Israeli settlers call for UN agency’s closure in Jerusalem protest (www.theguardian.com)

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Dozens of Israeli settlers and rightwing activists have protested by again blocking the entrances of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) office in Jerusalem and calling for the body’s closure.

Last week, Israel announced it would no longer approve Unrwa food convoys to the north of Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest. The decision came after the agency was accused by the government of collaborating with Hamas in Gaza, with its staff facing a systematic campaign of obstruction and harassment by the Israeli military and authorities, as revealed in internal UN documents seen by the Guardian.

On Wednesday, a group of settlers, activists, and members of the rightwing extra-parliamentary political group Im Tirtzu staged a protest for the third week in a row, fixing posters to the building and demanding that the agency be abolished.

“Unrwa needs to be disbanded,” said Aynat Libman, a 52-year-old Israeli settler from Efrat. “Israel doesn’t need to provide space to Unrwa in our capital. They support terror, teach children from a very young age to be terrorists, provide support to Hamas, and supply Hamas. They are terrorists.”

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[-] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Even other Israelis hate settlers. If you want to read first-hand accounts about settler violence the amazing Jewish organization Breaking The Silence, dedicated to exposing the truth of Israeli behavior via verified veteran testimony, has many of them here. The settlers in Occupied Palestinian Territory are truly among the worst people of our time. If Israeli settlers approve of you it's probably time to reconsider the kind of person you are.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I'll just say: Progressive Israelis hate settlers. The majority (as a rule everyone who voted for Netanyahu's coalition) has no issue with them or outright supports them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

the current coalition got 49.5% of the votes.
the coalition is also made up of non-zionist ultra-orthodox.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

the current coalition got 49.5% of the votes.

Yeah fair. I should've specified Jewish Israelis.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

not necessarily.
there are quite a bit of druze who vote likud, and a surprising amount of muslim israeli arabs and bedouins who vote for shas.
i haven't seen an article that mentions how much of a percentage they are out of all likud or shas voters though. but in some towns and villages they are as much as 30%+

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

and a surprising amount of muslim israeli arabs and bedouins who vote for shas.

Okay what? Why? Also I don't know Shas but I'm assuming it's in Netanyahu's coalition?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

from what i understood, the laws they pass to help their voters tend to also resonate with muslim arabs and bedouins.

and yes. it's one of the ultra-orthodox parties in the coalition. just that this one is zionist and aims to mainly represent sephardic/mizrahi jews.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

They are terrorists

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

But, but, but I'm supposed to live here! My ancestors lived here millennia ago! What does it matter if they live there now?! Them not wanting to be forcibly displaced, starved, beaten is just them being terrorists! *stomps foot*

I hope they choke on their bile because they sure are filled with it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Dozens of Israeli settlers and rightwing activists have protested by again blocking the entrances of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) office in Jerusalem and calling for the body’s closure.

The same agency Biden banned aid to via executive order until it could be included in the budget...

If Dems somehow win the House, AIPAC's largest recipient of donations will be House majority leader too.

Whether republicans or democrats win in the next election, it's impossible for Israel to lose. They buy off the only two options in our political system

"Blue no matter who" is not a viable long term strategy, because a D next to someone's name doesn't make them magically perfect we need standards

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I must be honest, whenever i hear people from the US say/chant 'vote blue no matter who', they genuinely sounds like cultists to me.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

It used to be the smart play.

But the danger was always holding your party to a lower standard, means lower quality candidates.

Especially in American politics where money and corruption are both readily available and often flat out legal, it's hard for honest candidates to win primaries.

Primaries are orders of magnitude cheaper, so lots of people realized their money not only goes further there, but you could play both sides.

Especially in the House where a tiny rural district can be bought for like $20k. And people who openly oppose you are easily targets on reelections.

The state of the democratic party in 2024 was always going to be the result of no standards, I just thought we had longer.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

If this isn't the last nail in the coffin, I don't know what is.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

You really should use the lobbying tab.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lobbying?cycle=All&ind=Q05

AIPAC especially gives a lot of trips and gifts. Then "bundling" donations so they come from individuals and not directly.

Plus your link is just direct donations to a candidate. It doesn't include donations to a PAC associated directly to a candidate.

Open secrets has been around for a while, the people who abuse our political system the most works around it by now.

So not even the lobbying tab is super relevant anymore, but it's better than direct contributions for a measure of influence

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I only just found out about it but yeah I'm sure it's not better than it looks lol.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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