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2023-02-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Settlers rampage in West Bank villages after Israelis killed

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-27 08:24|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Security forces reinforced in West Bank as manhunt for Huwara terrorist continues

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-27 09:06|| 2023-02-27 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 The settler ideology they subscribe to is being brought to its logical conclusion. Surely if this is not the case, they will be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

The punishment will be harsh and set an example so that this will never recur.

Posted by Thor Grumble2858 2023-02-27 11:48|| 2023-02-27 11:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Basic tit-for-tat: Note that it started when a local Palestinian smashed his car into a Jewish one, then got out and killed the two Jews he’d trapped. Palestinian society is communal rather than individualistic, so the Jewish neighbours punished the community the killer came from.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-27 15:06|| 2023-02-27 15:06|| Front Page Top

#4 So the Isrealis are no better than the savage Arabs, and aren't capable of behaving like civilized people.

Nice to see it admitted out loud for once.

Posted by Thor Grumble2858 2023-02-27 16:41|| 2023-02-27 16:41|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ The definition of civilization does not include instigating a murder.

Like the man said..."Don't start nothin' won't be nothin'"

Posted by AlanC 2023-02-27 17:25|| 2023-02-27 17:25|| Front Page Top

#6 John Wayne quote: "He shot first".

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2023-02-27 21:10|| 2023-02-27 21:10|| Front Page Top

#7 So the Israelis are no better than the savage Arabs, and aren't capable of behaving like civilized people.

The Israelis behaved like civilized people for three generations, for which they got not credit from people like you, Thor Grumble2858.

The problem is that responding to vicious barbarism in a civilized way turns out to be counterproductive; it drives more of the bad behaviour instead of reducing it. So the truly civilized response is to respond to barbarity with greater barbarity so that the barbarians finally — after three generations — learn to choose to behave as if they were civilized.

Nice to see it admitted out loud for once.

Strategy, tactics, the basic approach of the culture — three very different things.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-27 21:33|| 2023-02-27 21:33|| Front Page Top

#8 TW, you seem to have evolved over the years. Or maybe less tolerant?
Israel should have taken the west bank at the peak of the Syrian civil war when Hamas and Hezbollah were at their weakest. They had a US administration who would have tolerated the incursion.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2023-02-27 22:57|| 2023-02-27 22:57|| Front Page Top

#9 They had a US administration who would have tolerated the incursion.

Wish somebody would have the balls to walk away from that.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-27 23:18|| 2023-02-27 23:18|| Front Page Top