While the world watches Gaza, here is what's happening in the West Bank
apnews.com
After the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023 ignited the devastating war in Gaza, a deadly new reality also took hold for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29164888

By JULIA FRANKEL, PHIL HOLM and JOSEF FEDERMAN
Published 1:02 AM EDT, April 25, 2025

"#Israel is staging a massive offensive across four major refugee camps in the north of the #WestBank. The raids, at their height, pushed 40,000 people from their homes. Many are now sheltering with relatives in neighboring villages, others racking up debt renting apartments while they wait to return.

#Israeli officials, meanwhile, have said those displaced will not be allowed to go back for at least a year."

  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
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    14 days ago

    When Israel has “cleared”, flattened and militarized the entire West Bank and Gaza, they will realize that Palestine will still not be gone, and neither will the Palestinian people. A lesson they could have learnt a lot easier and quicker by looking at their own history.

    • BearGun@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Depends, if they flatten all the people in there in the process, most of the Palestinian people will be gone. Not looking all that unlikely unfortunately.

  • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago

    Ever since all the MLs helped get Trump elected, I have no time to focus on Gaza while I try to find a way out of my own mess.

    This was their plan all along, of course.

      • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        I’m assuming users on .ml instances, even though it doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense.

      • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
        0·
        14 days ago

        In a nut shell, Fake communists who pushed “genocide Joe” and not-voting during the 2024 election contribution to low democratic voter turn out, giving Trump the win.

        • tissn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          14 days ago

          Leaving the fact that I still haven’t had anyone explain what “ML” actually means aside…

          Fake communists

          lol what?

          who pushed “genocide Joe” and not-voting during the 2024 election contribution to low democratic voter turn out, giving Trump the win

          When you commit a genocide, you forfeit the right to complain if people refuse to vote for you. Joe Biden and the Democrats gave Trump the win because they continued slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent women and children in Gaza. And people are starting to realize that Democrat vs. Republican is just right-wing zionist infighting.

          • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
            0·
            14 days ago

            And Trump continues the same game, but worse. So if the intention was to make the world worse in the future, with no hope for reform, then the ML was successful.

            But ML is very much in favor of authoritarianism, with tanks. So… I guess this is supposed to the the worse before the better? The better that has and will never come.

            Sounds like fake communism to me.

            • tissn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              13 days ago

              When people are left with a choice between a) genocide or b) genocide, then the “lesser evil” argument stops making any sense.

              How this has anything to do with communism or fake communism is still a mystery to me.

              • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
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                13 days ago

                The lesser evil makes sense when the greater evil is significantly more evil, and will cause far more damage worldwide. Zero people are perfect.

                Many countries sell weapons to Israel. And because no one seems to be calling them out just makes it obvious that this has nothing to do with the Palestinians, and everything to do with wanting to crush the United States.

                So, you can try to hide behind genocide, but it’s laughably clear none of you actually give a shit. Genocide is happening all over the world. Where are you to call that out? Oh, it doesn’t have anything to do with the US? I guess that kind of genocide is okay then.

                Hypocrisy.