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The settlers’ goal is not the settlements
It is the total transformation of Israel. The settlements, the settlers, and the occupation are all entirely associated with one another in the Israeli consciousness. The Left and the Right agree on this, albeit with varying considerations: the Left wants to apportion blame for Israel’s continuing control over the West Bank, while the settlers want to…
By
Noam Sheizaf
June 8, 2017
PHOTOS: Israeli authorities uproot olive trees to build settler-only road
The Nabi Elias bypass road, which will serve Israeli settlers, requires the confiscation of 25 acres of Palestinian land. Photos and text by Keren Manor / Activestills.org Civil Administration contractors accompanied by Israeli soldiers uprooted around 250 Palestinian-owned olive trees Sunday near the West Bank city of Qalqilya, as part of a larger plan to build a…
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Activestills
January 8, 2017
The idiot’s guide to whitewashing the occupation
With a naive tone, jovial denial of the existence of Palestinians and winsome depiction of settlers and life in the West Bank, Israel’s settlement lobby creates an illustrated guide to hasbaraland. “Occupation, shmoccupation!” declares a new booklet published by the Yesha Council, the lobbying and political arm of West Bank settlements. Titled “Kibush kishkush” (which…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
September 9, 2015
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West Bank murder: Leaders fail to address nature of settler violence
The murder of a Palestinian baby has provoked condemnation from Israeli leaders across the political spectrum. Yet the harsh rhetoric masks a consistent failure by the Israeli establishment to understand the endemic nature of this kind of violence. Friday morning’s “price tag” arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma, which killed Palestinian baby Ali…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
July 31, 2015
A dark tale from Netanyahu Nation
Assassinations, lies and conspiracy theories. If you want to know about the right-wing culture that rules Israel today, the following isn’t a bad illustration. Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday that Netanyahu’s pick for director-general of the Communications Ministry, Shlomo Filber, wrote an article in the settler publication Nekuda after the Rabin assassination blaming the Shin Bet…
By
Larry Derfner
May 20, 2015
Settlers accuse ‘Haaretz’ of calling for violence against them
Fallout from Amira Hass’s article on Palestinian stone-throwing shows that as far as Israelis are concerned, any and every form of resistance against the occupation is illegitimate. The Yesha Council – the regional council for West Bank settlements, which operates also as the settlers’ political and lobbying arm – filed a complaint with the Jerusalem Police…
By
Noam Sheizaf
April 3, 2013
The one-state plan according to Israel’s top settlement council
Though it is the establishment opinion that two states will happen, those opposing it are literally executing a plan to kill it. By Joel Braunold With President Obama visiting Israel, many groups are trying to get his attention so they can let the president know what they think he should do. Included within the pleas…
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+972 Magazine
March 22, 2013
Settlers: It’s we who suffer from apartheid – not Palestinians!
The word “apartheid” is slowly seeping more and more into mainstream discourse on the occupation. Yet I recently came across two cases in which, how to say, the usage of the word was a bit surprising. The first came in the official Yesha Council newsletter, which posted an item on the Palestinian-only buses recently “inaugurated”…
By
Ami Kaufman
March 10, 2013
Is Israeli annexation of Area C of the West Bank imminent?
I started to think that a formal, unilateral annexation of Israeli-controlled Area C is imminent in May, when I saw this video (Hebrew) advocating the move. A public relations ploy designed to convince Israelis that annexing Area C is good for their future—and that giving the Palestinians who live in the area citizenship or residency won’t…
By
Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
July 26, 2012
Government Press Office doing PR for the settler movement
It seems that every state agency in Israel is becoming a tool in the effort to further colonize the West Bank and deepen the control over the lives of Palestinians. Soon after the government reached an internal “deal” with the settler movement that would keep the families who settled in a so-called “illegal” outpost on the…
By
Noam Sheizaf
January 13, 2012
Settler leader: Democracy must be dismantled
Haaretz reports that settler leader Benni Katzover calls for dismantling democracy and “bowing to Judaism,” and the leader of the right-wing coalition aids “price tag” activists. Can we discuss the treason of the right yet? The veteran settler leader, Benni Katzover, was caught (Hebrew) telling some meshigene Chabad paper, “Beit Mashiach”, that “I would say that…
By
Yossi Gurvitz
January 8, 2012
Has settler movement sacrificed Gaza to annex the West Bank?
A new YouTube video from the settler movement suggests that without Gaza, Israel can annex the West Bank and still maintain a Jewish majority. Only recently, Gaza was sacred land to the same movement. Does this indicate a strategic shift? By Eyal Clyne || Translated from Hebrew by Ofer Neiman. || Co-posted with Jnews. A.…
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November 21, 2011
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