Word: settlers
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...historians have an enduring fondness for imagery of rape, and to satiate it, there followed half a dozen such turns of phrase. And, as is academics’ wont, the concluding note was a call for more research on those native women who’d been woven into settler creation myths, so as “to move beyond Pocahontas.” Towards the end of the second hour of this, I discovered that this was merely Indigenous Women and European Men, Part I; I cut my losses and escaped before Part II began.For the rest...
Like most of Gaza's residents, the Hilburgs thrived by growing organic crops, notably cherry tomatoes for export to Europe. The Hilburgs say it breaks their hearts to dismantle the hothouses they worked so hard to build, but in the nearby enclave of Gadid, another U.S.-born settler, Lynn Bentolila, expresses a sentiment widely shared in the Gush: "I don't want to see [the Palestinians] using my land or living in my house." The Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority have been wrangling over the issue: both agree the Israeli houses should be destroyed but dispute who would...
...Eshkol has already set up three new villages in the Negev Desert to house settlers permanently inside Israel who want to continue living near their old homes a few miles away in Gaza. The council marked out plots and fitted a water supply to Shlomit, Halutzit 1 and Halutzit 4, which are each less than two miles from the Egyptian border. It'll cost each settler household about $40,000 to build a house there. The average compensation the government's paying each family of Gaza settlers is about...
...Still, the leaders of the settler movement haven't given up. They planned a massive protest march this week from Israel to Gaza. Sharon last week ordered the army to shut the entry checkpoint to Gaza to prevent protesters secreting themselves in the settlements in advance of the pullout. And by Monday, when the march began, police had already banned it, although settler leaders vowed to press ahead...
...Settler activists and their supporters among religious Zionist rabbis have urged soldiers to defy orders associated with the pullout, and appear to have had some success in isolated cases. But the authorities don't expect any significant mutiny, and the army soon begins two-week training periods for special house-evacuation teams of 17 soldiers each...