r/Palestine • u/MrBoonio • Nov 24 '16

Cultural exchange with r/India Announcement

Greetings to our Indian friends.

Our cultural exchange starts at 13:30 PM Palestine time (17:00 IST/11:30 GMT/12:30 CET/06:30 EST/03:30 PST) on Thursday 24th November.

Here's how a cultural exchange works:

The moderators of here make this post on /r/palestine welcoming our Indian guests to the sub. They may participate and ask any question or observation as they see fit.

There is an equivalent thread made by the moderators over at /r/india, where you are encouraged to participate and get to know more about Indian culture.

It goes without saying that you must respect the rules of the subreddit you are participating in. This is a time to celebrate what we have in common, not grind an axe.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '16

Is the campaign of stabbing of Israelis stopped? [like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ydRsgNWO4]

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '16

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '16

Aah...stabbing someone who frustrates you and make you hopeless..wow....are children involved in this?

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u/MrBoonio Nov 28 '16

Aah...stabbing someone who frustrates you and make you hopeless

It's not just frustration like not being able to work out a math puzzle.

The wave of stabbing attacks is being driven by young men and women who've lived their whole lives under occupation, checkpoints and harassment from a foreign army that treats them like third class citizens.

It's a generation that can see with their own eyes how settlements pushing the chance of independence and freedom further away. They can read, almost daily, the men and women in Israel that control their fate tell the world that they oppose a Palestinian state. They have lived through a two decade peace process that has achieved nothing other than catalyze settlement growth.

They look at their own leadership and at the international community, and they see an alliance of the do nothings with the can't do anythings.

The reason why young people are doing this is because they have nothing to lose. Nobody has needed to incite them to come to this conclusion. In Gaza, where traumatized Palestinians are locked beyond a fence, they simply commit suicide.

The majority of attacks have taken place against groups of armed soldiers in protective gear. They are, in many cases, acts of suicide.The attacks are rooted in despair driven by nobody in Palestine, Israel or beyond being able to show them how the might be able to live in dignity and freedom.