With Trump back, Israeli settlers revive goal of full control of West Bank

We did it, Patrick! We saved Palestine!

Good thing we didn't vote for those democratic genocidists

"Revive" suggests that this goal was ever dead. Israel has been progressively seizing Palestinian land in the West Bank for half a century.

The “I did this” sticker is getting pretty wide what with Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, Xi, and the American voter all on it.

Revive? When was it dead exactly? They seemed to be going Full Tilt for the last couple years. Nothing was stopping them.

This is from June 2020.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is planning to effectively annex parts of the occupied West Bank in what would be a major - and highly controversial - act.

This is from July 2023.

Israel Is Officially Annexing the West Bank

A quiet bureaucratic maneuver by Netanyahu’s government has begun transferring control over the occupied territory from military to civilian leadership—violating international law.

Here's an entire wiki page about all they've been doing in the West Bank since 1967.

If you think this is new and is only happening because of Trump, you haven't been paying attention and are falling for propaganda.

Israeli settlers never killed the idea.

Cool, so we can finally dispose the myth of Israel being a democracy, get over chasing the chimera of a two state solution, and crystallize the struggle to the simple, unambiguous goal of ending Jewish supremacy and the apartheid and establishing a democratic republic with equality and rights for everyone from the river to the sea. Cool.

Yes I'm sure the 4 settlers Biden sanctioned for 3 weeks, definitely threw a wrench into Israel's plan of overtaking the west bank.

It'll totally be because Trump takes office and not because settlers didn't just get 14 months of free land grabbing with zero repercussions on top of their yearly land stealing antics ever since Israel's inception.

They were calling for annexation of the west bank a month ago, gaza violence never stopped, and they are doing the same now in Lebanon. Are we now pretending that Biden was holding them back? He clearly wasnt.

Genocide

Settlement activity has surged to record levels under Prime Minister Netanyahu, with nearly 6,000 acres designated as state land in 2024 and dozens of new outposts established.

Okay, but this was all done under Biden not Trump?

If only they could figure out a solution to the problem of those feisty inhabitants.

A whole lot of coping in this thread by people who were previously doing a lot of work trying to get Trump elected...

"Nuh uh, Netanyahu said this before and he was going to do it anyway!"

I would say that I worry about their mental health, but fuck them.

Supporting the least bad option makes the bad option less visble. It is a real and constructive action one can take to make things better and reduce human suffering.

Not supporting the least bad option because it is still bad, makes one feel better and morally cleaner. It does not make things better. It leaves no dent in evil or human suffering.

Actively dissuading other people from choosing the least bad option makes one feel better than others. It is a real and destructive action that increases human suffering.

People who choose moral masturbation over real and beneficial action are not actually driven by empathy for the suffering children of the world. Do not accept for a second that they genuinely want anything else than to feel good.

Now that Biden has helped level Gaza and annex the West Bank the job has been finished for Trump to allow full control over the West Bank.

It’s the WEST Bank after all. The settlers can commit their atrocities as they wish, but America hungers