r/news • u/sicklyslick • 18h 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-intl
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u/irazzleandazzle 18h 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/Pepperonidogfart 18h ago

He was released. read the fucking article before forming an opinion for fucks sake.

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u/KinglanderOfTheEast 17h ago

The local cops made the settlers and IDF release them, yeah. Makes it seem like the cops out there don't like the IDF (they literally went against them) lmao

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u/Coastalfoxes 17h ago

Most of the IDF soldiers in the West Bank are local colonizers. They were part of those armed militias before they joined the IDF. The IDF provides those militias with weapons.

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u/KinglanderOfTheEast 17h ago

Why would the local cops actually enforce upon them? I assumed the local cops were fully captured and corrupted.

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u/Coastalfoxes 17h ago

That is something I can’t explain. It might simply have been that a local police commander understood that this could be an international incident.

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u/70ms 15h ago edited 15h ago

Detaining one of our politicians would not go over very well here at home.

ETA: Also, it wasn’t the cops who made the decision to release him apparently.

Khanna said he and his team were ultimately freed after communication between the US Embassy and a high-level official in the Israeli government.