In the West Bank, I saw how peace will require confrontation with Israel – David Ignatius/WaPost
“For settlers, obstructing Palestinian statehood is part of the mission, Yehuda Shaul, a leading Israeli expert on settlements, told me…
“And in recent years, there has been a frightening increase in violence by settlers against Palestinians, in what human rights advocates say are deliberate efforts to frighten them off land that the settlers believe God gave to Israel.
“Settler violence has surged since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist assault, which killed approximately 1,200 Israelis. Since then, there have been 343 settler attacks against Palestinians, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. At least 143 Palestinian households, with 1,026 people (including 396 children), have been displaced by violence. Settlers have killed eight Palestinians and injured 85, the U.N. organization says.
“The violent settlers almost always go unpunished. From 2005 to 2022, 93 percent of the 1,597 investigations opened by the Israeli police into cases where Israelis were said to have harmed Palestinians were closed without indictment, according to Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din; only about 3 percent led to convictions.”
Shades of Kristallnacht? Israeli treatment of West Bank Palestinians is getting close to what happened in 1930s Germany, if not already there.
Israel’s ‘nation-state law’ parallels the Nazi Nuremberg Laws – Susan Abulhawa/Al Jazeera
“Israel’s new ‘nation-state’ law follows in the footsteps of Jim Crow, the Indian Removal Act and the Nuremberg Laws.”
Firsthand Account: No Safety For Children In Gaza – Unicef/Forbes
“Despite promises made that the horrors visited on the north of the territory would not be repeated, I saw firsthand how the south is now being pummeled. Children are being killed and brutally injured. Houses, schools and hospitals are being destroyed.”
No more US funding for wars of extermination.