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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.

[-] SteefLem@lemmy.world 81 points 8 months ago

“….the plots are already booked…” like its a fucking vacation

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

Haven't even cleared the dead bodies yet

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 58 points 8 months ago
[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago

This is the same shit the Nazis did. Boy, have the tables turned.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago
[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Strandgutsraum

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 43 points 8 months ago

That's one hateful grandma.

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 30 points 8 months ago

Read an interview with her a while ago. She's all about "We don't want violence. We just want the land."

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago

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...

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago
[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Close, close...

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

I didn't want violence, either. I just wanted my neighbor's PlayStation 5.

[-] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] filister@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Hmmmm I wonder what those people would do if they were on the other side of the equation.

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 8 months ago

Genocidal leeches

[-] ARk@lemm.ee 26 points 8 months ago
[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Returning to Gaza? They were never there to begin with

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 months ago

Sounds like they want more Lebensraum.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Looks like they beat Jared Kushner

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Where can we sign up to beat Jared Kushner?

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Dear residents of the world. What will you do when Jewish settlers come for your home?

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

If the Palestinians have an intelligence service maybe they should take this vile lady out.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 8 months ago

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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