| rapsuperstar31 said: We need to stop calling it settler, every inch of land on this planet has exchanged hands by bloodshed at one point or another, including your Canada. If the settlers are living in these private lands for the cheaper cost of living, it's no different than the gentrification that happens in every US and Canadian city where the rich move into the land because it's cheap for them, but raise the value of the homes so much that those that already lived there can no longer afford to live there. |
The settlers are taking other people's private lands... They're not buying houses from Palestinians for the cheaper cost of living, they are expropriating their lands, demolishing their farms to start new Israeli towns and neighborhoods.
It has nothing to do with gentrification, it's dispossession. Like the European settlers did when arriving in North America.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/
Israel’s policy of constructing and expanding illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land is one of the main driving forces behind the mass human rights violations resulting from the occupation. Over the past 50 years, Israel has demolished tens of thousands of Palestinian properties and displaced large swathes of the population to build homes and infrastructure to illegally settle its own population in the occupied territories. It has also diverted Palestinian natural resources such as water and agricultural land for settlement use.
1/3 Today, the state published its approval of the Givat Shaked settlement plan for 695 HU on lands in the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Safafa in EJ.
This joins a spate of settlement advancements in EJ since Oct 7, including several plan approvals + publication of tenders pic.twitter.com/Act9hdDLw2
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