Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : World Outlook -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (49838)	12/26/2025 11:39:08 AM
From: Les H	Respond to of 50888

IDF Reservist Caught on Video Driving Tractor Over Palestinian Praying on West Bank Road The IDF said that the same reservist opened fire in a Palestinian village earlier Thursday while in civilian clothes, acting 'in severe violation of his authority.' The incidents come amid a wave of near-daily Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank Haaretz Opinion \| The Nakba Didn't End in 1948 In Gaza, East Jerusalem, Jaffa, the Negev and in the villages, fields and refugee camps of the West Bank, the violent treatment of Palestinians by Jewish Israelis continues, with the backing of the army and the state Hanin Majadli, Haaretz, Dec 26, 2025 12:22 am IST Denying the Palestinian Nakba is denying not only the past, but also the present. The denial is not due to a dispute over narrative: Israelis deny the Nakba not because it did or did not happen, but because it is still happening. When the Israeli military uproots hundreds of olive trees in the West Bank "for security reasons," it is a nakba, a catastrophe, not as a metaphor or as a historical memory. And it is not a counterreaction to Palestinian terrorism: The goal is to expand the jurisdiction of a nearby settlement. Nor does it happen because the army "turned into" a settler army: It never stopped serving the policy of Judaizing the area and pushing the Palestinians out of it. more... Haaretz 2 Most of the settlement encroachment in the West Bank has occurred since the Six-Day War.