You dumb bitch, that stereotype exists to protect people like you from everyone realizing that it’s the Israeli state that enforces the illegal settlements. The crazy gun wielding settler myth is to convince people that the colonization is being done by bad actors abusing loopholes of legal protection. Telling people that you’re a pacifist noodle-armed dork illegally occupying land reveals that it’s the IDF and Israeli government actually stealing the land FOR you.
I’ve never heard this explanation before and all I have to say is it’s very hard to think of that myth as not true when there really are gun wielding settlers who do violent shit.
Well no I mean you’re right. Many settlers ARE crazy and shoot up West Bank Palestinians to advance the colonization. What I meant is the myth that the settlements are illegal and Israel opposes them. Many zionists will try to tell you half truths that this only happens occasionally and they arrest people that break the law because Israel doesn’t want to colonize the West Bank. Israel does sometimes arrest settlers, but they are tried in separate courts that favor them than the courts that Palestinians actually living on the land are tried in. Israel could control all traffic in and out of the West Bank if it wanted to and boot out armed Israelis but they never do.
Oh I see, I guess I didn’t know that was a myth at all considering Israel uses the (kibutzes?) as barracks for IDF troops. Pretty hard to deny settlements being illegal when government troops are using them. But that does make sense now thank you.
You dumb bitch, that stereotype exists to protect people like you from everyone realizing that it’s the Israeli state that enforces the illegal settlements. The crazy gun wielding settler myth is to convince people that the colonization is being done by bad actors abusing loopholes of legal protection. Telling people that you’re a pacifist noodle-armed dork illegally occupying land reveals that it’s the IDF and Israeli government actually stealing the land FOR you.
I’ve never heard this explanation before and all I have to say is it’s very hard to think of that myth as not true when there really are gun wielding settlers who do violent shit.
Well no I mean you’re right. Many settlers ARE crazy and shoot up West Bank Palestinians to advance the colonization. What I meant is the myth that the settlements are illegal and Israel opposes them. Many zionists will try to tell you half truths that this only happens occasionally and they arrest people that break the law because Israel doesn’t want to colonize the West Bank. Israel does sometimes arrest settlers, but they are tried in separate courts that favor them than the courts that Palestinians actually living on the land are tried in. Israel could control all traffic in and out of the West Bank if it wanted to and boot out armed Israelis but they never do.
Oh I see, I guess I didn’t know that was a myth at all considering Israel uses the (kibutzes?) as barracks for IDF troops. Pretty hard to deny settlements being illegal when government troops are using them. But that does make sense now thank you.