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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.

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 117 points 8 months ago

That’s not “settling”. That’s conquering.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

There's a step before moving in that they're kind of glossing over here.

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