Indeed, and the settlers love to (correctly) point out that the Jews' historical and biblical connection to the "Land of Israel" is in fact much stronger in the West Bank than it is in Israel proper. Of course, this does not give them the right to ethnically cleanse the land, but it certainly follows the logic of Zionism.
Right. I feel the same way when I hear Bernie shake his fingers at Netanyahu/Ben Gvir. As if they doesn’t have a massive base of support that put him where he is.
I agree that if one reads nothing else of the round-up, the introduction is an absolute must-read.
I am deeply, deeply grateful for your compiling the full story of Yinon Levi's killing of Awdah Hathaleen & his otherwise terrorizing behavior in Umm al-Khair, which I had not read about before (and for your contextualizing it within the broader narrative, legal and logistical cover for violent settler nationalism the Israeli government & media quite willingly provide). Awdah's words from his op-ed a year before his death, about the reverberation of this traumatic violence as expressed within the body of his son (and Palestinian children in the West Bank at large) and his feeling of it as an inescapable fate is incredibly haunting.
"Postmortem detention" is a phrase so conceptually and rhetorically horrifying I am without words in processing that it exists as aptly descriptive language of actual, practiced policy.
Thanks for this morally necessary work. I hope you are taking good care, given your connection & intimacy with the human souls mentioned in these pieces.
Thank you for this informative newsletter. It was not new to me the general mindset of Israeli society at this point and the horrifying dissonance from reality that they live over there but listening to this short clip of the "Two nice Jewish boys" podcast reminds me of another cult we had here in Europe in the 1930s, and I hate this type of comparison :(
I've been reading that the Israeli state incentivizes West Bank settlement through generous tax breaks & much cheaper housing since Israel proper is so expensive.
We're now witnessing different groups - governments, mainstream media, liberal Zionists - employ mental gymnastics in a futile attempt to close the widening cracks in their contradictions. Can't deny the mass starvation any longer so they've pivoted from denial to damage control. Only the messianic ideologues have been honest about their intentions from day 1 of this genocide.
I hate how people pretend the settlers are some sort of anomaly, as if the entire project of Zionism wasn’t built around precisely what they’re doing.
Indeed, and the settlers love to (correctly) point out that the Jews' historical and biblical connection to the "Land of Israel" is in fact much stronger in the West Bank than it is in Israel proper. Of course, this does not give them the right to ethnically cleanse the land, but it certainly follows the logic of Zionism.
Right. I feel the same way when I hear Bernie shake his fingers at Netanyahu/Ben Gvir. As if they doesn’t have a massive base of support that put him where he is.
I agree that if one reads nothing else of the round-up, the introduction is an absolute must-read.
I am deeply, deeply grateful for your compiling the full story of Yinon Levi's killing of Awdah Hathaleen & his otherwise terrorizing behavior in Umm al-Khair, which I had not read about before (and for your contextualizing it within the broader narrative, legal and logistical cover for violent settler nationalism the Israeli government & media quite willingly provide). Awdah's words from his op-ed a year before his death, about the reverberation of this traumatic violence as expressed within the body of his son (and Palestinian children in the West Bank at large) and his feeling of it as an inescapable fate is incredibly haunting.
"Postmortem detention" is a phrase so conceptually and rhetorically horrifying I am without words in processing that it exists as aptly descriptive language of actual, practiced policy.
Thanks for this morally necessary work. I hope you are taking good care, given your connection & intimacy with the human souls mentioned in these pieces.
Thanks for another horrifying catalogue of despair. Stay safe, if you can.
Thank you for writing about Awdah Hathaleen. Any pressure to return his body and the arrestees is crucial.
Thank you for this informative newsletter. It was not new to me the general mindset of Israeli society at this point and the horrifying dissonance from reality that they live over there but listening to this short clip of the "Two nice Jewish boys" podcast reminds me of another cult we had here in Europe in the 1930s, and I hate this type of comparison :(
And the "never compare" attitude is one of the key problems!
Thank you for your outstanding reporting.
I also recommend Ali Abunima's (Electronic Intifada) analysis on France's etc. recognition of a Palestinian state. It's as sensible as despairing.
And thanks again for this weekly compilation.
I've been reading that the Israeli state incentivizes West Bank settlement through generous tax breaks & much cheaper housing since Israel proper is so expensive.
We're now witnessing different groups - governments, mainstream media, liberal Zionists - employ mental gymnastics in a futile attempt to close the widening cracks in their contradictions. Can't deny the mass starvation any longer so they've pivoted from denial to damage control. Only the messianic ideologues have been honest about their intentions from day 1 of this genocide.
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