviewing an incident in the occupied West Bank in which soldiers shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian who they said had thrown a brick at them, after CCTV footage appeared to show he was not doing so when shot.Asked about the video, an Israeli military spokesperson said: "A Palestinian suspected of hurling a block at IDF [Israeli Defence Forces] soldiers was shot. The incident is under review."
Palestinian officials said that Rayyan Mohammad Abu Mualla was shot and killed on Saturday in the northern West Bank town of Qabatiya, during a raid by the Israeli military.
The Israeli military initially said on Saturday: "During IDF operational activity in the area of Qabatiya, a terrorist hurled a block toward the soldiers, who responded with fire and eliminated the terrorist."
CCTV footage showed two Israeli soldiers — one crouching and one standing on a lit street corner at dark — and a third soldier appearing to take position in an adjacent street leading to the same corner.
A person is then seen walking down a street and as he reaches the corner, he is shot by the crouching soldier and falls back and onto the ground.
The video does not appear to show him throwing a block or holding one.
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The person who is shot appears in the video three seconds before the shooting, and it is not possible to ascertain what the person was doing or holding before he is seen.
Mother says IDF had taken his body away
The footage was obtained from the owner of the security camera and its location and date were verified by Reuters. The incident is partly obscured because of the angle of the camera and the low light.Abu Mualla's mother, Ibtihal, said that the Israeli military had taken his body away.
CCTV footage from around 22 minutes after the shooting appears to show his body being placed by soldiers on a stretcher and driven away in a military vehicle 11 minutes after that, 33 minutes after the shooting.
"They could have shot him in the leg, my son didn't throw anything towards them," said Mualla. "I want to bury my son with dignity," she said.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Since January, when Israel began stepping up raids in the northern West Bank, 53 Palestinian minors have been killed by Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Israel says the raids are meant to tackle Palestinian militants and thwart attacks against Israelis.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israeli-military-teen-killed-cctv-footage-9.7025013
The West Bank will soon be fully part of Israel.
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NGOs fear Israel registration rules risk collapse of Gaza aid operations
The UN and other aid agencies fear new Israeli registration rules for dozens of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) risk the collapse of the humanitarian response in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.INGOs not registered by 31 December face closure of their operations in Israel within 60 days, which the agencies say could severely disrupt healthcare and other life-saving services in Gaza.
Save the Children said its application had not been approved and it was "pursuing all available avenues to have this decision reconsidered".
Israel's ministry of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism said the departure of "rogue organisations" would not affect the delivery of aid.
Fourteen out of the approximately 100 applications have so far been rejected, 21 have been approved, and those remaining are still undergoing review, according to the ministry.
The registration system introduced in March includes several grounds for rejection, including:
- Denying the existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state
- Denying the Holocaust or the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023
- Supporting an armed struggle against Israel by an enemy state or terrorist organisation
- Promoting "delegitimisation campaigns" against Israel
- Calling for a boycott of Israel or committing to participate in one
- Supporting the prosecution of Israeli security forces in foreign or international courts
"The system relies on vague, arbitrary, and highly politicised criteria and imposes requirements that humanitarian organisations cannot meet without violating international legal obligations or compromising core humanitarian principles," it said.
It added: "While some INGOs have been registered under the new system, these INGOs represent only a fraction of the response in Gaza and are nowhere near the number required just to meet immediate and basic needs."
According to the Humanitarian Country Team, INGOs currently run or support the majority of Gaza's field hospitals and primary healthcare centres, emergency shelter responses, water and sanitation services, nutrition stabilisation centres for children with acute malnutrition, and critical mine action activities.
If they were forced to stop operations, it said, one in three health facilities in Gaza would close.
"Pressing ahead with this policy will have far-reaching consequences on the future of the OPT, in addition to threatening a fragile ceasefire and putting Palestinian lives at imminent risk, particularly during winter," the Humanitarian Country Team warned.
"The UN will not be able to compensate for the collapse of INGOs' operations if they are de-registered, and the humanitarian response cannot be replaced by alternative actors operating outside established humanitarian principles."
It also stressed that Israel had an obligation under international humanitarian law to ensure that Gaza's population was adequately supplied.
Save the Children - which has supported families in Gaza with clean water and cash assistance, as well as healthcare clinics and mother and baby areas - confirmed on Monday that it was informed several weeks ago that its registration application had not been approved.
"We are pursuing all available avenues to have this decision reconsidered, including filing a petition with the Israeli courts," a spokesperson told the BBC.
"While we call for this decision to be reconsidered, we remain committed to delivering vital and life-saving support to children and families in the Occupied Palestinian Territory through our team of over 300 dedicated Palestinian staff together with trusted partners."
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - which supports six public hospitals and runs two field hospitals in Gaza, and has treated hundreds of thousands of patients over the past year - meanwhile said it was among the INGOs still waiting to obtain registration.
"With Gaza's health system already destroyed, independent and experienced humanitarian organisations losing access to respond would be a disaster for Palestinians," a statement said.
"MSF calls on the Israeli authorities to ensure that INGOs can maintain and continue their impartial and independent response in Gaza. The already restricted humanitarian response cannot be further dismantled."
A spokesman for the Israeli diaspora affairs ministry told the BBC that it had already extended the registration deadline from 9 September to 31 December "as an extraordinary measure and well beyond what was required".
"There has been more than sufficient time to act, and any organisation that has failed to do so by now has demonstrated a clear lack of good faith," he said.
He also stressed that the process had been carried out by a team that included all relevant Israeli security and government bodies, and that "claims of a sweeping or mass rejection are false and misleading".
He added: "Humanitarian aid will continue uninterrupted. The departure of rogue organisations whose real objective is to undermine the State of Israel under a humanitarian guise will not affect the ongoing delivery of aid."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2dmj7p8y2o
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De facto, or practically speaking, this new law makes very little difference. What has changed is Israeli's are no longer interested in pretending they aren't racist. This law just makes it blatantly obvious. Israel, believe it or not, has defenders saying that it isn't really an apartheid state. This law, though, means they are no longer interested in giving people any credibility whatsoever to make that argument.
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Israel extends order allowing closure of foreign broadcasters
Israel's parliament has extended an order allowing the government to shut down foreign broadcasters operating in the country.The legislation, passed by 22 votes to 10, expands temporary powers introduced during the Gaza war to shutter outlets seen as a threat to national security.
It allows the government for the next two years to cease operations of a foreign outlet even in peace time and without the need for a court order.
Originally dubbed the "Al Jazeera Law", the powers were used to shut down the Qatari-owned channel's offices and block its broadcasts in May 2024.
Israel accused Al Jazeera - which has been a strong critic of Israel's military campaign in Gaza - of anti-Israel bias and of supporting Hamas in its coverage.
Al Jazeera denied the accusations and condemned Israel's actions, calling it a "criminal act" and an attack on press freedom.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) said last year that the temporary order violated "freedom of expression, the right to information and freedom of the press, and blocks citizens and residents from receiving a variety of information that does not fit the Israeli narrative or is not broadcast on Israeli media channels".
The legislation extending the order was passed hours after the Israeli cabinet approved a plan to shut down Army Radio, or Galei Tzahal (GLZ), a state-funded station that is operated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) but is editorially independent.
Under the plan proposed by Defence Minister Israel Katz, the station will cease operations by 1 March 2026.
Katz argued that Army Radio, which employs both active duty soldiers and civilians, "no longer serves as a mouthpiece and ear for soldiers and broadcasts political and divisive content that is not in line with IDF values".
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the cabinet meeting that a station broadcasting under the authority of the military was highly unusual.
"I think it exists in North Korea and maybe a few other countries, and we probably don't want to be counted among them," he said.
The Union of Journalists and Journalists' Organisations said they would petition the High Court of Justice against the decision, calling it "a severe and unlawful infringement on freedom of expression and freedom of the press".
The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) think tank said shutting Army Radio constituted a serious violation of freedom of expression and effectively wiped out half of Israel's independent public radio news broadcasts.
"The decision to shut down a public media organisation is not an isolated move. It is part of a broader and worrying pattern of ongoing harm to Israeli democracy," it warned.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2k47wg2j90o
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Israel will ban dozens of aid groups from Gaza starting on New Year's Day
Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam Quebec and Doctors Without Borders among barred organizations
Shaina Low had hoped to see truckloads of aid flowing into Gaza in 2026. Instead, she says, millions of dollars worth of supplies will sit in warehouses while Palestinians suffer.Low is a spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), one of more than two dozen humanitarian organizations Israel is barring from the Gaza Strip, effective Thursday, for failing to comply with new registration rules.
Israel says the rules are aimed at preventing Hamas and other militant groups from infiltrating the aid organizations. But the banned organizations say the rules will have horrific consequences for a region that's already facing deadly floods as it tries to rebuild just months into a fragile ceasefire.
“The thing that is so frustrating for us as aid workers is knowing that we have resources available outside, and that we just can't reach the people with what we have because Israel has continuously, for more than two years, blocked us from bringing in our supplies, blocked us from scaling up, prevented us from reaching communities in need,” Low told As It Happens guest host Paul Hunter.
“And so we see this news with the registration as just another element of that obstruction.”
Controversial new registration rules
Israel announced new rules early this year requiring aid organizations to register the names of their workers and provide details about funding and operations in order to continue working in Gaza.Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said more than 30 groups — about 15 per cent of the organizations operating in Gaza — have failed to comply and will be suspended.
Those include Doctors Without Borders, World Vision International, and several regional arms of Oxfam, including Oxfam Quebec.
"The message is clear: humanitarian assistance is welcome — the exploitation of humanitarian frameworks for terrorism is not," Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said.
Asked why the NRC doesn’t just give Israel the information it wants, Low says it’s not that simple.
Providing a list of names would violate privacy rules in several of the European countries the organization operates out of, she says. What’s more, she says it would put NRC workers at risk.
“Israel is a party to the conflict. And not only are they a party to the conflict, but they've killed hundreds of aid workers in Gaza,” she said. “So, for us, it's a risk to hand over our staff names to them.”
The United Nations reported in October that at least 562 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.
“There hasn't been any evidence that NRC or any of these other organizations have any ties to armed groups,” she said.
“We see this as just part of a campaign to delegitimize legitimate humanitarian actors who have been operating in the occupied Palestinian territory for decades.”
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"MSF would never knowingly employ people engaging in military activity," it said in a statement.
MSF says Israel's decision will have a catastrophic impact on its work in Gaza, where it supports around 20 per cent of the hospital beds and a third of births.
The new regulations also include ideological requirements, including disqualifying organizations that have called for boycotts against Israel, denied Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, or expressed support for any of the international court cases against Israeli soldiers or leaders.
What does a ban actually mean?
The decision not to renew aid groups' licenses means offices in Israel and East Jerusalem will close, and organizations won't be able to send international staff or aid into Gaza.But several of the groups, including NCR, said they will continue to operate programs inside Gaza with local staff.
The Israeli defense body that oversees humanitarian aid to Gaza, COGAT, said that the organizations on the list contribute less than one per cent of the total aid going into the Gaza Strip, and that aid will continue to enter from more than 20 organizations that did receive permits to continue operating.
But the affected groups say the timing of the ban, in the heart of Gaza’s flood-prone winter, will have deadly consequences.
“We have hundreds of thousands of people living in overcrowded displacement sites where there's open sewage, where there is trash and solid waste piling up, and nowhere for the floodwaters to go other than people's tents,” Low said.
According to the United Nations, 1.9 million people — 90 per cent of the population — have been displaced in Gaza over the last two years.
Since January, Israel has also banned the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the top UN agency working with Palestinians, accusing it of being infiltrated by Hamas. The UN denies this.
Canada issued a joint statement with several other countries on Tuesday criticizing Israel’s “restrictive new requirements," and calling on the country to allow NGOs and UN partners to operate in Gaza.
“[We] express serious concerns about the renewed deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which remains catastrophic," reads the statement from the foreign ministers Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
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“Israel as the occupying power has an obligation to provide for the basic needs of the people living under its control or facilitate humanitarian relief,” she said.
“What we've seen time and again over the last two years is Israel failing to meet those obligations, and yet we've seen very little action from states to hold them accountable for those violations.”
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/gaza-aid-groups-suspended-9.7030581
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"God promised them that land" as if racism, violence and ethnic cleansing is something Jesus would want.
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Jewish god is all about racism, violence and ethnic cleansing. Old Testament 101.
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But “Christians” in America are supporting it.
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Afaik evangelicals and other sects support Israel believing Jews getting all Israel will fullfil the second coming of Christ prophecy or some crap like that.
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The bible makes it explicitly clear that it will be done via divine intervention. The IDF, backed by Uncle Sam, is a man-made event, not something God has done. So what the state of Israel is doing now is hardly biblical.
"Killing our citizens for racist or nationalist motives shall be punishable by death."
"But only Palestinians do that! So that law is racist!"
