Do Palestinians have a right to defend themselves and should we be sending them defensive weapons like missiles and attack helicopters for free for some reason?
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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From a practical sense, they don't. The IDF has a history of protecting violent settlers who attack Palestinians and will attack those Palestinians if they try to defend themselves.
The US would absolutely not send defensive weapons to Palestinians. The US government is too close to the Israeli government.
Even at this moment the US says they don't approve of how Israel is waging this war, while they're using weapons the US sent them...
At what point do we drop the designation of settlers and just say Israel did it?
I mean isn't what they are doing? Settlers isn't a positive or even a neutral term. It has always meant displacing people, usually through genocide.
Israel is colonizing.
Israeli settlers have been doing this for years with government backing.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
DUMA, West Bank (AP) — Charred homes and cars dotting this hilltop village surrounded by olive groves are a searing reminder of Palestinians’ vulnerability to rising violence from Israeli settlers.
The trail of wreckage along Duma’s main road is the aftermath of a three-hour attack in mid-April that left 15 homes damaged by arson and six residents injured by bullets, the head of its village council said.
The burnt remains in Duma also highlight the village’s limited resources to clean up and rebuild, let alone defend itself from future incursions, which seem inevitable as gun-toting settlers patrol the area roughly 20 miles (30 kilometers) north of Jerusalem.
There have been 794 settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank since Oct. 7 — from stones thrown at passing cars to bullets fired at residents, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
In the days following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, more than 100 Bedouin Arabs that were living a nomadic lifestyle in the pastures south of Duma relocated to its fringes in search of greater safety and resources.
An armed unit run by the Palestinian Authority that formerly patrolled the perimeter of West Bank towns at night halted operations shortly after the Gaza war broke out, when members of the force were kidnapped by settlers.
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