From Drone Strikes to Settler Attacks, Israel Intensifies Effort to "Completely Take Over Palestine"

[Uncle Joe]

This week, Israel has launched several attacks on Palestinians with weapons used in the conflict for the first time in nearly 20 years, including deploying U.S.-made Apache helicopter gunships inside the West Bank and firing a targeted assassination aerial strike. Jewish settlers have also raided Palestinian villages in the West Bank, attacking residents and setting fire to homes and vehicles. Mariam Barghouti, senior Palestine correspondent for Mondoweiss, calls the attacks "an intensification to completely take over Palestine." She adds that the growing violence is reflective of the leadership of Israel's minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who recently called for the renewing of Defensive Shield, a military operation which used similar weaponry in 2002 that has been condemned for "crimes against humanity." This all comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government has agreed to accelerate the process for approving new settlements in the West Bank despite criticism from the United Nations, European Union and United States.

[2naSalit]

1. I sense that...

Criticism just isn't enough.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. Stop supplying weapons and ammo to nations committing crimes against humanity...

Start with Saudi, move to Israel and Turkey…etc…the American Big War industries will hue and cry and run to the corrupt politicians and cry … national security!…l jobs…so what?

Stop letting the tail wag the dogs of war and death.

[Turbineguy]

2. This will never end.

It's only a question of who's turn it is.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. The massive loss of life, limb, liberty and property is extremely one sided, amounting to a

massacre/ genocide sanctioned by the West, led by arms supplying for near free America.

40 not white children murdered a year is average…year after year…in such a tiny area and populace it would be thousands if per capita in America…can you imagine the grief? The mental health damage to one and all?

No. Best to look away, as does western media.

Or confine all discussion to a wilderness area.

https://democraticunderground.com/1134137809

Another in the forest!

[Israeli]

5. Your website is called Democracy Now

ours is called Peace Now .

I think we should change the name because its obvious not just to us or the Palestinians
but to the world that it was just a dream some of us had .

Anyhow , back to Democracy ....BTW we are losing our own fight for our own democratic rights so god
help the Palestinians .

Peace Now: “The Israeli government continues to act with determination in order to deepen the occupation and create facts on the ground to prevent the possibility of a future Palestinian state. The promotion of thousands of housing units in settlements in addition to the decision to establish nine new settlements, through the authorization and expansion of outposts, jeopardizes the possibility of a future Palestinian State as well as a prize for criminals and violent settlers. Anyone who is concerned about the judiciary and regime change that the government is advancing, needs to look at what it is vigorously promoting in the occupied territories, which too is an existential threat. While the immediate and primary victims are the Palestinian residents and the Palestinian people as a whole, the government imposes on all Israelis to live in a non-democratic state because there cannot be a democracy alongside occupation and settlements.”

Source : https://peacenow.org.il/en/the-security-and-political-cabinet-approved-the-establishment-of-9-new-settlements-by-authorizing-10-illegal-outposts-in-the-occupied-territories

[Uncle Joe]

6. Thanks for the addition Israeli

[Israeli]

7. You are very welcome.

BTW I just noticed your sig .
I like Bernie Sanders too