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autotldr t1_ja3p7af wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)


> RIYADH: Saudi artist Mohammed Al-Faraj was one of the 80 artists chosen by Hayy Jameel to create a 25-meter art installation in Jeddah.

> Al-Faraj invited two Saudi female artists, Nada Al-Ali and Omaima Al-Mazroui, as well as 60 other members of the community, adults and children, to work as co-authors in creating the artwork.

> In the first week of the project, adults and children worked on the canvas, and in the second week, the three Saudi artists gave it its final touches.


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yoyo456 OP t1_ja3osf0 wrote

>The brothers were residents of the Har Bracha settlement

Read: living in the wrong area as a Jew is justification for your murder. Yes, I know the settlements are illegal, but where has anyone decided the punishment on the individual is death?

How would the world feel if every time a Palestinian illegally built a structure, Israel kills them? Seems pretty disproportionate, doesn't it?

>had just completed his service in the Israeli Navy

Read: is now a civilian and served in a relatively low-conflict unit when it comes to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

>65 Palestinians murdered in Israeli terror shootings in West Bank since the beginning of the year.

And how many were militants actively shooting at soldiers? A vast majority of them.

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SCZ- t1_ja3onjb wrote

So why didn't Gaza turn into a Middle Eastern Singapore but to a hellhole ruled by murderous terrorist group (which the Gazans elected themselves) even though Israel has lifted it's military occupation and forcefully uprooted every single Jew that lived in the Gaza Strip?

This is not about land, it's about ideology. The Palestinians even consider Tel Aviv a settlement, you simply cannot negotiate when the other side doesn't want anything less than a complete destruction of the other side.

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No-Economics4128 t1_ja3oczh wrote

It is not even communist system at this point. It is some weird feudal lord, isolationist, leader worshipping regime. The communists are authoritarian, but there is some kind of check and balance between the politburo (there are usually 4 positions, and each of those guys try to undermine the other 3). This is a 30 something years old assholes doing whatever he feel like doing and no one oppose it.

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Homely_Corsican t1_ja3nj2h wrote

This is a problem created and perpetuated by the leadership on both sides, with a little help from the British of course. The extremism is on both sides as is the fault, and horrible acts like this will always occur as long as the occupation holds.

Edit: Sorry I questioned your worldview, downvoters.

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OneRougeRogue t1_ja3mb2x wrote

Pretty weak "celebration"... Two of the three pictures don't even have anybody standing near the candy bowls. The third one just has a guy slipping a handwritten sign into the shot.

Edit; the three pictures in the link were as described above so I thought the maybe people were exaggerating the Palestinian response to these murders. But people below posted links of much bigger celebrations.

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kiraqueen11 t1_ja3lg5y wrote

I understand why you have that perception, given you most likely have formed it by interacting with people like me, so I'll give you some context:

There's a small subsection of young and politically aware Indians who have a massive chip on their shoulder because of our colonial past and that sometimes translates to anti-west sentiments, mainly skepticism and anger over hypocritical behaviour.

That said, we are an incredibly small minority that still has a lot of appreceation for western or western derived values (appreciation for liberal democracy, free trade, individualism etc.). There's a lot of things that we admire America for (I'd wager we have a more positive opinion of the US compared to Europeans). We just want to put our country's interests first, that sometimes includes supporting morally questionable stances when it comes to geopolitics.

In summary, while there is an element of truth to what you think, it's a lot more complicated than just that.

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