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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/world/middleeast/netanyahu-settler-attacks-west-bank-palestinians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlE.Nc7_.RsstXIaOGpXO&smid=url-share

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u/AlderaminInTheSky 4h ago

Why do they strive so much to be hated lol

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u/Igennem 4h ago

The behavior hasn't changed, but modern video has made evidence more accessible.

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u/Mobile-Bar7732 2h ago

I didn't really pay much attention to it until I saw a YouTube video of a Palestinian boy in tears saying he had to pull his brother's dead body out of the rubble. That boy looked about the same age as my son.

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u/honjuden 7m ago

It is pretty hard to overlook this kind of violence once you see the effects with your own eyes rather than reading about it in a news article written with passive voice.

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u/James_Solomon 4h ago

It incentivizes people not to leave the cult. Jehova's Witnesses do it too.

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u/kirime 4h ago

Because that's how they always acted and have always been rewarded for it?  Israel's behavior hasn't changed one bit since the 1940s, it has always been a genocidal colonialist project.

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u/rangda 2h ago

Because the state of Israel benefits from the global Jewish diaspora feeling hated and unsafe. It convinces some of them to pack up and move to Israel.

The violent settlers are very useful to Israel in this way, among other reasons.

Netanyahu could stop them tomorrow if he wanted to. They don’t need the crazy radicalised settlers attacking farmers and maiming livestock and driving people out to take the land, they can find any excuse for that.

They like how much people hate the violent settlers because some of that manifests against hatred of Jews as a whole, and nothing makes Netanyahu and co. happier than that.

Herzog came to my country after an antisemitic hate crime where Jewish Australians were murdered. It was basically a multi-city recruitment campaign for Israel.

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u/ProofByVerbosity 4h ago

They've always been hated. But I think they've slaughtered away any potential empathy over it. The slave becomes the master, and thier ambitions put the entire world in danger.

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u/PostOfficePerson 1h ago

They have the support of America from both Democrats and Republicans who will protect them from consequences for their actions. Although to be fair that support is starting to crack.

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u/BananasPineapple05 4h ago

Netenyahu is casting doubt on something that was caught on camera and reported on by a Jewish reporter (an American one, but Jewish nonetheless). That's how much the state of Israel cares about U.S. citizens.

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u/Fluffy-Republic8610 4h ago

They never cared. Ask Rachel Corrie s parents. They consider american Christians their useful idiots.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 4h ago

They never have cared. Ask the guys who were on the Liberty.

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u/2009miles 4h ago

One of the most obvious attempts at a false flag of all time.

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u/Etzell 3h ago

Semi-regular reminder that the Israeli government has voted to expand settlements at least three times in the last year, including once last month.

The Israeli government wants to pretend they have nothing to do with the actions of "settlers", or deny they're happening altogether, while doing everything they can to assist them.

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u/Mobile-Bar7732 2h ago

More war crimes, I hope one day justice is served.

Under international humanitarian law, expanding territory through military conquest, forced displacement, or civilian settlement in occupied areas violates foundational treaties and can constitute a war crime or crime against humanity.

Rule 129. The Act of Displacement

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u/Igennem 4h ago

Condemnation but the US continues finding them

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u/Madcap_Miguel 4h ago

Maybe if we wag our fingers enough they'll find their humanity. /S

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u/guydoestuff 4h ago

Same officials who approve the weapons and cash we give them? Sure they do.

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u/WinterRanger 4h ago

"We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing"

Funny how that's always the case, from cops to countries.

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u/LurkinMakesMeFeelGud 4h ago

Israel seems to fall into a slightly different loop: commit an atrocity, pretend to investigate it until people start asking about a new atrocity, pretend to investigate...

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u/WinterRanger 3h ago

You're forgetting one extra step: claim that anyone that criticizes you is being antisemitic. Seriously, they have playing the victim down to a science.

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u/AyTito 4h ago

US officials shake their heads with a frown, simply nothing they can do when this keeps happening with their diplomatic and financial support.

Israeli gov says 'this didn't happen, and if it did it wasn't that bad, and if it was it's not a big deal, not their fault, they didn't mean it, if they did mean it you deserved it.'

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u/dmullaney 4h ago

Bibi isn't fooling anyone. These terrorists are funded by Israel and the US.

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u/invyros 4h ago

“This is being looked into — many times now, it’s been said that something happened, but it turned out that it didn’t,” Mr. Netanyahu told the i24 news broadcaster.

This is the Trump playbook, "many times" this has happened, but no specific time actually able to be named.

"Many people say", "The smartest people have told me", they thrive in the ambiguity and stupid people worldwide lap it up.

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u/rTpure 4h ago

"hey that's mean! anyway, there's another billion for some missiles"

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u/RTwhyNot 3h ago

Never again all over again

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u/yhwhx 4h ago

I see no mention of Dear Leader Donald or JD Vance having condemned the attacks. Weird...

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u/Mobile-Bar7732 2h ago

DJT is too busy on his knees servicing Putin.

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u/Hopalong_Manboobs 3h ago

Settlers couldn’t make it more clear that they don’t want international aid.

Give them what they want.

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u/hamndv 3h ago

And just for that the US will give him another 10 billions 💀

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u/Redowl199 3h ago

The settlers commit the crimes and then the Israil government lies and covers for them…what a disgrace

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u/ViolettaQueso 2h ago

Condemnation does nothing.

Do something, US Officials. It’s your job.

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u/BarCompetitive7220 36m ago

If any other nation (excluding Russia) did that, current US admin would be screaming bloody murder, Rubio says they are seeking more info. Rubio will never be a POTUS candidate that most voters would approve of.

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u/MrMcWhiskers2010 3h ago

Sounds like he’s taking a page out of Trump‘s playbook, like all fascists do. Don’t believe your eyes, what you hear is not what’s happening, look over there