maskenfreiheit posted:

Sadly we now need to deal with North Korea's bullshit because Israel taught everyone once you have nukes everyone ignores your rampant human rights issues because an invasion would be too costly

maskenfreiheit posted:

Sadly we now need to deal with North Korea's bullshit because the USA and USSR taught everyone once you have nukes everyone ignores your rampant human rights issues because an invasion would be too costly

R. Mute posted:

Israel destroys Palestinian classrooms ahead of first day of school

Came across this and just sighed.

maskenfreiheit posted:

Does Israel have nuclear missiles that could reach the US? 🤔

the old ceremony posted:

the jews have forgotten how to farm. farming was the first art that the lord ever gave us and as one we've turned our backs on it, instead pursuing parlour tricks taught to us by the renegade sex angels who wander among us still exhausted and despairing. we need to throw down our guns and go back to our flocks. we can't end the war but we can end the famine! hashem is with us!

Fututor Magnus posted:

israeli agriculture is pretty top notch technologically and productively. they've helped out with agriculture in many parts of the world with dry and difficult to farm land, like the more arid state of rajasthan in india (with millions of people who depend on agriculture for a living, and millions more dependant on local agricultural produce to survive). already rajasthani farmers are expecting incredible harvests of several important crops, and of the olive tree, which israel has recently also introduced to india. israelis have turned a desert into the food basket of the middle east, and produce an incredible variety of fruits and other such produce to export. israel has shown that you need not return to a primitive agrarian vision of society to be prosperous and blessed. we have managed to venerate the first art bestowed upon us by G-d in a way far better than your foolish exhortation for us all to return to primitive times lest we fall into some imagined doom.

Fututor Magnus posted:

israeli agriculture is pretty top notch technologically and productively. they've helped out with agriculture in many parts of the world with dry and difficult to farm land, like the more arid state of rajasthan in india (with millions of people who depend on agriculture for a living, and millions more dependant on local agricultural produce to survive). already rajasthani farmers are expecting incredible harvests of several important crops, and of the olive tree, which israel has recently also introduced to india. israelis have turned a desert into the food basket of the middle east, and produce an incredible variety of fruits and other such produce to export. israel has shown that you need not return to a primitive agrarian vision of society to be prosperous and blessed. we have managed to venerate the first art bestowed upon us by G-d in a way far better than your foolish exhortation for us all to return to primitive times lest we fall into some imagined doom.

Fututor Magnus posted:

israeli agriculture is pretty top notch technologically and productively. they've helped out with agriculture in many parts of the world with dry and difficult to farm land, like the more arid state of rajasthan in india (with millions of people who depend on agriculture for a living, and millions more dependant on local agricultural produce to survive). already rajasthani farmers are expecting incredible harvests of several important crops, and of the olive tree, which israel has recently also introduced to india. israelis have turned a desert into the food basket of the middle east, and produce an incredible variety of fruits and other such produce to export. israel has shown that you need not return to a primitive agrarian vision of society to be prosperous and blessed. we have managed to venerate the first art bestowed upon us by G-d in a way far better than your foolish exhortation for us all to return to primitive times lest we fall into some imagined doom.

the old ceremony posted:

friend you just put forward an excellent argument that farming is what we do and farming is what we should focus on. not finance, not warfare, not manufacturing or oil - farming. every jew who doesn't farm is wasting their time and their energy, unless they are a divinely inspired individual following some other true calling. we need to return to the land, because the land needs us, and there are so few of us that to make an impact we all have to move as one. you are the fool here

spaceships posted:

avshalom is the best poster and always will be.

the old ceremony posted:

friend you just put forward an excellent argument that farming is what we do and farming is what we should focus on. not finance, not warfare, not manufacturing or oil - farming. every jew who doesn't farm is wasting their time and their energy, unless they are a divinely inspired individual following some other true calling. we need to return to the land, because the land needs us, and there are so few of us that to make an impact we all have to move as one. you are the fool here

Fututor Magnus posted:

my friend, you forget that the jews of old who created ancient israel were doing exactly what israel is doing now. we have not strayed from the path that G-d made for us. old israel defended itself against many enemies, and thus needed to be tough at fighting. israel does the same and with its military has already defeated all its surrounding enemies, and like ancient israel, we are also surrounded by countless enemies. the jews of old had many talents, and so do israelis today.

Starving Wolf posted:

Oh god, which one's the real avshalom? Who do I shoot??

R. Mute posted:

Israel destroys Palestinian classrooms ahead of first day of school

Came across this and just sighed.

quote:

Over the past two weeks, four Palestinian communities have seen their educational facilities – donated by international bodies and NGOs – destroyed on the grounds that they had been built without proper planning permission.

The security forces also removed solar panels powering a school for Bedouin children near Jerusalem on August 9th, ignoring a High Court petition over their removal in the process.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, January Bulletin posted:

During January 2017, OCHA recorded the demolition of 140 structures by the Israeli authorities, displacing around 240 Palestinians and affecting another 4,000. The number of structures demolished during the first month of the year was over 50 per cent higher than the monthly average of structures targeted in 2016. All of these demolitions were carried out in Area C and East Jerusalem on the grounds of lack of building permits, although these are nearly impossible to obtain for Palestinians.
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During 2016 the Israeli authorities demolished or seized 1,093 Palestinian-owned structures throughout the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, displacing over 1,600 Palestinians, around half of them children, and affecting the livelihoods of more than 7,000 others. These figures are nearly double those of 2015 and the highest since 2009, when OCHA began the systematic monitoring of demolitions.

The vast majority of these structures were located in Area C and East Jerusalem and were destroyed or seized for lack of an Israeli-issued building permit. The rest were demolished on punitive grounds or during military operations. Nearly 30 per cent (308) of the structures demolished in 2016 were donor-funded humanitarian assistance structures.

More than 63 percent of the structures demolished or seized during the year were in Palestinian herding and/or Bedouin communities in Area C, including 283 structures provided as humanitarian assistance. The demolition of homes and livelihoods in combination with access restrictions, lack of adequate services, settler violence, military training and relocation plans, generates a coercive environment and places these vulnerable communities at risk of forcible transfer (see case study on access to health care in southern Hebron).

17 percent of the structures demolished or seized (190) were in East Jerusalem.

According to new data provided by the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA), by the end of 2016 there were approximately 12,500 final demolition orders outstanding against Palestinian-owned structures across Area C. Some orders were issued as far back as the late 1980s. The orders have no expiry date and can be implemented at any time.

Also according to ICA data, during the first half of 2016 there were 428 applications for building permits in Palestinian communities in Area C, of which 391 (91 per cent) were rejected. The majority of the 37 applications approved were reportedly issued independently by the Israeli authorities for one of the “relocation” sites planned for Palestinian Bedouin communities rather than a response to a Palestinian application.

Haaretz posted:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Monday, August 28'th, that he will not evacuate Israeli settlements in the West Bank. "We are here to stay, forever," the prime minister said at an event in the [illegal] settlement of Barkan, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Israel's occupation of the West Bank.

"There will be no more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel. It has been proven that it does not help peace," he said. "We've uprooted settlements. What did we get? We received missiles. It will not happen anymore. And there's another reasons that we will look after this place, because it looks after us. In light of everything that is occurring around us, we can just imagine the result," he said, citing threats to Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport and a main highway that runs along the border with the West Bank.

"So we will not fold. We are guarding Samaria against those who want to uproot us. We will deepen our roots, build, strengthen and settle," he said, using the Jewish name for part of the West Bank.

Education Minister Naftali Bennet also spoke at the event, attended by a few thousand residents of the surrounding settlements, saying "we shouldn't need permits, building in Judea and Samaria should be unrestricted. The freedom to build in our country."

Netanyahu added that "it's simply wonderful to see the developments here. I remember when we came to Barkan and we saw the vineyards, we saw the grapes, we stomped on the grapes – but today there are new grapes here. In the [settlement of] Tapuach, there's high-tech fruits, and this industry is ripe. We are working to advance industry, employment, water, tourism, public diplomacy and to fight against organizations calling for a boycott.

"We are doing this for two reasons: the first reason is simple, this is the land of our forefathers. This is our country."

Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

The land of our forefathers, going back dozens of years

tentative8e8op posted:

Miftan posted:

e: gently caress it can't get image to work

Mr. Lobe posted:

Sucks that people like them only ever face criminal justice for financial crimes, in the rare case that they ever do at all. It's a little like the Al Capone getting busted for tax evasion thing but on the level of a state.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

It's remarkable how good Bibi is at parting fools from their money.

Maybe he'll pull a reverse-Trump and move into showbiz, real estate, and branding scams, after he retired from office.

Darth Walrus posted:

Violence to property trumps violence to people in capitalism.

Kim Jong Il posted:

That has absolutely nothing to do in any capacity with Israel.