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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Out of spite that the ICC is issuing an international arrest warrant for him, Israeli Cabinet Minister Bezalel Smotrich ordered the demolition of the Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin village east of Jerusalem, which the international community has long sought to protect from callous Israeli destruction.

Bedouin Arabs, like the Druze, have been loyal to Israel since 1948

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Map: Khan al-Ahmar

And in Gaza, the IDF continues killing Palestinians two or three at a time every day. The death toll is now 72,822; 20,179 are children; 12,500 are women. Maimed or wounded: 172,707 Palestinians. As posted elsewhere, the nefarious IDF navy intercepted the Sumud humanitarian flotilla bringing food, hygiene products, pesticides, water purifiers, medicines, and mosquito nettings to the suffering Palestinians in Gaza.

Nota Bene: Bedouin Arabs have been loyally serving in the IDF since the creation of Israel, including the storied Desert Reconnaissance Battalion, like the three soldiers you see below. Now these Bedouin Arabs are feeling the Iron Heel of the Israeli right-wing and soon to be ICC-indicted war criminal Bezalel Smotrich.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-20 01:41 AM | Reply

Israeli Exceptionalism.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-20 05:16 AM | Reply

The Nazis did this sort of thing in World War II.

Some of the ruins are now reserved as war memorials (Ftance; Czech Republic).

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-20 08:27 AM | Reply

It seems like Everything the Israelis do has a Nazi Precedent.

Sick -----.

#4 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-05-20 12:24 PM | Reply

"Stuff like this is why neither side is in the right in that conflict."

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-20 01:50 PM | Reply

don't bring a knife (or less) to a gun fight.

why don't these "flotillas" have armed escorts.... a lot of trash talk from various countries and orgs about
Israeli genocide... wheres the beef?

#6 | Posted by South_American at 2026-05-21 10:28 PM | Reply

*** Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir Humiliates Captured Flotilla Samaritans ***

"A video posted by Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on X showing him taunting detained volunteers from a Gaza-bound flotilla kneeling with their hands tied behind their backs and foreheads on the ground sparked international outrage.

"Welcome to Israel" wrote his revolting caption.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni criticized the treatment of the Samaritans, calling it "unacceptable."

"It is intolerable that these protesters, among whom there are many Italian citizens, are subjected to this treatment, which violates human dignity," she said."

"That treatment is monstrous, disgraceful and inhumane," Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said while in Berlin, adding that the Israeli charge d'affaires in Madrid had been summoned."

~snip~

Last year a humanitarian flotilla to Gaza with Greta Thunberg was escorted by NATO warships to fend off the Israelis, but not this year.

Source: Itamar Ben-Gvir is not a good human being

Meanwhile in Gaza, the IDF killed Joud Mohammed al-Duweik (13) by dropping a hand grenade on him, as Israel continues its constant violations of the US-backed Gaza ceasefire deal. Other Palestinians were killed or wounded in Gaza making the death toll 72,810 Muslims; 20,179 have been children.

Below is thirteen-year-old Joud Mohammed al-Duweik who wanted to live too.


#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-22 12:52 AM | Reply

"Stuff like this is why neither side is in the right in that conflict."

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-22 12:53 AM | Reply

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