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The girls, aged 14 to 16, have come for settler training to learn how to occupy Palestinian land — breaking international law. “God promised us this land and told us if you don’t take it, bad people will try and take it and you will have a war,” says Emuna Billa, 19, one of the camp supervisors. “Why do we have a war in Gaza? Because we don’t take Gaza.”

Their guru is Daniella Weiss, a 79-year-old grandmother in a long skirt and patterned headscarf. Founder of the Nachala or Homeland movement, she has been setting up illegal settlements for 49 years and was recently put under international sanctions. “You will be the new emissaries,” she tells the 50 or so girls at the camp. “I call it redeeming, not settling and this is our duty.”

She unfurls a map of Israel and the Palestinian territories dotted with vivid pink house symbols to represent existing and proposed Jewish settlements. Not only are these all across the West Bank, but also in Gaza. Already 674 people have signed up for beachside plots there, she tells me, and “many more want to join”. When someone asks her about settling Lebanon she smiles and says, “Yes, there too”.

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[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago

“God promised us this land and told us if you don’t take it, bad people will try and take it

And that attitude right there is why there will most likely never be peace in the region.

There are hard-line factions on both sides of the conflict who are convinced that their religion grants them a god-given right to exclusive occupation of the same piece of dirt.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

There are hard-line factions on both sides

:-/

You're running into a degree of selection bias when you put "guy with gun seizing land" up against "group of residents who haven't fled yet".

What does a moderate faction look like in this set up? Either the IDF backed settler doesn't show up or the Palestinian leaves. These are your non-escalatory solutions.

their religion grants them a god-given right to exclusive occupation

Waving a gun in your face after I've kicked down your door, but you're no better than me because you're also religious.

[-] BelalSaeid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Israeli fight because the Zionist brainwashed them in the name of god to fight. Palestinian fight to reclaim their land. Where exactly is "the hard-line factions on both sides of the conflict who are convinced thag their religion grants them a god-given right to exclusive occupation of the same piece of dirt."?

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