Three soldiers pounce on a shepherd sitting outside his sheep pen. They knock him over and then one of them shoots him to death at point-blank range. Fakher Jaber, a father of four, was suspected of involvement in an incident that probably never happened

On the last day of his life, two and a half weeks ago, the shepherd and his wife got up at 5:30 A.M., as usual, and immediately went out together to milk the ewes. With their flock of 120 sheep, their work is never done. Maryam recalls now that they didn’t manage to eat breakfast before the daily Ramadan fast began. After about two hours they finished milking. Fakher took the sheep out to graze and she began to make cheese from the milk, which they sell in Nablus to help make their living.

After he returned the sheep to their pen, Fakher sat down near it, removed the Quran from his pocket and began to read from it. Maryam finished making dinner. She remembers that everything was normal and relatively peaceful that afternoon, in this beleaguered community, living under the constant threat of invasions by settlers. Suddenly Maryam heard shouting. She rushed outside and saw three Israelis in uniform yelling at and wrestling with her husband. One of the men was masked, which led her to believe that they were settlers – of the type that frequently assault the shepherding communities, graze their livestock on the residents’ lands and water their flocks from their wells.

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    How about actually learning history instead of spouting bullshit. Israel only had to start taking action, after the constant terrorist attacks out of Gaza.

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      Lmao.

      A. Yep I’ve read the history.

      B. If they only took action against Gaza after terrorist attacks then why were they in Gaza in the first place?

      They blockaded Gaza because they didn’t like the resistance movement actually winning the elections. Instead of trying to work with them they declared war right away. And yes that’s what a blockade is, an act of war. Israel has been at war with Gaza for nearly 20 years by that action alone. More if you count the illegal occupation before.

      They don’t get a pass just for being Israel.

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        Ah yes, revisionist history at its finest. Those are lovely stories you’re inventing there.

        Actual facts: Israel agrees to give Gaza independence, pulling out all Jews living there, regardless for how long. Hamas comes into power, declaring their mission to wipe Israel off the map and starts sending terrorist after terrorist into Israel. A blockade is established to limit weapons getting into Gaza.

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          Lmao. I don’t know how young you are, but I’m not too young to have followed the reports.

          After the takeover, Israel sealed its border crossings with Gaza, on the grounds that the Fatah forces had fled and were no longer providing security on the other side. Israel, like the United States and the European Union, lists Hamas as a terrorist group and will not deal with it.

          Israel also decided to press Hamas by admitting to Gaza only the minimum amount of goods required to avert a hunger or health crisis among its 1.5 million people, and prohibiting most exports. Israel contends that its approach is working.

          And the “takeover” they refer to is Hamas and the Palestinian people enforcing the election result. I’m not the one doing revisionist history here. And that’s generally Israel’s problem. The West isn’t buying their bullshit anymore. Millennials actually don’t like colonialism, as opposed to previous generations that were forced to give it up.

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            See, you can’t even figure out that they were talking about the border crossing with Israel in that article. The naval blockade (which is actually what people mean when they say blockade) happened later.

            The problem with millennials is that they’re falling for too much fake information because it lines up with what they think is their cause. After that they laugh in their ignorance because they think Republicans are the only ones falling for it.

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              I love how you want to tell me what I mean by blockade. They cut it off to the point they decided how much food the people in Gaza could eat. All for the crime of electing their own government.

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                Oh I’m sorry, your definition of blockade isn’t a blockade as much as the US border is one.

                You also ignored the fact that Hamas was recognized as a terrorist organization back then, too.

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                  :the isolation by a warring nation of an enemy area (such as a harbor) by troops or warships to prevent passage of persons or supplies broadly

                  :a restrictive measure designed to obstruct the commerce and communications of an unfriendly nation.

                  The definition.

                  And do you really think causing a humanitarian crisis was going to hurt Hamas? You don’t fight an idea by hurting people. You fight it by backing off and letting the people there see the radical nature. Otherwise you’re just making your own resistance to fight forever.

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                    That definition has nothing to do with closing a country border crossing which is what the article you linked talked about. Seriously, if you’re going to quote me the dictionary, at least know what you’re talking about.

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      Everyone knows that the whole reason for the American Civil War was the Fort Sumter attack. That was when the timeline started, there were no deeper reasons, no history for decades prior. Anyone bringing up things like slavery are just doing it to dilute the crime of the Fort Sumter attack. If only the Confederates had not attacked Fort Sumter, the whole Civil War thing would never have happened.

      Also, nobody needs a memory longer than a goldfish’s.