@RestIsPolitics@mehdirhasan Yes it is. But the media play useful idiots. Instead of finding a new approach, the old rules of news prevail & audiences are just told how extraordinary it is. Question for TRiP: how should the media adapt in response the weaponisation of news by Trump & Farage?
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@HughSykes I remember it was his motivation but didn't know they were moved. All important pieces of the puzzle for anyone who truly wants to understand how we got here
INSANE: CCTV footage shows hundreds of Israeli settlers storming the village of Jalud in the West Bank before launching their pogrom, attacking Palestinian homes and setting them on fire in an attempt to burn people alive.
Israeli settlers exploit the war to launch massive terrorist attacks on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank
Israeli settler terrorist gangs launched massive and brutal attacks in the early hours of dawn on Sunday on several villages and cities in the West Bank . They burned homes and vehicles and assaulted residents in these villages, resulting in the injury of many Palestinians.
In Jenin governorate, settlers set fire last night and at dawn today to homes and vehicles in the village of Al-Funduqomiya, south of Jenin.
Local sources reported that a large number of settlers attacked the village, ignited fires in homes and vehicles, attacked other houses, and smashed their windows, while residents attempted to confront them and extinguish the fires.
Sources added that one house and two vehicles were completely burned, while a number of residents sustained minor injuries and were transferred to a nearby medical center for treatment.
Terrorist settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, also attacked residents’ homes last night in the town of Silat al-Dhahr, south of Jenin.
Local sources said settlers attacked several homes, attempted to set them on fire, and physically assaulted a resident, causing injury.
In the Jordan Valley, settlers attacked residents last night and at dawn today in Ein al-Hilweh in the northern Jordan Valley.
On Saturday evening, extremist settlers attacked residents’ vehicles in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem.
Security sources reported that a number of settlers gathered at the Tuqu’ junction and threw stones at Palestinian citizens’ vehicles.
Settlers also carried out a series of attacks on citizens along main roads connecting various governorates.
Near Rawabi Square, north of Ramallah, on the road linking it to Nablus, settlers threw stones at passing Palestinian vehicles.
Another group gathered at the roundabout leading to the town of Mikhmas, north of occupied Jerusalem.
Settlers also attacked vehicles near the village of Haris west of Salfit and near the town of Tuqu’, throwing stones at them.
South of Nablus, settlers threw stones at vehicles near the Za’tara military checkpoint and on the bypass road near Burin, while the village of Awarta was closed following the gathering of dozens of settlers.
Earlier, settlers had stormed the outskirts of the village of Burin, south of Nablus, and carried out a provocative march among residents’ homes.
Dozens of terrorist settlers also launched a large-scale attack at dawn on Sunday on the village of Jalud, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank. The attack included the burning of homes, vehicles, and the village council building, and resulted in the injury of three young men as they confronted the assault.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated that its teams in Tulkarm received two gunshot injuries—one to the neck and chest of a 53-year-old man, and another to the leg of a 54-year-old man—caused by Israeli army fire near Jabara checkpoint. Both were transferred to the hospital.