‘The most successful land-grab strategy since 1967’ as settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territory
www.theguardian.com
Herders report violence driving them from their homes in accelerating, aggressive and highly effective campaign
  • Mighty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3717·
    1 year ago

    hmmm. now obviously it’s forbidden to add 1 and 1 together. this attack that israeli intelligence “missed” and “failed to anticipate”, the worldwide media propaganda against palestine, and this.

    • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      926·
      1 year ago

      You also know that Israeli settlers do not represent Israelis in general, right ?

      same goes for the Hamas who do not represent all palestine people…

      • Letstakealook@lemm.eeEnglish
        336·
        1 year ago

        It doesn’t matter. The settlers are protected and aided by the government. In an apartheid state where only 64% of the population is allowed to vote, all those who vote this government in are responsible.

        • dumdum666@kbin.social
          425·
          1 year ago

          So by your logic every death in Gaza is completely fine, since the Palestinians in Gaza voted them in, about 20 years ago, and the Hamas committed a massacre on 7th October.

          • Letstakealook@lemm.eeEnglish
            266·
            1 year ago

            No, not at all. They aren’t voted in and half the population of gaza is children, 67% are under the age of 24. Additionally, hamas is a response to apartheid and genocide. Hamas is Israel’s fault. You may find ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity acceptable, but I do not and will never.

                • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  13·
                  1 year ago

                  Lmao okay then… my point was your lens on the situation is short sighted and ignores decades of context.

            • diprount_tomato@lemmy.worldEnglish
              321·
              1 year ago

              You may find ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity acceptable, but I do not and will never

              So you find Israel to be justified after getting attacked by Hamas, with several rapes and murders of innocent civilians, children included?

              • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
                102·
                1 year ago

                You know for every Israeli civilian there are a couple of times more civilian casualties on the Palestinian side.

                And I do agree with the other comment that Hamas is in a way in power because of the oppression and ill treatment of the Palestinians.

  • Gazumi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    Any opportunity used. During conflict with Iraq, they did the exact same thing of destroying water and electricity infrastructure, plus settling in already occupied land. We know its going on and its history.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The tiny settlement overlooking the Bedouin village of Ein Rashash is named “Angels of Peace”, but, says Sliman al-Zawahri, its residents have visited only violence, fear and despair on his family.

    This week the Bedouin community packed up most of their belongings and drove all the women, children and elderly people from the West Bank ridge they had called home for nearly four decades, perched above a spring and beside an archaeological site.

    Men from Angels of Peace are part of a broad, violent and very successful political project to expand Israeli control of the West Bank that has accelerated, say activists, since the 7 October attacks by Hamas launched a war with Israel.

    “This has been the most successful land-grab strategy since 1967,” said Yehuda Shaul, a prominent activist who is director of the Israeli Center for Public Affairs thinktank, and a founder of Breaking the Silence, an NGO that exposes military abuses in occupied areas.

    Along with demolitions, evictions and restrictions on movement and construction, the attacks on herders created “a coercive environment that contributes to displacement that may amount to forcible transfer, a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva convention”.

    In the most extreme cases, villagers are so frightened of travelling on roads controlled by settlers that Israeli activists from groups that try to protect Bedouin communities – living with them, walking with them as they herd flocks and documenting abuses – are bringing them food and water.

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