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This week police impounded 700 sheep, claiming they had passed through a forbidden zone. To retrieve the animals the shepherds paid 150,000 shekels ($40,000) to the settlers' regional council

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[–] dan42O 62 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Legit sounds like an apartheid like behavior

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because that's exactly what it is.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nah, this is part of genocidal behaviour.

Apartheid forced the people into small areas, such as what was done in Gaza/West Bank. What’s happening now is trying to remove them even from those regions.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ethnic cleansing is still genocide.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

While both are heinous, they are separate acts.

  • Ethnic cleansing is the forced removal of a peoples from an area.
  • Genocide is the removal of a peoples entirely either through killing or erasing culture.

There is generally a large amount of overlap between the two however, which is not helped by the lack of a legal definition of ethnic cleansing. What Israel is currently doing is undoubtedly genocide.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, they're doing both at the same time, I feel.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's fair.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Apartheid and genocide are not mutually exclusive in the least bit, though.

In fact, having an apartheid system in place already, like Israel does, makes it much easier to successfully carry out genocide.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 years ago

God that is fucked up.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

Just in case anyone actually believes the nonsense about settlements not being an Israeli government project.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pay site. Wish I could get the whole story, but I’m pretty sure it’s not gonna make those cops look any better.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Per Rule 2 here, I can't post the full text myself, but here's a comment over on a Reddit thread for the article that did do that.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago