Letter from the West Bank: The Israeli Settlers Attacking Their Palestinian Neighbors With the world’s focus on Gaza, settlers have used wartime chaos as cover for violence and dispossession. by Shane Bauer, New Yorker magazine, February 26, 2024 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/israel-west-bank-settlers-attacks-palestinians
*Published in the print edition of the March 4, 2024, issue, with the headline “The Dispossessed.”* . . . ... By September, 2023, the United Nations was documenting around three settler-related incidents each day, the highest since it had started tracking the trend, in 2006, and eleven hundred Palestinians in the West Bank had been displaced. . . . Plans for expulsion go back to 1937, when Britain proposed the partition of Palestine into two states and the transfer of about two hundred thousand Arabs out of territory slated for the Jewish state. Zionist pioneers attempted to expand their territory by building settlements outside the proposed boundary. David Ben-Gurion, the future Prime Minister of Israel, wrote, in a letter to his sixteen-year-old son about settling the Negev Desert, “We must expel the Arabs and take their place.” ... . . . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29207): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29207 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104678825/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
