[Salon] Fwd: Forcibe transfer is happening now!

Perhaps the following is of possible interest as to what the Israeli “National Conservatives” are engaged in, as the “International Political Warfare wing” of the Israeli fascist Settler Movement. I unapologetically support B’selem as against the “Settler Movement” and the Tikvah associated National Conservative Movement of Yoram Hazony in both the U.S. and Israel, and their “satellites” in Italy, India, Hungary, Poland, et al., so please excuse me for “taking my stand” so clearly, I hope. Even as it may offend some who made so clear under Trump, and make so clear as the “tangled alliance" of that Movement and Likud with a U.S. political party, as heard in the pronouncements of Trump’s primary opponents and Trump, if we’re being honest, that they “Stand in Solidarity” with the Settlers.

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Dear Todd,

What’s happening now in the West Bank is forcible transfer. Within about three months, four Palestinian communities have been forced to leave their homes in search of a safer place. Over the past two years, a total of seven communities have been forcibly displaced in this manner. This did not happen overnight, but as part of an ongoing Israeli policy the apartheid regime has been pursuing and implementing for years.

A new position paper we are releasing this week explains the impossible living conditions created by this policy, which leaves the residents of these communities no choice but to leave their homes. Once they do, Israel can achieve its goal and take over their land.
"What’s happening now in the West Bank is forcible transfer. Within about three months, four Palestinian communities have been forced to leave their homes in search of a safer place. "
One of the tools the regime uses to oust Palestinian communities is settler violence. This violence is ceaseless. Part of my job here at B’Tselem involves researching these attacks, and one of the hardest things for me to see is the fear these acts of harassment and violence by settlers instill in residents of small, remote Palestinian communities. This fear is ever-present, along with the clear understanding that they are entirely alone with no one to protect them.
Here’s an example of how the apartheid regime uses settler violence to achieve its goals: Individual settlers establish a so-called agricultural farm. They graze their flocks in Palestinian pasturelands, scare the Palestinians’ flocks away, sometimes attacking both the livestock and the shepherds. They destroy Palestinian farm fields, invade homes in communities located near the “farm,” and threaten the occupants - while armed. All of this is done with the full support - financial and other - of the state. Sometimes, soldiers and police officers join in. Over time, Palestinians lose the ability to live off their lands as they had done for generations. That, coupled with fear for their lives, leaves them no other choice but to depart, at which point the state takes over their land.

The hands carrying out the violence may be the settlers’, but the arms are the long arms of the apartheid regime, which works to promote Jewish supremacy in the entire area it controls, including by displacing Palestinians off in order to take over their lands. Above all, it is important to remember that the people Israel terrorizes in order to achieve its goals are fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, babies, the elderly, the sick, people with disabilities. None are spared.

Yours,
Layan Mahameed, B'Tselem
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