IDF expands West Bank counter-terror operation, residents flee
IDF expands West Bank counter-terror operation, residents flee
Jenin mayor says forces duplicating their offensive on Gaza, warns his city will be abandoned; Tulkarm mayor says Israel changing refugee camps' demographics
Why are media outlets so dead set on parroting Israel's framing of every story when they have so consistently lied?
Isn’t Ynet literally an israeli outlet. So not too suprising they are following the State’s propaganda speaking pointsz
It's an Israeli center left outlet with high factual reporting.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ynetnews/
This article quotes Tulkarm governor Abdullah Kamil, Jenin mayor Mohammed Jerar, governor of Tubas, and the IDF. That's three Palestinians and one Israeli. Seems sufficiently balanced.
Ynetnews even published an opinion piece that's very critical of this very operation.
This approach carries far-reaching consequences beyond its immediate impact on civilians. It will erode Israel’s international legitimacy, prevent Palestinian workers from entering Israel, and weaken the Palestinian Authority in three key ways: economically, politically and by undermining its security forces. If the current trajectory of collective punishment — driven largely by political motives — continues, Israel could face a third intifada within months. Unlike the second intifada, characterized by suicide bombers, the next wave of violence could involve sophisticated explosive devices within Israel’s borders and on West Bank roads. Methods of bomb placement and concealment would become increasingly advanced and deadly.
(…)Experience shows that such pressure does not deter terrorists; rather, it strengthens their resolve. (…)
Netanyahu and his inexperienced defense minister should reconsider their counterinsurgency strategy in the West Bank. The current approach — erecting countless roadblocks that do little to enhance security but significantly fuel resentment, deploying tanks unnecessarily in refugee camp operations to project strength (not against Palestinians, but to appease Jewish settlers demanding ever-harsher measures) — is deeply flawed..
Ignorance of internal Israeli politics and media landscape is notoriously widespread among self styled supporters of Palestinians.
Ah good catch, I thought they were an aggregator
Residents typically don’t flee unless they are being terrorized. Just sayin
Hey everyone, the comments are starting to get a bit wild. If we can please get back to talking about
rampartthe article. I don’t ideally want to have to lock the thread but may need to if it gets any more off topic or personal.I wonder if anyone was so concerned last week while their husbands, brother and sons were stuffing explosives they were putting on Israeli buses to detonate and slaughtere hundreds? Well, once again, it sucks to suck. You want to keep threatening Israeli lives, you will reap the fucking whirlwind.
Here's the bus bombing you reference. The main reason nobody died was because the detonators were set to PM instead of AM time.
I find such harsh measures questionable with tens of thousands of people fleeing from their homes is a justifiable response.
The PA had been fighting terrorists in the West Bank pretty well over the last couple of months. However something like this will be hard to swallow for them. Their legitimacy comes from keeping the IDF out of people's lives in area A. A short IDF raid like we have seen before is something else than the talk now about wanting to stay for a year.
You could talk about just reprisals, terrorism and defense, the limits of collective punishment, and all that. But, of all the people who've spilled however much ink about it, David Ben-Gurion did some of the best in just getting to the heart of the matter.
Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs.
Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.
I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?
Find whatever the fuck you want questionable
I thought that was Zelensky and his people bro