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Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys.

Right-wing activists, including Jewish settlers living in the occupied West Bank, have uploaded dozens of videos of crowds, including some very young children, hurling food onto the ground and stamping on boxes of aid.

In one video, a group of jubilant protesters dance and celebrate on top of a looted lorry.

In another, one of the stranded lorries is ablaze.

In the West Bank, at least two drivers who were not carrying goods bound for Gaza were dragged from their cabs and beaten.

Other videos show Israeli vigilantes stopping lorries in Jerusalem and demanding that drivers show papers proving they are not transporting aid to Gaza. Their faces are uncovered and they appear to be acting with complete impunity.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't see anything saying all Israelis are bad. Seems to me you're reading more into it that what is there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah you're right, he didn't say all Israelis are bad. But he did insinuate that enough are that it makes sense to sanction all of them, which I take issue with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The white South Africans did not starve to death when we boycotted them over Apartheid. The Israeli people can stand a few sanctions over their democratic choice to allow openly genocidal actions.

Personally the first sanction I would like to see against Israel is a complete embargo on buying or selling any weapons, armaments, or other military equipment. This would not hurt the innocent but it would hurt arms dealers and genocidaires alike.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What do you think will happen if Israel starts running out of military equipment? We are surrounded by hostile neighbours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Israel has plenty of their own homegrown defense industry, I do not foresee them running out of armaments any time soon, despite what your politicians may say.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Israel has had since its invention plenty of time to make good relations with its neighbors. It doesn’t though, it just sticks to stealing land and genocide, the founding principles of the country. If that catches up to them, well, they brought it on to themselves. Maybe they should try being better neighbors.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

You seem to know very little about Israel's history (considering we made peace with both Jordan and Egypt, which are two countries which attacked us first).

Maybe you should try reading a bit of history before writing nonsense

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then Israel will have a strong incentive to stop the Gaza Genocide and trigger the end of the embargo long before it runs out of military equipment.

That's how sanctions work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

I disagree that Israel is comitting Genocide though, and I'm not the only one. Who will decide when the sanctions will end?

Also, the sanctions against Russia don't work. Sanctions agajnst Iraq led to millions of innocent civilians dying. Iran is still advancing their nuclear program. Kim Jong Un is still in power.

That's how sanctions work.

Historically, that's rarely been the case.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do you also disagree with the sanctions on Russia?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Figured, colonizers think alike

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Have the sanctions against Russia stopped the war? Or did they just harm Russian citizens for a while (while Putin is largely unaffected), while also causing huge economic issues for many countries which used to do business with Russia?

Russia is a huge country with many natural resources and still has good relations with many other countries; sanctions against it could never work.

I don't support the war in Ukraine, btw.