Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront
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They see an opportunity to push for a return of Jewish settlements to the Palestinian territory.

Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel’s settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately.

“I have friends in Tel Aviv,” she says, “so they say, ‘Don’t forget to keep for me a plot near the coast in Gaza,’ because it’s a beautiful, beautiful coast, beautiful golden sand”.

She tells them the plots on the coast are already booked.

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.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4211·
      9 months ago

      And if you’re an American there’s no possibility your tax dollars help the victims or stop funding the perpetrators.

      Because both of our only two options get a shit ton of political donations from Israel via AIPAC.

      The few honest politicians left have spent literal decades trying to make AIPAC register as a foreign agent, but the people who decide that all take AIPAC money.

      We investigated trump for Russia connections, but Israel bought both sides, so no one wants investigations into this

      • Nudding@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2512·
        9 months ago

        Biden has been paid over 5 million dollars since 1990 by pro Israel groups.

        That’s why he’s more than happy to supply the weapons to get this pesky genocide done.

        • Nudding@lemmy.worldEnglish
          216·
          9 months ago

          When your ally does a genocide, do you rub their shoulders and give them missles? Or do you find new allies?

          • nonailsleft@lemm.eeEnglish
            52·
            9 months ago

            Wrt their genocide on Yeme, the US was rubbing SA shoulders and giving missiles for something like 6 years before they half stopped

          • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.worldEnglish
            324·
            9 months ago

            Yeah we send missiles because our alliance is based on Israel’s posture with Iran and has fuck all to do with Gaza. Israel could carpet bomb all of Gaza and the West Bank a dozen times over before ending our alliance affected Israel’s posture with Gaza. So, as to Gaza, dropping our support is dropping our leverage. Sorry this doesn’t fit your wildly out of touch and frankly childish narrative.

            • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
              152·
              9 months ago

              You’re not wrong about the motivations, but the ends should never justify the means. America’s unwavering support of Israel has led to a huge amount of blowback over the past 70 years

            • Nudding@lemmy.worldEnglish
              126·
              9 months ago

              Good boy, defend the genocide so that the US can maintain their colony in the middle east.

    • nonailsleft@lemm.eeEnglish
      30·
      9 months ago

      Read an interview with her a while ago. She’s all about “We don’t want violence. We just want the land.”

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
        251·
        9 months ago

        I don’t want a genocide, I just want lebensraum

        Now where have we heard that one before… No, no, don’t tell me, let me think, I’ve hear this somewhere…

      • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        I remember when Nazi Germany said they didn’t want to harm Jews, they just wanted them out of Germany, then they decided that all of Europe should belong to Germany, and then blamed the Jews for forcing their hand to violence by continuing to exist.

    • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      Hmmmm I wonder what those people would do if they were on the other side of the equation.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      1336·
      9 months ago

      I see what you mean, but settlers aren’t really extremists in Israel. Over there “All of Judea belongs to us, the chosen people, so we have the right to chase out and murder the subhuman Arabs” is a pretty common idea.

      • BestBouclettes@jlai.luEnglish
        284·
        9 months ago

        The fact that it’s widespread isn’t mutually exclusive with it being extreme. That’s a pretty extremist point of view

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          911·
          9 months ago

          extremist /ĭk-strē′mĭst/ noun

          A person who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics.

      • teamevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        I would argue that’s how most extremists think… they’re superior to some other group they have defined subhumans. It’s disgusting

  • rayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    114·
    9 months ago

    Dear residents of the world. What will you do when Jewish settlers come for your home?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Just ask Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel’s settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately.

    Mrs Weiss proudly shows me a map of the West Bank with pink dots indicating Jewish settlements.

    We meet Daniella at her home in the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, where red-roofed houses are spread over hilltops and valleys.

    A few days later, Daniella Weiss is selling the idea of a return to Gaza over cake and popcorn at a small gathering, hosted by another settler in their living room.

    In the shade of a sprawling tree, Yehuda Shimon is playing with his two young sons, who are in hammocks, hanging from the branches.

    Outposts like his are multiplying in the West Bank, along with larger settlements, fragmenting Palestinian territory and stoking tension.

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