A friend just returned from Palestine.
Daily humiliation & oppression is intensifying everywhere: raids, settler attacks, home seizures, checkpoints, systematic discrimination for Palestinians in 1948 Israel.
It's hard to fathom. Yet this is what so many in Washington defend.
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2/ He encountered settler teens acting with impunity, cussing at Palestinians, spitting, throwing stones, all in front of Israeli soldiers.
The goal is humiliation & provocation.
If a Palestinian flinches or pushes back, the army steps in to beat, arrest, and escalate.
Dec 10, 2025 15:123/ And for Palestinians inside 1948 Israel, the myth of "democratic rights" for all collapses quickly.
Many cannot even repair their homes, let alone build new ones.
Their lives & livelihoods are constantly squeezed.
Discrimination is structural & aimed at getting them to leave.
4/ The West Bank feels like open season for settlers.
Palestinians endure nonstop harassment.
Land is seized overnight as encampments swell into hundreds & gain state backing.
More “Jewish-only” roads, ever longer checkpoint routes for Palestinians, increasing raids & killings.
5/ He said the atmosphere at al-Aqsa is increasingly suffocating.
Jewish extremists roam around, hurling insults at Muslims & their religion.
New layers of restrictions with ever-narrower definitions of “locals allowed.”
6/ From his talks with Palestinians & Israelis, it was clear: the goal is “Greater Israel."
Not only the West Bank but ambitions in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt.
And this isn’t fringe. It's a driving force in Israeli society, fueled by impunity & deep ethnosupremacism.
