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Comments by "" (@ahmeda.3198) on "Settler leader Daniella Weiss explains plans for the northern part of Gaza" video.
They all have blonde hair, blue eyes and European accents, but somehow they are native to the Middle East, we’re told.
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Nobody should be surprised by what she’s saying, in the other video we have a teenager preventing aide from entering Gaza, while announcing that he is the land owner and the Palestinian is the sl@ve. That is the mindset of these people.
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This is why if you look at a map of Wet Bank settlements, they always surround Palestinian villages. That is intentional as a way to cut them off from one another, to allow for settlements to encroach on their land, and as a way to prevent a contiguous Palestinian territory (which could be the basis of a Palestinian state). The Israeli government have been intentionally doing this for decades. So it’s not simply a matter of political opposition to a Palestinian state, they have created these settlements (cities), which serve as a practical obstacle to a Palestinian state.
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This is why the government builds these ‘settlements,’ an innocuous words for a whole city. They surround Palestinian villages and prevent their from being a contiguous Palestinian territory. It was all done specifically to prevent their from being any Palestinian state.
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@Bazza5000 A lot of the ones I’ve seen look European. I think this is also one of the reasons of the Yeminite Children Affair, where in the 1950s children of Yemeni Jews has ‘unexpected mortal complications’ during routine hospital visits, with evidence that they were adopted off to European families in Israel. This is a real program that happened in Israel, I have read about it in Jewish sources, including about one family that lost three kids. They were adopted off to European Israeli families I believe in order to give them some claim to being middle eastern. This all sounds far fetched, but it’s true.
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@CalamityJay-ez2mq Yes, I’ve seen that and also seen one instance where they poison the well of a village. It’s just vile behavior. It’s like the kind of thing your hear about in the US before the civil rights era, as in a lot of racial superiority, sabotage and cruelty.
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@CalamityJay-ez2mq I absolutely agree. It even reminds me of in the 1950s videos of people in Alabama and what not. The same mindset.
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@margaritakleinman5701 It seems that most of the ones who are IDF spokesman, or people in the cabinet are not Middle Eastern. In the videos I’ve seen of angry settlers most seem European (including Eastern European). My belief is that the early Zionists who came to the are from Europe had contempt for Arab culture, and that included Arab Jews. The people you are calling Mizrahim, were culturally Arab, even though when they lived among others they had their own ethic group and subculture. -They spoke the Arabic language, ate the Arab food, made Arab music, etc. At this point the descendants of this Arab Jews have no connection to Arab culture and distance themselves from it. I suspect due to racism their parents experienced when immigrating to Israel. I can not say for certain, this is just my impression based on what I have read and observed.
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@Oldguy-fy4ri Yes, that’s a part of the parallel also.
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This whole mindset is why I believe the Israel government intentionally ignored warnings about Oct 7 -both from their own intelligence services, and those of Jordan and Egypt. The only thing they value is land, taking over the land! Oct 7 would provide them an excellent excuse to insert themselves into Gaza, push out the Palestinians, and then take it over.
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@margaritakleinman5701 Right, I have read that this happened in Iraq. I have read that there was an intimidation campaign against native Jews there by Zionists to get them to want to leave. One book I read said that there were actually cases of European Jews moving to Iraq because the Jewish community there had a good situation in the society. I think the European Zionists, just like any other European colonialists viewed the people and cultures of the Middle East poorly. Even I have read about abuse towards Yemeni Jews in the 1950s where they had their children adopted off. I have read that from credible sources inside of Israel. I’m not going to say that life was ideal for Arab Jews, I can’t say that for sure, but as far as I know, they were a part of the society, just they were viewed as Arab Jews, much like some were viewed as Arab Christians or what not.
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@Scho-penhauer Well, many of the rabid ones, like this woman don’t look like they have any connection to the Middle East. Even culturally they have no connection, there is generally an attitude of decency and hospitality. These people all have the attitude of colonialists who look down on the native people with contempt.
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@Zaza-p5h A supremacist mindset.
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It’s what they’ve been doing for decades. Just look at a map of settlements in the West Bank. They are intentionally placed around Palestinian villages in order to encroach on their land, separate them from one another, and prevent them from having a Palestinian majority territory. This is even of the reasons given for Oct 7.
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@peaceforall8937 ❤️
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They want Palestinians gone from both areas. In Gaza it is a more accurate action, whereas in the West Bank it has been a decades long program of building these cities they call settlements. These settlements surround Palestinian villages, cut them off from one another. The settlers and military then make life very difficult for Palestine, with sabotaging of wells and land, harassment, checkpoints, etc. They disrupt any territorial continuity between Palestinians which could serve as the basis for a state, and just make life hell for them hoping that they’ll give up and leave.
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