Palestinians Lose More Land After Israel Secretly Approves Record Number Of Settlements In West Bank

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They were not genocided for their culture? They did not intentionally kill off and slaughter animals to force other Indigenous groups onto reservations? 🤣 Like what are you talking about? No one said “good” or “bad” but we can be honest and say European colonization- which sought to break Indigenous culture, traditions, language, people- was far worse and far more different than constant exchanges of land. Please don’t be so ahistorical and ignorant

Yeah, Israel is proving in real time that we learned nothing from history.

Even the article that you linked states that that community resides in Northern Israel, not West Bank settlements (or any other disputed or occupied lands); same deal with every other “Lost Tribe” (converted) community that moves to Israel, they almost always live in Israel proper and not settlements. They also underwent formal conversions to Orthodox Judaism, so you can totally dislike Israel and its Right of Return immigration policy (which basically treats conversion as fulfilling a naturalization process), but they are “real Jews” as far as pretty much anybody is concerned.

Yes, [a coalition of Arab states chose to attack Israel 78-years ago.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War)

I was listening to an interesting piece by an Israeli ex-military intelligence guy who was saying how much Bibi and his cronies' rhetoric, very intentionally, is always trying to make Israel and Judaism synonymous.

You are correct. Israeli Jewish people put all Jews over a barrel and we all look bad.

Of course you don’t mention the 20% of the population that isn’t Jewish, which is a double standard. Also the demonization here aligns with antisemitism. These are [2 of the 3 D’s of antisemitism.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Ds_of_antisemitism)

We found the antisemite.

The land is in area C which the PLO agreed would be Israeli controlled. Even if we don’t accept that under *Uti Possidetis Juris* the land belongs to Israel and Jordan simply illegally occupied it from 1948-1967. Therefore it is not colonization.

the term is ethnic cleansing

Why not?

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No, it started when the Jews accepted the partition and the Arabs declared a genocidal war and lost it.

No it started when the German Jews tried to kill all the Germans in Germany with the help.of the Jewish states around it. Right?

No I totally understood. And no the having people wait for hours for no reason at checkpoints in their own land is 99% just f****** with them.

Israel has completely ignored and violated the Oslo Accords dozens of times, but they get to pretend this specific part is still in force? F*** that  Also the whole point of Area c is that it would be "gradually transferred to Palestinian jurisdiction" - 30+ years and this has never even begun. Settlements in area C are designated as illegal under international law 

You are honestly saying that there is no occupation? Are you f****** high?

And you think you have knowledge? The country of Palestine existed befoe 1948 when the British decided Israel would be built in another sovereign country. They came in displaced, killed, annexed Palestinians and their land. Read some history that isn't whitewashed c*** you read and then some spew none sense.

> throwing out thousands of Jews that have lived there for millennia. (The vast majority of Jews living in Palestine in 1949 were Europeans who had immigrated between 1933 and 1946, but that's uh, a bit annoying for modern Israelis so they don't talk about that)

It doesn’t matter to me if they were Muslim or Jewish before the European settlers- they were middle eastern first and the land belongs to us not white New Yorkers

No. There is. There's a clear and different concept of the word. If I force all the Norwegians out of their homes and replace them with Swedish people then that is ethnic cleansing. If I KILL all the Norwegians to do that then that's genocide. Now the bar for genocide is HIGH. Israel by dint of being a Jewish state actively polices the term strictly in light of the Holocaust. The Holocaust didn't start with genocide, it started with Ethnic Cleansing. It started with deportation and seizure of property. Jews who left were encouraged to leave. Genocide is defined by murder, torture, destruction and denial of food, water and medicine. It's often associated with forced birth control and removal of children or targetting of children in particular. Now the reason we can't make a genocide claim stick is that Israel's killings are random and indiscriminate but not at the scale at which a genocide can be claimed. But the purpose is to force Palestinians from their native home because the fundamental problem is that Israel promotes that "all Arabs are the same" and so a Palestinian from Jenin or Bethlehem is no different to someone from Oman". You see this in the USA as well since Americans can't differentiate between Muslims and so treat all Muslims as the same culture which is amusing since an Indonesia and an Arab are wildly different despite the lion's share of Muslims looking like Indonesians and Indians and "NOT" Arabs. Basically? All Genocide is Ethnic Cleansing, not all Ethnic Cleansing is Genocide. All Ponies are Horses, All Horses are not Ponies. The purpose of Israel's behaviour in the West Bank is to prevent the formation of a Palestinian state. They do this by forcing Palestinians from prime land and damaging the Palestinian economy forcing it to not be feasible as an independent state. In addition it creates a powder keg of anger where any opposition to the harassment can be labelled as terrorism and allows Israel to operate a draconian apartheid. [https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/13/world/video/palestinian-teen-killed-west-bank-settler-attack-israel-digvid-vrtc](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/13/world/video/palestinian-teen-killed-west-bank-settler-attack-israel-digvid-vrtc) I guarantee you that not one settler involved in this act of terrorism will even go to trial let alone face the death penalty for it. This is ethnic cleansing. This is a pogrom. This is an apartheid state.

Jews have history in the region, but Israel is not a decolonisation project. Specifically because the people being displaced (Palestinians) can trace their lineage back just as far. However the Zionist narrative has painted them all as foreign Arabs who don't belong there in order to make the project sound nicer. The truth is that both groups have a connection to the land, and one shouldn't be allowed to completely subjugate or expel the other.

Speaking of lies... Let's take a DNA test and see who belongs there. Oh right, they aren't allowed in Israel, I wonder why 🤔.

Where will the Palestinians go?

You don’t need a “mother country” for settler colonialism. The core issue is people moving in, building a new state, and displacing the people already living there. That happened to Palestinians whether the immigrants came from Britain or not. Yes, some land was legally bought, but much was bought from absentee landlords while Palestinian farmers living on it were pushed off. By 1947 Jews owned only a small portion of the land but were given most of it in the UN partition plan, despite Palestinians being the majority population. And the 1948 war didn’t start with Arab armies invading out of nowhere. Large numbers of Palestinians had already been displaced before neighboring countries entered the war. Winning wars and getting UN recognition explains how Israel survived as a state, but it doesn’t erase how Palestinians lost their homes and land.