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The pogrom is the point

When Israeli officials call on settlers not to take the law into their own hands, they are actually saying 'let the army do the job for you.

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‘They were burning our house with kids inside. The army didn't let us through'

Children trapped by settlers. A mutilated pet. Checkpoints blocking aid. A Palestinian family recounts the horrifying night of the Huwara po

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The effectiveness of policies of elimination requires two conditions: mass killings and varying degrees of violence on the one hand, and a supportive or complicit public on the other. Israel has both.

The phenomenon known as “settler violence” is a daily and endless sequence of assaults, of which only the tip of the iceberg ever reaches the Israeli media. Under the banner of a “war on terror,” soldiers can commit intolerable crimes, many of which, too, are rarely reported. The mass of the crimes, their frequency, their pervasiveness, and the explicit endorsement of them by Israel’s leadership and public opinion, are all designed to produce a reality in which the law of elimination becomes a law of nature.

[ID: A quote retweet by Rohan Talbot reading “The Israeli Minister of Public Diplomacy refers to Palestinians as being "programmed to seek Jewish blood since age zero”. Hideous, racist, dehumanising language that justifies the continued police brutality against children.“ The original tweet is by Galit Distel Atbaryan - גלית דיסטל אטבריאן @GalitDistel. It is a video of Atbaryan speaking in front of a shelf of potted plants and an Israeli flag. end ID]