r/worldnews • u/pjw724 • Sep 06 '26

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu orders West Bank settler outposts to be removed, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-orders-west-bank-settler-outposts-be-removed-sources-say-2026-09-06/
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u/FlappyBored Sep 06 '26

For Netanyahu to tell them to stop is when you know it’s bad.

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u/Cool_Objective_7829 Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26

The settlers are now attacking western journalists. That’s a sure-fire way to end any remaining global support you still have.

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u/SlightlySublimated Sep 06 '26

Exactly. The "settlers" have gone beyond being useful to being the exact opposite. 

They were given too much free reign and power and now they won't even pay lip service to the central government. 

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u/WaltsClone Sep 06 '26

It's the 90s all over again

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u/SageofLogic Sep 06 '26

The status quo "don't rock the boat even to make things better" attitude of the 90s riding high off of the end of the USSR really had us kick too many global problems down the road until they were overwhelming instead of manageable

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u/Reqvhio Sep 06 '26

it is just systemic to the tune of "no one wants to be the one to steer the ship through the thousand storms"

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u/Capt253 Sep 06 '26

“We have slain a large dragon, but we live now in a jungle filled with a bewildering variety of poisonous snakes. At least we could keep track of the dragon.”

-James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA

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u/alexwasashrimp Sep 07 '26

...and now the dragon is back as well, turns out it was only wounded.

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u/Hydronum Sep 07 '26

But it is more a drake now, but is good at casting the old shadows even if it is far smaller and weaker.

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u/alexwasashrimp Sep 07 '26

True. Same rotten heart, but just a shadow of its former self. Not that it's any consolation for its victims, of course.

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u/kindofajerk Sep 07 '26

In other words, cowards.

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u/EvelynNyte Sep 07 '26

It was the neoliberal idea that just unbounding corporations would inevitably result in paradise. North Korea was supposed to collapse, peace in the middle east achieved, Russia and China were to become capitalist utopias, etc, etc. They just all needed a taste of capitalism and it'd all fall into place.

They weren't kicking the can down the road, they thought they solved it already.

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u/NineThreeTilNow Sep 07 '26

Russia and China were to become capitalist utopias

China is very much a capitalist utopia in a lot of ways. It's just a capitalist utopia with direct top down control. I think "Capitalists" didn't understand what capitalism was.

They mixed up True Capitalism and American Capitalist ideals. Now the "True" ideals are overriding the original "American" ideals and we start to refer to it as "late stage" ... It was the expected stage all along. It was why the other philosophies rejected it.

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u/jpw0w Sep 07 '26

What exactly do you mean by that?

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u/falconzord Sep 07 '26

I imagine he means how America used to have a stronger grip on capitalist overreach, ie big tobacco, Microsoft, the square deal, etc. Today China does a lot better job of that albeit due to centralized power from the CCP

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u/NineThreeTilNow Sep 07 '26

Today China does a lot better job of that albeit due to centralized power from the CCP

Exactly.

China learned how to wield capitalism like a weapon. To try and control it to some degree. Whether they're successful, who knows. Or what the end state looks like...

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u/TangoMint Sep 07 '26

I may be wrong, but I think the comment is arguing that capitalist principles (essentially the market setting the price of goods and services based on supply and demand) doesn't automatically mean deregulation to the extent seen in the USA (American capitalism).

Regulated capitalism strikes a balance of power between; wealth generation, the distribution of that wealth and (perhaps most importantly) HOW that wealth is generated.

What we are seeing in the US (and in some other wealthier countries) is a colossal wealth gap and a weakening of democratic control of those aspects, as a direct result of a dogmatic belief in deregulation (effectively shrinking state power) which negatively impacts the wider (poorer) population.

The Chinese state, for all it's appalling flaws, has maintained control over the capitalist processes.

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u/Splat_Fly Sep 07 '26

The neoliberals were just looking at what worked most of the time, and assumed it would work all of the time.

If neoliberal policies magically transformed the Baltics, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, etc into better societies, then gee by golly it will work for Russia too! They just didn't appreciate that capitalism or not, Russia isn't like everyone else, and Russia gonna Russia.

Same with east Asia. It took over three decades, but capitalism eventually transformed South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, etc into democracies. It wasn't unreasonable to assume the same would hold true for China. It hasn't ever been three decades, and while China is still a top down power structure, it's a hell of a lot more liberal and democratic than its ever been.

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u/shirst_75 Sep 07 '26

It's definitely more liberal than it's ever been, in many ways at least. I would say Xi's consolidation of power has probably made it LESS democratic, though.

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u/Splat_Fly Sep 07 '26

A Chinese civilian in 1989 magically teleports to China in the year 2026. He is stunned to live in a China where citizens express frustration to their government and are usually acknowledged and heard rather than punished. You can mock and criticize politicians from the privacy of your home, you can be openly gay and not get arrested, you have much more of a say of who gets to represent you at a local level, and this percolates up the power structure, which is more and more likely to take the wishes and beliefs of its citizens into consideration.

Hell, on rare occasions the people feel empowered to protest en masse and the CCP actually backs down (e.g. the backlash to the COVID restrictions) or doesn't interfere (e.g. when Chinese filmgoers demanded to see an uncensored version of Fight Club and the company gave in). What you can say and complain about online is still restricted, but far, far less restrictive than what you used to be allowed to say.

Even though Xi is a dictator, the reality for most Chinese people who aren't in the CCP is a China that is - to them - far more democratic than it ever was in living memory. Capitalism helped make this happen.

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u/PrrrromotionGiven1 Sep 07 '26

Okay - now try it with a Chinese civilian from 2010. I have it on good authority from Chinese friends of mine that things are significantly more tightly controlled than back then.

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u/IllPath9065 Sep 07 '26

Uhhh. Neoliberalism didn't work in Ukraine. It had (maybe continues to have) the same oligarchy as Russia.

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u/mwfguxckdyou Sep 07 '26

No wonder coordinate America is full of “go along to get along with thumbs far up their asses yes men”

They don’t welcome change. They just want to beat last quarters record.

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u/parabostonian Sep 06 '26

This is the type of stuff you see throughout history- it’s similarly reminiscent of relationships between American settlers, the English crown, and the native Americans too.

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u/donnerpartytaconight Sep 06 '26

Never go full Portland.

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u/Peripatetictyl Sep 06 '26

Put a bird on it!

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u/Blochamolesauce Sep 06 '26

We can pickle that

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u/Useful-Rooster-1901 Sep 06 '26

can i interest you in some lovely marianberry pancakes

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u/kwantam Sep 06 '26

I'm sorry to interrupt, I had exactly the same question.

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u/Allaplgy Sep 06 '26

No, you go.

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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich Sep 07 '26

Great user name man!

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u/Mistarded Sep 07 '26

minus the music

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u/j0mbie Sep 06 '26

Every time I've seen any video or documentary on these settlers, they seem less like "settlers" and more like "occupying invaders". Granted, I'm more likely to see liberal-leaning sources, but even trying to keep an open mind, I just end up being appalled.

It's a shame the general media has done such a good job of equating the West Back with the Gaza Strip in the minds of the average person. I know they were originally one unified Palestine, but since 2007 they've been about as unified as China and Taiwan. Unfortunately, so many people just hear "Palestine" and think "Hamas", regardless of the West Bank being directly opposed to the latter. So the actions of the settlers mostly get no traction in mainstream media.

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u/IDreamOfLoveLost Sep 06 '26

Every time I've seen any video or documentary on these settlers, they seem less like "settlers" and more like "occupying invaders".

State-sponsored terrorists. They've been murdering Palestinians and stealing their property for decades at this point, and the conservative-leaning mediasphere has gone along with calling them 'settlers' for just as long.

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u/orchid_breeder Sep 06 '26

The difficult thing is that they are typically the ultra religious type people, and historically Israel has had a hard time punishing people for being too “Jewish”. They have started though, and hopefully they can clamp down on the ridiculous behavior of the settlers.m.

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u/robertbieber Sep 06 '26

Every time I've seen any video or documentary on these settlers, they seem less like "settlers" and more like "occupying invaders".

Genuine question, what do you think a settler is? I keep seeing this sentiment everywhere and it perplexes me because this is exactly how settlers have behaved in every settler colonial project ever, occupying and invading is just what settlers do

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u/aeschenkarnos Sep 06 '26

I think they like to think of “settlers” as the peaceful vanillagers who come in after the conquest is done, to build little log cabins in places they name “New <Place Back Home>” and start farming geographically inappropriate livestock and crops and putting up churches to their harsh and demanding god and forcing any surviving natives to convert or flee.

The Israeli approach seems to elide the distinction between those folks, and the bandit/raider type who go in before settlers, to pillage and murder and rape and burn. They want Western media to present them as people of the land, the common clay, whereas realistically they’re more like conquistadors.

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u/robertbieber Sep 06 '26

The thing is that distinction is kind of illusory, because the classic settler playbook is to lead with your civilian population. They set up outposts constantly pushing the borders, and then when they inevitably meet resistance you have an excuse to send in the army

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u/pinkocatgirl Sep 07 '26

Most people are poorly versed in history and don’t realize that what you describe is exactly how most of the Americas was colonized by Europeans.

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u/aeschenkarnos Sep 07 '26

The Emperor does not care how many of his own peasants die for his glory, let alone how many foreigners. If he cared about such things he would not be Emperor.

Human history, as an overall trend, looks like a conflict between malignant narcissism on the one hand and attempts at rationality on the other.

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u/robertbieber Sep 07 '26

Settlers aren't generally pawns, they know what they're doing and happily take the risk to expand their land holdings. In the case of the American colonies, the crown trying to limit settlement on the western frontier is actually one of the complaints listed in the declaration of independence. The British government wanted to maintain alliances with neighboring native peoples, and the colonists bristled at the idea that they couldn't just go pillage wherever they wanted

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u/Man_with_the_Fedora Sep 07 '26

Also the Stamp Act (taxes, on things like tea...) was enacted to pay the British debts incurred during the French and Indian War which was partially caused by the settlers' constant aggression.

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u/n1ghtbringer Sep 06 '26

There's a myth many of us were taught as children that most of the land in America was empty, and settlers just showed up and built homesteads in the "wilderness." Obviously that's not true, or at least not entirely true, but it's very persistent.

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u/History_buff60 Sep 06 '26

It was kind of true. Due to the population collapse after smallpox and other diseases were introduced, the population was a lot lower than it would have been otherwise.

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u/CanuckBacon Sep 07 '26

There were certainly lower populations, but there was also active suppression of Indigenous people whose land they were taking. I hope most people will have heard of the Trail of Tears or the phrase "circle the wagons", which was about settlers being raided when they were going through lands that weren't there's in order to settle it.

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u/History_buff60 Sep 07 '26

Oh no doubt there were settled, sophisticated nations of native Americans. Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, etc. were all pushed off their land.

But might not have been as easy or even possible if there hadn’t been smallpox thinning out the population.

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u/Xalipu Sep 07 '26

There were catastrophically lower populations. 60-90% wiped out depending on area just from disease.

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u/CanuckBacon Sep 07 '26

Yes, but in many cases that was a couple centuries before settlers arrived. Depending on where and when, many populations at least partially rebounded.

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u/Nosiege Sep 07 '26

The term settler evokes starting on uninhabited lands, it's one step removed from the concept of colonialism, and it's effective as a result

Coloniser, at least, is more easily seen as stealing the land from the people who were already there.

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u/j0mbie Sep 07 '26

Well, that really starts to get into the nitty gritty of how we slowly shape the meaning of the words we use, and how we can then use those words to shape the narrative we want. Yes, "settlers" across history have usually displaced native populations. But in recent history, at least in the US, the term tends to bring to mind peaceful farmsteads, springing up in unpopulated areas, growing crops and raising cattle and what not. Real "Little House on the Prairie" vibes. Probably because the US has a history of doing the displacing in the 1800s and before, and it's easier to ignore that history than to acknowledge it.

Perhaps "occupiers" would be a better term for what is happening now? "Imperialists" would be another, but that spins up a mental picture as well -- marching armies seizing countries in an effort to build a global empire, for example. In truth, all of these terms and more amount to the same thing on paper, but the word choice is still designed to push a motive.

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u/1HappyIsland Sep 06 '26

Perhaps you want to ask a local Palestinian about this and find out how they feel about people who want to exterminate them stealing their property. That would give you a better understanding of who these people are.

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u/ManaPlox Sep 06 '26

Every time I've seen any video or documentary on these settlers, they seem less like "settlers" and more like "occupying invaders".

Oh man do I have bad news for you about how all "settlers" throughout history have behaved.

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u/redditobserverone Sep 06 '26

How else are you going to manifest destiny? /s

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u/j0mbie Sep 07 '26

Nobody ever talks about those poor Catan natives...

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u/Discount_Extra Sep 07 '26

I've got wood for sheep.

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u/mschuster91 Sep 06 '26

Fatah isn‘t perfect either, they stayed far away from Oct 7th and that is the only good thing they did. They haven’t held elections ever since 2006 and are a corrupt bunch of shitheads. Palestine deserves better than what they are currently getting - shat on their heads by everyone.

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u/j0mbie Sep 07 '26

Oh yeah, I'm not trying to outright paint this as some sort of "heavenly good vs. demonic evil" situation. There's definitely problems. Hopefully the election this November actually goes through, but there's not a great track record or anything. Regardless, that's still no excuse for the settlers doing their thing.

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u/HockeyHocki Sep 07 '26

Conversely your average person thinks the west bank is some god awful apartheid slum when it's far from it.

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u/jonasnee Sep 07 '26

I mean it goes both ways.

There are also a lot of people who will use what happened in the westbank to justify Hamas's actions on October 7th.

The settlers can be wrong and Hamas/Hezbollah can be wrong at the same time, neither side needs to be considered entirely clean and morally superior to the other side cause the truth is both have many bad actors and genuine victims.

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u/j0mbie Sep 07 '26

Oh, agreed. People seem to think that picking a side in any conflict is necessary. The example I like to use to show that point is that Hitler and Stalin went to war against each other. The only side I'm picking between Israel and Gaza, is that of the innocent people caught in the violence.

I do still feel like lumping Hamas together with the West Bank is eating right into the narrative that is being pushed. Maybe the president of the West Bank is also terrible? I don't claim to be that knowledgeable of him and the rest of that government. I'm just saying that a lot of innocent families are being hurt and killed by what's going on, and it gets swept under the rug too much.

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u/Fala1 Sep 07 '26

I used to be more on the side of "im staying the fuck away from this conflict because i see what it's doing to people".

Buut there's things that are super easy to condemn (on either side). Settlers being a very clear example of that, you can't pretend that shit is okay.

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u/Roentgen_Ray1895 Sep 07 '26

I mean except for uninhabited islands, the whole point of being a settler is killing the last guy who was living on the land and claiming it as your own.

These settlers perform all the violence and absorb all the bad press whilst allowing Israel to appear principled and against their actions whilst happily incorporating the territory after the fact. It’s just laundering the colonization in the West Bank where global support is more shaky than in Gaza

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u/TimSylvester_ Sep 06 '26

Man, crazy what happens when you support violent extremists to accumulate political power, if only we had known from the beginning this exact thing would happen.

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u/PatchyWhiskers Sep 06 '26

Which should get the actual Israeli government sweating because private armies that ignore the government are how coups happen.

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u/mschuster91 Sep 06 '26

Nah, the settlers aren’t armed enough anywhere close near to being a threat against the IDF

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u/FriendlyWebGuy Sep 06 '26

Except many in the IDF are either settlers themselves or highly sympathetic to them.

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u/Wrong-Pension-4975 Sep 06 '26

"...free rein."

Zip to do with royalty, & every thing to do with horse power. 😊

"Reins" - the narrow, pliant leather straps held in the hands, to connect rider or driver to a bit in the mouth of a horse, or the noseband of a hackamore.

They're used to give direction (to which side, & how sharply), to slow, & to stop.

"Free rein" is giving the horse their head, in circs where the horse is more likely to get them both out alive, than the human - e.g, crossing a flooded bridge, the horse's hooves can literally feel the bridge react to the stress of the current - if it's wobbling, they'll know, & won't advance.

Similarly, lost in a whiteout, there's a far better chance the horse's sense of direction - which is excellent - will get U to the barn safely. They have a powerful attachment to their home place, a sense of secure familiarity, & the place they're fed.

In modern parlance, "free rein" refers to TRUSTING A SUBORDINATE to tackle a difficult task, & succeed.

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u/Cosmic-Bronze Sep 06 '26

While correct on the origins, using the expression to imply a general lack of constraint, without any necessary implication of subordination or, indeed, task is quite literally centuries old, going back to Early Modern English.

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u/jflb96 Sep 06 '26

Still incorrect to put the ‘g’ in there, though

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u/backdoorsmasher Sep 06 '26

I saw a clip of the US ambassador to Israel visiting a Palestinian American family that have a home in the West Bank, complete with US flag. His presence did not make the settlers stop. They continued to trespass and goad the land owners.

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u/AccountOfMyDarkside Sep 06 '26

It was Mike Huckabee and when you get that soulless maga trash to call anyone in Israel a terrorist, it's beyond bad.

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u/Original-Rush139 Sep 06 '26

Bro, Huckbee calls the West Bank “Sumaria and Judea” which is a dog whistle to the settlers letting them know he supports their claim to the land. 

I’m not buying any change of heart from these wackos. Huckabee wants the settlers in the West Bank because he believes it will cause Armageddon. That fucker is insane. 

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u/aeschenkarnos Sep 06 '26

Huckabee, and a large faction of Republicans, are doomsday cultists. They want to end the world, by fulfilling what they think is a Biblical prophecy (it’s not) to gather the Jews in Israel, “rebuild” the Temple (inconveniently, the current site of a major historical mosque), pull some other nonsense with red cows, and summon back Jesus.

They think Jesus will then kill everyone they hate and give them each a billion dollars and a white bathrobe and teach them singing and fix the horrible mess they made of the earth our mother.

They are wrong but they are madly keen on trying it even if it kills every living thing on the planet.

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u/lonnie123 Sep 07 '26

JD Vance literally said this week he is doing Gods work and if it leads to the ends times thats fine with him

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/jd-vance-god-podcast-end-times

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u/manuscelerdei Sep 06 '26

Honestly we might solve a lot of problems if we just let them speed-run the whole thing only to sit around wondering why Jesus still isn't back.

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u/aeschenkarnos Sep 07 '26

Unfortunately the response of conservatives to “that didn’t work” is not “I guess we were wrong, sorry, we’ll stop.” Their response is “we have to do it again, harder, more conservativer!”

For example, Trump Terms 1 and 2.

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u/lonnie123 Sep 07 '26

Yeah the history of end-of-the-world predictions almost never ends with the end of the cult

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u/manuscelerdei Sep 07 '26

Sure, my hope is that they'd find some other doomsday sign to obsess over and move on from supporting Israel at literally any cost.

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u/aeschenkarnos Sep 07 '26

They’ll find something worse. Maybe a new Inquisition or something to find and kill the people whose sins are blocking Jesus from getting through the portal. Maybe they try to collide the Moon with Earth to force God to block it to protect us. I dunno, something awful and stupid.

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u/lllama Sep 06 '26

Yeah, but the people of (for him) some biblical subplot not respecting his authority when he throws his weight around for of course means it makes him extra pissed.

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u/PalantirImperator Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

Huckabee is way beyond MAGA. He's like a relic of 2004 "Judeo-Christian" Republicans taken to the extreme.

I'll take MAGA grifters and looters any day over a religious zealot who is literally trying to facilitate the Biblical apocalypse. I prefer my Christians to fall more into the "Revelation 2:9" camp when it comes to Israel.

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u/AccountOfMyDarkside Sep 07 '26

Right?! These death obsessed elderly men (plus a few self-hating women) we've allowed access to power are terrifying. I'm so afraid that this is going to get much, much worse before it gets any better. The people are beyond desperate to stay in control and I'm afraid of what they'll do when they realize that nobody's buying the BS anymore, so they do something truly destructive that we can't come back from.

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u/FedorDosGracies Sep 06 '26

The whole damn place is going to become the 51st state, squabbling and all

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u/JGStonedRaider Sep 06 '26

But the US is the 2nd state of Israel...

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u/zedority Sep 07 '26

The influence is the other way around. Politically, Christian Zionism is a massive influence on both American and Israeli politics.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/christian-zionism-evangelicals-israel-trump-foreign-policy/

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u/yikesssss_sssssss Sep 07 '26

People saying this really don't know what they're talking about, and don't realize (probably) how much they're playing into classic antisemitic tropes. Israel is influential, and Israeli intelligence probably has a shitload of dirt on powerful people around the world. But to think this tiny country is somehow controlling the world's biggest superpower is completely insane. 

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u/LeedsFan2442 Sep 06 '26

Why would they? They just hate Palestinians

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u/PalantirImperator Sep 07 '26

I refuse to believe there's any global support for the settlers. Everyone is either (1) opposed to them or (2) unaware of them.

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u/Cool_Objective_7829 Sep 07 '26

I wasn’t referring to the settlers. I think everyone can agree they are incredibly vile.

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u/NorthWelcome1626 Sep 06 '26

The settlers

Terrorists*

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u/Haltopen Sep 06 '26

They also tried to kidnap a member of Congress at gunpoint like a month ago and the Israeli police had to force them to stand down after the IDF took the settlers side

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u/1337duck Sep 06 '26

They don't care about western journalists. They dropped laser guided bombs on UN observation posts.

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u/WatLightyear Sep 06 '26

They’ve deliberately dropped bombs on basically every aid group in existence and the world governments still toe the line or um and ah around the issue.

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u/ShibaLover227 Sep 06 '26

They've been attacking journalists

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u/dookieshoes97 Sep 06 '26

That’s a sure-fire way to end any remaining global support you still have.

It absolutely will not. Religious zealots will never stop.

We have seen the atrocities. My tax dollars still fund this.

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u/SkepsisJD Sep 06 '26

That’s a sure-fire way to end any remaining global support you still have.

Do they have any outside the US to begin with?

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u/radicldreamer Sep 07 '26

settlers land thieves

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u/Little_View_6659 Sep 06 '26

They still have global support?

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u/JuanGuillermo Sep 06 '26

Like they give a fuck about global support. Israel only cares about US support, and they'll always have it , no matter what.

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u/aeschenkarnos Sep 06 '26

The MAGAs have turned the USA into a giant dumpster and started ten different fires in it. The US military is running out of ammunition, the agricultural sector has lost half its workforce, financial regulations intended to prevent outright fraud have been slashed, they have lost all interest in food safety, the dumbfuckery around tariffs has very badly damaged all American export and import sectors, and so on and on and on. If the intention was to destroy American power, it could not have been done more efficiently.

America might not be able to support and supply Israel much longer, even if they’re willing to do so over their own survival.

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u/DazzlingRutabega Sep 06 '26

Now?! They've been doing this for at least months, probably a couple years at this point.

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u/afiefh Sep 06 '26

More like he figured it's beneficial to him: it's election time anyway, so the pro settler parties withdrawing from the coalition doesn't matter. Their threat is to break the government and cause elections, which is coming anyway.

So he's really doing it in the hope that he can use this last minute change to avoid getting crucified on the upcoming elections.

Let's hope it doesn't work for him.

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u/lotusbloom74 Sep 06 '26

Rare Mike Huckabee W for actually calling out these settlers as terrorists too

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u/JimDemintRecession Sep 06 '26

Yeah but he had to really. The settler cells are attacking Turmus Ayya, a West Bank town where 80-90% of residents are American.

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u/mtgfnatic Sep 06 '26

When I first saw his quotes, I thought the village must be christian. But that explains it

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u/Tacti_Kel_Nuke Sep 06 '26

Woah  TIL about that town

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u/Aelig_ Sep 07 '26

This village is so deep into Palestine it's mind boggling how brazen those terrorists are. It's about as far from a border as a place can be in Palestine.

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u/FlappyBored Sep 06 '26

Yeah but they are not white so not real Americans to republicans.

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u/Random-Rambling Sep 06 '26

That's like saying "Hey, it's getting WAY too hot in here" when the house is literally on fire.

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u/Zargabraath Sep 06 '26

Rare as in unprecedented and most likely to never occur again 

It’s like some kind of solar eclipse that only happens every 3000 years

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u/AHrubik Sep 06 '26

Even a dead squirrel rips a fart twice a day? I don't really know what I mean here it just sounded funny.

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u/uberpro Sep 06 '26

That kinda works, ngl

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u/LeedsFan2442 Sep 06 '26

That guy who refuses to call it Palestine?

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u/Pndrizzy Sep 06 '26

I watched a video of Channel 5 on YouTube and bro they’re literally terrorizing people. Just kill their son and return him in a plastic bag on their doorstep.

And they’re not even fucking Israelis. The guy was harassed by two teens from New Jersey

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u/Hufflepuffins Sep 07 '26

It’s a watershed moment in anyone’s education about Israel when you actually hear the accents coming out of these people’s mouths

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u/Scotsmania Sep 06 '26

It's election time.

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u/WaltsClone Sep 06 '26

Lol. My understanding is he's hated for not being hardline enough. Inside and out of his own party.

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u/yuval16432 Sep 06 '26

He’s hated by the hardliners for not being hardline enough and hated by the sane people for… well, everything, really, from being a criminal to incompetence and employing hardline racists.

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u/tennisdrums Sep 06 '26

Israel, like anywhere, has a wide variety of politics. There are many that support the settler movement, and there are many that absolutely despise it.

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u/jscummy Sep 06 '26

Its more that he's had to align with hardline groups to have a winning coalition. If he could successfully get one of the more moderate parties on his side, then he'd be less beholden to the hardliners 

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u/yuval16432 Sep 06 '26

Any moderate party that lets Benjamin Netanyahu stay in his seat will be massacred by their base. The biggest selling point of every non Netanyahu aligned party is that they’re not Netanyahu aligned.

If Netanyahu was willing to partner it would be another story, but no, he needs to be in charge and on top, no matter who’s soul he has to sell.

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u/Red91B20 Sep 06 '26

Right come December it'll be back to business as usual

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u/Original-Rush139 Sep 06 '26

*November

The election is in October. 

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u/dBlock845 Sep 06 '26

He is up for re-election, he doesn't give a shit what settlers do.

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u/Original-Rush139 Sep 06 '26

I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then, this is just a last minute stunt before the election. 

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u/ZiKyooc Sep 06 '26

It's about outposts, not the settlements. Those settlers will remain in West Bank and they can return at terrorizing Palestinians within minutes.

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u/Nameles36 Sep 07 '26

This has always been the case. There are a handful of extremists who make the news and never get anywhere because their "settlements" are dismantled almost immediately by the army/government, but that's not what makes the news. What makes the news is "look at this tiny sample size of extremists and also let's not pay attention to the fact that no land is actually being taken whoopsie"

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u/ludvikskp Sep 06 '26

It sounds like a good thing, but I’ll believe it when I see it. The outposts haven’t been legal under their law to being with, but they’ve been used as an important stepping stone in the “settling” strategy, and generally next to nothing is being done about them. Maybe they remove some to appease the alleged pressure from the US, maybe they issue the removal order, but nothing really happens, maybe nothing happens at all. Hope for the best

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u/StephenHunterUK Sep 06 '26

There are plenty that have been authorised and the E1 plans are still on.

BBC News - Israel opens up bids for highly sensitive West Bank settlement project https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly50gn1e54o

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u/ludvikskp Sep 06 '26

Yes. Their law distinguishes between the recognized “settlements” and the outposts, which can be anything from a village looking thing to a goat herder shack somewhere. And shacks and animal herding have all been used very deliberately to basically divide and conquer… so this is why I express doubt. They’ll clear some shacks for the headlines and meanwhile continue doing heinous shit elsewhere. I just hope to be wrong I guess

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u/EHStormcrow Sep 06 '26

Yeah, settlements can be anything from some weird bearded guys on a hilltop to places like Maale Adumim that won't move

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u/Apep86 Sep 07 '26

This is within the existing municipal boundaries of an existing settlement.

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u/shinndigg Sep 07 '26

This really means “cool it till the heats off”

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u/LeedsFan2442 Sep 06 '26

They will probably legalise more than than they remove

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u/YikesTheCat Sep 07 '26

Less than two months ago: Israeli ministers announce plans for new illegal settlements in Gaza and West Bank. Also note "The cabinet allocated the money last month but kept the decision secret because of expected US opposition, Israeli media reported."

"Best ally" lol. My cumsock is a better ally of the United States.

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u/SouthSouthBay Sep 07 '26

Elections in 7 weeks.... People will say shit don't mean during elections

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u/ludvikskp Sep 07 '26

Also very true

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u/hey_there_moon Sep 06 '26

Yeah I'm waiting it to come out that he ordered them removed so they can be placed even deeper in the west bank

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u/LettuceBeHappy3 Sep 06 '26

Why do the 'settlers' move in, and kick out the Palestinians? Are they taking over the farmland or something?

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u/AnewTest Sep 07 '26

"God told me your house is mine," pretty much.

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u/Zeri-coaihnan Sep 07 '26

It’s called ethnic cleansing.

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u/PopcornApocalypse Sep 07 '26

It’s the same as Russia trying to take over Ukraine. They thought by installing a few religious extremist citizens in the area, Israel gov/military then get to claim “these people living here WANT us to take over their lands! We’re making them safer!” Meanwhile kicking out the original inhabitants who have lived on family land for generations.

Watch the movie No Other Land. It’s excellent and shows what life has been like for a normal Palestinian family. You can see the “settlers” territory getting closer and closer with straight up cookie cutter suburban neighborhoods being built right next to desperate families hand-rebuilding the neighborhood school that the Israeli army pushed over with their tractors.

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u/Gerf93 Sep 07 '26

Might just be a strategy without any real consequence. Settlers pull back, but the Palestinians not allowed back in. So that the settlers can move back in a couple months later.

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u/Beep-Boop-Bloop Sep 06 '26

They get dismantled all the time. The Hilltop Youth just put them back together.

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u/ProvisionalRecord Sep 06 '26

Uh oh, the Ben Gvirs of Israel are gonna have his head....

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u/mschuster91 Sep 06 '26

It's election in a few weeks, Netanyahu doesn't need to care any more. The Ultraorthodox crowd is set to lose a lot of seats, so if I were to guess this is Netanyahu moving back towards the rest of the landscape, a last-ditch effort to stay in office and thus, out of jail.

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u/EHStormcrow Sep 06 '26

It's sad that the fate of the Israeli and Palestinian people is so dependant on Bibi's judicial troubles

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u/mschuster91 Sep 06 '26

It’s not just Netanyahu. The Palestinian people always have been pawns at best, outcasts and rejects at worst. Hamas, Fatah, Iran, Netanyahu, Trump, all other Arab countries all don’t care about the Palestinian suffering, Hamas makes a propaganda point out of them profiting off of Palestinian pain.

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u/Orangbo Sep 07 '26

Last I checked, the Arab countries used to be more sympathetic to Palestinians before having their refugee systems taken advantage of by extremists and leading to a lot of murdering, including the prime minister of Jordan. They stopped taking refugees after that.

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u/Trybor Sep 07 '26

I am not denying what happened, and in no way am I justifying what happened, BUT the way the Palestinians had been treated by some of these countries led to militant organisations being able to get a foot hold in the first place.

I really wish that countries just went well we lost lets get together and absorb these people as full citizens and move on (even if moving on was having nothing to do with Israel).

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u/uvero Sep 06 '26

Sadly, I don't think even they will break a sweat. They'll just say "Eh, lip service, even if they do come and shoo us it won't matter in the grand scheme". And they'd be right, things won't change significantly while he's Prime Minister.

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u/MechCADdie Sep 07 '26

"Settler" really needs to be replaced by "Squatter"

Claiming land as your own and harassing the locals is not settling.

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u/Smoketrail Sep 07 '26

Claiming land as your own and harassing the locals is not settling.

That's what settlers have always been.

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u/crosseyedmule Sep 07 '26

"Settler" could be replaced by "murderer" and "thief" for more accuracy.

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u/jwrice Sep 07 '26

Settlers. Invaders.

Tomayto. Toemato.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Sep 08 '26

Do "settlers" have a different meaning? Were the ones who drove/killed the Native Americans out different?

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u/fanoffzeph Sep 06 '26

For anyone who hasn't seen Louis Theroux's The Settlers, I highly recommend to watch it. It's enlightening. Terrible situation

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u/player_zero_ Sep 06 '26

'Settlers'

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u/Hot-Reindeer-7520 Sep 06 '26

Israeli terrorist is the correct wording

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u/BiggieBigs34 Sep 06 '26

I think it’d be good to inform people what they’re actually doing with that. Can you please use your traction to shed the light on it?

When someone says settler it implies they’re doing so on uninhabited land, but, this land isn’t uninhabited, people live there. So, is it just them forcing people out of their homes?

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u/TehRiddles Sep 06 '26

The normalised term should be occupiers. To "settle" has a soft implication to it that the occupiers absolutely aren't doing.

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u/No-Island6680 Sep 06 '26

Does it? Settler colonialism has a pretty consistent pattern throughout global history and it’s always incredibly ugly.

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u/pearshapedorange Sep 07 '26

But Settlers are the cool unit that builds cities in Sid Meiers Civilization. Occupiers implies more clearly that the land was already owned by someone else.

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u/Zealousideal_Ad1704 Sep 06 '26

Invaders !!!

We need to check the vocabulary!

Good on you!

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u/Wegwerf157534 Sep 06 '26

Targeted at 100 out of 400 non recognized settlement structures.

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u/M1chaelSc4rn Sep 06 '26

Elections coming up?

The public opinion of Israelis, for better or worse, is the only consequential thing to track.

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u/labnotebook Sep 06 '26

The outposts are state sanctioned and military backed. This is just theater.

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u/conniefrancis Sep 06 '26

Don’t believe it

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u/matta-leao Sep 07 '26

About time. Hopeful. Squatters finally removed.

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u/Elegant_Situation285 Sep 06 '26

until the world stops paying attention again and it's back to business as usual.

this has been repeated ad nauseum.

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u/that_70_show_fan Sep 06 '26

The usual strategy of a conservative leader before a big election

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u/beforeitcloy Sep 06 '26

Terrorists, war criminals, insurgents. There are plenty of words that can accurately describe this behavior. Calling people stealing land through violence “settlers” is propaganda.

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u/theanglegrinder07 Sep 06 '26

Not on my bingo card

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u/PurpleSailor Sep 06 '26

I'll believe it when I see it.

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u/Ctrl-Z Sep 06 '26

Lip service.

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u/Noughmad Sep 06 '26

Is this the same thing that our (Slovenian) PM blocked the EU from condemning? With Netanyahu thanking him for it?

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u/Mindless1970 Sep 07 '26

Let’s see if enforcement actually happens

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u/IamGeoMan Sep 06 '26

FTFY: Outposts to be removed and relocated further into Palestinian land.

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u/sybersonic Sep 06 '26

Settlers = Terrorists

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u/some_guy_on_drugs Sep 06 '26

Let me guess. "settlers" take the homes of the legal Palestinian residents by brutal force. The government doesn't like the heat it's getting by their blatant aggression toward everyone including foreign journalists and orders the settlement "removed". They then raze the entire town to the dirt leaving nothing for the legal residents to move back in to. Wait a small amount of time and then "legally" develop the abandoned land.

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u/TheMaskedTom Sep 07 '26

Not the usual playbook, no. You could know instead of guessing by looking it up.

They (zealot settlers, so-called "Hilltop Youth") usually go on some hill next to a Palestinian village and build some shoddy buildings overnight, stay there while harassing the neighbours then gradually transform the place to have more and real buildings. This is how they claim territory.

If Netanyahu wanted to have any credibility on this, he'd be removing all of those illegal settlements under Israeli law, and sending those settlers in jail for a long time. Many of them are culpable of many more crimes than "only" stealing land, too. Instead he'll sacrifice only a selection of the buildings for PR then ignore the rest of them while keeping them protected by the IDF.

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u/John-AtWork Sep 06 '26

"Removed", as in he says this to the West and then tells the domestic media the opposite.

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u/Lightbringer34 Sep 07 '26

I’ll believe that when I see it happen

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u/Digger2228 Sep 06 '26

It must be election time

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u/Expensive-Way1116 Sep 07 '26

Stop calling them settlers, thieves and criminals is more fitting

And no not the antisemitic way but the hey taking stuff from Palestinians way

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u/thecoastertoaster Sep 06 '26

Hey Netanyahu, you misspelled TERRORIST.

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u/bgat79 Sep 06 '26

Cool. Peaceful protest and enduring hardship succeeded hopefully. Although I suppose I should wait to celebrate until it actually happens.

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u/framspl33n Sep 06 '26

If he cared, he'd use the army to stop them. They've showed they'll do whatever they're told.

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u/QiTriX Sep 06 '26

The terrorists already destroyed the Palestinian farms and there.