Netanyahu orders closure of West Bank after five Israelis wounded in shooting attack
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the closure of the occupied West Bank, immediately following two Palestinian gunmen opening fire Friday on an Israeli military checkpoint, wounding at least five.
Videos from the scene depict a firefight between the Palestinian gunmen and Israeli forces that lasted at least several minutes with repeated bursts of gunfire ringing out. In one Reuters video, an Israeli responder yells that the shooting has been going on for at least 20 minutes and they were struggling to remove the wounded from the scene.
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"Five Israelis"???
So we are talking about five Israeli soldiers. You know, under the UN Charter, those are perfectly legitimate military targets for palestinian armed resistance to an illegal occupation.
Yes even when Palestinians resistance resists perfectly, CNN will obscure they targeted only military targets.
It's not apartheid - it's much worse
Oh no what a viscous and cowardly attack by these gunmen why won't the gunmen leave us alone these horrible gunmen they just love shooting guns at people for no reason why are they like this
Just keeping an entire population in a big concentration camp, while occasionally bombing the shit of said concentration camp,
people fight back
Usually Americans love when the victim fights back against the bully, so I don't get why the US isn't unified against Israel.
I mean, I do get it. Propaganda and politics as a team sport...
How many days is it until the election in Israel?
Not saying that it isn't a real incident but still curious timing that will definitely be used for the next week that Netanyahu has left to try and remain in control. Until the next jailer in chief gets in.
Israeli shoot Palestinian: i sleep
Palestinian shoot Israeli: how can you be antisemite
Antisemitic is a bad term in this context as Palestinians are also Semitic.
No it's not, there are no Semitic people only Semitic languages. Antisemitism has alwats meant anti-jewish prejudice (at least until pro-apartheid fucks twisted and weaponized it to also mean criticizing Israel).
Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group formerly used in connection with ancient and modern peoples of the Middle East including Akkadians, Arabs, Ammonites, Arameans, Canaanites, Edomites, Israelites, Jews, Judahites, Moabites, Phoenicians, Samaritans, and others. Use of the terminology is now largely confined to the field of linguistics in reference to "Semitic.
I think my point stands.
Yes, an obsolete term. The exact passage you cite says your point doesn't stand. Nobody is prejudiced against a language family.
Oh get fucked Bibi
What does that mean? Nobody gets out or in? Sounds familiar.
Just election pandering
Just in time for the election!
Posting CNN is no different than posting Fox News
I think it is because it's CNN not Fox News.
yeah, one's bad, but the other is worse
October 7th electric bogaloo