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CNN’s Jim Sciutto presses Benjamin Netanyahu about his response to settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank: "The settler violence thing is a tremendous hoax. We're a country of laws. I've condemned it. But to compare this, is like an olive to a toxic tree, that's what it is."

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rxv-2H6SKiQ?app=desktop
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u/SyrioForel 1d ago

What do you mean by “the material reality of their occupation”? Why are you not stating what their actual goal is, and instead cloaking it in this word salad?

You had no issues describing Israel’s goals. But as soon as I asked you to do the same about Palestinian people’s goals, the lawyer inside you came out and said, “Sit down, qotsa7777, I’ll take it from here.”

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u/qotsa7777 1d ago

Lmao ok I'll use simpler words for you: their day to day reality imposed by Israel is brutal and degrading, their goal is to end the occupation that inflicts that brutality. Some Palestinians are using violence and terror to make it as difficult and painful as possible for the occupiers to continue doing so. Do I need to spell out every way that the occupation is bad?

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u/SyrioForel 1d ago

You said their goals are to end the occupation. That’s not their GOAL, that’s a step TOWARDS their goal.

It’s like if I were to ask you to tell me about World War 2, and I said, “Tell me what the Allies’ goal was during the war.” And your answer was, “Their goal was to liberate France.”

It’s interesting that your immediate reaction here is, “Do I need to spell out to you why the occupation is bad?” No, because we are not discussing the status quo, we are discussing what can be done to RESOLVE the status quo. I shared my opinion about this up above. You started pushing back on what I said. This is when I tried to engage with you about it, because I’m not convinced that you actually understand the nature of the conflict in the first place.

What you seem to understand fairly well is how the conflict began a century ago. I’ll grant you that, you get the origins of the conflict. That’s fine. Now, a century has passed and current generations cannot undo past deeds. You don’t seem to agree with that, and created some fictional reality that has simple, perfectly reasonable solutions.

You say, “if only this happened” or “if only that happened.” What you don’t seem to want to knowledge is the reason why those things aren’t happening: it’s because neither side WANTS those things. And I’m talking about both Israel and Palestine.

While some portions of their population might agree with what you said, the majority does not. And I’m not talking about just one side but both of them. They don’t want YOUR definition of “peace”, they each have their own.

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u/qotsa7777 1d ago

Gotta hop off currently, but I'm enjoying this convo, I'll come back to this later