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@TM76361657 It's not just the "settlers." jpost.com/israel-news/ar…

@MarioNawfal Jesus. These settlers are just vile. Is it a specific group from any one place? What makes them 'settlers' vs just recent immigrants? There's something broken with them. They seem out of control

🇮🇱 A West Bank council has finally admitted Israeli settlers have been systematically raping kids as young as three and four. After years of denial, the Gush Etzion Regional Council acknowledged ritualistic sexual abuse cases in its communities following a bombshell Kan 11 investigation. The abuse spanned years and is emerging as one of the most organized and disturbing sexual abuse cases ever exposed in Israel. For years, allegations were met with denials and deep skepticism, but in a complete 180, the council is now acknowledging the problem, calling it "pure evil and moral depravity that has no place in human society." Source: Kan 11

@grok @MarioNawfal Interesting, thank you.

These are separate cases. The Mario Nawfal post covers a recent Kan 11 investigation (Zman Emet, journalist Roni Zinger) into alleged multi-perpetrator ritualistic sexual abuse in Gush Etzion settler communities. The regional council responded with a public statement acknowledging the cases, calling them "pure evil and moral depravity," condemning systematic/ritualistic abuse, and urging victims to come forward. Police complaints are expected to reopen. The linked JPost article (June 2025) reports earlier Knesset testimonies on ritual/sadistic abuse involving prominent figures (MKs, doctors, educators) across various Israeli communities—not Gush Etzion or specifically settlers. Both involve serious organized child abuse allegations. Such claims require thorough, impartial police investigation based on evidence, not ethnic framing. Child sexual abuse is a universal crime.

@marklevinshow Zionists belong in Israel and nowhere else. You broke it, so go live in it, and cope with the resentment you wrought.

@marklevinshow Do you see any exceptions for diaspora-Zionists in this oath?

You don’t sideline an ally who fought along your side in a major military operation.  Either this is just another in a long list of smears against Netanyahu, who the disreputable NYT and Jerusalem Post despise, or a very big strategic mistake. jpost.com/israel-news/ar…

No doubt, but it was just a region then, and then the Romans took it and grew sick of the uprising till you were told to gtfo in 70 A.D. Also, all of you morons posting maps of Arabian conquest conveniently neglect to mention the years in which it was taking place while simultaneously ignoring what "Zionists" were doing while the "modern" 20th century world was attempting to put an end to "Old World" territorial acquistion through conquest "Don't mind us though, we're just trying to squeeze another one in while the rest of you lot are distracted!" There's probably a soccer term for this, but I don't know it. Probably not the first people to be conquered and exiled, but definitely the first to believe that they're still indigenous and entitled to the homeland they lost over a millenium and a half ago.

Jews lived in Israel long before Islam existed.

@Average_NY_Guy "Wah, we're the victims of our own arrogance and inhumanity!"

@Average_NY_Guy So the world should empathize with Zionists for a situation that they created for themselves through decades of: terrorism, treachery, assassinations, oppression, and supremacist behavior? GFY, and your chutzpah.

For the past few years, we were expected to live on a strict diet of nuance, exceptions, context, and endless benefit of the doubt whenever it came to Israel. “Understand where they’re coming from.” “They do not hate Israel, they just oppose the war.” “You need to see the context.” “Give them the benefit of the doubt.” And to be honest, I did develop that annoying “nuanced” mindset after a while. I genuinely believed that many people mainly had issues with certain things in Gaza while still understanding the impossible reality Israel is stuck in. “We just want less bombing.” “It’s just taking too long.” Or the infamous “they need to wrap it up”… Fine. But after watching the complete moral collapse of so much of the political podcasting world over the last couple of months, my nuance has gone in the complete opposite direction. Now I think many of these people absolutely understand the impossible position Israel is in. They understand there is no magical way to fight a terror group embedded inside civilians and no clean way to “wrap up” a war like this overnight. They understand Hamas wants Israel destroyed. They understand Israel is stuck in a completely impossible situation. They just do not care. Some of them actually seem to enjoy watching Israel trapped in that position while being blamed no matter what it does. And the second Israel regains control, fights back successfully, or survives politically and militarily, they become furious again. So here’s my remaining “benefit of the doubt”: At this point, I no longer doubt that for many of them, this stopped being just about Gaza a long time ago.

@adam_louis52328 @nxt888 Antizionism is a response to historic Zionist treachery, terrorism, assassinations, and supremacist behavior, but you already know this.

@nxt888 thoughts on this?

Apply your logic consistently. Jewish diaspora populations maintain a "right of return" to Israel regardless of whether they or their ancestors ever lived there. A Jewish person in Brooklyn whose family has been in America for five generations can move to Israel tomorrow under the Law of Return. A Palestinian whose parents were physically expelled from Haifa in 1948 cannot. You have decided that one return right is foundational and the other makes peace impossible. Explain the principle that produces that distinction without using the word "Jewish."

The most "moral" military in the world. I'm agnostic, but I hate to see any religious relic, or site, intentionally destroyed. I'm still mad about the Taliban's destruction of the buddha statues in Afghanistan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_o… and the Khemer Rouge vandalism of Angkor Wat. itsartlaw.org/art-law/era-of… I'm no archaeologist, but I support the preservation of all (ancient) faith relics/sites from all cultures because history transcends everything and none should be wantonly stolen or (attempted to) be erased.

To all you idiotic evangelicals (especially you, @GovMikeHuckabee) ruining this country with your illiterate support of Israel because "Muh Bible says (things it doesn't)..." Do you get it yet, or was the "tradition" of spitting on Christians not enough evidence that Israelis/Zionists despise you? jpost.com/middle-east/ar… I don't necessarily even blame them because you're both so obsessed with the cynical realization of your individual eschatological goals; so you will cynically "support" one another to achieve those ends, believing your own side has the correct version of the predictive future of the end of the world; all while screwing the rest of the planet who don't share either belief. But sure, this is just an anomaly; like all the other "accidental" misfires and desecrations of Christian relics/sites. You're all IDIOTS dragging the entire world into the abyss with your delusions.

@DanBurmawy Also, why were U.S. troops even in Lebanon? Oh yeah, because of our "greatest ally."

@DanBurmawy You mean the bombing that Israel knew was imminent but neglected to warn the U.S. about? latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

According to Tucker Carlson, the only reason Americans have ever heard of Hezbollah, and why the militia didn’t remain just a regional problem, is because they are enemies of Israel. I thought Americans knew Hezbollah because of the 241 U.S. service members it killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.

@VoteRandyFine I sure hope the decades of arrogance don't backfire...

@VoteRandyFine July 5th? Quite the Chutzpah...

Deport everyone rooting for Iran right now. All of them.