Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the closure of the occupied West Bank, immediately following two Palestinian gunmen opening fire Friday on an Israeli military checkpoint, wounding at least five.

Videos from the scene depict a firefight between the Palestinian gunmen and Israeli forces that lasted at least several minutes with repeated bursts of gunfire ringing out. In one Reuters video, an Israeli responder yells that the shooting has been going on for at least 20 minutes and they were struggling to remove the wounded from the scene.

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    “Five Israelis”???

    hours after two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli military checkpoint, killing two soldiers. Three more soldiers were lightly wounded in the attack in the city of Hebron,

    So we are talking about five Israeli soldiers. You know, under the UN Charter, those are perfectly legitimate military targets for palestinian armed resistance to an illegal occupation.

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      Yes even when Palestinians resistance resists perfectly, CNN will obscure they targeted only military targets.

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    How many days is it until the election in Israel?

    Not saying that it isn’t a real incident but still curious timing that will definitely be used for the next week that Netanyahu has left to try and remain in control. Until the next jailer in chief gets in.

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        No it’s not, there are no Semitic people only Semitic languages. Antisemitism has alwats meant anti-jewish prejudice (at least until pro-apartheid fucks twisted and weaponized it to also mean criticizing Israel).

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          Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group formerly used in connection with ancient and modern peoples of the Middle East including Akkadians, Arabs, Ammonites, Arameans, Canaanites, Edomites, Israelites, Jews, Judahites, Moabites, Phoenicians, Samaritans, and others. Use of the terminology is now largely confined to the field of linguistics in reference to "Semitic.

          I think my point stands.

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            Yes, an obsolete term. The exact passage you cite says your point doesn’t stand. Nobody is prejudiced against a language family.

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    Just keeping an entire population in a big concentration camp, while occasionally bombing the shit of said concentration camp,

    people fight back

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      Usually Americans love when the victim fights back against the bully, so I don’t get why the US isn’t unified against Israel.

      I mean, I do get it. Propaganda and politics as a team sport…

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    Oh no what a viscous and cowardly attack by these gunmen why won’t the gunmen leave us alone these horrible gunmen they just love shooting guns at people for no reason why are they like this