How the extremists took over Israel

[malaise]

Last edited Fri May 17, 2024, 07:00 PM - Edit history (2)

Very interesting discussion on Deadline White House

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html
How Israeli Extremists Took Over
The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel
After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.
Ronen BergmanMark Mazzetti
By Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti
May 16, 2024
This story is told in three parts. The first documents the unequal system of justice that grew around Jewish settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. The second shows how extremists targeted not only Palestinians but also Israeli officials trying to make peace. The third explores how this movement gained control of the state itself. Taken together, they tell the story of how a radical ideology moved from the fringes to the heart of Israeli political power.
PART I.
IMPUNITY
By the end of October, it was clear that no one was going to help the villagers of Khirbet Zanuta. A tiny Palestinian community, some 150 people perched on a windswept hill in the West Bank near Hebron, it had long faced threats from the Jewish settlers who had steadily encircled it. But occasional harassment and vandalism, in the days after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, escalated into beatings and murder threats. The villagers made appeal after appeal to the Israeli police and to the ever-present Israeli military, but their calls for protection went largely unheeded, and the attacks continued with no consequences. So one day the villagers packed what they could, loaded their families into trucks and disappeared.


Add access link -thanks Violet

https://archive.md/x7KuY

[FakeNoose]

1. Archived link - no paywall - Thank you Malaise!

https://archive.ph/x7KuY

[Hekate]

8. MANY THANKS

[pwb]

2. Did trump give the go ahead for all these wars?

For the promise of a hotel?

[malaise]

11. Don't rule that out

Rec

[Lonestarblue]

3. Excellent article. Israel is no longer governed by the good guys.

This situation has been apparent for quite some time, which is why the justification of any atrocity that Israel commits as perfectly just and legal so hard to swallow as Palestinians suffer death, dismemberment, and starvation.

The Hamas fighters are not the good guys either, but Israel has denied the humanity of the millions of Palestinians who are NOT Hamas fighters.

[cachukis]

4. Eye opening.

[multigraincracker]

5. Criminal Settlers.

The new KKK Bigots.

[H2O Man]

6. Recommended.

[Hekate]

7. Good interview with them just now on Deadline Whitehouse w Nicolle

.

[malaise]

17. Excellent

[Violet_Crumble]

9. That's an excellent history of the extremist movement...

Everyone who has an interest in what's going on now should read this....

[malaise]

10. Indeed

And thanks for the link
Bibi is history

[Initech]

12. Extremists suck in every country.

[Skittles]

13. so sick of Israel and Palestine

all my life I have heard about their crap and I have long believed they would spark WWIII

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. It's an amazingly detailed story, but barely mentions the 1967 war

That seemed to be an instance where extremism was required.

[Celerity]

15. a must read, thank you for posting

[malaise]

18. Ethnic cleansing, land theft and genocide

After 50 years of crime without punishment, in many ways the violent settlers and the state have become one.

[TeamProg]

16. History will not be kind. nt

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

19. Probably Same Way They're Doing Here

[malaise]

20. Yep

Rec

[Goddessartist]

21. Thank you

for posting this.

REC

[oasis]

22. I'll have a look. Thanks.

[Uncle Joe]

23. Kicked, recommended and bookmarked

Thanks for the thread malaise