An Egypt-brokered ceasefire on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip brought heavy exchanges of fire, some of the heaviest since the 2014 Israeli invasion, to a quick and relatively orderly halt. All signs are that the ceasefire is holding.
Israeli officials are attributing the recent violence to Friday’s protests at the Gaza border, during which an Israeli major was injured by a hand grenade. Israeli military officials say the weekend attacks on Gaza were retaliation for that casualty, and that it was “sufficient reason to go on the offensive.”
A pair of Palestinian teenagers who were on a rooftop when they were targeted by an Israeli air raid were reported killed. So far these are the only deaths confirmed. The UN warned it could’ve been much worse.
UN officials say that before Egypt worked out a deal, the two sides were very close to an “all-our war.” All-out wars against the Gaza Strip have been common in recent years for Israel, and some officials have been treating another such war as a virtual inevitability.
Egypt has been scrambling to try to broker not just this short-term ceasefire for Gaza, but a very long-term one, which had been making progress up until recent weeks. There hasn’t been any talk of renewed progress on that since the recent flareups.
Palestinians are raised to hate Jews. Here’s what Palestinian kids see on Palestinian TV:
• A song in a children’s cartoon includes the lyrics, “Zionist man, run away, Zionist woman, run away, very soon you’ll be killed by a car.”
• A Palestinian singer is shown in another clip, singing the lyrics, “Oh Martyrdom-seeker, make them cry. Make the fire engulf them. Turn them into body parts, roast them.”
• A Palestinian child declaims in a speech into which he has been indoctrinated, “Oh sons of Zion, oh the most evil of creatures, oh barbaric apes.”
• In a children’s TV show, a Mickey Mouse figures asks a child, “How will you sacrifice your soul for the sake of Al-Aqsa? Was will you do? The child replies, “I will shoot. We want to… We will annihilate the Jews”
“Palestinians are raised to hate Jews.”
No, Palestinians are propagandized by the regimes ruling them to hate Jews.
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“Palestinians are raised to hate Jews.”
No, Palestinians are propagandized by the regimes ruling them to hate Jews.
There’s a difference. A regime’s actions cannot be generalized to a general population. That’s ethnic collectivism, also known as racism, which expresses as hate speech, which violates Antiwar.com’s commenting guidelines. So pretty please with sugar on top, if you want to continue commenting here, knock that sh*t off.
“Palestinians are raised to hate Jews.”
No, Palestinians are propagandized by the regimes ruling them to hate Jews.
There’s a difference. A regime’s actions cannot be generalized to a general population. That’s ethnic collectivism, also known as racism, which expresses as hate speech, which violates Antiwar.com’s commenting guidelines. So pretty please with sugar on top, if you want to continue commenting here, knock that sh*t off.