Violent Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank
have skyrocketed ever since October 7. Before that, 2022 and 2023 were
already setting record highs in settler violence, but the nature of
settler attacks today is on an entirely different level. Settlers are
now expelling entire Palestinian communities from their villages for
the first time in decades.

According to the UN, Israeli settlers expelled about 1,200
Palestinians from some 25 rural communities across the West Bank,
including seven communities that have been completely depopulated.

To say that this is historically unprecedented since the 1967 war
would be an understatement.

In recent weeks, Israeli settlers ramped up their attacks on several
Palestinian villages east of Ramallah. On April 11, following the
disappearance of a teenage settler near the village of al-Mughayyir,
hundreds of settlers launched a series of pogroms against neighboring
Palestinian villages.

“Settlers came from the nearby settlement of Shilo up the hill and
began to attack livestock barracks in the plain outside the village,”
Abu Musa Bashir, a resident of al-Mughayyir, tells Mondoweiss. “They
entered the village and began to shoot at houses, killing a young man
who tried to defend his house with stones from his rooftop.”

“For two days, settlers wounded dozens of people, burned eight houses,
five livestock barracks, and many cars,” he said. “This is not the
first time they attacked al-Mughayyir, but in recent months, the
settlers’ pressure on the village has increased, leaving everyone in
constant terror.”

The location of the attacks wasn’t a coincidence. The Israeli teenager
went missing near al-Mughayyir and was later found dead in the same
area. But the attacks extended to the neighboring villages of Mazra’a
Sharqiyyah, Turmusayya, Sinjel, Libban, Duma, and Aqraba, stretching
from the northeast of Ramallah to the southeast of Nablus.

This line of villages, moving north to south between the two cities,
overlooks the Jordan Valley to the east, at the edge of the
semi-contiguous Palestinian demographic presence in the central West
Bank.

The lands of these villages extend into the eastern slopes of the
central West Bank — a semi-arid chain of valleys and hills that spill
into the Jordan Valley. Palestinian villagers used to cultivate these
slopes until 1967, when Israel declared most of them closed military
zones. They are also the most fertile areas of the entire West Bank.

Bedouin Palestinian communities have lived on these slopes for
generations, moving their livestock up and down the hills depending on
the season and using the space for herding. In doing so, they have
maintained a centuries-old lifestyle that is native to the region. The
only thing standing in the way of the annexation of these lands by
Israel are these Palestinian communities, which is why settlers and
Israeli authorities have been gradually expelling them in a piecemeal
fashion, as in the case of the slow ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin
community of Ein Samiya in May 2023.

After October 7, everything changed. Israeli settlers expelled most of
the Bedouin communities in the last six months. And now the geographic
pattern of settler violence in the West Bank becomes clearer: they are
pushing for the depopulation of the Palestinian villages bordering the
Jordan Valley.

On October 12, the largest Bedouin community on the eastern slopes of
the central West Bank, Wadi Siq, ceased to exist. Armed Israeli
settlers entered Wadi Siq at noon and told Palestinian families to
leave and never come back under threat of death.

Abu Bashar Ka’abneh, head of one of the families in Wadi Siq and
spokesperson for the community, crossed the Israeli road from the
valley where the community stood, and moved less than three kilometers
away to the west of the Israeli highway, settling with his and other
families on the lands of the Palestinian village of Rammun.

“We are originally from the Naqab desert, in the south of historic
Palestine,” Ka’abneh tells Mondoweiss. “Our parents were forced out of
there in the Nakba in 1948, and settled in the southern tip of the
south Hebron hills, known as Masafer Yatta.”

“The occupation army forced them to leave again after taking over in
1967, and they scattered along the Jordan Valley and the eastern
slopes until, in the late seventies, some 40 families gathered in Wadi
Siq and created the community.”

“We were always banned from building so we lived in trailer houses and
tents because the entire Jordan Valley and the slopes are a part of
area C. They just let us live there, although with a lot of
restrictions, until 2020,” Ka’abneh recalled. “Settlers began to
harass us, bulldozing land around the community with the excuse of
preparing for a new settlement and banning us from herding near
specific areas, but then they began to become violent.”

“When we were forced out, some settlers wore Israeli reserve army
uniforms. Others went into the houses and kicked women out, while some
men were arrested and beaten. Many were forced to leave without taking
clothes or personal belongings, and some went missing in the valley
before reaching the road,” Ka’abneh says, recounting the harrowing
events of last October. “We are now in the same area, technically just
across the road, but no longer in area C.”

Settler attacks on this area first began to take a deadly turn in
2015, when Israeli settlers torched the Dawabsheh family’s home in the
village of Duma, killing an entire family, including 18-month-old Ali.
The solve survivor of the family was 10-year-old Ahmad Dawabsheh,
suffering serious burns.

A year ago, in March 2023, settlers tried to do the same to a farmers’
family outside of the village of Sinjel, halfway between Ramallah and
Nablus. Settlers threw burning objects inside the house of the family
from a small window opening. The family, including both parents and
three children, escaped from a back door at the last minute, surviving
but losing their home.

“The first thing to note about the line of eastern villages is that it
forms the natural edge of the Jordan Valley,” Khalil Tafakji, a top
Palestinian expert on Israeli settlements and former head of the maps
unit at Jerusalem’s Orient House, tells Mondoweiss. “And the first
thing to remember about the Jordan Valley, as far as settlements are
concerned, is the Allon plan of 1967.”

The Allon plan, devised by Israel’s then-labor minister Yigal Allon
shortly after Israel’s occupation of the West Bank suggested annexing
large parts of the West Bank by Israel and leaving the rest to Jordan.
The portion of the West Bank whose annexation Allon proposed was the
Jordan Valley. According to Allon’s plan, the demarcating line that
sat on the edge of the prospective area to be annexed was the eastern
line of villages that have been at the center of settler violence in
recent weeks.

“The Jordan Valley is just too strategic for Israel, but it has
nothing to do with security,” explained Tafakji. “The Jordan Valley is
an economic asset, the main agricultural land [in the West Bank].
Without it, a Palestinian state would never stand a chance.”

“The expulsion of Palestinian communities in the eastern slopes
guarantees for Israel an interruption to Palestinian demographic
contiguity, cutting off the Jordan Valley from the central West Bank,
while the villages themselves are meant to be the border,” Tafakji
says. In doing so, he says that Israel intends to turn the main
Palestinian cities in the West Bank, such as Ramallah, Bethlehem, and
Jenin, into isolated ghettos. “This was [also] the basis for the
Sharon plan of the 1990s,” he notes.

Former Israeli Prime Minister and then-minister of foreign affairs
Ariel Sharon designed a plan in the 1990s that complemented the Allon
Plan. It included the expansion of settlements between the 1949 Green
Line and the Jordan Valley in the very heart of the West Bank, cutting
off the northern West Bank from its center. This was then later
complemented by Sharon’s implementation of the annexation wall in
2004, which trapped Palestinians in non-contiguous and closed-off
enclaves. Their eastern border was the line of villages overlooking
the Jordan Valley.

“This was the entire purpose of dividing the West Bank into areas A,
B, and C in the Oslo accords,” Jamal Jumaa, coordinator of the
Palestinian Stop The Wall campaign, tells Mondoweiss. “The wall plan
follows the Oslo division lines, completing the process of isolating
Palestinian areas from each other, with the only connection between
them being a series of tunnels, gates, and checkpoints that would make
Palestinian life as a cohesive entity in the West Bank practically
impossible.”

“But then the remaining Palestinians in area C would need to be
removed, and that is where settlers’ violence comes in,” he added.

Bedouin family displaced from the eastern slopes in October camping on
the lands of the village of Rammun, east of Ramallah, across the
Demographics and ‘change of policy’

Israeli settler demographics in the West Bank have grown to more than
600,000 Jewish Israelis in recent years. But their actual presence in
area C of the West Bank outside of the major settlement blocks hasn’t
grown at the same rate.

NefeshBarYochai wrote:
> Violent Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank
> have skyrocketed ever since October 7. Before that, 2022 and 2023 were
> already setting record highs in settler violence, but the nature of
> settler attacks today is on an entirely different level. Settlers are
> now expelling entire Palestinian communities from their villages for
> the first time in decades.
>
> According to the UN, Israeli settlers expelled about 1,200
> Palestinians from some 25 rural communities across the West Bank,
> including seven communities that have been completely depopulated.
>
> To say that this is historically unprecedented since the 1967 war
> would be an understatement.
>
> In recent weeks, Israeli settlers ramped up their attacks on several
> Palestinian villages east of Ramallah. On April 11, following the
> disappearance of a teenage settler near the village of al-Mughayyir,
> hundreds of settlers launched a series of pogroms against neighboring
> Palestinian villages.
>
> “Settlers came from the nearby settlement of Shilo up the hill and
> began to attack livestock barracks in the plain outside the village,”
> Abu Musa Bashir, a resident of al-Mughayyir, tells Mondoweiss. “They
> entered the village and began to shoot at houses, killing a young man
> who tried to defend his house with stones from his rooftop.”
>
> “For two days, settlers wounded dozens of people, burned eight houses,
> five livestock barracks, and many cars,” he said. “This is not the
> first time they attacked al-Mughayyir, but in recent months, the
> settlers’ pressure on the village has increased, leaving everyone in
> constant terror.”
>
> The location of the attacks wasn’t a coincidence. The Israeli teenager
> went missing near al-Mughayyir and was later found dead in the same
> area. But the attacks extended to the neighboring villages of Mazra’a
> Sharqiyyah, Turmusayya, Sinjel, Libban, Duma, and Aqraba, stretching
> from the northeast of Ramallah to the southeast of Nablus.
>
> This line of villages, moving north to south between the two cities,
> overlooks the Jordan Valley to the east, at the edge of the
> semi-contiguous Palestinian demographic presence in the central West
> Bank.
>
> The lands of these villages extend into the eastern slopes of the
> central West Bank — a semi-arid chain of valleys and hills that spill
> into the Jordan Valley. Palestinian villagers used to cultivate these
> slopes until 1967, when Israel declared most of them closed military
> zones. They are also the most fertile areas of the entire West Bank.
>
> Bedouin Palestinian communities have lived on these slopes for
> generations, moving their livestock up and down the hills depending on
> the season and using the space for herding. In doing so, they have
> maintained a centuries-old lifestyle that is native to the region. The
> only thing standing in the way of the annexation of these lands by
> Israel are these Palestinian communities, which is why settlers and
> Israeli authorities have been gradually expelling them in a piecemeal
> fashion, as in the case of the slow ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin
> community of Ein Samiya in May 2023.
>
> After October 7, everything changed. Israeli settlers expelled most of
> the Bedouin communities in the last six months. And now the geographic
> pattern of settler violence in the West Bank becomes clearer: they are
> pushing for the depopulation of the Palestinian villages bordering the
> Jordan Valley.
>
> On October 12, the largest Bedouin community on the eastern slopes of
> the central West Bank, Wadi Siq, ceased to exist. Armed Israeli
> settlers entered Wadi Siq at noon and told Palestinian families to
> leave and never come back under threat of death.
>
> Abu Bashar Ka’abneh, head of one of the families in Wadi Siq and
> spokesperson for the community, crossed the Israeli road from the
> valley where the community stood, and moved less than three kilometers
> away to the west of the Israeli highway, settling with his and other
> families on the lands of the Palestinian village of Rammun.
>
> “We are originally from the Naqab desert, in the south of historic
> Palestine,” Ka’abneh tells Mondoweiss. “Our parents were forced out of
> there in the Nakba in 1948, and settled in the southern tip of the
> south Hebron hills, known as Masafer Yatta.”
>
> “The occupation army forced them to leave again after taking over in
> 1967, and they scattered along the Jordan Valley and the eastern
> slopes until, in the late seventies, some 40 families gathered in Wadi
> Siq and created the community.”
>
> “We were always banned from building so we lived in trailer houses and
> tents because the entire Jordan Valley and the slopes are a part of
> area C. They just let us live there, although with a lot of
> restrictions, until 2020,” Ka’abneh recalled. “Settlers began to
> harass us, bulldozing land around the community with the excuse of
> preparing for a new settlement and banning us from herding near
> specific areas, but then they began to become violent.”
>
> “When we were forced out, some settlers wore Israeli reserve army
> uniforms. Others went into the houses and kicked women out, while some
> men were arrested and beaten. Many were forced to leave without taking
> clothes or personal belongings, and some went missing in the valley
> before reaching the road,” Ka’abneh says, recounting the harrowing
> events of last October. “We are now in the same area, technically just
> across the road, but no longer in area C.”
>
> Settler attacks on this area first began to take a deadly turn in
> 2015, when Israeli settlers torched the Dawabsheh family’s home in the
> village of Duma, killing an entire family, including 18-month-old Ali.
> The solve survivor of the family was 10-year-old Ahmad Dawabsheh,
> suffering serious burns.
>
> A year ago, in March 2023, settlers tried to do the same to a farmers’
> family outside of the village of Sinjel, halfway between Ramallah and
> Nablus. Settlers threw burning objects inside the house of the family
> from a small window opening. The family, including both parents and
> three children, escaped from a back door at the last minute, surviving
> but losing their home.
>
> “The first thing to note about the line of eastern villages is that it
> forms the natural edge of the Jordan Valley,” Khalil Tafakji, a top
> Palestinian expert on Israeli settlements and former head of the maps
> unit at Jerusalem’s Orient House, tells Mondoweiss. “And the first
> thing to remember about the Jordan Valley, as far as settlements are
> concerned, is the Allon plan of 1967.”
>
> The Allon plan, devised by Israel’s then-labor minister Yigal Allon
> shortly after Israel’s occupation of the West Bank suggested annexing
> large parts of the West Bank by Israel and leaving the rest to Jordan.
> The portion of the West Bank whose annexation Allon proposed was the
> Jordan Valley. According to Allon’s plan, the demarcating line that
> sat on the edge of the prospective area to be annexed was the eastern
> line of villages that have been at the center of settler violence in
> recent weeks.
>
> “The Jordan Valley is just too strategic for Israel, but it has
> nothing to do with security,” explained Tafakji. “The Jordan Valley is
> an economic asset, the main agricultural land [in the West Bank].
> Without it, a Palestinian state would never stand a chance.”
>
> “The expulsion of Palestinian communities in the eastern slopes
> guarantees for Israel an interruption to Palestinian demographic
> contiguity, cutting off the Jordan Valley from the central West Bank,
> while the villages themselves are meant to be the border,” Tafakji
> says. In doing so, he says that Israel intends to turn the main
> Palestinian cities in the West Bank, such as Ramallah, Bethlehem, and
> Jenin, into isolated ghettos. “This was [also] the basis for the
> Sharon plan of the 1990s,” he notes.
>
> Former Israeli Prime Minister and then-minister of foreign affairs
> Ariel Sharon designed a plan in the 1990s that complemented the Allon
> Plan. It included the expansion of settlements between the 1949 Green
> Line and the Jordan Valley in the very heart of the West Bank, cutting
> off the northern West Bank from its center. This was then later
> complemented by Sharon’s implementation of the annexation wall in
> 2004, which trapped Palestinians in non-contiguous and closed-off
> enclaves. Their eastern border was the line of villages overlooking
> the Jordan Valley.
>
> “This was the entire purpose of dividing the West Bank into areas A,
> B, and C in the Oslo accords,” Jamal Jumaa, coordinator of the
> Palestinian Stop The Wall campaign, tells Mondoweiss. “The wall plan
> follows the Oslo division lines, completing the process of isolating
> Palestinian areas from each other, with the only connection between
> them being a series of tunnels, gates, and checkpoints that would make
> Palestinian life as a cohesive entity in the West Bank practically
> impossible.”
>
> “But then the remaining Palestinians in area C would need to be
> removed, and that is where settlers’ violence comes in,” he added.
>
> Bedouin family displaced from the eastern slopes in October camping on
> the lands of the village of Rammun, east of Ramallah, across the
> Demographics and ‘change of policy’
>
> Israeli settler demographics in the West Bank have grown to more than
> 600,000 Jewish Israelis in recent years. But their actual presence in
> area C of the West Bank outside of the major settlement blocks hasn’t
> grown at the same rate.
>
> According to a study published by a group of Israeli researchers at
> Reichman University in early March, Israel’s settlement policy in area
> C had “failed.”
>
> Researchers argue that rates of Israeli settlers moving into the area
> are much lower than those leaving the area to go to major Israeli
> cities and settlement blocks. Moreover, the study asserts that
> Palestinians have continued to grow in numbers in Area C due to family
> property deeds and high birth rates.
>
> According to the study, the ratio of Israelis to Palestinians in Area
> C has decreased from 81% in 2010 to 58% in 2023. The study concluded
> with a recommendation to “stop investing in a losing real estate
> project” and to “change orientation” in the West Bank.
>
> “The change of policy orientation could mean many things,” Tafakji
> says. “Including settler violence, especially when settlers have
> become so influential in Israeli policy.”
>
> “The fact that these areas are particularly targeted is no
> coincidence, and the fact that settler groups allied with Israeli
> politicians orchestrate these attacks is not a coincidence either,” he
> stresses.
>
> At Rammun, Abu Bashar Ka’abneh reflects on his expulsion from the
> valley just across the Allon road, named after Yigal Allon, who drew
> its line on the map in 1967.
>
> “We came to this side of the road after our lives were threatened, but
> we didn’t go far away,” he remarks. “I’ve lived all my life moving up
> and down the eastern slopes between these villages and Jericho. I
> can’t fathom how this road will cut us off and become a border. It
> just doesn’t make sense.”
>
> Meanwhile, in al-Mughayyir, where villagers are still counting their
> losses from the latest settler attack, Bashir Abu Musa insists, “We
> are peasants, and our land is part of who we are.”
>
> “They can kill everyone in the village, but we aren’t going anywhere,”
> he says.
>
> https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/what-recent-israeli-settler-violence-in-the-west-bank-is-really-about/
>
>
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% <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote:
>NefeshBarYochai wrote:
>> Violent Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank
>> have skyrocketed ever since October 7. Before that, 2022 and 2023 were
>> already setting record highs in settler violence, but the nature of
>> settler attacks today is on an entirely different level. Settlers are
>> now expelling entire Palestinian communities from their villages for
>> the first time in decades.
>>
>> According to the UN, Israeli settlers expelled about 1,200
>> Palestinians from some 25 rural communities across the West Bank,
>> including seven communities that have been completely depopulated.
>>
>> To say that this is historically unprecedented since the 1967 war
>> would be an understatement.
>>
>> In recent weeks, Israeli settlers ramped up their attacks on several
>> Palestinian villages east of Ramallah. On April 11, following the
>> disappearance of a teenage settler near the village of al-Mughayyir,
>> hundreds of settlers launched a series of pogroms against neighboring
>> Palestinian villages.
>>
>> “Settlers came from the nearby settlement of Shilo up the hill and
>> began to attack livestock barracks in the plain outside the village,”
>> Abu Musa Bashir, a resident of al-Mughayyir, tells Mondoweiss. “They
>> entered the village and began to shoot at houses, killing a young man
>> who tried to defend his house with stones from his rooftop.”
>>
>> “For two days, settlers wounded dozens of people, burned eight houses,
>> five livestock barracks, and many cars,” he said. “This is not the
>> first time they attacked al-Mughayyir, but in recent months, the
>> settlers’ pressure on the village has increased, leaving everyone in
>> constant terror.”
>>
>> The location of the attacks wasn’t a coincidence. The Israeli teenager
>> went missing near al-Mughayyir and was later found dead in the same
>> area. But the attacks extended to the neighboring villages of Mazra’a
>> Sharqiyyah, Turmusayya, Sinjel, Libban, Duma, and Aqraba, stretching
>> from the northeast of Ramallah to the southeast of Nablus.
>>
>> This line of villages, moving north to south between the two cities,
>> overlooks the Jordan Valley to the east, at the edge of the
>> semi-contiguous Palestinian demographic presence in the central West
>> Bank.
>>
>> The lands of these villages extend into the eastern slopes of the
>> central West Bank — a semi-arid chain of valleys and hills that spill
>> into the Jordan Valley. Palestinian villagers used to cultivate these
>> slopes until 1967, when Israel declared most of them closed military
>> zones. They are also the most fertile areas of the entire West Bank.
>>
>> Bedouin Palestinian communities have lived on these slopes for
>> generations, moving their livestock up and down the hills depending on
>> the season and using the space for herding. In doing so, they have
>> maintained a centuries-old lifestyle that is native to the region. The
>> only thing standing in the way of the annexation of these lands by
>> Israel are these Palestinian communities, which is why settlers and
>> Israeli authorities have been gradually expelling them in a piecemeal
>> fashion, as in the case of the slow ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin
>> community of Ein Samiya in May 2023.
>>
>> After October 7, everything changed. Israeli settlers expelled most of
>> the Bedouin communities in the last six months. And now the geographic
>> pattern of settler violence in the West Bank becomes clearer: they are
>> pushing for the depopulation of the Palestinian villages bordering the
>> Jordan Valley.
>>
>> On October 12, the largest Bedouin community on the eastern slopes of
>> the central West Bank, Wadi Siq, ceased to exist. Armed Israeli
>> settlers entered Wadi Siq at noon and told Palestinian families to
>> leave and never come back under threat of death.
>>
>> Abu Bashar Ka’abneh, head of one of the families in Wadi Siq and
>> spokesperson for the community, crossed the Israeli road from the
>> valley where the community stood, and moved less than three kilometers
>> away to the west of the Israeli highway, settling with his and other
>> families on the lands of the Palestinian village of Rammun.
>>
>> “We are originally from the Naqab desert, in the south of historic
>> Palestine,” Ka’abneh tells Mondoweiss. “Our parents were forced out of
>> there in the Nakba in 1948, and settled in the southern tip of the
>> south Hebron hills, known as Masafer Yatta.”
>>
>> “The occupation army forced them to leave again after taking over in
>> 1967, and they scattered along the Jordan Valley and the eastern
>> slopes until, in the late seventies, some 40 families gathered in Wadi
>> Siq and created the community.”
>>
>> “We were always banned from building so we lived in trailer houses and
>> tents because the entire Jordan Valley and the slopes are a part of
>> area C. They just let us live there, although with a lot of
>> restrictions, until 2020,” Ka’abneh recalled. “Settlers began to
>> harass us, bulldozing land around the community with the excuse of
>> preparing for a new settlement and banning us from herding near
>> specific areas, but then they began to become violent.”
>>
>> “When we were forced out, some settlers wore Israeli reserve army
>> uniforms. Others went into the houses and kicked women out, while some
>> men were arrested and beaten. Many were forced to leave without taking
>> clothes or personal belongings, and some went missing in the valley
>> before reaching the road,” Ka’abneh says, recounting the harrowing
>> events of last October. “We are now in the same area, technically just
>> across the road, but no longer in area C.”
>>
>> Settler attacks on this area first began to take a deadly turn in
>> 2015, when Israeli settlers torched the Dawabsheh family’s home in the
>> village of Duma, killing an entire family, including 18-month-old Ali.
>> The solve survivor of the family was 10-year-old Ahmad Dawabsheh,
>> suffering serious burns.
>>
>> A year ago, in March 2023, settlers tried to do the same to a farmers’
>> family outside of the village of Sinjel, halfway between Ramallah and
>> Nablus. Settlers threw burning objects inside the house of the family
>> from a small window opening. The family, including both parents and
>> three children, escaped from a back door at the last minute, surviving
>> but losing their home.
>>
>> “The first thing to note about the line of eastern villages is that it
>> forms the natural edge of the Jordan Valley,” Khalil Tafakji, a top
>> Palestinian expert on Israeli settlements and former head of the maps
>> unit at Jerusalem’s Orient House, tells Mondoweiss. “And the first
>> thing to remember about the Jordan Valley, as far as settlements are
>> concerned, is the Allon plan of 1967.”
>>
>> The Allon plan, devised by Israel’s then-labor minister Yigal Allon
>> shortly after Israel’s occupation of the West Bank suggested annexing
>> large parts of the West Bank by Israel and leaving the rest to Jordan.
>> The portion of the West Bank whose annexation Allon proposed was the
>> Jordan Valley. According to Allon’s plan, the demarcating line that
>> sat on the edge of the prospective area to be annexed was the eastern
>> line of villages that have been at the center of settler violence in
>> recent weeks.
>>
>> “The Jordan Valley is just too strategic for Israel, but it has
>> nothing to do with security,” explained Tafakji. “The Jordan Valley is
>> an economic asset, the main agricultural land [in the West Bank].
>> Without it, a Palestinian state would never stand a chance.”
>>
>> “The expulsion of Palestinian communities in the eastern slopes
>> guarantees for Israel an interruption to Palestinian demographic
>> contiguity, cutting off the Jordan Valley from the central West Bank,
>> while the villages themselves are meant to be the border,” Tafakji
>> says. In doing so, he says that Israel intends to turn the main
>> Palestinian cities in the West Bank, such as Ramallah, Bethlehem, and
>> Jenin, into isolated ghettos. “This was [also] the basis for the
>> Sharon plan of the 1990s,” he notes.
>>
>> Former Israeli Prime Minister and then-minister of foreign affairs
>> Ariel Sharon designed a plan in the 1990s that complemented the Allon
>> Plan. It included the expansion of settlements between the 1949 Green
>> Line and the Jordan Valley in the very heart of the West Bank, cutting
>> off the northern West Bank from its center. This was then later
>> complemented by Sharon’s implementation of the annexation wall in
>> 2004, which trapped Palestinians in non-contiguous and closed-off
>> enclaves. Their eastern border was the line of villages overlooking
>> the Jordan Valley.
>>
>> “This was the entire purpose of dividing the West Bank into areas A,
>> B, and C in the Oslo accords,” Jamal Jumaa, coordinator of the
>> Palestinian Stop The Wall campaign, tells Mondoweiss. “The wall plan
>> follows the Oslo division lines, completing the process of isolating
>> Palestinian areas from each other, with the only connection between
>> them being a series of tunnels, gates, and checkpoints that would make
>> Palestinian life as a cohesive entity in the West Bank practically
>> impossible.”
>>
>> “But then the remaining Palestinians in area C would need to be
>> removed, and that is where settlers’ violence comes in,” he added.
>>
>> Bedouin family displaced from the eastern slopes in October camping on
>> the lands of the village of Rammun, east of Ramallah, across the
>> Demographics and ‘change of policy’
>>
>> Israeli settler demographics in the West Bank have grown to more than
>> 600,000 Jewish Israelis in recent years. But their actual presence in
>> area C of the West Bank outside of the major settlement blocks hasn’t
>> grown at the same rate.
>>
>> According to a study published by a group of Israeli researchers at
>> Reichman University in early March, Israel’s settlement policy in area
>> C had “failed.”
>>
>> Researchers argue that rates of Israeli settlers moving into the area
>> are much lower than those leaving the area to go to major Israeli
>> cities and settlement blocks. Moreover, the study asserts that
>> Palestinians have continued to grow in numbers in Area C due to family
>> property deeds and high birth rates.
>>
>> According to the study, the ratio of Israelis to Palestinians in Area
>> C has decreased from 81% in 2010 to 58% in 2023. The study concluded
>> with a recommendation to “stop investing in a losing real estate
>> project” and to “change orientation” in the West Bank.
>>
>> “The change of policy orientation could mean many things,” Tafakji
>> says. “Including settler violence, especially when settlers have
>> become so influential in Israeli policy.”
>>
>> “The fact that these areas are particularly targeted is no
>> coincidence, and the fact that settler groups allied with Israeli
>> politicians orchestrate these attacks is not a coincidence either,” he
>> stresses.
>>
>> At Rammun, Abu Bashar Ka’abneh reflects on his expulsion from the
>> valley just across the Allon road, named after Yigal Allon, who drew
>> its line on the map in 1967.
>>
>> “We came to this side of the road after our lives were threatened, but
>> we didn’t go far away,” he remarks. “I’ve lived all my life moving up
>> and down the eastern slopes between these villages and Jericho. I
>> can’t fathom how this road will cut us off and become a border. It
>> just doesn’t make sense.”
>>
>> Meanwhile, in al-Mughayyir, where villagers are still counting their
>> losses from the latest settler attack, Bashir Abu Musa insists, “We
>> are peasants, and our land is part of who we are.”
>>
>> “They can kill everyone in the village, but we aren’t going anywhere,”
>> he says.
>>
>>
>https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/what-recent-israeli-settler-violence-in-the-west-bank-is-really-about/
>>
>>
>so

WE HAVE ALLEGED "SOLDIERS OF ALLAH" AS ADOLESCENTS BEFORE THE COURTS WHO
EXHIBITED OSAMA BIN LADEN HERO IDOLISATION AND DESIRE TO COMMIT A TERRORIST
EVENT -- it's now high time those expressing Islamic religious / political
views differentiate such from paradigm equivalence to FASCISM.

We have just compared the * - #205: TENET 5x5 dynamic of LUO SHU SQUARE
[#249 - SATOR (#38) / #169 - AREPO (#35) / #205 - TENET (#33) / #241 -
OPERA (#37) / #161 - ROTAS (#34)] which mimics the * - #300 dynamic to the
COURSE OF NATURE: #205 + #300 = #505 - MALKUTH (kingdom) as 10x10 MAGIC
SQUARE.

40 41 42 43 44 
49 50 51 52 53 
58 59 60 61 62 
67 68 69 70 71 
76 77 78 79
80

<https://www.grapple369.com/nature.html>

Unlike the other nine sephirot, it is an attribute of God which does not
emanate from God directly. Rather it emanates from God's creation—when that
creation reflects and evinces God's glory from within itself.

<http://www.grapple369.com/images/Hitler%20Claim%20to%20Science.jpeg>

Strangely the New York terrorist event of 11 September 2001 appears to be
derived from a 3x3 matrix and Hitler Table idea #303 - New York Sky
Scrapers vulnerable to air attack.

There are only two categories:

a) Those having NAZI paradigm equivalence which is a compromise of
unsurpassed and seething evil...

b) The ignorant as the godless:

SPOKEN BY GOD INCARNATE: "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we
worship: for salvation is of the Jews." [John 4:22]

<http://www.grapple369.com/Groundwork/EMAIL%20TO%20LAWYERS%2020240422%200700%20HRS.pdf>

NefeshBarYochai <void@invalid.noy> wrote:
> Violent Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank
> have skyrocketed ever since October 7. Before that, 2022 and 2023 were
> already setting record highs in settler violence, but the nature of
> settler attacks today is on an entirely different level. Settlers are
> now expelling entire Palestinian communities from their villages for
> the first time in decades.
>
> According to the UN, Israeli settlers expelled about 1,200
> Palestinians from some 25 rural communities across the West Bank,
> including seven communities that have been completely depopulated.
>
> To say that this is historically unprecedented since the 1967 war
> would be an understatement.
>
> In recent weeks, Israeli settlers ramped up their attacks on several
> Palestinian villages east of Ramallah. On April 11, following the
> disappearance of a teenage settler near the village of al-Mughayyir,
> hundreds of settlers launched a series of pogroms against neighboring
> Palestinian villages.
>
> “Settlers came from the nearby settlement of Shilo up the hill and
> began to attack livestock barracks in the plain outside the village,”
> Abu Musa Bashir, a resident of al-Mughayyir, tells Mondoweiss. “They
> entered the village and began to shoot at houses, killing a young man
> who tried to defend his house with stones from his rooftop.”
>
> “For two days, settlers wounded dozens of people, burned eight houses,
> five livestock barracks, and many cars,” he said. “This is not the
> first time they attacked al-Mughayyir, but in recent months, the
> settlers’ pressure on the village has increased, leaving everyone in
> constant terror.”
>
> The location of the attacks wasn’t a coincidence. The Israeli teenager
> went missing near al-Mughayyir and was later found dead in the same
> area. But the attacks extended to the neighboring villages of Mazra’a
> Sharqiyyah, Turmusayya, Sinjel, Libban, Duma, and Aqraba, stretching
> from the northeast of Ramallah to the southeast of Nablus.
>
> This line of villages, moving north to south between the two cities,
> overlooks the Jordan Valley to the east, at the edge of the
> semi-contiguous Palestinian demographic presence in the central West
> Bank.
>
> The lands of these villages extend into the eastern slopes of the
> central West Bank — a semi-arid chain of valleys and hills that spill
> into the Jordan Valley. Palestinian villagers used to cultivate these
> slopes until 1967, when Israel declared most of them closed military
> zones. They are also the most fertile areas of the entire West Bank.
>
> Bedouin Palestinian communities have lived on these slopes for
> generations, moving their livestock up and down the hills depending on
> the season and using the space for herding. In doing so, they have
> maintained a centuries-old lifestyle that is native to the region. The
> only thing standing in the way of the annexation of these lands by
> Israel are these Palestinian communities, which is why settlers and
> Israeli authorities have been gradually expelling them in a piecemeal
> fashion, as in the case of the slow ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin
> community of Ein Samiya in May 2023.
>
> After October 7, everything changed. Israeli settlers expelled most of
> the Bedouin communities in the last six months. And now the geographic
> pattern of settler violence in the West Bank becomes clearer: they are
> pushing for the depopulation of the Palestinian villages bordering the
> Jordan Valley.
>
> On October 12, the largest Bedouin community on the eastern slopes of
> the central West Bank, Wadi Siq, ceased to exist. Armed Israeli
> settlers entered Wadi Siq at noon and told Palestinian families to
> leave and never come back under threat of death.
>
> Abu Bashar Ka’abneh, head of one of the families in Wadi Siq and
> spokesperson for the community, crossed the Israeli road from the
> valley where the community stood, and moved less than three kilometers
> away to the west of the Israeli highway, settling with his and other
> families on the lands of the Palestinian village of Rammun.
>
> “We are originally from the Naqab desert, in the south of historic
> Palestine,” Ka’abneh tells Mondoweiss. “Our parents were forced out of
> there in the Nakba in 1948, and settled in the southern tip of the
> south Hebron hills, known as Masafer Yatta.”
>
> “The occupation army forced them to leave again after taking over in
> 1967, and they scattered along the Jordan Valley and the eastern
> slopes until, in the late seventies, some 40 families gathered in Wadi
> Siq and created the community.”
>
> “We were always banned from building so we lived in trailer houses and
> tents because the entire Jordan Valley and the slopes are a part of
> area C. They just let us live there, although with a lot of
> restrictions, until 2020,” Ka’abneh recalled. “Settlers began to
> harass us, bulldozing land around the community with the excuse of
> preparing for a new settlement and banning us from herding near
> specific areas, but then they began to become violent.”
>
> “When we were forced out, some settlers wore Israeli reserve army
> uniforms. Others went into the houses and kicked women out, while some
> men were arrested and beaten. Many were forced to leave without taking
> clothes or personal belongings, and some went missing in the valley
> before reaching the road,” Ka’abneh says, recounting the harrowing
> events of last October. “We are now in the same area, technically just
> across the road, but no longer in area C.”
>
> Settler attacks on this area first began to take a deadly turn in
> 2015, when Israeli settlers torched the Dawabsheh family’s home in the
> village of Duma, killing an entire family, including 18-month-old Ali.
> The solve survivor of the family was 10-year-old Ahmad Dawabsheh,
> suffering serious burns.
>
> A year ago, in March 2023, settlers tried to do the same to a farmers’
> family outside of the village of Sinjel, halfway between Ramallah and
> Nablus. Settlers threw burning objects inside the house of the family
> from a small window opening. The family, including both parents and
> three children, escaped from a back door at the last minute, surviving
> but losing their home.
>
> “The first thing to note about the line of eastern villages is that it
> forms the natural edge of the Jordan Valley,” Khalil Tafakji, a top
> Palestinian expert on Israeli settlements and former head of the maps
> unit at Jerusalem’s Orient House, tells Mondoweiss. “And the first
> thing to remember about the Jordan Valley, as far as settlements are
> concerned, is the Allon plan of 1967.”
>
> The Allon plan, devised by Israel’s then-labor minister Yigal Allon
> shortly after Israel’s occupation of the West Bank suggested annexing
> large parts of the West Bank by Israel and leaving the rest to Jordan.
> The portion of the West Bank whose annexation Allon proposed was the
> Jordan Valley. According to Allon’s plan, the demarcating line that
> sat on the edge of the prospective area to be annexed was the eastern
> line of villages that have been at the center of settler violence in
> recent weeks.
>
> “The Jordan Valley is just too strategic for Israel, but it has
> nothing to do with security,” explained Tafakji. “The Jordan Valley is
> an economic asset, the main agricultural land [in the West Bank].
> Without it, a Palestinian state would never stand a chance.”
>
> “The expulsion of Palestinian communities in the eastern slopes
> guarantees for Israel an interruption to Palestinian demographic
> contiguity, cutting off the Jordan Valley from the central West Bank,
> while the villages themselves are meant to be the border,” Tafakji
> says. In doing so, he says that Israel intends to turn the main
> Palestinian cities in the West Bank, such as Ramallah, Bethlehem, and
> Jenin, into isolated ghettos. “This was [also] the basis for the
> Sharon plan of the 1990s,” he notes.
>
> Former Israeli Prime Minister and then-minister of foreign affairs
> Ariel Sharon designed a plan in the 1990s that complemented the Allon
> Plan. It included the expansion of settlements between the 1949 Green
> Line and the Jordan Valley in the very heart of the West Bank, cutting
> off the northern West Bank from its center. This was then later
> complemented by Sharon’s implementation of the annexation wall in
> 2004, which trapped Palestinians in non-contiguous and closed-off
> enclaves. Their eastern border was the line of villages overlooking
> the Jordan Valley.
>
> “This was the entire purpose of dividing the West Bank into areas A,
> B, and C in the Oslo accords,” Jamal Jumaa, coordinator of the
> Palestinian Stop The Wall campaign, tells Mondoweiss. “The wall plan
> follows the Oslo division lines, completing the process of isolating
> Palestinian areas from each other, with the only connection between
> them being a series of tunnels, gates, and checkpoints that would make
> Palestinian life as a cohesive entity in the West Bank practically
> impossible.”
>
> “But then the remaining Palestinians in area C would need to be
> removed, and that is where settlers’ violence comes in,” he added.
>
> Bedouin family displaced from the eastern slopes in October camping on
> the lands of the village of Rammun, east of Ramallah, across the
> Demographics and ‘change of policy’
>
> Israeli settler demographics in the West Bank have grown to more than
> 600,000 Jewish Israelis in recent years. But their actual presence in
> area C of the West Bank outside of the major settlement blocks hasn’t
> grown at the same rate.
>
> According to a study published by a group of Israeli researchers at
> Reichman University in early March, Israel’s settlement policy in area
> C had “failed.”
>
> Researchers argue that rates of Israeli settlers moving into the area
> are much lower than those leaving the area to go to major Israeli
> cities and settlement blocks. Moreover, the study asserts that
> Palestinians have continued to grow in numbers in Area C due to family
> property deeds and high birth rates.
>
> According to the study, the ratio of Israelis to Palestinians in Area
> C has decreased from 81% in 2010 to 58% in 2023. The study concluded
> with a recommendation to “stop investing in a losing real estate
> project” and to “change orientation” in the West Bank.
>
> “The change of policy orientation could mean many things,” Tafakji
> says. “Including settler violence, especially when settlers have
> become so influential in Israeli policy.”
>
> “The fact that these areas are particularly targeted is no
> coincidence, and the fact that settler groups allied with Israeli
> politicians orchestrate these attacks is not a coincidence either,” he
> stresses.
>
> At Rammun, Abu Bashar Ka’abneh reflects on his expulsion from the
> valley just across the Allon road, named after Yigal Allon, who drew
> its line on the map in 1967.
>
> “We came to this side of the road after our lives were threatened, but
> we didn’t go far away,” he remarks. “I’ve lived all my life moving up
> and down the eastern slopes between these villages and Jericho. I
> can’t fathom how this road will cut us off and become a border. It
> just doesn’t make sense.”
>
> Meanwhile, in al-Mughayyir, where villagers are still counting their
> losses from the latest settler attack, Bashir Abu Musa insists, “We
> are peasants, and our land is part of who we are.”
>
> “They can kill everyone in the village, but we aren’t going anywhere,”
> he says.
>
> https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/what-recent-israeli-settler-violence-in-the-west-bank-is-really-about/
>
>
>

On 2024-04-30 20:10:21 +0000, NefeshBarYochai said:

> Recent settler violence in the West Bank, explained

The "explaination" is, as usual, religious fanatics and greedy jealous
morons in political positions. They all simply need to gorw up into
actual *intelligent* human beings. :-(

On 2024-04-30 22:09:18 +0000, Your Name said:

> On 2024-04-30 20:10:21 +0000, NefeshBarYochai said:
>
>> Recent settler violence in the West Bank, explained
>
> The "explaination" is, as usual, religious fanatics and greedy jealous
> morons in political positions. They all simply need to gorw up into
> actual *intelligent* human beings. :-(

Damn typos!! They need to grow up, not "gorw up". :-(

On 30-Apr-24 15:31:51 , The Doctor wrote:

> Now what for Idlehands to come up with a pro-Hamas Explanation.

Was this fucking gibberish supposed to mean anything in English,
you fucking brainless amoeba and a fucking illiterate imbecile?
But I realize that the only purpose of posting it was to lick the shit
off assworm's anus and to boost your post count, you fucking
worthless waste of air.

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:38:20 -0600, Rob <bobby@not.net> wrote:

>On 30-Apr-24 15:31:51 , The Doctor wrote:
>
>> Now what for Idlehands to come up with a pro-Hamas Explanation.
>
>Was this fucking gibberish supposed to mean anything in English,
>you fucking brainless amoeba and a fucking illiterate imbecile?
>But I realize that the only purpose of posting it was to lick the shit
>off assworm's anus and to boost your post count, you fucking
>worthless waste of air.

Nice vocabulary. Very original.

On 30-Apr-24 22:00:54 , John Larkin wrote:

> Nice vocabulary. Very original.

I'm very glad you like it.

On 2024-04-30 8:38 p.m., Rob wrote:
> On 30-Apr-24 15:31:51 , The Doctor wrote:
>
>> Now what for Idlehands to come up with a pro-Hamas Explanation.
>
> Was this fucking gibberish supposed to mean anything in English,
> you fucking brainless amoeba and a fucking illiterate imbecile?
> But I realize that the only purpose of posting it was to lick the shit
> off assworm's anus and to boost your post count, you fucking
> worthless waste of air.

The asswipe seems to expect a lot from me these days, I would prefer he
explain the actions of the Israelis and what justifies these actions.

Take your time binky, I can wait.

--
Facisim: The first step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent

Bertrand Russell

On 1/05/2024 6:10 am, NefeshBarYochai wrote:

<snipped a lot of no doubt deeply felt opinion of zero relevance to
sci.electronics.design>

Irrelevant explanations are spam when they are posted to inappropriate
destinations.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 22:21:09 -0600, Rob <bobby@not.net> wrote:

>On 30-Apr-24 22:00:54 , John Larkin wrote:
>
>> Nice vocabulary. Very original.
>
>I'm very glad you like it.

As you grow up, you might advance to five and even seven-letter words.

You posted to sci.electronics.design. What sort of electronics do you
design?