• dasgoat@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    There is no war in the west bank. They are involved in a drastic increase of settler violence, colonialist land grabs, judicial violence and ecocide. Behaviour that has been observed for decades and that has seen a significant increase even before the Gaza strip war, and has seen an outright explosion following Israel’s increase of wanton and indiscriminate violence in Gaza perpetrated by the IDF.

    All of this violence in the west bank has been thoroughly documented by HRW and B’Tselem. The Israeli settler’s and the IDF’s behaviour is decidedly not a consequence of ‘the war’, and any claim made as such fails to take into account that this behaviour has seen an upwards trend for a decade at least, and is therefore merely a continuation, albeit a stark increase.

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      11 months ago

      There is no war in the west bank.

      Per the article, Israel has declared war on the West Bank when they declared war against Hamas.

      I find that declaration sweeping and a bit difficult to defend, but it has happened.

      All of this violence in the west bank has been thoroughly documented by HRW and B’Tselem. The Israeli settler’s and the IDF’s behaviour is decidedly not a consequence of ‘the war’

      This current violence is absolutely predicated upon the war legally, and more importantly in human terms, driven by hate - which is most assuredly because of the war.