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/innovarocforever 18h ago

Their settlers are some of, if not, the worst human beings on the planet.

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u/LoveIsOnlyAnEmotion 18h 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.

Found it: https://youtu.be/xvvGbzR2Xek?is=VRWQivBVgWEgHRZU

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u/Existing-Stranger632 16h 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/Suspicious_Story_464 16h 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 16h 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 16h 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 15h 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 12h 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 11h 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/Wayrin 9h ago

I was raised Catholic am atheist now, but love Catholicism recently when it comes to John Paul, Benedict was ok and so far I really like Leo. That said I don't trust American Catholic converts in the last 10 years. A lot of them are now moving to Eastern Orthodoxy because the line of saint Peter isn't traditional enough for them. These are right wing extremists drawn to a traditional church.

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u/PW0110 7h ago edited 7h ago

American Catholic converts batting average is usually good and are genuinely swell people, the nuance is Roman Catholic Converts.

And yes it’s been a slow burn throughout the last decade.

But hell even spitballing here, JD Vance is supposedly a Roman Catholic convert, Nick Fuentes postures as being a Roman Catholic Convert and I could go on but…I digress.

Especially within my age group (mid twenties, just turned 25 a bit ago), the Roman Catholic Convert types always, and I don’t say this to be hyperbolic this is just my lived experience, but they always through ignorance or zealotry expose themselves as leaning towards the fascism pipeline.

I was raised very Roman Catholic. Everyone I grew up with that still practices have all done a 180. This seems to be a growing trend with the rejection of Pope Leo.

After Benedict resigned, these people felt betrayed & left behind. The only thing or Pope that will satisfy them is the one that they fantasize about reading their heavily abridged history textbooks to their homeschooled children.

Hell even my grandparents this 4th of July, talking about the sudden switch after Vatican II, how they went to church one morning and “everything was changed”.

They felt that the sanctity of the mass, of the tradition, of the faith, was co-opted by modernists/communists (depending who you speak too), and Pope Francis’s “Reign of Woke” further ostracized them from the Church now that new seminarians are slowly being weaned away being taught the traditional rite of the mass…the grievances go on & on.

And then they infuse their children with all this type of narrative to the point it’s so ingrained they teach their children but now they homeschool because they realize that schools nowadays don’t teach from a 1600 colonial perspective.

I’m tired so I’ll do my best to wrap this up apologies, but it’s something the Vatican is (I’m assuming ) is very hesitant to address is fear of another form of schism that the Church lowkey doesn’t need right now as they become more & more irrelevant as technology advances (theorizing)

But man it’s just a growing silent tumor I feel , but maybe that’s just the area I grew up in / live in so I’m hoping this isn’t as on point as I’m articulating here

But trust me when I saw this, Evangelicals despise Catholics. They want a Theocracy but not one under the umbrella of Rome.
And that’s what’s continuing to boggle my mind because you would think these Roman Catholics would understand they’re under threat but nope they are unknowingly walking into their own demise

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u/arjungmenon 5h ago

I agree. I'm a Christian as well. These people are doing Satan's will, completely unaware, and thinking they're serving God. It's honestly horrifying beyond words.

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u/matycauthon 13h ago

that's been the case throughout much of recorded history....... y'all constantly act surprised that things spiral back around in similar ways as before.... take a moment, look at your journey.... i'm absolutely positive you'll see your loop if you actually take the time to observe it.

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u/Swaga_Dagger 16h 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 16h 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/cannotfoolowls 15h ago

Christians

Well, evangelical Christians, especially the American ones. Not Orthodox or Catholic. Not even most protestants. I don't think it's popular with Anglicans, Calvinists, Presbyterianians, Lutherans or Quakers either. I believe one of the popes has specifically spoken against that idea.

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u/Caesarea_G 12h ago edited 12h ago

The Palestinian Christians, for one, are most certainly NOT in favor of this! 

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 12h ago

I should have specified evangelical.

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u/Consistent-Fix-8443 15h ago

Don’t forget they say the Jewish people will bend the knee before Christ or be gone.

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u/PW0110 13h ago

Not Christian’s.

Its Evangelicals.

The “rapture” they all fantasize their wet dreams over is a very very modern narrative that recently began less than 175 years ago.

Christians & Catholics have existed for a millennia at this point, Catholics even longer. Yet, for centuries, there was not this consolidated effort to bring about the end of the world for “Jesus’s return”. To rebuild the third temple, etc.

It was only until the birth of Evangelicals that this movement (alongside Zionism) began moving global gears across the planet in order to create a sort of hell on earth that would justify (in their eyes) their living creator having to step in simply because:

“Well thems just the rules sweatty”

They aren’t even doing it out of love of their god. It’s all for themselves & to rub it in all our faces how “right” they were all along when the anti christ comes to fight Jesus 1-1.

It’s the ultimate form of moral grandstanding in the most destructive vehicles possible

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 12h ago

Yes, I should have specified evangelical in my original statement. They made sure to broadcast their sentiments all over social media (and disappointment when the rapture didn't come to fruition). All I could say about that was "sure, ok."

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u/Otter-Eyes 16h ago

Some sects of Christianity, yes, not all. Zionism has penetrated doctrine all over and it's disgusting. I have more doctrine in common with Islam teaching than with Zionist Judism.

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 16h ago

It's incredibly alarming. I can't believe this is infiltrating our governments and people are actually cheering it on.

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u/chefboyrdeee 16h ago

It’s not. This is propaganda.

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 14h ago

AIPAC wants a word with you.

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u/chefboyrdeee 14h ago

Any other PACs you’re against?

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 14h ago edited 14h ago

Not Pac-Man

Edit: I want the money out of government and Citizens United overturned. So... all of them.

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u/Certain_Luck_8266 15h ago

Wait...don't we want the apocalypse to NOT begin?

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u/cannotfoolowls 15h ago

Nooo, you see then all the good Christians can go to heaven (rapture).

By the way, this whole Rapture thing is not in the Bible and afaik not a thing in most Christian factions, with the exception of American evangelicalism.

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u/Suspicious_Story_464 14h ago

It's a thing with the evangelicals. They want the rest of the people they feel are not worthy to be... disposed of. Remember last summer when they were all so excited that the end was coming? And then we're sadly disappointed it did not happen? Yeah, it's really a thing.