What the fuck is wrong with these assholes?
Can you name a settler colonial project that committed a genocide that wouldn't fire at peacekeepers?
Maybe they're using the tried-and-tested strategy of targeting UN forces to make them leave. It happened in Rwanda too, they killed those Belgian peacekeepers and then Belgium and France pulled out. Shortly after that, the Rwandan start their genocide. At least the Israelis seem to have just wounded the peacekeepers, unlike the Rwandan, who hacked the Belgian with machetes. Nevertheless, it doesn't look very promising.
Religion.
No, it's Zionism
More like nationalism.
Porque no los dos? Or rather an inseparable blend of both
Because as usual religion can be used to argue for as well as against a political question. The only self coherent framework that has as its logical conclusion Israeli policy is nationalism.
Edit: plus, a nationalist explanatory framework is least susceptible to the moral hazard of anti-Semitism. Israeli policy is not exceptional, it's as banal as Serbian or Azerbaijani ethnic nationalism, revanchism, jingoism and bigotry.
Religion is rarely a problem until it's conservative, just like politics.
Fucking no. Israel does not represent judiasm. Jews everywhere disavow them. Zionism is not Jewish.
Claiming that this is Jewish is antisemitism from both Israel and you.
This is about land, not religion.
What the fuck
Don't forget that Israeli affiliated militias assassinated their UN negotiator in 1948.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte
The leader of the assassination plot was the future founder of the modern Likud party and future prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. He lead the Likud party until 1993 when Netanyahu took over. His Wikipedia page is absolutely fucked.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir
This and their attacks on the UNRWA are far from the first times Israel has been at war with the UN.
I'm sure the US will protest this time with real energy and will then send another billion in military equipment.
Attacking UN peacekeepers is unacceptable.....but we will accept it
They were irish UN peacekeepers and Ireland is one of 4 countries in Europe that isnt part of NATO. What a strange coincidence that it'd be Irish peacekeepers who were shelled.
Tis but a flesh wound!
Biden is working on setting up a coup in Lebanon
The worst part is that you may be right
Edit: grammar
I’m sure the UN peacekeepers were hanging around hospitals, schools and/or Palestinians
Can't get more evil than the israelis
Man, imagine being a neighbor to those psycopaths. Or even worse, imagine being born Palestinian.
Israel: "No, you!"
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