Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian couple and two of their children as they drove in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health authorities, with the Israeli military saying the incident is under review.
Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, 37, his 35-year-old wife Waad, and two of their children – Mohammad and Othman, aged five and seven, respectively – were shot in the head in the village of Tammun on Sunday. Two of their other children were wounded by shrapnel, according to Palestinian health authorities.
Speaking to the Reuters news agency at the hospital, Khaled, 12, one of the two surviving boys, said he heard his mother crying, his father praying, but no voice of any of his other brothers before silence prevailed after shots sprayed the car.
“We came under direct fire; we didn’t know the source. Everyone in the car was martyred, except my brother Mustafa and me,” the boy said.
He said soldiers, who pulled him out of the vehicle before beating him, shouted: “We killed dogs.”
They shouldn’t be killing dogs either! WTF is wrong with these psychopaths?
Religion is a monstrous evil.
True, but that’s not relevant here.
Israel doesn’t commit genocide because Jews and Muslims can’t get along. Israel commits genocide because it’s a fascist apartheid state.
Apartheid South Africa used religion as one of their “reasons” for treating nonwhite people as subhuman too, but no reasonable person would claim that THEIR countless atrocities were primarily caused by religion either.
Its genocidal ideology is rooted in religious fanaticism.
Incidentally, all fascism works just like religion, except by sanctifying the state with iconography and dogmas of demagoguery and rebirth.
Fascism is a kind of religion, and the organized variety of the latter softens up the population for the former.
Its genocidal ideology is rooted in religious fanaticism
No, it’s rooted in the political ideology of colonialism. There’s significant overlap, sure, but that DOESN’T make colonialism a religious thing.
In fact, Israel is an excellent example of how irreligious the foundation of colonialism is: even though the religion is different than those of other colonial projects, the basic justifications, deflections, and modes of government are essentially similar.
If colonialism had been about religion, Jewish supremacist apartheid would have been MUCH more different than the Protestant and Catholic white supremacist colonialism og the past.
Incidentally, all fascism works
just likesomewhat similarly to religionFixed it for you. While there’s far too much overlap for comfort, there are still significant differences between a religious cult and a political cult such as Fascism
by sanctifying the state with iconography and dogmas of demagoguery and rebirth.
Not really, no. It’s more about collapsing state authority, religion, societal norms, and bogeymen into one easy to inhale but extremely difficult to expel poison.
Fascism is a kind of religion
Nope. It has several things in common with and is almost always working in concert with religion, but it is not itself a religion.
the organized variety of the latter softens up the population for the former.
That’s accurate, though. You can’t be a fascist without being extremely reactionary, and organized religion is probably the biggest source of reactionary thinking in existence.
You’re right that all evil ideologies, from colonialism to religious persecution, share underlying normative features. I was merely commenting on the fact that this particular act of colonialism is, in fact, religious, since the chief justification offered by these genocidal maniacs is religious.
I also want to reiterate that fascism and all religious activity is literally cultism, all rooted in various collective fantasies. We can certainly pull these things apart by getting technical (of course). Kinda beside the point.
Israel is commiting genocide
And the (white) world doesn’t care because it’s (only) brown (Muslim) people.
And the leaders of (white) world do
esn’t care because it’s (only) brown (Muslim) people.FTFY
That’s simply not true. Most Americans are extremely distressed with what is happening in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. There is a small group of MAGA Billionaire Pedophile Psychopaths who have stolen our country, and are using it to advance their own personal agenda. We are doing everything we can to thwart these maniacs, but our tools are limited, and our best tools, elections, are on a calendar. We can’t shift them, we can only wait, and VOTE.
After that, if they somehow sabotage our last, best strategy, the 2028 Presidential Election, then we’ll have to resort to more serious strategies.
Having more people in a country who enjoy voting for genocide isn’t exactly sabotage
Yet most USAmericans don’t believe what is happening in Gaza is a genocide.
It’ll care soon enough when it is their turn at the front.
You may talk in the name of muricastan, but not for the rest of the world
Where do you think white people came from? Hint: it wasn’t America.
Turkey?
Good thing they have stopped it then
If this is their way of trying to recruit Kristi Noem, she’ll be really disappointed to find what they mean.
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Waltz With Bashir 2 coming soon.
It’s not about this conflict, but the Movie “Waltz with Bashir” shows how humans can trick themselves into being justified or making war a necessary part of their job. Warning, this movie will make you sad.
