Comment by skinkestek
2 years ago
> Contemporary stabbings in Jerusalem and the West Bank are mainly aimed at soldiers, same goes for shootings.
Sweets are handed out for every attack, including for the guy who crushed the skull of a toddler, slashed the throats of elderly etc.
The logic is they are either IDF soldiers now, has been or will become it seems.
It's very common in the area to hand out sweets to other people.
Where can I read about the toddler case and "slashed throats of elderly"? It's somewhat understandable though, almost every palestinian knows about a toddler killed by the occupation, a grandparent killed by the occupation, a family deprived of their home and land on some flimsy justification, and so on. That some of them lash out at anyone should be expected, people tend to become abusive from abuse.
Yes, some palestinians see the conscription as something that makes every israeli guilty in the occupation. Some israeli jewish leftists have a similar view, they see israelis that don't engage themselves politically against the occupation as part of it. Still, as far as I can gather, most of the militant activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem seems to be aimed at soldiers in service at the moment. In Israel there has been some attacks with cars, where at least one, I think in Haifa, hurt civilians.
Still, nothing that compares to deliberately and proudly starving a couple of million people.