Paywalled On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 2:16 PM Dayne Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.” ... > . . . > > > -- "All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks." Sarah Moore Grimke, abolitionist (1792-1873) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29208): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29208 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
