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‘The most successful land-grab strategy since 1967’ as settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territory (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Herders report violence driving them from their homes in accelerating, aggressive and highly effective campaign

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[-] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 49 points 11 months ago

Well, looks to me like most of the land was taken before Hamas attack, now settlers take what is left of the land.

Herds of sheep being used to take land...

Taking land by building homes and communities on it is slow and expensive. Taking control of large swathes of dry hills needed to feed a herd of animals, by intimidating and isolating Palestinian shepherds and bringing in another herd, is much more efficient.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

Holy shit it's the old "we improved the land" argument from the trail of tears in the wild. So did you vote for Jackson or did he just win you over after he fucked the Cherokees?

[-] sab@kbin.social 19 points 11 months ago

Either you misread the comment or there is something here I don't understand - I don't think jimmydoreisalefty is defending the Israeli settlers at all, or claiming that they improve anything. He's just reporting their method of expansion. Or are you referring to someone else?