The Jewish settlers who want to build homes in Gaza

girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.world – 217 points –
Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront
bbc.co.uk

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.

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That’s not “settling”. That’s conquering.

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

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There's a step before moving in that they're kind of glossing over here.

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