Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel’s settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately.
“I have friends in Tel Aviv,” she says, “so they say, ‘Don’t forget to keep for me a plot near the coast in Gaza,’ because it’s a beautiful, beautiful coast, beautiful golden sand”.
She tells them the plots on the coast are already booked.
Mrs Weiss heads a radical settler organisation called Nachala, or homeland. For decades, she has been kickstarting Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on Palestinian land captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.
Some in the settler movement have cherished the dream - or pipedream - of returning to Gaza since 2005, when Israel ordered a unilateral pullout, 21 settlements were dismantled and about 9,000 settlers were evacuated by the army. (Reporting from Gaza at the time, I saw many who were literally dragged out.)
Many settlers saw all this as a betrayal by the state, and a strategic mistake.
That’s not “settling”. That’s conquering.
And if you’re an American there’s no possibility your tax dollars help the victims or stop funding the perpetrators.
Because both of our only two options get a shit ton of political donations from Israel via AIPAC.
The few honest politicians left have spent literal decades trying to make AIPAC register as a foreign agent, but the people who decide that all take AIPAC money.
We investigated trump for Russia connections, but Israel bought both sides, so no one wants investigations into this
Biden has been paid over 5 million dollars since 1990 by pro Israel groups.
That’s why he’s more than happy to supply the weapons to get this pesky genocide done.
Could it be because Russia is the west’s enemy and Israel is its ally?
When your ally does a genocide, do you rub their shoulders and give them missles? Or do you find new allies?
Wrt their genocide on Yeme, the US was rubbing SA shoulders and giving missiles for something like 6 years before they half stopped
Yeah we send missiles because our alliance is based on Israel’s posture with Iran and has fuck all to do with Gaza. Israel could carpet bomb all of Gaza and the West Bank a dozen times over before ending our alliance affected Israel’s posture with Gaza. So, as to Gaza, dropping our support is dropping our leverage. Sorry this doesn’t fit your wildly out of touch and frankly childish narrative.
You’re not wrong about the motivations, but the ends should never justify the means. America’s unwavering support of Israel has led to a huge amount of blowback over the past 70 years
Good boy, defend the genocide so that the US can maintain their colony in the middle east.
Hey! Don’t shoot the messenger. You’re the one living in Fantasyland
With allies like that, who needs enemies?
There’s a step before moving in that they’re kind of glossing over here.
“….the plots are already booked…” like its a fucking vacation
Haven’t even cleared the dead bodies yet
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Like another person in here said, fuck extremists of all sorts and creed.
If that’s what you mean, wholeheartedly agree.
If not, if you’re generalizing from extremist israelis to all jewish people, you should be deeply ashamed.
I mean the people the article is specifically about: people salivating at the thought on colonizing land after it has been ethically cleansed.
That’s a hell of a mispelling
Lol. Took me a while to figure it out.
Why would you jump to that conclusion based o. The article and their comment?
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Fucking vile.
This is the same shit the Nazis did. Boy, have the tables turned.
Somebody say liebensraum?
Strandgutsraum
That’s one hateful grandma.
Read an interview with her a while ago. She’s all about “We don’t want violence. We just want the land.”
I don’t want a genocide, I just want lebensraum
Now where have we heard that one before… No, no, don’t tell me, let me think, I’ve hear this somewhere…
Canada?
Close, close…
I didn’t want violence, either. I just wanted my neighbor’s PlayStation 5.
I remember when Nazi Germany said they didn’t want to harm Jews, they just wanted them out of Germany, then they decided that all of Europe should belong to Germany, and then blamed the Jews for forcing their hand to violence by continuing to exist.
Hmmmm I wonder what those people would do if they were on the other side of the equation.
Genocidal leeches
fuck the extremists
I see what you mean, but settlers aren’t really extremists in Israel. Over there “All of Judea belongs to us, the chosen people, so we have the right to chase out and murder the subhuman Arabs” is a pretty common idea.
The fact that it’s widespread isn’t mutually exclusive with it being extreme. That’s a pretty extremist point of view
extremist /ĭk-strē′mĭst/ noun
A person who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics.
I would argue that’s how most extremists think… they’re superior to some other group they have defined subhumans. It’s disgusting
Returning to Gaza? They were never there to begin with
Sounds like they want more Lebensraum.
Looks like they beat Jared Kushner
Where can we sign up to beat Jared Kushner?
Dear residents of the world. What will you do when Jewish settlers come for your home?
If the Palestinians have an intelligence service maybe they should take this vile lady out.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Just ask Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel’s settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately.
Mrs Weiss proudly shows me a map of the West Bank with pink dots indicating Jewish settlements.
We meet Daniella at her home in the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, where red-roofed houses are spread over hilltops and valleys.
A few days later, Daniella Weiss is selling the idea of a return to Gaza over cake and popcorn at a small gathering, hosted by another settler in their living room.
In the shade of a sprawling tree, Yehuda Shimon is playing with his two young sons, who are in hammocks, hanging from the branches.
Outposts like his are multiplying in the West Bank, along with larger settlements, fragmenting Palestinian territory and stoking tension.
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