"Jim Jordan: My first move as Speaker would be to help Israel | Fox News Video"
Per the previous two emails:
Quote from below: "Through its hold on the government, the annexation and apartheid enterprise enables the settlers to create provocations and incite war in the West Bank too."
According to Haaretz, Biden is in Israel counseling at least some “restraint” to the Israeli fascists whom the two previous emails referred to, in their all-out, “Total War” retaliation against the people who “counter-attacked” in breaking out of what is in fact a“Concentration Camp” of the same sort described below. And as are being established throughout the West Bank when Settlers/Settlements come to surround some poor Palestinian village or carve out and isolate Palestinians in urban neighborhoods, each creating new “Concentration Camps,” as the U.S. had used the term to include of the Japanese American imprisonment camps in WW II, before Germany gave that term a bad odor.
Quote: "To isolate rebels from the peasants who sometimes fed or sheltered them, he thought, it would be necessary to relocate hundreds of thousands of rural inhabitants into Spanish-held cities behind barbed wire, a strategy he called reconcentración. . . . But it was not until the technology of barbed wire and automatic weapons that a small guard force could impose mass detention. With that shift, a new institution came into being, and the phrase “concentration camps” entered the world. . . . and the parallel institutions of Native American reservations and Spanish missions set the stage for relocating vulnerable residents away from their homes and forcing them to stay elsewhere.
And: "By the end of 1901, U.S. generals fighting in the most recalcitrant regions of the islands had likewise turned to concentration camps. The military recorded this turn officially as an orderly application of measured tactics, but that did not reflect the view on the ground. Upon seeing one camp, an Army officer wrote, “It seems way out of the world without a sight of the sea,—in fact, more like some suburb of hell.”
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"Most of all, concentration camps made civilians into proxies in order to get at combatants who had dared defy the ruling power.”
So it can legitimately be argued, to be consistent per the articles I just sent, that civilians as part of the Settlement/Kibbutzim enterprises are in fact “combatants” as being part of and necessary to, the expansion of Israeli military total control over, and the erasure of, so many Palestinians and their communities.
Jim Jordan and his extreme-right allies of the Republican Party, Heritage Foundation and Kevin Roberts, Yoram Hazony, et al., are certainly not counseling any “restraint” whatsoever, and in fact, denounce Biden for his “weakness” in doing what little of that that he is. And for his failure to not use recent events as a pretext to attack Iran. For that, just like against Obama, he assures all-out “Electoral Cognitive Warfare” against him as election interference specialists by Israeli “private” intelligence firms, and Peter Thiel/Steve Bannon intell/influence organizations as well did for Trump in 2016:
As Israelis closely monitor the risk of the opening of a northern front in the war, there are those who are deliberately encouraging the opening of an eastern front. There’s no other way to say it: Settlers are trying to drag Israel into war in the West Bank as well.
The number of attacks on Palestinians by settlers in the West Bank has increased since the war in the Gaza Strip began. Six Palestinians were killed in two incidents last week in the village of Qusra; according to residents, five were shot dead by settlers.
According to an IDF investigation, a military force heard gunshots and rushed to the scene with a response team from a nearby settlement. The soldiers claim they fired toward an open field, not the village, but the deceased were shot inside the village. A source in the defense establishment said the soldiers saw masked men leaving the village on an all-terrain vehicle, and videos show them shooting within the village.
In the days preceding the incident, in announcements posted on WhatsApp groups, settlers addressed villagers with the message: “We have no red lines. We’ll punish you in order to make an example out of you. We will ambush you!”
Picture of masked men near the scene of the attack on Wednesday.
In addition, a settler was filmed shooting a Palestinian man point-blank in Al-Tuwani, a village in the South Hebron Hills. A video distributed by B’Tselem showed the settler approach, shove and then shoot the man, in the presence of an Israeli soldier. The army confiscated the gun and the assailant was questioned by police, but last week the IDF said it would supply about 1,000 additional guns to the settlements’ security teams.
In the wake of the attacks, IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari urged settlers not to “interfere with counter-terrorism efforts” and said that the responsibility for Israel’s security is “the army’s alone.” That is far from enough. There are cabinet members whose loyalty is above all to the settlement enterprise.
They and their partners in the governing coalition encouraged criminality and land theft and supported settler violence. The government and the man heading it, Benjamin Netanyahu, abandoned the Gaza border communities and left them defenseless, as the IDF provided security for every settler whim, whether the sukkah of Religious Zionism lawmaker Tzvi Yedidia Sukkot or settlers who wanted to pray at Joseph’s Tomb or at Mount Ebal. When people ask where the IDF was, part of the answer is: in the territories.
Through its hold on the government, the annexation and apartheid enterprise enables the settlers to create provocations and incite war in the West Bank too. To stop them, sending the IDF spokesperson is not enough. The prime minister must show up in person and order them to stop jeopardizing Israel’s security.
It’s hard to believe Netanyahu will oust Religious Zionism from the government, since he is consumed by concern for his political survival. But if he allows the settlers’ rampage to continue, which will lead to the opening of another front, he will be responsible for another failure in his series of disastrous failures.
The above article is Haaretz’s lead editorial, as published in the Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel.
