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The girls, aged 14 to 16, have come for settler training to learn how to occupy Palestinian land — breaking international law. “God promised us this land and told us if you don’t take it, bad people will try and take it and you will have a war,” says Emuna Billa, 19, one of the camp supervisors. “Why do we have a war in Gaza? Because we don’t take Gaza.”

Their guru is Daniella Weiss, a 79-year-old grandmother in a long skirt and patterned headscarf. Founder of the Nachala or Homeland movement, she has been setting up illegal settlements for 49 years and was recently put under international sanctions. “You will be the new emissaries,” she tells the 50 or so girls at the camp. “I call it redeeming, not settling and this is our duty.”

She unfurls a map of Israel and the Palestinian territories dotted with vivid pink house symbols to represent existing and proposed Jewish settlements. Not only are these all across the West Bank, but also in Gaza. Already 674 people have signed up for beachside plots there, she tells me, and “many more want to join”. When someone asks her about settling Lebanon she smiles and says, “Yes, there too”.

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[–] oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The Jewish people have a right to self determination and had many good reasons to leave Europe for their ancestral homeland. Offering Jews a different homeland failed with the Jewish Oblast in the Soviet Union.

Herding European Jews into a new Ghetto while displacing Germans would not have gone well.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Now do Palestinians. Did they not have a right to their own land they were already on?

[–] oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure Palestinians have a claim to the land as well. That’s what this whole conflict is about: competing claims over the same land.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They can't both have a right to the same land without sharing it. This is the problem with ethnostates.

[–] oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Israel is less of an ethnostate than many other European and Asian countries.

Sharing the land in some kind of two state solution, federation, Emirates/Kanton system, is possible.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Herding? Dude you just give them Germany. Done.

No one is herded.

[–] oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe the Jews want to live elsewhere. Also what do you do with all the Germans who live on the land?