Israel evacuates Nablus protest village, dozens injured

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NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces evacuated a protest tent set up earlier on Saturday by Palestinian activists in Nablus, leading to clashes which injured at least 20 people.

Earlier, around 200 people from across the West Bank set up the "Al-Manatir neighborhood" encampment in an area of Burin village that activists say is slated for confiscation by a neighboring settlement.

Burin is squeezed between the Bracha and Yitzhar settlements, and is the target of regular settler violence.

Israeli forces raided the area and forcibly removed all activists from the site. Soldiers fired multiple tear gas canisters at the protest village, injuring at least 20 Palestinians, witnesses said.

http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=561454

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1. Still making friends and influencing its neighbors.

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2. Is Ma'An News Agency a RW News Service in Israel?

"Israel evacuates Nablus protest village, dozens injured." "Evacuates" sounds so much like they were saving people from something rather than raiding them. Is this just a common usage for that term in Israel that is different than in the US which I don't get for cultural reasons?


I had to read almost to the end of the article before I got to:

"Israeli forces raided the area and forcibly removed all activists from the site. Soldiers fired multiple tear gas canisters at the protest village, injuring at least 20 Palestinians, witnesses said."

Of course the article does say Palestinians threw rocks and fire bombs in Burin which is wrong even if it was in retaliation for the Israeli raid. I'm not a big supporter of violence to fight violence. If was during the raid and in self-defense that's a whole other story.

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3. If the US was occupied by Chinese forces

would American citizens have a right to fight back?

Suppose that the Chinese forces pushed Americans out of choice and strategic areas designated for "settlements" of ethnic Chinese, those areas becoming (by Chinese definition) part of China, and that they built Chinese only roads and highways to link the settlements, ensuring that the economy bypassed the American people. Suppose Americans were disarmed because some were terrorists who used those weapons against peaceful Chinese civilians going about their business in the settlements and on the roads. Suppose the Chinese overflew the US with drones and fighter aircraft, to keep the peace, and engaged in strategic assassination of every American terrorist leader who worked for a terrorist resistance force, and engaged in a systematic program of night raids against terrorists and their terrorist families. Suppose that periodically the Chinese used the pretext that Americans had attacked innocent Chinese (as would be bound to happen) to mount "operations" using fighter aircraft, drones, air to ground missiles, ground to ground missiles, tanks, helicopter gunships, all the latest in bombs and munitions, to teach the terrorist Americans a lesson that they shouldn't be terrorists - all the while explaining that Americans are innately uncivilized terrorists, unlike the peaceloving Chinese, and so can't be reasoned with.

Suppose that this has been going on for 60 years and most of the choice and strategic locations have now been settled by Chinese. Imagine it.

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4. I'm Sorry I Gave you a Mistaken Impression. Re-Reading my Post I can Understand Your Response

Let me be clear. I do not think the Israelis were right to raid them. That was counterproductive to peace. The settlements in the West Bank that are in violation of international agreements are wrong and counterproductive to peace.

At some point some one has got to finally say STOP. Stop the needless violence and retaliations.

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5. These guys have a future in UC-Davis campus police:

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https://twitter.com/ALQadiPAL/status/297733283419131905/photo/1