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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (14 children)

That’s… what settlers are.

The land isn’t unoccupied. The people who were there before are going to be a constant problem for the settlers because they will always resent being pushed out of their homes.

The settlers have to kill or permanently displace the people who lived in the land they’re trying to settle in order to settle it.

That’s what the process is.

Theyre settlers.

They’re violently displacing and killing the people on the land they want to settle.

[–] Eiri 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

Well you can send settlers to an empty desert. You can also send settlers to a sparsely inhabited land and have them get along with the locals. It's not like it's physically impossible.

I see the concept of settler as someone who goes live somewhere where there aren't many people, not a role where conflict is a major part of the thing.

West Bank settlers sent by Israel were already highly questionable, but if they start doing things like this, they're just soldiers with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Who can send settlers into the desert? Where is the desert empty? Who can have them get along with the native population? Has that ever happened?

[–] zeephirus 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yes. theyre called immigrants Every country has them. only Israel says its fine for the immigrants to firebomb homes.

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