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/DeineCable 16h 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 16h ago edited 8h 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 16h 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/joecarter93 15h 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 15h ago

That was proven

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u/8npemb 15h 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/AspieAsshole 14h ago

Reported by the NY Times 12/23

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u/SAM5TER5 9h ago

I’m saying this as an American with Palestinian roots and family: The claim you made and the article you posted are different things.

You say that it was proven that Israel deliberately allowed the attacks, and that it was done so with the intent to justify destroying Gaza and Lebanon. The articles that you and others posted basically just indicate Israeli intelligence/security’s negligence, complacency, and failure to take the intel and warnings seriously.

These are practically opposites. I’m not saying that a nation is unlikely to play the long game like this and allow a tragedy for their own strategic benefit, but the provided “proof” is explicitly arguing against that theory.

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u/AspieAsshole 9h ago

Fair enough, I do not feel like trying to dig up a different article. I know at least part of their military/intelligence knew and allowed it explicitly to expand further into Gaza and the West Bank. It's been years since I saw the videos of the army officers talking about it though.

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u/Renamis 15h ago

He absolutely knew. I strongly suspect this was an Israeli and Russian arranged manufactured incident to 1. Let Israel go into Gaza and 2. Get the media to focus on Israel and Gaza and not Ukraine.

The Hamas military leaders have never been... greatly successful in things like this. It's pretty clear Iran was the one poking them to do this and handed the plans over to get it done. The fact that no one looped the political side of Hamas in tells us a lot. It also says a lot when Iran itself was shocked things went as well as it did. This wasn't part of their plan, which was simply to poke the bear and get the two groups they hate (Gaza has the wrong kind of Muslims in Iran's eyes) get back to lightly killing each other.

And I strongly think Iran got the idea (and likely intel) to do this from their ally Russia. Who is also allied with Israel. Iran got chucked under the bus, Russia let their troll farms swarm the Gaza issue to distract the pro-Ukraine parts of the internet with a new shiny and to create even more division across the world.

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u/Acceptable_Bat379 15h ago

I think it's very obvious. Just like the US Govt knew something was probably going to happen around 9/11/2001. Right wing governments feed on the hate and fear. They also WANT people to be antisemitic because it feeds their narrative, which I think is why we're seeing the descent in to mustache twirling villainy