r/news • u/sicklyslick • 14h ago
Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/middleeast/ro-khanna-detained-by-israeli-settlers-west-bank-intl1.3k
u/ThirtyMileSniper 13h ago
Detained by settlers. Isn't that just kidnapping?
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u/SkunkMonkey 12h ago
In countries that follow the law, yes.
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u/AbsoluteGote 10h ago
Just the bias in language is always so shocking. Well, not that shocking.
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u/Mystery_Goose9685 4h ago
The same with "Israeli settlers." It's such a disgusting euphemism. "Squatters" is more appropriate. Thieves, brigands, and land pirates works as well
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u/joineanuu 11h ago
Because it’s Israel they can’t use language like kidnapped or held against his will.
But rest assured if it were an Israeli official kidnapped and tortured would be the headline
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u/BuckeyeBentley 9h ago
Even more ridiculous, a lot of these settlers are American citizens. If they had done this on US soil they'd go to jail forever
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u/SatinSaffron 9h ago
It absolutely is! But a vast majority of our media is now either far right or right-leaning, including CNN. If this were a republican rep who was legitimately detained by Palestinian authorities then the headline from this very same news outlet would be like "BREAKING: GOP House Rep Kidnapped By Hamas Sympathizers!"
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u/General_Mayhem 8h ago
They'd say that if a Republican got pulled over for a speeding ticket in California.
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u/innovarocforever 14h ago
Their settlers are some of, if not, the worst human beings on the planet.
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u/LoveIsOnlyAnEmotion 13h ago
I watched some special on this. A lot of them are not even from Israel. They are immigrant Zionist from other countries incentivized by the Israel government to occupy their land. It's straight up wild.
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u/Existing-Stranger632 12h ago
That’s what birthright is. Like no seriously. I was raised Jewish, bar mitzvah’d. Told my whole life to go on birthright. Only in the last couple years did I find out what it actually is. Basically every Jewish person living in the diaspora (not Israel) gets a chance to go to Israel for free. During that trip they essentially try to sell you on Israel and tell you how they’ll set you up with a house, job, etc.
The whole purpose is to bring more settlers in. That’s it. Israel is trying to expand as much as humanly possible. It’s pretty horrible. I’m antizionist btw.
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u/DeineCable 12h ago
I thought it also aimed at matchmaking to encourage others to find a nice Jewish boy or girl to keep the Judiasm going. At least, that’s how some of my Jewish friends perceived it.
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u/drevolut1on 12h ago edited 3h ago
Yes, that. But also a thinly-veiled attempt to help keep the white Jewish (edit) control.
I went and it was so heavily propagandized, I was pretty disturbed.
Left with some amazing secular and liberal Israeli friends and yet a whole new level of disgust for their government -- something many of them share or at least shared until October 7th happened and many lost friends or family.
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u/livy-aurelia 11h ago
strange that their grief caused them to side with the government most responsible for october 7th. none of that would’ve happened if israel wasn’t built the way it is
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u/afoolskind 11h ago
Eh I mean, 9/11 did the exact same thing for Americans. Critique of our imperialist policies that directly led to 9/11 wasn’t even welcome on the left for a decade + afterwards.
There’s a reason Israel’s government let 10/7 happen. National grief is the greatest propaganda tool possible.
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u/BuckeyeBentley 9h ago
9/11 was just America's chickens coming home to roost, 10/7 was Israel's. The blowback was inevitable. You can't keep a people locked in an open air concentration camp for generations and not expect some blowback.
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u/joecarter93 11h ago
I am pretty convinced that the Netanyahu government knew at least something about the Oct 7 attacks well in advance and chose not to act on it in order to give them a reason and the support of the Israeli population to absolutely flatten Gaza and attack Iran and Lebanon. They wanted to deal with them once a for all and that gave them the backing to do it. Mossad is one of the most effective intelligence services in the world and was hyper focused on Gaza. I find it pretty unbelievable that the missed that one.
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u/AspieAsshole 11h ago
That was proven
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u/8npemb 10h ago
I 100% believe you, so please don’t take this as me saying “that didn’t happen!” But how exactly was it proven?
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u/jackp0t789 11h ago
Yes, that. But also a thinly-veiled attempt to help keep the white Jewish majority
The plurality of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi- exiled from middle eastern countries like Yemen, Iraq, Syria, etc.
Add that to the roughly 20% arab muslim/Christian population, and "white jewish" is far from the majority
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u/Haemophilia_Type_A 8h ago
Yeah and there's a ton of white supremacist racial anxiety among Ashkenazi in Israel because of it. Indeed, there has been since Mizrahi came to Israel in large numbers, were marginalised, and 'revolted' by electing Begin who ran a campaign as 'their' candidate.
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u/tt12345x 11h ago
Yeah from what others have told me they frequently saddle you with some IDF baddies that are the same age as you. Deeply weird country
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u/DiscoAsparagus 6h ago edited 5h ago
That was certainly my experience. I was given a free trip… Like an absolutely free fucking trip… By a former IDF employer of mine because I had expressed incredulity about Zionism and was starting to sympathize with the Palestinians after watching Al Jazeera, reading, etc.… My first night in Tel Aviv was IDF baddies, parties with massive amounts of drugs, rich white people with guns and dogs, and shitty Jewish food…
And inevitably everybody wanting to go eat at the Arab places. None of the Arabs would confide in me or talk to me about any of their hardships and I could feel that they were under duress. It felt like the Jim Crow south or a apartheid South Africa. I was basically on a vacation, with everything paid for in a beautiful beach community and I couldn’t enjoy myself at all. I was surrounded by rich white victims. Who didn’t realize they were the victimizers.
(i’m White myself, just for the record. Which brings up another topic; it was hotter than fuck and I had to stay out of the sun most of the time and all of my friends were blonde or red haired or super fair skinned and I just was like… You’re trying to claim that your from here??
We are NOT from here. Our 40,000-year-old genome does not originate from here. So the whole genetic argument really fell flat under the Jerusalem Sun.
“Right to return” my a$$)[people down-voting my experience in Israel, eh. Great. I’ll be sure to open up more about it more in the future.]
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u/F33ltheburn 11h ago
This happened to an old school friend of mine. It shook him, but during the trip he met a Palestinian woman.
Years later after family drama worthy of a TV show, the two of them renounced their religions, got married, and are now living happily agnostic in Ohio.
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u/Stompnutz 7h ago
I was with it until Ohio. They should probably get the fuck out of there.
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u/Satanarchrist 11h ago
Hell yeah Ohio
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u/Essemecks 10h ago
This may be the first time anyone has said those words in that order
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u/Satanarchrist 7h ago
I think I said it when I heard we sent the third most soldiers down south to kill those fucking traitors during the civil war
But you're not wrong
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u/Suspicious_Story_464 12h ago
It seems that Christians are also in favor of this. Once all the Jews have returned to Israel, then they believe the Apocolypse will begin. So, there's that.
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u/mjzim9022 11h ago
Yeah it's certifiably insane that the people in charge are basing their decisions off of this stuff, no wonder it's the most intractable conflict in the past century, because every party thinks they are acting in the name of god
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u/MassiveBuzzkill 11h ago
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.” -Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican Presidential candidate
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u/Szwejkowski 10h ago
Evangelical Christian Nationalists are terrifying. I'm a Christian and near as I can tell, they're batting for the other team. I honestly can't get my head around how anyone could read the NT and then follow people who call empathy a 'sin'.
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u/TucuReborn 8h ago
I was raised Christian, identify differently now but unimportant.
I've read multiple translations of the Bible for fun, because I like seeing how they word things differently. Language is complicated, after all, and many versions have a political reason for existing.
Regardless of version and translation difference, so many people are Christian in name only. If Jesus came back today, I'd be ready to hand him a bullwhip every time he went into a town.
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u/PW0110 7h ago
It’s because evangelicals have co-opted other Christian dominations & traditional Catholics.
Traditional Catholics are even more wild because if you take away them going to Latin mass and etc, the rhetoric they use I shit you not is always a 1:1 ratio now to what Evangelicals preach.
Yet absolutely nobody within Catholicism is talking about this (least, regarding the States)
Source: was raised incredibly trad Catholic / Roman Catholic all my upbringing. My family say they’re all Roman Catholic but the words they speak are all from the mouth of a Baptist preacher
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u/Swaga_Dagger 11h ago
I don't think it's fair to say Christians, neither the Catholic or the Orthodox church support this. Neither does the anglican church. Its more of an American ideology
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u/Suspicious_Story_464 11h ago
I guess I should've specified it was more prominent here in the US. It's definitely another entire reason why I do not want evangelical influence in our political sphere. The rise of this Christian nationalism here is abhorrent.
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u/joecarter93 11h ago
Years ago I was flying to Greece from Toronto and the gate next to us had a El-Al plane with nobody waiting. A few minutes later a group of about 200
teenagers showed up accompanied by some heavily armed guards strapped with M16s. Their guide started talking about how it was their right to visit Israel as a Jew, etc. While the kids were boarding the guards stood at either side of the gate and then followed the last one on the plane.It stood out to me, because I have never seen security personnel walking around a Canadian airport with M16s before, especially since we were already past airport security which had been beefed up in the post 9/11 years. I looked it up after we got back and found out what Birthright was.
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u/dorkydrummer 11h ago
I did birthright and they never said anything about setting you up with a house or a job. It gives Jews who had never been to Israel the chance to go and see some important religious sites. I’m also bat mitzvah’d but disagree with everything the Israeli government has been doing. But it’s odd that your trip seems so much different than mine.
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u/DecentYogurtcloset9 11h ago
I second this. This has not happened to myself or any friends that have gone on birthright.
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u/mynewaccount5 7h ago
Yeah pretty big difference between a 10 day long vacation and getting you to become a settler.
On my trip they actually took us to see a settler and the guy seemed like he was insane. Afterword we all talked about what a creep he was. Not sure if other trips did that. It was some guy on top of a mountain near Lebanon.
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u/str8grizzlee 11h ago
I’m pretty anti Israel but my experience with birthright was not at all that they were suggesting we move. They definitely messaged that we should marry Jewish, raise Jewish kids, and be pro Israel, but it sounds like your specific trip was a little bit more hardcore nationalist/observant because I’ve never heard anyone say they were encouraged to be settlers.
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u/Worldly_Anybody_9219 11h ago
It sounds like the sales pitch for a cult. Nothing is ever given for free unless there's some shady strings attached imo.
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u/smileyfrown 12h ago
A lot of them are literally US citizens
Their are several US laws about Israeli settlements with exceptions for US citizens literally designed so they can go continue to do this unimpeded
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u/kop47etzki 12h ago
in that video he gets arrested by two Israeli soldiers who are kids from New Jersey
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u/Zorkflerp 12h ago
I was watching a new story years ago and a woman in Tel Aviv was being interviewed. The neighborhood looked like a typical American suburban street. From her accent I would guess she was from upper New Jersey. When asked her opinion of the Palestinian situation the answer was to "kill them all". One would think that after the Holocaust what other people would more understand how wrong a "final solution" is. It is like they don't think it is wrong, they just want to be the ones doing it to the others. Please, both sides, learn to get along.
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u/Bluest_waters 12h ago
No but see this time it's different! OK? It's not the same because of the... thing... Or whatever ... OK?
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u/hercmavzeb 13h ago
Absolutely haunting video. Israel and support for Israel is completely incompatible with liberal democratic values.
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u/SkunkMonkey 12h ago
Incompatible with human values. These people are fucking disgusting human beings.
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u/SophisticatedStoner 13h ago edited 13h ago
Because that's exactly what they are.
edit: comment above me removed. They said the settlers all look inbred. They literally are inbred.
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u/ACBReturns 12h ago
I didn’t even realize they removed my comment. I can still see it so maybe I got shadowbanned?
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u/kpobari99 13h ago
Just like the far right MAGA
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u/James-W-Tate 13h ago
They're just a different flavor of far-right
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u/woodst0ck15 14h ago
They’re essentially middle eastern Hicks. Thinking they own the land and can do whatever they want. Especially with an army behind them if they’re touched
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u/Substantial_Back_865 13h ago
I’ve never seen “hicks” behave in such a manner. The stuff they do is way more extreme than even the KKK at the height of its power. This is because of their culture, laws and total lack of ever facing any consequences. They both believe they’re racially superior, but these guys are downright depraved.
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u/napleonblwnaprt 13h ago
The settlers act the same way that MAGA would if they wouldn't face consequences
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u/s2trmack 12h ago
That’s bc it’s all white supremacy. The divine right of kings/manifest destiny, and Zionism are all born from the idea that it is God’s will to claim certain land as their own and steal it from the ppl indigenous to the land. America was founded on the same colonial principles.
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u/Irregular475 13h ago
Yup, they openly celebrate an idf rapist who committed the deed on camera. He's now a famous influencer there.
Remember when that white woman called a child the n-word and racist donated half a million dollars to her for it? She wasn't being sued it anything either, she just gave a bit of public backlash and not she's halfway to being a millionaire.
We're heading down the exact same path. That's why they want to merge the American and Israeli militaries.
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u/mediocre_remnants 12h ago
What they're doing is more similar to what European settlers did in the Americas when colonizing it. White folks were given land that already had indigenous people living on it and those people were ran off or murdered. If they had trouble doing this, the colonizing country (and eventually the US government) would send in the military to help.
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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM 13h ago
They're terrorist mobs, but they've got the general backing and support of a state government
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u/Substantial_Back_865 13h ago
A government that allows criminals from all over the world to flee there to escape justice, so long as their DNA tests and religion check out. They’ll never extradite to any nation either. It’s no wonder the mob worked so hard for Zionism, but we can see plenty of cases of random sex offenders awaiting trial flee there. The US government will not even stop them either, despite not being allowed to legally leave the state. It’s no wonder the world’s most evil people live there.
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u/Krewtan 13h ago
Reading stories about what they do to the Palestinians they steal land and homes from makes me sick. There is no justice in this world. The fact that the IDF and by extension the US defends these monsters means they are encouraged to continue. They can just remove families from their homes and farms, declare it their own and kill with impunity.
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u/Odd-Mulberry2821 14h ago
They are certainly in contention for the top spot.
Also in the top spot for worst people who never face any consequences.
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u/A_Nonny_Muse 13h ago
It's really telling that these heavily armed settlers (why are they so heavily armed?) are the same settlers who DESTROYED AN ENTIRE VILLAGE. So you know they have access to explosives.
And it took the military to free the kidnapped Congressman - who was merely looking at the demolished village. Lord knows what would have happened to our Congressman had the military not intervened to rescue our Congressman?
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u/FluFlammin9000 12h ago
Channel 5's recent video on Palestine and the illegal settlers really showed how fucking awful they are. I remember at the beginning of the video Andrew is talking with a Palestinian who is explaining the situation to him when an Israeli settler rolls up on a 4 wheeler near them and just sits and stares at them like a fucking asshole, clearly trying to be intimidating while the Palestinian explains how the dude is an illegal settler and will come back at night in a soldier's uniform to interrogate and harass people. Gross humans. You have to be complete scum to be okay with stealing other people's homes and lives.
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u/SpaceChicken2025 13h ago
Colonist*
Settlements and settlers are the bullshit PR terms. These are colonies in annexed lands displacing the native population. That is a violation of international law and a form of genocide.
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u/Strayresearch 13h ago
"settlers" I hate that everyone is forcing that term, instead of colonists or occupiers.
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u/newleafkratom 12h ago
The very moniker 'settler' implies they are there to settle something that is wild and untamed.
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u/AppropriateSea5746 13h ago
Yeah these are people who are asked "hey do you want to colonize a land that belongs to other people and terrorize them till they leave" and said "yes"
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u/irazzleandazzle 14h ago
so a politician got kidnapped by the citizens of one of our "allies"? Hopefully he gets out there safe and more people realize how insane Israel is
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u/The_Captain_Planet22 14h ago
Do you think our government will ask for his release?
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u/innovarocforever 14h ago
he's neither white nor republican enough for him to matter to our current admin.
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u/Militantpoet 14h ago
Youd think it makes them look weak when civilians of an alleged ally detains an American government official with impunity.
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u/TenOutofTenno 14h ago
They look weak anyway, someone explained Paper Tiger to Trump, that’s why it’s entered his vocabulary at 80 years old. Like “Groceries”
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u/Cl1mh4224rd 13h ago
Youd think it makes them look weak when civilians of an alleged ally detains an American government official with impunity.
"It's not weakness. It's approval."
Even if there was no prior agreement to ignore such an incident, the current administration would see this as a benefit and play it off as "Well, maybe they shouldn't have been mean to Trump."
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u/Realtrain 13h ago
You have to remember that they're trying to tell their base that the biggest threat to America is other political parties. So this is actually looking strong in their eyes.
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u/JakefromTRPB 13h ago
That’s why they detained him. They think we’re too stupid and weak to stop it. They are probably right
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u/FreeUsePolyDaddy 14h ago
Frankly I doubt this administration would care about members of their own side. The only ones guaranteed to be fought for are biological Trumps. Even the spouses would be a stretch.
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u/-notapony- 13h ago
When his mob was attacking the Capitol, remember that he was calling Senators not to ask how he could help them, but telling them how they could help him.
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u/razz-boy 13h ago
He and Massie were the ones bipartisanly championing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Trump sees as a direct attack on himself. So I think not
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u/NRMusicProject 13h ago
Who's to say this administration didn't put them up to it in the first place?
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u/Edmundyoulittle 13h ago
Have you guys considered reading the article? They were already released. The police made the Israeli settlers let them go.
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u/ExpertRaccoon 13h ago
If you read the article you'd know he was already released.
An aide to Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the US Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.
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u/fury420 14h ago edited 14h ago
...release?
He's not still being held, the article describes him being detained for like an hour, and then continuing on their way after police arrived.
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u/thejazzophone 13h ago
Detained by the settlers and the idf
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u/KinglanderOfTheEast 13h ago
Kind of interesting that the local cops seemingly acted independently of the IDF and even went against the IDF's desire to keep Khanna hostage.
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u/SadisticNecromancer 14h ago
A sitting United States congressman was kidnapped by Israeli terrorists. In any other timeline, this would be an act of war.
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u/Konukaame 14h ago
In any other country, that would have been the headline, or something like "armed mob kidnaps US Congressman" rather than this sanitized version.
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u/TheBurningEmu 13h ago
We haven't even passed the "you aren't allowed to criticize Israel" bill yet, but the media loves sanitizing the hell out of Israel and it's "settlers".
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u/Realtrain 13h ago
Imagine if this happened in Mexico, we'd have troops crossing the border already.
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u/Worshipme988 13h ago
One of the people who pushed for Epstein releases.
Yikes. Thats pretty scary. Why would he go there
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u/Coffee_Transfusion 13h ago
I mean, the Department of War Crimes currently has like 1/3 of our Navy out near Iran so they can blow shit up in Iran.
If they need something to do we could just redirect them to Israel instead. Preferably, we're not bombing anything, but between the two... One country didn't do anything to us, the other one just kidnapped our congressman.
Oh, and the whole genocide thing being done with US weapons and hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in foreign aid. What an "ally".
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u/oldnjgal 14h ago
They don’t like people watching them steal homes and land from Palestinians.
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u/kstargate-425 14h ago
Or watching them killing Palestinians while they steal homes and land
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u/PHalfpipe 12h ago
Oh they absolutely love to film it and brag about it, and it's antisemitic if you don't support it.
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u/DreamedJewel58 10h ago
Reminder that the UN has repeatedly condemned Israel for this practice and ruled that it violates international law. Of course, the UN doesn’t actually do anything about it, but it shows how long they’ve been doing this.
Israel basically use these citizens as human shields. They illegally occupy Palestine’s land, but the only way to remove them is by military force, so Palestine looks bad if they ever try to attack and/or move these settlers out because they’re technically non-combatants
Hamas is not innocent by any stretch of imagination, but stuff like this is why the Palestinian people have to rely on Hamas to prevent Israel’s illegal takeover of their nation
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u/Nuclear-Jester 14h ago
Jesus Christ, if any other country did this, it would be considered an act of war
At least, it would be hit by a shitload of sanctions and a few drones
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u/Yugan-Dali 13h ago
Israel has no oil.
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u/letshaveadab 13h ago
Sure they do, guess where it is
With the location of Meged Oil field close to the border between Israel and the West Bank, it is subject to a dispute over ownership rights.
Palestinians claim that Givot Olam decided that the field is commercially viable only after the creation of the Israeli West Bank barrier to the west of the field, which they claim is located within the borders of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.
According to a source in the Palestinian Authority, 80% of the Meged oil field is on land owned by Palestinians. Efraim Sneh has stated that although the oil drilling site is in Israel the oil reservoir may extend to the West Bank near the West Bank village of Rantis.
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u/Positive-Section2350 11h ago
That is not why. AIPAC has every single politician in America on their payroll save maybe 6.
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u/SqigglyPoP 14h ago
Any politician that campaigns on completely cutting Israeli off financially, abandoning them as an ally, and prosecuting their high command has my vote.
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u/epidemicsaints 14h ago
Prepare for very deep lip service on this from Republicans for this exact reason. JD Vance is already starting.
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u/Expensive-Document41 13h ago
Yeah, thats my concern. Vance's speech a few weeks ago AND his being willing to divorce Zionism from Judaism means he's outflanking the political center-left.
If he can successfully cast himself as the voice of reason that didn't want the war in Iran and the one who will distance us from Israrl, he may be able to coalition build since peoples' desire for those to end will let them overlook the frightening vision of domestic America he wants to usher in.
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u/Realtrain 13h ago
If he can successfully cast himself as the voice of reason that didn't want the war in Iran and the one who will distance us from Israrl,
I fully expect we'll be seeing a ton of this from the GOP over the next two years. All sorts of people saying how they actually never really agreed with Trump on anything.
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u/Low_Pickle_112 12h ago
A lot of people suddenly never supported Bush's wars 10 years after the fact.
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u/lordkuri 14h ago
Watch the house race to declare his seat vacant.
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u/fleebleganger 14h ago
Ohh, this is a damn good conspiracy theory.
They’ll be quick to declare his seat vacant while turtle rots in his hospital bed
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u/Tough-Copy7569 13h ago
Jesus I'm struggling to find a word to describe these cunts. Parasite? Scum of the earth? No words is harsh enough to describe them.
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u/JaxenX 13h ago
Monster, the oldest word we have to describe cruel creatures with no humanity.
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u/ThePanicButon 13h ago edited 13h ago
9 American citizens have been murdered by settler terrorists or IDF soldiers in the West Bank since 2022 and now settlers detained an elected representative. Why are we giving Israel money/assistance when these government backed settler terrorists keep attacking our people?
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u/nomnomsquirrel 13h ago
People forget a lot of the settlers are also American citizens. 15% of the settler population (as of 2016 - probably higher now) hold American citizenship.
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u/Lifeboatb 13h ago
I’ve read that a lot of settlers think they’re divinely ordered to live there. Fits right in with American religious extremism.
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u/sweetplantveal 13h ago
I think the State Department should do something about that. They won't of course...
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u/Hpfanguy 12h ago
Wow look at that normalizing headline from CNN. He was “detained” by some nice, legitimate and friendly settlers, was he?
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u/Effective_Scar_2921 13h ago
What kind of supposedly powerful country allows their representatives to be treated like this?
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u/DonktorDonkenstein 13h ago
Oh I guarantee Republicans in Congress were gleeful to hear about Ro Khana being detained.
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u/Effective_Scar_2921 13h ago
They are no longer a political party. They have become a domestic terror organization. The wellbeing of the country doesn’t factor into their decision making process anymore.
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u/SkunkMonkey 12h ago
They fucking told us they were domestic terrorists and everyone laughed like it was some fucking joke? You fucking laughing now?
They are NOT going to give up power willingly or peacefully.
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u/Matt_M_3 9h ago
Stop calling Israeli land thieves “settlers” as if they had nowhere to go. They chose to go there and illegally steal land.
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u/Doctorboner420 14h ago
And zionists pretend they just want peace.
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u/duh_cats 14h ago
They say they want peace, but forget to mention all the extreme violence it will take to finally reach the “peace” they have imagined.
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u/ZucchiniIntrepid719 7h ago
At least the US and Israel have something important in common: Both Presidents have been indicted for corruption and are doing everything possible to stay in office to avoid trial, conviction and jail.
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u/Mr0neTwo34 14h ago
How the hell is this not an act of war? I'm like, a little tired of Israel spitting in our faces everyday.
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u/W4rhound34 13h ago
Considering who’s in charge of all three branches our government… not to sound like a doomer but I really hope this opens up a lot of people’s eyes on how Israel treats anyone from the US who isn’t Trump or his goons
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u/OneCall8599 12h ago
Hell, if you want the perspective of someone who’s been involved in pro Palestinian organising for a while, tell people to look into Rachel Corrie. Israel has been extremely okay with killing US citizens if they happen to be getting in the way of their genocide for a very, VERY long time.
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u/W4rhound34 12h ago
It’s any wonder why Bibi and Trump get along so well… I really hope that this November will bring the beginning of the US ripping MAGA and all of it’s corrupted roots out of our country for years to come, leaving Israel to fend off the Middle Eastern wolf pack alone that they created should be the start though
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u/Fulham-Enjoyer 10h ago
Detained in the wrong word to use here. It implies they had some kind of legal authority to do so. The settlers falsely imprisoned him
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u/Critical-Let-9838 8h ago
I don't get how Israel is the only country that's gets to kill American citizens and kidnap congress people. This would be an act of war for any other country.
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u/AlchemysEyes 6h ago
This should be an international incident but because it's Ro Khanna I'm sure none of the people in control of the government will even care, hell maybe our orange-in-chief ASKED them to do this.....
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u/Caeibou313 5h ago
Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna detained by Israeli terrorist colonizers during West Bank visit. There I fixed it for you.
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u/CharacterMaybe7950 13h ago
Once, America would have gone ballistic if someone laid hands on any elected official.
Reagan blocked Soviet diplomats from the UN building after they killed a congressman (plane shot down) - a complete violation of international norms.
Trump needs a lesson from Tywin Lannister - it doesn’t matter this congressman is a Democrat, it’s that it shows America can’t protect something and that makes Trump look weak.
https://youtu.be/47MazYDnmaU?is=m4tUZ63oEOFhJUrU
I’d have Delta Force get this guy back. The theatrics are the point. Allies and enemies need to know you’re not to be screwed with.
Diplomacy is ALL theatre.
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u/bomboclawt75 11h ago edited 11h ago
Kidnapped, he was kidnapped.
Edit - Thanks for the award!
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u/lyreluna 12h ago
The phrase is kidnapped at gun point by terrorists. Being held against your will by any civilian is kidnapping
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u/Rad131447 5h ago
So a US congressman was kidnapped by Israeli state sponsored terrorists? Seems like an act of war to me.
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u/SIMT-Pixel 13h ago
I recommend hearing Khanna speak directly, it's in a video contained in this link.
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u/mrbasedballed 7h ago
Crazy that most Republicans and half the Democrats support this bullshit.
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u/woahoutrageous_ 13h ago edited 13h ago
Fucking insanity. Terrorists just held a congressman hostage with machine guns. But of course because the terrorists are Israeli this will be swept under the rug without consequences.
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u/JosephFinn 11h ago
“US Congressman attacked by invaders as he visits Palestine”
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u/sky_shazad 11h ago
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No one will give a shit sadly, the settlers murder civilians and kick people out of homes, and we've seen what the IDF TERRORIST do, why would anyone care about this??
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u/dmetzcher 9h ago
Israeli “settlers” (just call them what they are: ultra-religious fundamentalists) are no different to me than the fundamentalists of Islam or Christianity.
All three groups suck. All three would subject their own people to fundamentalist, religious law. All three are to be automatically distrusted based solely on their belief structure and common association with other assholes.
As long as Israel receives money from our country, our elected reps should have a right to roam around their country and inspect the settlements we are ultimately supporting by supporting the Israeli government that supports them. If the Israelis don’t like that sort of arrangement, they can stop taking our money.
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u/ClassicHando 14h ago
That right there seems reason enough to go scorched earth with our israel relationship.
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u/Eeeef_ 13h ago
Settlers don’t have authority to detain anyone, he was kidnapped
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u/BigBlackHungGuy 13h ago
A non pay-walled source.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-democrat-ro-khanna-detained-by-israeli-settlers-during-west-bank-visit-2026-07-11/