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A mob of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians who were out among their olive groves. Two young men were killed, tens were injured. Interactive_WestBank_lynching_1
By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 14 Aug 202514 Aug 2025
Mazraa, occupied West Bank - Kamel Musallet was at home in Florida, United States, when he last spoke to his son Sayfollah (Saif), who was visiting their ancestral hometown of al-Mazaraa ash-Sharqiyah (Mazraa) in the occupied West Bank.
Saif, 20, was in high spirits, telling Kamel he might have found the woman he wanted to marry and talking about how to start the arrangements.
Four days later, Kamel woke up the morning of July 11 to a call from his younger son, Muhammad, 18, telling him that settlers had attacked Saif.
At the time, Saif was lying on the ground near an oak tree where he had hidden to get away from rampaging settlers; he was unconscious and having trouble breathing.
By the time Saif had been carried to an ambulance, he was dead.
Saif’s friend, 23-year-old Muhammad "Rizik" al-Shalabi from Mazraa, was found later in the night - shot, beaten, tortured and left to die of his wounds.
Al Jazeera spoke with witnesses, victims, town officials, first aid responders, and search and rescue volunteers.
This is the story of how Saif and Rizik were lynched by a mob of Israeli settlers.
Ehud Barak -- I understand the terrorists [...] In July 1973, Moshe Dayan said to Time Magazine:
“There is no more Palestine. Finished.”
That was just before the October 1973 war, when Dayan was at the height of his hubris. On the one hand it was wishful thinking. But on the other, it was an expression of the Zionist mindset, where Palestine just doesn’t exist, and really, it doesn’t as far as Israel is concerned. As far as Israel is concerned, it will never exist, not as a state anyway. Since Israel sees “Palestine” just as a radical and subversive idea that must be kept under unending military occupation, it seeks to crush any resistance as “terrorist”. Any suggestion of Palestinian national coherence is terror.
And that’s the crux of it, because Israel didn’t come to live with Palestine, it came to replace it. This is the settler-colonialist eliminationist strategy, which for all the sugar-coating of the liberals, is at the heart of Zionism.
[Insert: Israel’s ‘pastrami sandwich’ policy https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173385738 Opinion | By Trying to Humiliate Gaza to Its Core, Israel Is the One Being Humiliated https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173396478 Att: brooklyn13 - The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=176532874 Gaza 2035 - Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveils regional plan to build a “massive free trade zone” with rail service to NEOM "‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets "The Israel-Gaza tragedy and Europe's responsibility" [...] Yep. Israel had options, two independent states, or... for now an apartheid state. "The real question is whether Israel has the right to be a Jewish state that holds millions of Palestinians as permanent non-citizens under military law." There's the crux of the biscuit, right there. " The problem isn't going away... 75 years of Israel: A 'Jewish state' to a full theocracy? [...]Related: "We'll make a pastrami sandwich of them" https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175622879] UN officials issued a report on May 2 stating that over 70 percent of Gaza’s building stock has been destroyed, and that it would cost $40–50 billion to rebuild. This prompted one UN official, Abdallah al-Dardari, to say: “We have not seen anything like this since 1945.” https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=176458246]
The way towards that freedom, justice and equality, needs to involve some kind of resistance to oppression. It’s just way too naïve to think that it will just go away on its own. And if you criminalize even the non-violent resistance, then you are encouraging an explosion of unbridled anger, and people will die.
Palestine Talks: How Israel’s education system brainwashes children - Part 1
Ehud Barak -- I understand the terrorists Related: Palestine Has Exposed Every Lie the West Tells the World "Murder in the ME - More than 90 killed in Gaza strikes including journalist who just became a father" Ehud Barak: the military mastermind Israel loves to hate"
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"Throughout my childhood in Israel, there was a word that had a distinctly frightening aura: “terrorists” – “mehablim” in Hebrew (literally meaning “sabotagers”). I knew they were invariably Arab, long before I understood that Palestinians even existed, and I somehow knew they were out to get us, but that courageous soldiers would protect us.
In my young mind, all of the enemies were all one thing. They were Arabs, surrounding us and even in our midst, and we were Jews trying to fight for our survival in this jungle. Ehud Barak called it a “villa in the jungle”. They, the Arabs, were always somewhere out there in the dark jungle. Thank God we had those soldiers, always at the ready to shoot a Mehabel – an Arab terrorist.
I didn’t learn the stories of our massacres of civilians in school. Not the Kafr Qasim massacre (on the eve of the 1956 war), nor the Qibya massacre of 1953, nor the various massacres of the 1948 Nakba. The 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres were happening as I was attending fifth grade, but that invasion of Lebanon was for me just “Operation Peace of the Galilee”, that was meant to eradicate what Defense Minister Ariel Sharon kept calling “terrorist nests” (of the exiled PLO).
So in some general way, the wars for me, as a child, were always wars against terror. We were being terrorized and had to fight back."
says about the representation of Palestinians in primary school - "the short answer is they are not represented, at all. The only thing that you learn as a child, and actually later as a teenager in high school, is umm, umm, a lot about the Jewish history, which is also limited, and - pause - there are the Arabs." Toward the end of Part 1 she says, 'It all made sense. And it was very nice to grow up and feel I'm on the good side.'
The thought then occurred to me that that's the situation Trump, DeSantis, Rufo et al want for American children. Wipe teaching of African American Studies, BLM, DEI, et al from American schools:
DeSantis faces pushback in Florida as voters tire of war on woke MAY, 2021 -- "Labeling everything as "woke" is becoming as common and disingenuous (as many don't even know what it means) a tactic for conservatives as Trump's "fake news." Don't like it? It's fake news. Don't like it? It's woke. Mar. 17, 2021, at 1:38 PM Why Attacking ‘Cancel Culture’ And ‘Woke’ People Is Becoming The GOP’s New Political Strategy" [...] The bill banning rainbow flags from public buildings in Florida sounded like a sure bet. P - State Rep. David Borrero (R), the legislation’s sponsor, argued that it was needed to prevent schoolchildren from being “subliminally indoctrinated.” That rationale echoed other measures championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as part of his “war on woke.” P - But instead of sailing through the Republican-dominated legislature, the DeSantis-backed bill died a quick legislative death, making it only as far as one subcommittee. P - It wasn’t the only culture war proposal from conservative lawmakers to end up in the bill graveyard during the session that ended Friday. One rejected bill would have banned the removal of Confederate monuments. Another would have required transgender people to use their sex assigned at birth on driver's licenses — something the state Department of Motor Vehicles is already mandating. A third proposed forbidding local and state government officials from using transgender people’s pronouns. [...] Florida has firmly cemented itself in recent years as ground zero for the nation’s culture wars. The Sunshine State is the birthplace of conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty, the original law restricting LGBTQ+ discussion in classrooms, one of the strictest abortion laws in the country and legislation that has led to the banning of more books than in any other state in America. But the pushback is growing. P - Parents and others have organized and protested schoolbook bans. Abortion rights advocates gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot in Florida in November. A bill that would have established “fetal personhood” stalled before it could reach a full vote. P - Judges are also canceling some of DeSantis’s marquee laws, including the “Stop Woke Act .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/04/appeals-court-blocks-florida-stop-woke-act/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15 .” A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled Monday that the law “exceeds the bounds” of the Constitution’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech and expression. P - Even the governor recently admitted the state might have gone too far in trying to remove certain books from school shelves, suggesting laws on book challenges should be “tweaked” to prevent “bad actors” from having too much influence. March, 2024 -- https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174007958
They have been called the American Taliban. American Zionists fits too.
The first time i let Part 1 above run through, it almost seamless ran to Part 2,
Palestine Talks: How Israel’s education system brainwashes children - Part 2
then in subsequent trials it ran through to different videos. Didn't know that about YouTube before.
Hadas Emma Kadar, in those two videos is quietly perceptive. And very good. Well worth watching.
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