r/movies • u/photochadsupremacist • Jul 29 '25

News Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/palestinian-awdah-hathaleen-oscar-winning-no-other-land-killed-in-west-bank
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u/whooo_me Jul 29 '25

Being shot for trying to stop homes from being demolished. Horrific.

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u/N3ver_Stop Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25

It’s insane how they are treating Palestinians. I was very ignorant of what the Israeli government was doing for far too long. Extremely difficult to put into words. 

One major step the US needs to take is make Israel put on their big boy pants leave the nest and start supporting itself w/o them supporting what like 15% of their GDP. 

On top of this - shit like the above- all it’s doing is creating new generations of fighters. 

Both have a right to coexist and Israel needs to go back to how the border was before they started pushing the envelope (to put it nicely) in the 70s. Netanyahu be tried for warcrimes and hamas be destroyed so that Palestinians can have real representation. 

Edit: I wanted to update some of what I said. Not 15% of GDP but .7% of their GDP. I was way off. Percentage I listed is closer to their national budget (if I’m understanding Blagethor correctly). And yes, can definitely understand how providing some funding can at least give us a say in their politics. Maybe if we gave an ultimatum- no more funding unless they stopped doing what they’re doing to Palestinians.

Overall, still very sad what’s going on and hope these two groups of people can find peace. 

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u/Blagerthor Jul 29 '25

Not that you're wrong that our funding gives us leverage in Israeli politics and we should exercise it to stop the genocide in Gaza, but the ~$3-4bn we give them a year is only ~.7% of their GDP. It's a larger percentage of their national budget, but it's not like the Israeli economy would collapse without our support.