[Opinion. How can anyone condone killing schoolchildren? How can anyone live with themselves and their own children after shooting another child?

Israel has always stolen territory by terrorism, from at least 1934 to the present. Zionists have had the displacement if not the annihilation of Palestinians since 1897.

Some call The Guardian a left-wing rag but the facts are the facts. This IDF reservist settler killed a schoolchild.]

‘Go inside, he will kill you’: Israeli militants step up West Bank school attacks

Education is being targeted across Palestine, with the murder of 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan only the latest in a spree of violence

Emma Graham-Harrison, Sufian Taha and Quique Kierszenbaum in Mughayyir

The Guardian: 2 May 2026

The Israeli reservist shot 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan in the head just outside the western gate of the Mughayyir boys’ secondary school, where he was studying in ninth grade.

Aws collapsed instantly, bleeding heavily. More shots rang out as his friends ran to his side, picked up his now-limp body and rushed him out of the line of fire, their path along the school wall marked by a trail of their classmate’s blood.

A video captured the shooter, a reservist in partial military uniform, taking aim at the school from the hillside above. A few minutes later the same man killed the younger brother of an English teacher Waheed Abu Naim, whose family live beside the school. Jihad Abu Naim was 36; his wife is heavily pregnant with the couple’s first child, a girl due this month.

Aws and Abu Naim were shot dead on 21 April amid a wave of settler violence in the occupied West Bank, much of which has targeted schools and students in the territory.

Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed at least 792 teachers and 18,639 students, according to the UN, and damaged or destroyed nine out of 10 school buildings.

But students and schools are also targets of spiralling Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank, where there is a climate of near total impunity for attacks on Palestinians.

A few hours after Aws was killed outside his school, settlers attacked and demolished a British- and European-funded school for Palestinian children in a village 25 miles to the north.

In Hammamat al-Maleh, in the northern Jordan valley, settlers used bulldozers to raze four classrooms, school toilets and the two playground areas into a heap of twisted metal and crumpled plastic, scattered with ruined books.

The French government, which contributed some of the funding to the school, has demanded compensation from the Israeli government for the destruction.

In the south Hebron Hills, on 13 April Israeli settlers put razor-wire across the road to the school attended by Palestinian children from Umm al-Khair village, blocking students from crossing since then.

“This path is not just a road, it is the lifeline that connects our children to their education and to a sense of normal life,” said one resident, Tariq Hathaleen. “The purpose is clear to us: to pressure our community to leave our land, to intimidate us through our children.”

You can't help but wildly exaggerate your demonization agenda so that everyone hates "Zionists" as much as you do.

You said:

the annihilation of Palestinians since 1897.

This is a garbage statement Who were the "Palestinians" in 1897?

Do you include Jordan? Do you include the Jews? There wasn't even a concept of a separate Palestinian Arab idenitty until much later.

You insist on making everything simple minded -- black and white.

Jews evil. Arabs saints.

Let's look at more relevant dates:

These estimated population numbers do not include Palestinian Arabs in the diaspora.

1948

1.3 million

2026

5.662 million

Annihilation, my arse.

Edited May 3May 3 by Jingthing

Just now, unblocktheplanet said:

The Israeli reservist shot 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan in the head just outside the western gate of the Mughayyir boys’ secondary school, where he was studying in ninth grade.

He said Aws al-Naasan, 14, and Jihad Abu Naim, 32, were killed by soldiers. The Palestinian health ministry blamed "settler gunfire".

Israel's military said it dispatched soldiers after a report of stones being thrown towards an Israeli car carrying civilians, including a reservist who got out and "opened fire at suspects in the area".

The soldiers then "acted to disperse the violent confrontation", it added.

Just now, Jingthing said:

You can't help but wildly exaggerate your demonization agenda so that everyone hates "Zionists" as much as you do.

You said:

the annihilation of Palestinians since 1897.

This is a garbage statement Who were the "Palestinians" in 1897?

Do you include Jordan? Do you include the Jews? There wasn't even a concept of a separate Palestinian Arab idenitty until much later.

You insist on making everything simple minded -- black and white.

Jews evil. Arabs saints.

Let's look at more relevant dates:

These estimated population numbers do not include Palestinian Arabs in the diaspora.

1948

1.3 million

2026

5.662 million

Annihilation, my arse.

Bull<deleted>, Jing. The declaration of the first World Zionist Conference listed two aims. A homeland for Jews in Palestine and "transferring" the Palestinians elsewhere.

You're absolutely right. The first years of Jewish (Zionist?) immigration to the Mandate were peaceful and neighbourly. No doubt the Arabs taught these first settlers how to live in such an inhospitable desert.

Just now, Nick Carter icp said:

He said Aws al-Naasan, 14, and Jihad Abu Naim, 32, were killed by soldiers. The Palestinian health ministry blamed "settler gunfire".

Israel's military said it dispatched soldiers after a report of stones being thrown towards an Israeli car carrying civilians, including a reservist who got out and "opened fire at suspects in the area".

The soldiers then "acted to disperse the violent confrontation", it added.

Those deadly stones again. Bullets for children! Reservist settler = IDF.

Just now, unblocktheplanet said:

Bull<deleted>, Jing. The declaration of the first World Zionist Conference listed two aims. A homeland for Jews in Palestine and "transferring" the Palestinians elsewhere.

You're absolutely right. The first years of Jewish (Zionist?) immigration to the Mandate were peaceful and neighbourly. No doubt the Arabs taught these first settlers how to live in such an inhospitable desert.

Numbers don't lie.

Nothing remotely like annihilation of Palestinians ever happened.

Just now, Jingthing said:

Numbers don't lie.

Nothing remotely like annihilation of Palestinians ever happened.

Just now, Jingthing said:

Numbers don't lie.

Nothing remotely like annihilation of Palestinians ever happened.

Until Gaza... Regardless, it's what the World Zionists wanted to accomplish and Israel has always adopted this tradition by colonisation.

Just now, unblocktheplanet said:

Those deadly stones again. Bullets for children! Reservist settler = IDF.

Don't bring stones to gun fight

Close your eyes for a second and imagine. Imagine a world from which Israel has been erased. Imagine:

1. No terror and genocide in the ME.

2. The ME is an unremarkable part of the world, mostly desert where brown people live, grow olives and pump oil.

3. Oil is plentiful in the world. A barrel's $35.

4. Strait of Hormuz? What's that? Hormaid? Oh, I know, mermaid. Strait of Mermaids. Got it. Lord of the Rings.

5. Iran? Beautiful country, 5000-year-old civilization and Persia Tours has a months-long wait list.

6. Gas in the US? A buck a gallon in the peak summer travel season, then it drops.

33 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Zionists have had the displacement if not the annihilation of Palestinians since 1897.

Just now, unblocktheplanet said:

... it's what the World Zionists wanted to accomplish and Israel has always adopted this tradition by colonisation.

@unblocktheplanet What is your source for saying "Zionists have had the displacement if not the annihilation of Palestinians since 1897?" Neither displacement nor annihilation were goals of the Zionist movement.

The original manifesto of the Zionist movement, the Basel Program, was unanimously adopted at the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, on 30 August 1897. It made no mention of displacing Palestinians. You can read it here: https://azm.org/basel-program-1897/

After the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Basel Program was replaced in 1951 by the expanded Jerusalem Program as the ideological basis of political Zionism. It didn't mention displacing Arabs.

https://azm.org/wzo/jerusalem-program/

Theodor Herzl is credited as the father of modern political Zionism and he did not advocate displacement of Arabs, much less their annihilation. "In Herzl’s vision, Arab landowners would willingly sell their land in order to invest in modern agriculture and industry. The end result would be that they, and the peasants who worked their land, would be far better off as a consequence of the Jews’ arrival."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/zionist-attitudes-towards-arabs-1902-until-today/

Herzl's view was a bit naive, but has nothing to do with forced displacement or annihilation.

Just few words for you, 7th of october 2023, where 1,195 men, women and children were raped, tortured, slathered, burned, killed and taken hostages, among them mothers with few months old babies,

NOW, no one in this friggin world has got the right to judge Israel as to how its protect itself, and certainly not the myriad of anti-semite, Israel and jews haters that abundantly populate these pages.

Just now, Autocan said:

Close your eyes for a second and imagine. Imagine a world from which Israel has been erased. Imagine:

1. No terror and genocide in the ME.

2. The ME is an unremarkable part of the world, mostly desert where brown people live, grow olives and pump oil.

3. Oil is plentiful in the world. A barrel's $35.

4. Strait of Hormuz? What's that? Hormaid? Oh, I know, mermaid. Strait of Mermaids. Got it. Lord of the Rings.

5. Iran? Beautiful country, 5000-year-old civilization and Persia Tours has a months-long wait list.

6. Gas in the US? A buck a gallon in the peak summer travel season, then it drops.

Will we all be holding hands and singing kumbaya as well ?

Just now, Autocan said:

Close your eyes for a second and imagine. Imagine a world from which Israel has been erased. Imagine:

1. No terror and genocide in the ME.

2. The ME is an unremarkable part of the world, mostly desert where brown people live, grow olives and pump oil.

3. Oil is plentiful in the world. A barrel's $35.

4. Strait of Hormuz? What's that? Hormaid? Oh, I know, mermaid. Strait of Mermaids. Got it. Lord of the Rings.

5. Iran? Beautiful country, 5000-year-old civilization and Persia Tours has a months-long wait list.

6. Gas in the US? A buck a gallon in the peak summer travel season, then it drops.

Judenfrei huh?

I love how Jew haters call Jews white when it's convenient and also non-white when it's convenient to fit their particular Jew hating narrative of the day.

(Does that Persian tours outfit do gay cruises?)

Edited May 4May 4 by Jingthing

About colonization.

Zionism flawed as it might be as is every other human ideology that ever existed, was basically a LIBERATION movement.

So what country were the early Zionist pioneers colonizing for?

The Jewish people had no country until 1948.

Delete

Edited May 4May 4 by Jingthing

Just now, ezzra said:

NOW, no one in this friggin world has got the right to judge Israel as to how its protect itself, and certainly not the myriad of anti-semite, Israel and jews haters that abundantly populate these pages.

You create these divisions through your one-sided excesses. It is your unwavering community solidarity that isolates you.

This was legitimate after the Holocaust, but the Gaza genocide erased everything.

Today, these simplistic generalizations are backfiring on you.

Just now, Toc-Toc said:

You create these divisions through your one-sided excesses. It is your unwavering community solidarity that isolates you.

This was legitimate after the Holocaust, but the Gaza genocide erased everything.

Today, these simplistic generalizations are backfiring on you.

So besides the holocaust did Gaza erase thousands of years of persecution of Jews in the diaspora?

I find your comment ignorant, insane. and yes SIMPLISTIC.

Just now, Jingthing said:

So besides the holocaust did Gaza erase thousands of years of persecution of Jews in the diaspora?

I find your comment ignorant, insane. and yes SIMPLISTIC.

You have no arguments other than personal judgements and insults.

The subject is: West Bank terrorists, not me.

Leave me. You're neither clear-headed nor calm.

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

You can't help but wildly exaggerate your demonization agenda so that everyone hates "Zionists" as much as you do.

You said:

the annihilation of Palestinians since 1897.

This is a garbage statement Who were the "Palestinians" in 1897?

Do you include Jordan? Do you include the Jews? There wasn't even a concept of a separate Palestinian Arab idenitty until much later.

You insist on making everything simple minded -- black and white.

Jews evil. Arabs saints.

Let's look at more relevant dates:

These estimated population numbers do not include Palestinian Arabs in the diaspora.

1948

1.3 million

2026

5.662 million

Annihilation, my arse.

Your comments and those of others about the historical accuracy are totally irrelevant to the issue.

Israel has become an utterly brutal nation and they currently seem to be the leading terrorist. nation in the Middle East.

Why doesn't the US stand up to them many are wondering.

Israel must be very careful at this point as they are losing support around the world, by the day it's gotten to the point where there are very few nations who are still supportive of Israel, and the IDF. If the US withdrew it's support, it would put them in dire straits, and very isolated. And we might be looking at a failed state. They deserve that, in my opinion. I believe all the lessons of the Holocaust have been forgotten within the current very sad state of affairs in Israel.

Am I a Jew hater? Absolutely not, as I have many Jewish friends and family that I adore. Do I hate Israel? Certainly not the people, but I do hate the current Israeli government. Much as I hate the current American government, it doesn't make me an America hater, though the fake patriots on this forum would argue otherwise.

Excerpt From

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

Noam Chomsky

“The pro-Israel lobby worked uninterrupted until 1963 when the famous senator, William Fulbright, became intrigued by its activities and demanded a congressional investigation of its financial sources. The three hundred pages produced by the investigating body revealed that, over four years, the lobby had raised $5 million, exempted from tax, from the Jewish community in the United States. This was done by the purchase of bonds clandestinely made over to the State of Israel. American law forbade lobbying for the interests of a foreign country. In order to overcome the legal prohibition, it was stated that the bonds were procured only for welfare purposes in Israel. However, the investigating committee found that none of the money was ever delivered to the deprived citizens of Israel. The money went to the Israeli state and, from there, immediately back to the United States—directly into AIPAC’s account. In Newsweek (August 12, 1963), it was written that the investigation exposed the AIPAC lobby as “one of the most effective networks of foreign influence.”

Fulbright became the pro-Israel lobby’s greatest enemy and had to be deposed by all means possible. The campaign against him became an AIPAC model. Everything was done to ensure that he would not be reelected. Anyone standing against him was financed and supported. From that time to this, the road to the Capitol has been scattered with candidates from the elite of American politics whose careers have been similarly torpedoed by AIPAC. In this manner, AIPAC impacted on Congress policy with such successful results that very few have since dared to follow in Fulbright’s footsteps.

Who cares shoe drew first blood, they both, all, signed treaties to stop and they both, all, broken every treaty they're signs.

How many UN resolutions against Israel have they ignored?

They really do deserve each other. Nuff said.

Anybody who supports this current Israeli regimes conduct in the Middle East should hang their heads in shame, they are the problem, and until there is a change of government, and mindset of those supporters nothing will change.

Israel is a Pariah State.

Just now, Jingthing said:

Does that Persian tours outfit do gay cruises?

Good question. I suspect, as with all places where homosexuality is criminalized, there's a vibrant underground scene. Which, in fact, might add to the thrill of same-sex liaisons. (Hurry, Ahmed, hurry, pump harder! We have to climax and leave. If the guards catch us we'll be hung in the morning.)

Edited May 4May 4 by Autocan

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Numbers don't lie.

Nothing remotely like annihilation of Palestinians ever happened.

Now, Jingthing, you truly live in an alternate universe. If you bother to crack open a history books at all, then I doubt you read anything but Zionist revisionistic history. You probably think that the Nakba is a cracker that you spread hummus on? Yeah? Israel has been engaged in documented ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs - Christians and Muslim - since 1948 right up to the present day.
You suffer from Nakba Denial Jingthing. Just like denying that the flattening of Gaza isn't a genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign just like the current push by the IDF into Southern Lebanon where they are engaged in destroying entire villages. Of course, you'll deny that too even in the face of these atrocities committed by the IDF being documented by Western Main Stream Media. E.g., https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

Just now, connda said:

Now, Jingthing, you truly live in an alternate universe. If you bother to crack open a history books at all, then I doubt you read anything but Zionist revisionistic history. You probably think that the Nakba is a cracker that you spread hummus on? Yeah? Israel has been engaged in documented ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs - Christians and Muslim - since 1948 right up to the present day.
You suffer from Nakba Denial Jingthing. Just like denying that the flattening of Gaza isn't a genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign just like the current push by the IDF into Southern Lebanon where they are engaged in destroying entire villages. Of course, you'll deny that too even in the face of these atrocities committed by the IDF being documented by Western Main Stream Media. E.g., https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

Inflammatory straw man garbage.

Just now, Autocan said:

Good question. I suspect, as with all places where homosexuality is criminalized, there's a vibrant underground scene. Which, in fact, might add to the thrill of same-sex liaisons. (Hurry, Ahmed, hurry, pump harder! We have to finish and leave. If the guards catch us we'll be hung in the morning.)

Predictable trivializatoon of something very serious.

Just now, Jeff the Chef said:

Anybody who supports this current Israeli regimes conduct in the Middle East should hang their heads in shame, they are the problem, and until there is a change of government, and mindset of those supporters nothing will change.

Israel is a Pariah State.

I agree with that.

Change the government.

4 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Garbage lie.

You're very quick to call people liars, Jing. It's unbecoming. I was not LYING but I did conflate the earliest Zionist declarations with later ones which emphasised homeland and 'transfer' equally.

The Jerusalem Fund: The idea of transfer was widely discussed, supported, and viewed as a necessary logistical step for creating a Jewish state by key Zionist leaders and internal bodies, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s.

• David Ben-Gurion (1937): In a diary entry, he wrote that the "compulsory transfer of the Arabs from the valleys of the projected Jewish State" was a necessary step.

• Joseph Weitz (1940s): The director of the Jewish National Fund wrote, "There is no way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries, and to transfer all of them".

• 1945 World Zionist Conference: The conference in London highlighted that transfer was a logistical necessity, aiming to "settle all of them" (referring to Jewish refugees) and "transfer all of them" (referring to the Jewish property). [1, 2, 3]

The Balfour Declaration Contrast (1917)

• The Balfour Declaration of 1917, which the WZO actively sought, did not call for transfer. Rather, it explicitly stated that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine".

Just now, Jingthing said:

Inflammatory straw man garbage.

Inflammatory" because - you personally disagree with me, so call it "inflammatory" in an attempt to get it censored.

"Straw man garbage"? Your statement: "Nothing remotely like annihilation of Palestinians ever happened."
Reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba#Nakba_denial
That's like saying, "Nothing remotely like annihilation of US native Americans ever happened." The problem is - it did happen and is a historical fact.

But I'll give you a chance to write something longer than one sentence using fallacy labels like "Straw Man":
Which part of my argument is the straw man? Quote it and show what I actually said. Try for a full paragraph.

Edited May 4May 4 by connda

6 hours ago, Jingthing said:

You can't help but wildly exaggerate your demonization agenda so that everyone hates "Zionists" as much as you do.

You said:

the annihilation of Palestinians since 1897.

This is a garbage statement Who were the "Palestinians" in 1897?

Do you include Jordan? Do you include the Jews? There wasn't even a concept of a separate Palestinian Arab idenitty until much later.

You insist on making everything simple minded -- black and white.

Jews evil. Arabs saints.

Let's look at more relevant dates:

These estimated population numbers do not include Palestinian Arabs in the diaspora.

1948

1.3 million

2026

5.662 million

Annihilation, my arse.

Nobody's a saint. Israelis and Palestinians both have their share of evil bastards.

Yeah, since I became aware of this issue, you're right, I have become a hardline anti-Zionist and am even on the cusp of believing that Jews do not deserve a State of Israel.

I would not be demonising the Zionists had they not become racist demons.

Where were Palestinians in 1897? D'uh, living peacefully in Palestine, of course! Parts of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, even Egypt. There may have been a handful of Jews on the land but immigration didn't really pick up significantly until the 20s.

Your figures show a fivefold growth in the Palestinian population in Palestine. It is completely impossible to estimate the Jewish birthrate during that period because of massive immigration. However, ~8.7M babies were born in Israel 1948-2026.

To put things in a more realistic perspective, in 1948, there were 717,000 Jews in Israel and today, almost 8M. Not quite equal numbers but expelling the Palestinians to Somaliland would be a logistical fubar.

As for annihilation, Israelis keep trying, don't they.