What followed was a wave of shooting and arson attacks across 11 Palestinian villages in which a dozen homes and more than 100 cars were torched, thousands of animals were slaughtered, four people were shot dead and scores of others were seriously wounded.
My frustration is that I think terms like “settler violence” misinform people:
the violence isn’t coming from a handful of lone-wolf settlers. It’s state sanctioned.
this isn’t just violence like a bar flight or soccer riot. It’s deliberate, methodical, ethnic cleansing. It is a purposeful atrocity.
We need to hold the whole Israeli government and a bunch of specific NGOs accountable for all of this.
I think we need to better educate people then. Because settler violence is state sponsored by definition. It is ethnic cleansing by definition. It is the exact same violence covered by rational sounding lies that we can see throughout the non European world from 1500 on. It is a very predictable cycle.
Create tension with unpunished crimes, theft, assault, murder, doesn’t matter.
Repeat until the indigenous population lashes out. It does not matter how minor. Even just a threat will do.
Raise a posse and “defend” yourselves against them.
Tell everyone they started it when they lashed out.
Repeat until they’re stuck on reservations under military control and you control the vast majority of the land.