Radical Israeli settlers, who intentionally build communities in the West Bank, routinely harass and assault their Palestinian neighbors. The settlers attack their herds, burn their property, beat them, and even kill them. This violence, paired with many more subtle techniques to pressure Palestinians to give up their land, has reached unprecedented levels in the month since the terrorist group Hamas’s massacre in southern Israel on October 7. At least 15 Palestinian communities have been fully displaced.
It has been going on for years
The IDF supported that shit too.
And not support like “we think this is a good idea” but escorting them while they steal land so the rightful owners can’t fight back.
Imagine living everyday knowing someone can just show up and take your home while backed by a foreign military. And if you object in the slightest way, you’ll likely be killed and posthumously labeled a terrorist and an anti-semite.
Reading Hamas fairy tales again, aren’t we
You clearly have absolutely no clue what life in the West Bank looks like. Shameful
By “reading Hamas fairy tales” do you mean reading and quoting this Vox article by Zach Beauchamp, a Jewish reporter who attends weekly services at synagogue?
Good argument.
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This article is over a month old, violating the 30 days rule of this instance. Please don’t post old news and put it off as something new. There’s plenty of actually new articles about Israeli settlers attacking people in West Bank.
Sorry, my mistake. It feels like the recent flare up was more recent.
It must be a day that ends in y.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
He and I had just been connected by a mutual acquaintance, who suggested that Tariq would be a good person to talk to about the wave of violence unleashed against West Bank Palestinians while the world’s eyes were focused on Gaza.
This violence, paired with many more subtle techniques to pressure Palestinians to give up their land, has reached unprecedented levels in the month since the terrorist group Hamas’s massacre in southern Israel on October 7.
In those early days, the settlers themselves tended to be religious radicals, firmly committed to the idea that all of the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea had been biblically granted to Jews and (by extension) to the state of Israel.
A few settlements, established in key places alongside military bases, could serve to protect Israeli control over Jerusalem and provide “strategic depth” in the event of a Jordanian invasion from the east, which was then a real possibility.
The US government has become increasingly vocal about its fears of West Bank escalation; President Joe Biden has publicly and privately demanded that Israel do more to put a stop to the settler violence.
Netanyahu is on incredibly shaky political ground as resentment over October 7 and his response to it simmers; he remains in office by the grace of far-right settler parties, who care primarily about seizing West Bank land.
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