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Mrs Weiss heads a radical settler organisation called Nachala, or homeland. For decades, she has been kickstarting Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on Palestinian land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.

Some in the settler movement have cherished the dream - or pipedream - of returning to Gaza since 2005, when Israel ordered a unilateral pullout, 21 settlements were dismantled and about 9,000 settlers were evacuated by the army. (Reporting from Gaza at the time, I saw many who were literally dragged out.)

Many settlers saw all this as a betrayal by the state, and a strategic mistake.

Opinion polls suggest that most Israelis oppose resettling Gaza, and it is not government policy, but since the Hamas attacks on 7 October it is being talked about out loud - by some of the loudest and most extreme voices in Israel's government.

Mrs Weiss proudly shows me a map of the West Bank with pink dots indicating Jewish settlements. The dots are scattered all over the map, eating away at land where Palestinians hope - or hoped - to build their state.

There are about 700,000 Jewish settlers in these areas now and settler numbers are rising fast.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Taking land by force and displacing population is against the Geneva Conventions.

Settlers is an unusual name for war criminals.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But if the U.S. and Britain called their war criminals 'settlers', why can't anyone else? :O

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those do predate the Geneva conventions but otherwise are the same.

[–] Psychodelic 7 points 10 months ago

They could call it manifesto destiny

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its the BBC. If they call the israelis war criminals they will have to have a deeper closer look at themselves for all their war crimes. This way they were just quirked up settlers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The BBC has committed war crimes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

BBC is an arm of the English government, which is responsible for a lot of death and destruction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

The british. The state whose mouthpiece they actually are.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago

Genocidal maniacs.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

Why don’t you build some train tracks and camps while you’re at it you cunt.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A certain people did the same stuff in Warsaw

[–] WhatAmLemmy 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, but now the shoe's on the other foot and it's their time to do a genocide!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They will call it a genocide if white people are dying

[–] MushuChupacabra 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Now with extra concentrate.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I'm not surprised, I'm disappointed.

[–] m13 10 points 10 months ago

That’s the face of pure evil.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Israel will murder everyone in Gaza and build Jewish settlements on the graves of Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Oy Vey, if I do not steal it, someone else will. Surely, you see my predicament."

Inspiration and actual real video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqozQ8uaV8

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

BBC should have called them "israeli settlers" instead of Jewish here, but their point stands

[–] Cuttlefish1111 2 points 10 months ago

BDS, it’s really all you can do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ok, so Hamas resistance set their sights on Israeli “settlers”. And so it goes, death ensues.