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"The settlers aren't wrong. The right is correct: That is the way to seize and hold land, and their claim that, any place we Israelis leave, the Arabs will come in our place, is correct. The right is also correct in its path: It's by settlement and only by settlement that sovereignty can be imposed. The debate is whether sovereignty should be imposed. The settlements claim that they are the successors to Kibbutz Hanita [on the Lebanon border], because, just as in the Tower and Stockade days [a method of establishing new settlements during the period of the British Mandate], you [need to] conquer hill after hill without consideration for the law and you create facts on the ground. They [the settlers] learned from us how to settle and seize land. The argument with them is not about the way or the method, but about the intention and the goal."


"There will be no peace with the Palestinians. My opinion changed long before October 7. It's not the disengagement [2005 Gaza pullout], that failed, it's Oslo. I don't tell myself stories."


"The attitude toward the conflict and its solution is bound to change across the board. Many of the kibbutzniks who experienced October 7 can't bear to hear Arabic and want to see Gaza erased. They are the new 'victims of peace.' Very few of the kibbutzniks whose homes mark the border think today that the people living on the other side are good people. They cannot overcome rationally the emotional experience. The trauma is stronger than their worldview."


During the riots of 1921, they learned that it's better to deal with a security threat through a shared life, and Kibbutz Ein Harod was established among hostile communities in the Jezreel Valley. And thus it was in every new area where Zionism arrived: the Hefer Valley, Beit She'an Valley, Hanita and the 11 communities established overnight in the Negev. Their first mission was to 'conquer the land.' Today, too, the kibbutz is the most effective way to maintain a hundred civilian outposts along the border fence.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The Kibbutzim should remain and Settlers should be given the choice to live in Israel's currently held land or to become Palestinian citizens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Expand ze Lebensraum!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Imagine coming out of the holocaust, where unimaginable horrors were done to the Jewish people, to then just straight go in to doing the exact same thing to the Palestinians. Imagine being that hypocritical and still think you are in the right. I can't even begin to to think how one could be so stuck up their own arse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

This was talked about briefly in October but it's still flying under the radar imo. The Oct 7th attack took place on these very left leaning pacifist communties who believed in peace and liked to work with the Palestinians and their cause, more than most Israelis.

Many of the kibbutzniks who experienced October 7 can't bear to hear Arabic and want to see Gaza erased.

The trauma is stronger than their worldview

I was wondering if it might push those with that pacifist/hippy outlook on life to change and it appears it has.

When even the hippies are yearning for scorched earth tactics it doesn't bode well for winding down of military operations anytime soon. It also makes me think we're far more likely to see more serious military action roll into Lebanon within a few months.

TL:DR RIP peace. We never knew ye.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's the most wrong description of the Kibbutzes possible. They were the buffer encircling Gaza and many of those people were actively oppressing Gaza in the military bases nearby.

There's a reason Hamas had such a high percentage of soldier kills.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Were they really pacifist/hippies?

If a group broke into your house and only half of them tied up and beat your family. Is the other half innocent if they stay in just the kitchen and never bother to terrorise your family or help them. They just make themselves at home in your kitchen and expect you to do nothing.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your metaphor looks a lot like an attempt to conflate Hamas with Palestinians in general.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not Hamas or Palestinians they're talking about, it's the settlers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ah. That makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I don't know if hippie is the right word either. But your analogy is way too disconnected.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago

All of these people can get fucked. They're knowingly stealing land from someone else, then pretending to be the victims when there are consequences for that. I don't feel a single shred of pity for them.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

Interesting. I think the settlers are human scum. I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago

What I got from the article.

We steal their land but they defend themselves. Now that we know we can get away with it, we should just take everything instead of pretending to only want a part of it.