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| How to manufacture a case of ‘settler violence’ | |
| 2023-12-22 | |
| [IsraelNationalNews] Ah! "Settler violence!" That dangerous phenomenon that must be quashed. Biden is holding back licences for selling 20,000 American-made rifles to Israel "on the charge that they would be distributed to 'violent extremist' settlers." The British Foreign Secretary David Cameron announced that the UK is not admitting "extremist Israeli settlers" to the country. Where did Biden and Cameron get the idea that settlers are violent? This is not to say that there are no violent settlers. That would be the same as saying that there are no violent Americans or Europeans, etc. Unfortunately, however, the term "settler violence" seems to imply that the half a million people living in Judea-Samaria and the Jordan Valley are violent and committing offences against the Palestinian Arabs. There is only one thing I want to accomplish in this article, and that is to show one simple instance in which a case against "settlers," i.e., in this case, a group of people living in the Jordan Valley, was manufactured out of thin air. My hope is that you will be as horrified as I am and will examine, in the future, the source of any rumour you hear and see if you can verify a report of so-called "settler violence" before sharing it on social media or in discussion in real life. I came across this case on the "X" account of Elhanan Gruner, a journalist with Hakol Hayehudi who I follow. He also wrote it up as an article. Hakol Hayehudi is associated with the settler movement and that may be (at least I hope this is the reason) why this item was not picked up by any other news site. I will first translate the text of his two-part "X" post, followed by adding supplemental details found in the article he wrote about it. Settler violence libel 1: Saturday night at Omer's Farm in the [Jordan] Valley. They discover a large hole cut in the fence around a date plantation. IDF soldiers and a tracker follow the tracks to a house in the village of Uja, investigate, and leave the place. Not a moment passes and the police receive a call from an extreme left anarchist [claiming that] settlers entered a house in the village of Uja and abused the children... the army explains 2. that it concerns soldiers and the report is false. The police closed the incident. But the anarchists are already reporting to the high command, the Americans, and the foreign media that the guys from Omer's Farm ([Omer is] an esteemed [IDF] officer) "abused the Palestinians". An event that never took place. On the contrary, the eventwas the cutting of the farm's date plantation fence ...[emphasis added] A note about language: Gruner refers to 'anarchists'. I call them 'activists.' He also does not tell us to which NGO these activists belong and it is certain they do belong to one of the NGO's operating in the area. I hope that Gruner's use of the word 'anarchist' does not distract readers from the main point, which is the way in which this fake and baseless report against residents in the Jordan Valley was manufactured and used to blacken the names of settlers.
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| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
#4 — Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) December 22, 2023 |
| Posted by: badanov 2023-12-22 23:09 |
| #3 IDF demands northern rapid response teams return weapons |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-12-22 03:30 |
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| Posted by: badanov 2023-12-22 02:32 |
| #1 Settler Mohammedanism "From nondescript sand to the Strand, We expand into every known land, And you'd better convert Or be treated like dirt, Your indigenous cultures, all banned If you don't pay the Danegeld, unmanned!" |
| Posted by: Fleamble Stalin8598 2023-12-22 02:09 |