Should the international community sanction Israel over settler violence in West Bank?

Is there anything wrong with that? Discussions usually involve questions.

You think Bennett is going to be any different?

Yes but it depends on what you mean by doing something wrong. Genocide is quite a biggy and is up there with doing something very wrong. Can't really think of anything worse.

Are you only going to ask questions?

So every single who is not protresting is somehow complicit? Do you apply that logic everytime any government in the world does something wrong?

Of course I know what it means. It means no more genocides against "anyone and everyone"!

It’s really tough now as both populations have become pretty radicalised.

Something like 70% of the Palestinian population supported 7/10 in all its horror Equally, I suspect a majority of Israelis now support expansion.

This situation really needs international involvement and pressure on Israel (as they have the power here).

Everyone should be up in arms about genocide being committed in their own country.

Doing nothing is being part of the problem not part of the solution.

People are giving up then

You used the phrase without even knowing what it referred to?

I know it has been happening for decades but the violence seems to have really ramped up recently. I hope & expect that the Israel government enabling this is something they get punished for in the October elections.

Thank you for educating me on the origins of that phrase. I didn't know that's where it came from. I first heard it from Jewish people while we were on a march to protest the genocide in Gaza.

Israel has some massive long term problems.

The original population was very well educated and mostly liberal. However they then had a demographic problem in that the Arab population was having a lot more children (5 or 6 to 0-2).

The settlers who are mostly younger and not very well educated also have 5-6 children each but, in solving one problem, they have created another, as they are real fundamentalists, no different from Hamas in many ways.

And you have Netanyahu who is happy to try and ‘win’ the war
in order to avoid internal scrutiny. And he is backed by Trump. It is a toxic combination.,

We have to hope that the Israelis and the U.S vote in very different types of government in the near future. If not, I think Israel will lose a lot of the global support it takes for granted. Already polls in the U.S show the majority losing faith in Israel.

Although there has been an acceleration of land theft in the West Bank recently, it is nothing new and has been going on for decades. I think if the protests were going to grow because the general Israeli population opposed them, they would have by now.

What percentage of the entire population of a country have to attend a single protest for it to count in your mind?

Protests often start small and then gather momentum.

Last August there were anti war protests in Israel with hundreds of thousands of protesters taking part.

Just a few hundred protestors then, out of 10 million civilians.

The IDF could stop them but they are professional soldiers and unfortunately are obviously not being instructed to stop them. That is the fault of the Israel government.

There have been many protests against the war in Israel. Such as this one (article dated 26th July 2026)

Israeli police have arrested nine people at a Tel Aviv demonstration decrying settler violence in the occupied West Bank, according to media reports and protest organisers.

Hundreds of people gathered on Kaplan Street on Saturday to demonstrate against the settler violence and Israeli military rule in the occupied Palestinian territory, according to Israeli media. The protest was organised by the left-wing Hadash party and its allies

The Mothers Against Violence protest group said more than 200 people took part in the demonstration, and accused police of using force against demonstrators, including the nine they confirmed were arrested.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/26/israel-arrests-nine-at-tel-aviv-protest-against-west-bank-settler-violence

If so many people in Israel are against the settlers, where are the protests? Why haven't they been stopped? The IDF could stop them in a heartbeat but instead they, at the very least, allow it to happen.

What do you mean, even in Israel?

Of course Israel is made up of millions of individuals who will hold very different views on things. They don't all think the same way and are allowed to express many opposing views as we are in the UK!

Many people in Israel are against the Settlers.

It means quite simply that humanity was supposed to have learnt from historical atrocities and we were never supposed to repeat them again. That is why the Geneva conventions were brought into law. What is happening to the Palestinian population shows that it is all just empty rhetoric and meaningless!

Even in Israel they see it as terrorism and apartheid.

Ofer Cassif, a politician from the left-wing, Arab-majority Hadash-Ta’al party.

This is exactly what apartheid looks like. This is exactly what occupation looks like,” Cassif noted. “We will not give up! We will continue to fight against the terror of the occupation and for a just peace.”

Holocaust inversion.

Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies murdered about six million Jews in a genocide, which has become known as the Holocaust. The Nazi attempt to implement their final solution to the Jewish question took place during World War II in Europe. The first use of the phrase "never again" in the context of the Holocaust was in April 1945, when newly liberated survivors at Buchenwald concentration camp displayed it in various languages on handmade signs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_again#Origins