• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ah yes, this will make everything even more secure.

    West Bank is starting to get fed up with inaction as well.

    What did the Chinese say at the UN again?

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    Smotrich last year claimed:

    “There is no such thing as a Palestinian nation. There is no Palestinian history. There is no Palestinian language,” he said in France late Sunday. He spoke at a memorial event for a French-Israeli right-wing activist who denied the existence of a Palestinian nation and advocated annexation of the West Bank. The lectern was adorned with what appeared to be an image showing the map of Israel that included the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Jordan.

    (from Associated Press :: Top Israeli minister: ‘No such thing’ as Palestinian people - March 21, 2023)

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        I totally see point. Maybe if Hebrew was called an Israeli language it would have been a more accurate term?

        Ghil’ad Zuckermann, a 35-year-old graduate of Tel Aviv University with doctorates from Oxford and Cambridge, argues that modern Hebrew should be renamed “Israeli” and give up its claim of pure descent from holy writ.
        “Israelis are brainwashed to believe they speak the same language as (the prophet) Isaiah, a purely Semitic language, but this is false,” Zuckermann told Reuters during a lecture tour to promote his soon-to-be-published polemic “Hebrew as Myth”.

        For Zuckermann, the proof of linguistic discontinuity between ancient and modern Israel is that Hebrew had to be revived, by 19th-century Zionist pioneers and lexicographers, after 1,700 years in which it was no one’s native tongue.

        from Hebrew or Israeli? Linguist stirs Zionist debate - Reuters - 2007

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    4 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Israel plans to build more than 3,300 new homes in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in response to a fatal Palestinian shooting attack, a senior Cabinet minister said.

    The decision is bound to frustrate Washington at a time of growing tensions over the course of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

    It’s an outcome opposed by Netanyahu and his right-wing government — and pushed farther from view, advocates say, as new settlement plans are advanced.

    Consecutive Israeli governments have expanded settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, war-won territories the Palestinians seek for a future state, along with Gaza.

    Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war.

    Israel has held the West Bank under a tight grip — limiting movement and conducting frequent raids against what it says are militant targets.


    The original article contains 424 words, the summary contains 142 words. Saved 67%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • null@slrpnk.net
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      4 months ago

      What’s the difference between double-posting and cross-posting?