Settlers bulldoze Palestinian lands near Nablus to expand outpost

[Jefferson23]

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers on Thursday bulldozed private Palestinian lands near the northern West Bank village of Jalud south of Nablus in order to expand an illegal settlement outpost, a Palestinian Authority official said.

Ghassan Daghlas, a PA official who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that settlers from the Shvut Rachel outpost had decided to expand their illegal settlement at the expense of nearby private Palestinian landowners.

The fields that were leveled belong to Ahmad Ibrahim Hajj Muhammad, he added.

Daghlas said that the Israeli government had granted the settlers construction licenses.

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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. "bulldozed private Palestinian lands"

And yet some kooks still believe that Israel is not an apartheid state...that it is all the fault of the Palestinians.

[Jefferson23]

2. One only needs to look at the full documentation of human rights abuses and the laws

passed by the Israeli government to understand the consequences of 40 plus years
of occupation. Add the US enablers, it is very ugly.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. No, you're wrong on a point.

It is really fucking embarrassing that our collective politicians have given Israel, the apartheid state, the Louisiana liplock for so long while the "only democracy in the Mid East" continues its decades old pogrom on the Palestinians.