Afrasianet - Dr. Mohamed Halsa - The events in the town of Tal and the subsequent military escalation and settlement expansion reveal that settler violence is not an individual act, but rather an official tool within a substitution project that seeks to annex the West Bank and displace Palestinians, in exchange for their adherence to their land and their refusal to obey.
The events in the Palestinian town of Tal, in the northern occupied West Bank, were not a coincidence or a passing event, but rather a link in a long series of "deliberate ideological acts" adopted by the settlement project groups and their representatives in the current Israeli government.
In principle, the Zionist project, which raised the slogan "A land without a people for a people without a land," did not come to historic Palestine to coexist with or share land with the Palestinians, but to expel and replace him.
The problem with this "project" was not that he suddenly discovered, contrary to his alleged slogan, that this land had people who were teeming with them and were prosperous, as he knew that they already existed, but he deliberately turned a blind eye to their existence, because simply acknowledging their existence nullifies the argument for their existence and the legitimacy of their existence.
"More land and fewer Arabs"
Because the slogan "More land, fewer Arabs" is holding its head high today, because of favorable conditions and the golden opportunity that looms before it, the Zionist right is whetting its appetite for more pressure, which it believes will lead the Palestinians to break.
This comes in an Israeli opposition to the logic of history and its lessons, including its recent lesson in the town of Tal, and the warnings of the Israeli security services, which say, day and night, that the pressure of extremist settlers, their escape without a headband, and their daily contact with and provocation with the Palestinians, will eventually lead to an explosion.
Because Israel is an Israel blinded by the arrogance of power and arrogance, it is putting its head in the sand. Because its leaders are of the same unchanging clay, some even wearing the garment of "meek lamb," Israel's reactions after the events in Tal have once again revealed the breadth of the consensus on the use of force against the Palestinians.
However, the position attributed to the leader of the Democratic Party, Yair Golan, is inconsistent with his stated statements, as he blamed the extremist settlers and the government for the escalation, prompting Defense Minister Yisrael Katz to attack him and accuse him of tarnishing the image of the settlers.
However, the Netanyahu government is expected to deafen its ears and go ahead with its war against the Palestinians in the West Bank, driven by a range of factors and incentives.
Biblical Ideology and Electoral Need
The truth is that this blindness is not only driven by the arrogance of brute power, the absence of accountability and accountability, the absence of Arab support, and the complicity of the West, but it is also fueled by biblical ideological impulses that see Palestine, "all of Palestine," as a promised biblical land, from which the "non-Arabs" must be expelled and the "good" settlers replaced by the "good" settlers.
When internal political and electoral needs are added to this mix, and a mind haunted by the complex of holiness and arrogance, what is the shortest way to hijack the hearts and minds of voters in a society driven by the right-wing tendency, "and in this let the Zionists compete."
From those who call for "revenge" against the Palestinians, to those who instigate "the erasure of Palestinian villages and kill saboteurs in them," to those who demand a large-scale military operation that turns Palestinian villages into "rubble," as they did in Khan Younis and Rafah, the ready-made pretext remains, as always: "fighting terrorism and achieving security."
When the state, with its officials, ministers, and media, responds by exaggerating the threat emanating from Palestinian villages, demonizing the Palestinian and "humanizing" the "victim" settler, these are unequivocal signals that it seeks to create legitimacy and justification for the use of excessive and brutal force against the Palestinians.
Outposts as a Tool for Resolution
The inevitable result is that the "instruments of decisiveness" will move to create a suffocating and repulsive reality for the Palestinians, from which they have no refuge but to leave their homes and lands under duress. What "does not come by force brings more force," which is fueled and fueled by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and Orit Struck, along with most of Israel's political leaders.
In the few days following the events in Tal, settlers set up four new outposts near the site of the clashes, while Netanyahu announced the acceleration of the establishment of new outposts and the regularization of existing outposts, in a retaliatory move aimed at expanding settlements and seizing more Palestinian land.
Smotrich also called for the establishment of a settlement at the "Silla" outpost, near the site of the events, and for the transfer of the area from "B" to "C", allowing the occupation to impose its full control over it.
Information on the number of outposts established after the incident to eight, two in Area B and the rest in Area C, most of which are on private Palestinian land, needs a direct source to consolidate.
Thus, with every inch of Palestinian land that its owners lose, proponents of ownership fill it and "cross" it, imposing a reality that is difficult to change or overcome its devastating effects on the daily lives of Palestinians.
From pre-Nakba gangs to settler terrorism
If their peers and early teachers, from the Etzel, Palmach, Haganah and Stern, fought the Palestinians in the past for what they called "the right of the Jewish people to establish a sovereign state in the Land of Israel," they are practicing their terror today, and this "state" was established, for three main reasons.
The first is revenge for the killing of Israelis, as is happening today after the events in the town of Tal. The second is to thwart any political process that includes Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian lands or the establishment of a Palestinian state. The third, and most important, is to accelerate the "decisiveness" and annexation, in order to ensure the transformation of all Palestinian lands in the West Bank into Jewish lands belonging to the State of Israel, through the expulsion and displacement of its Palestinian inhabitants and the replacement of settlers.
Unlike in the pre-"state" days, today's extremist settlers have representatives at the highest levels of government, who share their vision, protect their backs, and even encourage their terrorism.
The Palestinian Obstacle to the Replacement Project
However, Israel and the leaders of its settlement project have one problem with this "disruptive agenda": the people of the land and its rightful owners, in the West Bank as well as in Gaza, refuse to obey and displace.
They learned, in the difficult way, in the aftermath of the Nakba of 1948, that those who leave their land lose it and are no longer able to return to it.
Therefore, the colonizer, who is armed with all the tools of oppression and expulsion, loses his mind when he sees the defenceless Palestinian, except for his faith and will, slapping the awls of the occupation army and the settlers with his bare hand, clinging to his land with his fingernails and teeth, and fighting in defense of it until the last breath.
Elements of "decisiveness" and settler protection
All the elements of "decisiveness" seem to be present and within the reach of religious nationalist Zionism, starting with the excessive and brute force exerted against the unarmed Palestinians, the abundant money lavished on settlement organizations and their activists, and the political and legal coverage they receive from the Israeli government and the state in all its parts.
In addition to this, there is no official and popular Arab weakness and endless absence, as there is no support, not even from the Palestinian Authority and its security services, to the extent of Western hypocrisy and the complicity of international institutions, and there is no accountability, no accountability, and no deterrence for Israel and its settlers.
Despite these "abundant blessings" available to the Zionist project and its supporters, Palestinians in the hills of the West Bank, its towns and villages refuse to submit to the logic of expulsion and Zionist substitution.
Just as the earth knows its people who are rooted in it and speak to strangers, they know it and love it, and they exchange loyalty and steadfastness with steadfastness.
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