Louis Theroux: If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you ...

[SMIAI]

have not being paying attention.

 

Louis Theroux:

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The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/louis-theroux-documentary-on-israeli-settlers-in-the-west-bank

[bannork]

On the morning of 22 April 2025, the familiar sight of demolition machinery on the outskirts of Tuwani sent a wave of tension through the South Hebron Hills.

That day, the bulldozers claimed a family’s home and a nearby water cistern vital for survival in the arid landscape; no structure is safe because of a bureaucratic labyrinth that has been designed to gradually erase Palestinian presence from the land.

The process is methodical: Palestinians must obtain planning permission to build anything from houses to water tanks, but such permits are systematically denied in Area C, which comprises 60% of the West Bank;  this bind ensures that nearly all Palestinian structures exist under perpetual demolition orders, their destruction a question of when, not if.

Israeli Settlers are Erasing the West Bank

[Nick Carter icp]

4 minutes ago, Denim said:

 

Palestine has always refered to an area of land rather than a state.  South East Asia is not a country nor is Central America nor is North Africa or Europe.

 

   It was called Judea at the time .

Anyway , as history lessons aren't welcome, better to get back on topic 

[Magictoad]

It was anti Israeli propaganda at a time when we need to see the opposite 

[impulse]

8 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

   It was called Judea at the time .

Anyway , as history lessons aren't welcome, better to get back on topic 

 

The Brits and the League of Nations referred to it as Palestine. 

 

Just Google "British Palestine".

 

[ExpatOilWorker]

It takes a lot of hard work to build the Gaza parking lot.

[Nick Carter icp]

3 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

The Brits and the League of Nations referred to it as Palestine. 

 

  OK, lets get bask on topic 

[impulse]

6 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

  OK, lets get bask on topic 

 

The topic is that Palestine is being wiped off the map.

 

That's generally referred to as "ethnic cleansing".  Unless, of course, it's the good guys doing it.

 

[Nick Carter icp]

3 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

The topic is that Palestine is being wiped off the map.

 

   It was never there in the first place .

 

[impulse]

Just now, Nick Carter icp said:

   It was never there in the first place .

 

That's not what the League of Nations and the Brits said.  You're rewriting history.  Or trying to, anyway. 

 

[SMIAI]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Palestine

[Magictoad]

2 hours ago, bannork said:

On the morning of 22 April 2025, the familiar sight of demolition machinery on the outskirts of Tuwani sent a wave of tension through the South Hebron Hills.

That day, the bulldozers claimed a family’s home and a nearby water cistern vital for survival in the arid landscape; no structure is safe because of a bureaucratic labyrinth that has been designed to gradually erase Palestinian presence from the land.

The process is methodical: Palestinians must obtain planning permission to build anything from houses to water tanks, but such permits are systematically denied in Area C, which comprises 60% of the West Bank;  this bind ensures that nearly all Palestinian structures exist under perpetual demolition orders, their destruction a question of when, not if.

Israeli Settlers are Erasing the West Bank

Palestine does not really exist. That why thousands of Judeans left the area when Israel was established. The judeans that stayed to be a thorn in the side of Israel were manipulated by Yasser Arrafat using money from the Gulf States. The sooner they leave the better.

[Nick Carter icp]

1 minute ago, impulse said:

 

That's not what the League of Nations and the Brits said.  You're rewriting history.  Or trying to, anyway. 

 

The West bank was called Judea right up until 1948 when Jordon acquired the land and changed the name to the West Bank .

   Israel still refers to the land by its original name. Judea 

[Magictoad]

8 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

That's not what the League of Nations and the Brits said.  You're rewriting history.  Or trying to, anyway. 

 

The LON & THE BRITS are not necessarily the sole arbiter of state hood in that area.

[Magictoad]

2 hours ago, bannork said:

On the morning of 22 April 2025, the familiar sight of demolition machinery on the outskirts of Tuwani sent a wave of tension through the South Hebron Hills.

That day, the bulldozers claimed a family’s home and a nearby water cistern vital for survival in the arid landscape; no structure is safe because of a bureaucratic labyrinth that has been designed to gradually erase Palestinian presence from the land.

The process is methodical: Palestinians must obtain planning permission to build anything from houses to water tanks, but such permits are systematically denied in Area C, which comprises 60% of the West Bank;  this bind ensures that nearly all Palestinian structures exist under perpetual demolition orders, their destruction a question of when, not if.

Israeli Settlers are Erasing the West Bank

So the settlers have a place to stay?

[SMIAI]

The term "Palestine" is first mentioned in the 5th century BCE by Herodotus in his Histories, referring to a district between Phoenicia and Egypt. The Romans later revived the name in the 2nd century CE as "Syria Palaestina"...

 

 

[Denim]

29 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   It was never there in the first place .

 

 

And so who are the Palestinians ?

[Denim]

22 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

That why thousands of Judeans left the area when Israel was established.

 

Nothing to do with them being forcibly removed from their homes and there land being taken from them then.

[Denim]

21 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

The LON & THE BRITS are not necessarily the sole arbiter of state hood in that area.

 

Yes, the world noticed that and so do those living in Gaza.

[Denim]

47 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   It was never there in the first place .

 

 

If you are going down that road then there never was a state of Israel either

[Nick Carter icp]

4 minutes ago, Denim said:

 

If you are going down that road then there never was a state of Israel either

 

   I have had this discussion way too many times to continue and to have it again .

You can find exactly the sane discussions , all the same back and forths in other threads .

   This topic gets discussed regularly, almost on a weekly basis and it will end  up with the Philistines and the Temple of David getting a mention .

  So, I will bail out on this occasion 

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Thread clean up. The topic is:

 

Louis Theroux: If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you ...

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6 hours ago, impulse said:

 

The Brits and the League of Nations referred to it as Palestine. 

 

Just Google "British Palestine".

 

 

Did not make it a country, even the Quran never mentions it. It's like saying New England or East Anglia are countries. 

[proton]

6 hours ago, Denim said:

 

And so who are the Palestinians ?

 

Arabs calling themselves Palestinians for the last few decades