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Did you know that there are more Palestinians now than there were 20 years ago?
Ah yes, what is it now, round 6 427 530 of the world's longest running game of got you last?
☹️ A tragedy for all involved. >

Does “settlers” mean terrorists in Israel? >

Settlers means hard-core zionists that have moved into historically Palestinian lands, and live in small, heavily, guarded enclaves with the full backing of the Israeli government, and Israeli military. They believe that God gave them that land, and so they are displacing generations of Palestinians, who have lived on and worked the land. This is my limited understanding of it, and it is stated without passion or malice. >

I think that’s generally the definition of “settler” in most English language media, but in this particular article I think they might be using settler to mean any Israeli. I don’t see any indication that the attackers have any connection to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. I think this publication might consider all Jews in Israel to be “settlers”. >

Middle East Monitor is a Qatari owned newspaper so they probably would call all Jews in Israel "settlers." >

No they simply mean Israelis >

Wait... Armenians aren't Muslims. They aren't Arabs. They are Christians from the Caucuses. 
Why was this done? This makes no sense without more context. >

Because this is a random bar fight but anti-semites want to make it about "Israel settlers". >

I mean, it could be. It could be something else. 
Context is king. >

There is literally a video where the attackerS brandish MULTIPLE Israel flags.
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Your "bar fight" excuse seems bullshit af lmao >


Oh right having a flag means you're attacking.

flags* 
Oh yes, very normal thing to do, wander in the street with flags in the middle of the night for absolutely no reason and standing in front a pub mainly occupied by non-native people.
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Did you ever consider that because they had a flag that they got attacked?

If i'm attacked by a crowd, i don't stand in front of it, taunting and brandish flags.
I gtfo and report to the police.
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Or no, because it's always the bad Jews who do the bad things?

Fuck off with your bad faith & persecution complex.
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You're making excuse for obvious shitty behavior of some douchebags, you've nothing to gain to defend them. >

Here's the video of the incident.  It shows a bunch of people yelling at each other with a few them throwing chairs at one another but failing to cause any injuries. >

Ah and the context comes and as usual a title that portrays a widely different story. Love  biased media. Neither side is completely right for what they are doing, but the facts are Palestine has existed for less than a century, while Israel, millenniums. Throughout this modern conflict Israel has done nothing but position itself to defend from the attacks in vast majority of reported incidents. There are countless examples where Palestinians stage "attacks" on themselves where they ambush an Israeli and when they are forced to defend themselves there is someone there with a camera ready to capture that but not the first part. My point is the media is a huge part of this problem and enabling a lot of this conflict.
edit: source: me, I have been there and visited these settlements which are most often in areas that are in previously uninhabited and desolate. As soon as they establish, either Israeli police or Palestinians try to tear it down and have done so many times. The Israeli government does not "fully back" these settlements as some have stated here, and they don't support them for the sake of not instigating further conflict even though the Palestinians only decide they want that piece of land INSIDE Israel's borders after it is occupied by settlers. >

What the fuck are these dumb motherfuckers doing?
"Hey, here are some people who were also genocided. Instead of sharing common ground with those who have survived and face daily denials from those who would commit atrocities again, let's attack them!"
I'm embarrassed to be Jewish today. Lots of other days, too. But definitely today. >

It's an awful truth that some Jews (myself included) believe "never again" means to love all of humanity as if they are your family, while other Jews believe "never again" means to kill everyone who isn't Jewish before they kill you. The only lesson the second group learned from the Holocaust is that it's possible if you try hard enough. >

The current Israeli govt and the “settlers” aka terrorists are in the latter group >

Yes, Israel has the right to exist and protect themselves, but maybe they could try NOT BEING ASSHOLES too. >

Claim the right to exist? The UN decided that there will be an Israel, and that’s the end of that. Nobody is claiming anything. It all used to be the Ottoman Empire, and now it’s Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt and several other countries. So what? Are they all illegitimate?
Remind me again, how did the US came to be? What about Canada? Argentina? Brazil? Spain? Italy?
Who’s to say one country has greater or lesser right to exist than all the others? >


Remind me again, how did the US came to be? 

Genocide and apartheid policies. Thanks for seeing the similarities. >


Great, so we can agree nobody gives a flying fuck. 

No, thats just you. >

I didn't say anything about "canceling" Israel, but we can sure as shit call out their behavior. Many of us are trying to make our country's more accountable to those weve wronged, not doubling down on it. >


Fine, call out their behavior. 

Cool. Thanks >

Israel is feeding weapons to the country that invaded Armenia too, two days after Israel strikes Iran for supplying weapons to another country >

Yeah, but did you know, that Hamas....
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No one says this >

I mean... that's just untrue >

But the Israelis are always the victims. >

... this is functionally the entire Zionist platform - Israelites were bestowed the "Promised Land" by God, and modern-day Israel is "merely" trying to regain what they believe was stolen from them. While this might/might not sound reasonable in theory, the Israeli government has decided that Apartheid is the way to go about it, treating others of different ethnic backgrounds as inferior, and regularly displacing them through state-supported military action.
And if someone tries to bring this up in political discourse, the right-wing is quick to label them as antisemitic - even if no reference is made concerning ethnic Jews or the Jewish religion. Progressives in Congress are good examples of this; check out right-wing media every time someone is critical of Netanyahu/Israeli government - in short order, right-wing media blasts them as antisemitic simply because they are critical of him and his coalition.
The humorous (using this word lightly) thing to me, is that to my knowledge, the perceptions of most ethnic/religious Jews towards the nation state of Israel isn't much different from their perceptions towards other nations - it's just another country. Instead, Zionists seem to largely be  Christians seeking to meet conditions that they believe are necessary for the return of Christ and the end of the world. >

Acts like these happen because of their far right government. You're actually uneducated af. >

This news source is highly sus. Check out the rest of their site. Very little information actually contained in the story >

Don't let that get in the way of the daily anti-semitism orgy. >

Why Armenians? Didn’t they suffered their own genocide at the hands of the Turks? >

There’s no rule that says you can’t be the victim of multiple types of oppression from multiple groups, especially in the Middle East. >

This is news? Really?? What next? A fight happened at the local pub in the village of Montcuq? >

Seriously. A 50-word uncorroborated article about an "attack" at a pub with absolutely no information about what actually happened. The video even shows that the "Israel settlers" (just some Jews, but let's not let that get in the way of the narrative) were vastly outnumbered. 
The kicker is hilarious, that it happened after some people said some bad words about Prophet Muhammed, which just cements the fact this is a "Jews bad" propaganda piece.
This is a joke of an article and this post should be removed for misinformation. >

And every commenter swarms to hate on Israel and downvote anyone even suggesting this article is nonsense >

Why do you think Israel is getting so much hate right now? Just because they were horribly mistreated for most of history doesn't mean they get a pass on ethnic cleansing. It's deeply disappointing that the people who have been subjected to some of the worst atrocities in history would turn around and do the same to others.