Israeli bulldozers demolish most of a West Bank hamlet, displacing dozens of Palestinians
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Israeli military bulldozers have demolished most of a Palestinian Bedouin village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, taking out the hamlet’s infrastructure and leaving residents wandering amid the rubble of their homes.

Nine homes, five tents and five animal pens were demolished, said Mohammed Rabia, head of the village council in the area.

COGAT, the Israeli military body responsible for administrative affairs in the occupied West Bank, said it demolished the buildings because they were built illegally in an area designated as a closed firing zone.

Palestinians have long said that securing Israeli permission to build in the West Bank is nearly impossible.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    512·
    20 hours ago

    It’s an attempt to keep idiots from allowing fascism to take over again.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      16 hours ago

      Yeah, it would’ve been great if the Democratic Party did fight against fascism taking over instead of prioritizing material support for the genocide.

      • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        5 hours ago

        They did and enough people stayed home that they lost. Again.

        Is it clear that the genocide-arguments-against-Biden/Harris were completely in line with GRU propaganda efforts?

        • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Biden gave zero genuine pressure to end the genocide. Instead of implementing a weapons embargo, he sent tens of billions worth of weapons used to prolong the genocide.

          One Year of Empty Rhetoric From the White House on Israel’s Wars

          From the MEMO article:

          The Biden administration allowed Israel unprecedented leeway to carry out its military offensive, despite the enormous death and devastation it inflicted on Gaza. Former Israeli ambassador, Michael Herzog, made a startling admission about Biden’s support: “God did the State of Israel a favour that Biden was the president during this period. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.” His remarks encapsulated a broader sentiment that the White House gave Benjamin Netanyahu all the political space he needed to execute the military offensive, which has claimed the lives of more than 52,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children.

          Here Are 34 Polls That Show A Ceasefire & Weapons Embargo Help Kamala Win

          Kamala Would Have Won With A Weapons Embargo

          The blame is entirely on the campaign for chosing to ignore and even go against those voters instead of make concessions to gain as much votes as possible. They chose to prioritize continuing the genocide over winning against Trump.

      • InvertedParallax@lemm.eeEnglish
        33·
        8 hours ago

        You guys are literally better for the GOP than trump voters .

        You didn’t just aid one genocide abroad, you enabled several at home too.

        • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 hours ago

          I’m not the Democratic Party, which did aid genocide abroad unconditionally, and enabled Trump’s expansion of fascism at home by ramping up the arrests of, the criminalization of pro-palestinian protesters, and capitulating to the right wing framing on immigration as a national security threat.

          Instead of supporting a weapons embargo, which had the vast support of the voter base, was required by international and domestic law, and was the moraly correct thing to do, the adminstration instead fractured their own base by continuing material support for Israel by the measure of tens of billions worth of weapons for genocide. Pivoting to the weapons embargo would have significantly improved their chances of winning against Trump. While one of the most critical, there were many other policies that the campaign should have taken to further increase their support, many economic policies that would even fracture the Republican base of support, also critically improving their chances against Trump.

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