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BBC witnesses settlers attack on Palestinian farm in West Bank
- crinkly 1y ago[flagged]
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- nanna 1y agoGiven that all other problems in the world have now been resolved, it is fair for every news item relating to Palestine to reach the HN front page.
- crinkly 1y ago[flagged]
- birn559 1y agoHN (to me) has always mostly been about the other 5%.
- bravesoul2 1y agoJust some casual kids dying of starvation, shelling. Millions of people displaced. Being shunted around. And a genocide live on social media. Funded by the country most represented on this site. But yeah there are a lot of problems. I think this one is special as it shows we are going backwards, away from the lessons learned and comventions formed from the Napoleonic and World wars. We are going back to all's fair. And that might come for you or me one day.
- ml-anon 1y agoThis has been happening for decades. This is working as expected.
- clort 1y agoPerhaps what's new is that a mainstream organisation is posting articles where their reporters have witnessed such attacks. I've seen stuff on youtube, I've seen internet articles, I've seen thinly veiled references but this is a respectable organisation reporting what they have seen, on the front page.
- seszett 1y agoI don't know how it is in the UK or other countries, but mainstream information sources in France have been reporting on this for decades, I think mostly everyone is aware. Granted, the opinion in France has always been quite sympathetic to the Palestinian cause (see Chirac with "do you want me to go back to my plane?" in the 90s) although the media and politics have apparently shifted towards more support of Israel in the last few years.
- s_dev 1y agoThe ethnic cleansing that is happening in Palestine and what these settlers are doing essentially ensures there can never be peace. The settlers are to me the root cause of the ongoing conflict, it ensure the wound can never heal while land is constantly being stolen. Whatever ceasefire or truce does happen the settlers keep taking more land backed by the Israeli government. Absolutely disgusting.
- piva00 1y agoThe settlers aren't doing this without support, if the Israeli state didn't want it to be happening it wouldn't. There's tacit support from Israel for the settlements, they have political power. I'm stating it this way to not push the responsibility only to the individual settlers, it's a concerted operation with broad support from a cohort of Israel's society.
- notrealyme123 1y agoGrowing up in germany has lead me to have a somewhat blind-eye regarding this topic. But this is just pure evil.
- immibis 1y agoBe careful. This comment ("pure evil") is illegal in Germany, under the antisemitism law. Many people got arrested for less. Police show up at apartments unannounced and take all electronic devices. You do not mess around with German law.
- BenGosub 1y agoIt may be illegal, but it's 100% true
- birn559 1y agoSaying that about a country is not illegal.
- immibis 1y agoIt's not being said about a country. It's being said about specific people - the settlers that the BBC witnessed attacking a Palestinian farm.
- zevon 1y agoNeither is it illegal to state that a specific attack by settlers is pure evil nor is it impossible to critizise what goes on in Israel in Germany as you allude in your other comments.
- immibis 1y agoIt is illegal in Germany to say that a specific person is pure evil. It is considered an insult, which is illegal. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p1891 https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...
- _l7dh 1y agoHow come every time the Israeli crimes are featured in HN, the corresponding article is flagged?
- Taurenking 1y ago[dead]
- yetihehe 1y agoPretty easy to explain. Israelis, just like other people read HN too. They don't like such articles, so they flag them. If an article receives several flags, it's marked as flagged. Also, HN is tech site, not political site, so I'm not surprised by this, such articles may be considered off-topic.
- _l7dh 1y agoI used to think that it’s beneficial to separate tech from politics but I’m convinced now that it’s a delusional stance. Politics is in tech whether we like it or not, CEOs have their political agenda and ideologies and often talk about them openly, their products directly impact people’s lives, some change the entire society. In the case of the Gaza genocide, Lavender and Gospel systems are the direct enabelers of such scale of devastation. I think it’s far from being off-topic. In a nutshell, no politics is itself a political opinion (that happens to favor the dominant party).
- yetihehe 1y agoLet's assume that I have an idea on my mind that could potentially change the power generation and usage landscape and society (think 80% efficient solar power AND 80% reduction in power usage in data centers AND increase power output from most existing power plants by 30% AND solve power storage problem), but I wonder how should I approach distributing it. Should I somehow prevent Chinese, Israelis and USA from having this and using it to enhance oppression of other nations? How would you approach such political problem as a CEO?
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- philistine 1y agoIt is no one’s right to decide if a people is made up or not. As it stands, resistance to Israelis is enough to define them as a separate nation.
- archagon 1y agoAnd what power will force neighboring countries to absorb these people, exactly? Pure wishful thinking.