The girls, aged 14 to 16, have come for settler training to learn how to occupy Palestinian land — breaking international law. “God promised us this land and told us if you don’t take it, bad people will try and take it and you will have a war,” says Emuna Billa, 19, one of the camp supervisors. “Why do we have a war in Gaza? Because we don’t take Gaza.”
Their guru is Daniella Weiss, a 79-year-old grandmother in a long skirt and patterned headscarf. Founder of the Nachala or Homeland movement, she has been setting up illegal settlements for 49 years and was recently put under international sanctions. “You will be the new emissaries,” she tells the 50 or so girls at the camp. “I call it redeeming, not settling and this is our duty.”
She unfurls a map of Israel and the Palestinian territories dotted with vivid pink house symbols to represent existing and proposed Jewish settlements. Not only are these all across the West Bank, but also in Gaza. Already 674 people have signed up for beachside plots there, she tells me, and “many more want to join”. When someone asks her about settling Lebanon she smiles and says, “Yes, there too”.
in a reasonable country this would trigger a red flag law.
Even Shin Bet calls these people terrorists.
Just a friendly reminder, that Israel is an Apartheid state - according to the ICJ.
“God promised us this land and told us if you don’t take it, bad people will try and take it
And that attitude right there is why there will most likely never be peace in the region.
There are hard-line factions on both sides of the conflict who are convinced that their religion grants them a god-given right to exclusive occupation of the same piece of dirt.
There are hard-line factions on both sides
:-/
You’re running into a degree of selection bias when you put “guy with gun seizing land” up against “group of residents who haven’t fled yet”.
What does a moderate faction look like in this set up? Either the IDF backed settler doesn’t show up or the Palestinian leaves. These are your non-escalatory solutions.
their religion grants them a god-given right to exclusive occupation
Waving a gun in your face after I’ve kicked down your door, but you’re no better than me because you’re also religious.
Israeli invader*
Settler is more accurate, and is a subset of invader. America were invaders in Iraq, but didn’t invade to set up permanent settlements. Israel is invading Palestine in order to set up permanent settlements
Coloniser?
That’s actually the word I wanted, but couldn’t remember!
Coloniser is probably the best term, yeah
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That combined with the “Killology” guy really explains how worthless and barbaric the entire US police system is.
They have become what they swore to destroy
Nazis, more specifically.
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These guys were behind most of the Brexit lies and supported the Brexiters themselves, which were a Far-Right movement by European standards (literally nobody other than a handful of Far-Right parties in the EU ever supported leaving the EU, and that’s without going into the whole “rabbid racist” anti-immigrant speech from these guys which was very much the same kind of thing Trump spews about “Mexicans”)
Calling them “Right-Center” is hilariously rightwards biased (the idea that these guys are “moderates” is physically a ROFL kind of idea), and saying they have “High Credibility” is Narnia-level fantasism.
And yet, we keep getting this bot trying to shove down our throats this ridiculous pro-far-right propagandistic take on reality as the “trust gatekeeper” guarding us against fake news: it really says all that needs being said about the ethics and honesty of the moderators that approved this crap.
All of the Abrahamic religions need to die
All of the religions need to die.
When someone asks her about settling Lebanon she smiles and says, “Yes, there too”.
Great, more war crimes.
As a Lebanese, I advise them that we are already destroying our country by ourselves!
Welcome to religion and war, boys and girls…
So many good things have started with the line “we are gods chosen people” /s
Thanks American imperialists for enabling these invaders
Yes we already finished first genocide (the Native Americans), but what about second genocide?
The wild things is, they’re religious leaders know they are worshipping a co-opted war god, that exists only in their shadows.
There was an article about her a few months ago, and I wanted to again point out how Hamas’s terrorist mickey mouse actually had more sound logic than this insane woman.
Farfour’s grandfather explains to Farfour the history of the land. Tel Aviv, he explains, is the Jewish name for the land that was originally called Tel Al-Rabi and the Jews renamed it after occupying it in 1948. Farfour’s grandfather gives Farfour the key and documents to the land and then he dies. Farfour exclaims “Grandpa entrusted me with this great trust but I don’t know how to liberate this land from the filth of the criminal plundering Jews who killed my Grandpa and everybody.” Farfour is then taken to an interrogation where he is “beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land” because Farfour had called him a “despicable terrorist.” The episode has what seems to be an editorial mistake as a brief flash of a “Farfour in prison” sign is shown immediately prior to Saraa explaining that “Farfour was martyred while defending his land, the land of his fathers and forefathers. He was martyred at the hand of the criminals, the murderers, the murderers of innocent children who killed Iman Hijo, Muhammad Al-Duro, and many others.”
Tel Aviv, he explains, is the Jewish name for the land that was originally called Tel Al-Rabi and the Jews renamed it after occupying it in 1948
Tel Aviv was always a Jewish city and built like that.
All settlers are terrorists. There are over 750k people living in the occupied territories. They need to gtfo asap. Their claims hold no water and there is absolutely no legal founding to creating little settler colonies on another people’s land. I’m talking about the West Bank and the other occupied territories here, not Israel proper.
Israel has a legal claim to the West Bank and Gaza under international law according to Uti Possidetis Juris. Israel was the only state founded in the territory after the end of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1948. The West Bank was immediately occupied by Jordan and Gaza by Egypt. According to Uti Possidetis Juris Israel is the successor state to the British Mandate for Palestine and thus eligible to all the territory.
Palestine only declared a state and independence in 1988, claiming all of Mandatory Palestine. There had been earlier attempts by Palestinians to take over Jordan and Lebanon.
So Israel has a legal claim to the West Bank. However due to demographic policies, it has avoided annexing it, leaving it in this weird occupied limbo status.
There are other claims of historic ties to the land of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to be made as well. Although these aren’t recognized in international law afaik.
Of course you’re German. Unsurprising. “Other historic ties to the land of Judea and Samaria”. Can’t get more crazy than that lol
That the Jewish people have historic ties to Judea is not only in the name, there’s plenty of archeology as well.
Yeah and so does Germany over vast areas of western Poland, yet you don’t see normal people claiming that Germany should invade, settle, and occupy those parts. Secondly, I’m part jewish and have no connection to Israel, and never will. The Zionist mission to look for Lebensraum in the West Bank will never have my support. Zionism doesn’t represent Judaism. If you think so, then you’re just another philosemitic antisemite, or someone delusional enough to think that supporting the mass slaughter of children will wash his family’s past crimes.
Yes, you don’t see German terrorists shelling Western Poland or Polish terrorists blowing up buses in Lviv. That’s because we accepted that the borders moved. Palestinians don’t accept that the borders change and still want all of Israel.
The Zionist mission to look for Lebensraum in the West Bank will never have my support
West Bank settlements should stop, agreed.
Do think Israel has a right to exist?
Palestinians don’t accept that the borders change and still want all of Israel.
“Palestinians” here is a useless generalization, because it lacks a quantifier. Certainly some do, and just as certainly not all do.
You can look up polls here as to what Palestinians support politically. https://www.pcpsr.org/en
And where Palestinians should go. Shall they magically disappear to leave more Lebensraum for Israel? Or what’s your solution?
Two states is the obvious solution.
There have been many viable deals on the table like Olmert’s for example. Palestinians don’t want that though.
Attentive solutions like this one https://www.alandforall.org/ are also worth trying.
Palestinians living for generations in camps in Lebanon, Syria, etc. should be allowed to fully integrate into their host countries if they wish to.
