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.
Opinion polls suggest that most Israelis oppose resettling Gaza, and it is not government policy, but since the Hamas attacks on 7 October it is being talked about out loud - by some of the loudest and most extreme voices in Israel’s government.
Mrs Weiss proudly shows me a map of the West Bank with pink dots indicating Jewish settlements. The dots are scattered all over the map, eating away at land where Palestinians hope - or hoped - to build their state.
There are about 700,000 Jewish settlers in these areas now and settler numbers are rising fast.
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Taking land by force and displacing population is against the Geneva Conventions.
Settlers is an unusual name for war criminals.
But if the U.S. and Britain called their war criminals ‘settlers’, why can’t anyone else? :O
Those do predate the Geneva conventions but otherwise are the same.
They could call it manifesto destiny
Its the BBC. If they call the israelis war criminals they will have to have a deeper closer look at themselves for all their war crimes. This way they were just quirked up settlers.
The BBC has committed war crimes?
BBC is an arm of the English government, which is responsible for a lot of death and destruction.
The british. The state whose mouthpiece they actually are.
Genocidal maniacs.
Why don’t you build some train tracks and camps while you’re at it you cunt.
A certain people did the same stuff in Warsaw
Yeah, but now the shoe’s on the other foot and it’s their time to do a genocide!
They will call it a genocide if white people are dying
Beachfront Lebensraum
Now with extra concentrate.
“You can call it ethnic cleansing. I repeat again, the Arabs do not want, normal Arabs do not want to live in Gaza. If you want to call it cleansing, if you want to call it apartheid, you choose your definition. I choose the way to protect the state of Israel.”
Fucking monster. Fuck Israel.
I’m not surprised, I’m disappointed.
That’s the face of pure evil.
Israel will murder everyone in Gaza and build Jewish settlements on the graves of Palestinians.
Fuck Israel.
BDS, it’s really all you can do
BBC should have called them “israeli settlers” instead of Jewish here, but their point stands
“Oy Vey, if I do not steal it, someone else will. Surely, you see my predicament.”
Inspiration and actual real video:
Ok, so Hamas resistance set their sights on Israeli “settlers”. And so it goes, death ensues.