Hooded men beating an elderly woman with a baseball bat

[loic]

Last year dearanxiety and I visited our friends Emily and Aviad in Israel. A big part of the trip for us was visiting the occupied West Bank, seeing the work that Emily and Aviad do to work for the rights of Palestinians and see where the money being raised by the Jewish-American peace group that Sharon is involved with was going

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[egoldberg]

In no way to defend the settlers (I think that Israel's failure to reign in illegal settlements has been self-defeating and irresponsible), I do need to add for context:

This has been in the Israeli media non-stop for days, and the public response has been harshly critical of the settlers. I'll handily bet you a burrito that they will be sent to trial for their crime via the Israeli justice system followed by some serious jail time.

In contrast, the muslims who attack or even kill Jewish civilians are made into heroes for their acts of cowardly violence.

[loic]

Yeah, I'm glad this is getting seen and talked about. The hounding and oppression has been interfering with the lives of Susians for many years but I think this level of direct violence is new. I hope it will backfire on those fuckers. Unfortunately I can't imagine them dismantling the settlement that is fundamentally the cause of the problem

[dearanxiety]

do you remember how amazingly cute he was with his english in his little tiny accent? oh god he was cute.

[dearanxiety]

by other fundamentalists. just like these settlers are made heroes by other fundamentalists on their side. no one who is not a fundamentalist on either side would celebrate acts of violence or murder. not a single palestinian person that i have ever met has condoned violence against jewish civilians or celebrated it in any way. this includes palestinian american activists and palestinians in palestine. likewise i don't know a single jew, american or otherwise, who would condone these attacks by settlers if they knew about them.

i'm glad that this has been in the israeli media. i think the israeli media is far more honest about what is going on than the world media and especially than the media in the united states.

[quog]

It never fails to horrify me the depth of man's inhumanity to his fellow man.

[loic]

Yep, it's pretty fucked up. As usual it's enabled by some kind of system of belief that defines one type of person as lesser than another. And helped by politicians creating artificial scarcity of resources.

[anxiolytic]

disgusting and abhorrent. I hope these people are brought to justice swiftly.