Once when I was younger, before Alex Jones was well known, I made the terrible mistake of at least once quoting bullshit Alex Jones was spouting at the time about Israel and Zionism because I didn't know better and was an early adopter of getting news from poor internet sources until I learned better to try to pick reputable sources. I haven't re-read my post so I don't know how cringeworthy it was, when I skimmed across it later I was too horrified by seeing that I had ever quoted infowars. I apologize for being wrong because of crap like that. Alex Jones is a prick and made me one too in that instance for quoting him.
In my opinion though, both Hamas and Netanyahu tend to be very bad. Al Aqsa storming happens when a non-Netanyahu government is trying to be formed and he looks to be facing legal peril unless he can maintain power, and the right leaning parties settlement policies seem to be the other cause, though I admit I am ignorant of Israeli politics in general. I find Netanyahu repellent and I think he leads the country in the wrong direction, but I wish the best for Israel and the Palestinians both and hope they can put some leaders in power who will honestly try to work together.
I think that this issue is a part of why the UN Security Council so rarely is able to cooperate. IIRC it usually is the US alone blocking any sort of action.
Anyone have comments about Israel kicking Palestinians out of their homes, attacking them for protesting, then attacking a mosque because they didn't have protestors to attack anymore?
One of the Republican senators in the USA chucked a bill at the senate saying the USA ought to review all the money they send to Israel to make sure not a single dollar's being used to aid human rights abuses, but the news is sleeping on that. UK gov and shadowgov is sleeping on the Al Aqsa raid too, much to the chargrin of palestinian labour members
You are right, I didn't see this on the news at all today.
One final thing to remember is this:
https://israelpalestinenews.org/iak-investigation-international-campaign-is-criminalizing-criticism-of-israel-as-antisemitism/(following link appears to have a video embedded that I did not watch as well)
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-launches-internet-command-center-to-monitor-social-media/(those links were the first I saw in the search, they appeared at a glance to be reasonable but I don't know anything about them and won't vouch for them other than I skimmed those articles to make sure they weren't blatantly an appalling source. It seems to possibly be a palestinian leaning news source from the headlines under their Home tab but I can't say for sure. Hopefully I didn't burn myself on a bad source of information again)
So keep in mind that posting what seems reasonable criticism of Israel's policies can at times be labelled anti-Semitic. I feel at times like this when Netanyahu stands to gain from causing mischief for his people, both Palestinian and Israeli, the flare ups tend to happen. However I am no expert on the matter.
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