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🇵🇸🎥 Palestinian professor Abdaljawad Omar explains why Israel is increasingly targeting the Jordan Valley bread basket area, which comprises more than 20% of the occupied West Bank. Seizing its fertile land and water, Omar says, would give Israel greater control while depriving Palestinians the ability to produce their own...

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🎥 What Is Israel’s Goal in the West Bank? “The biggest prize for Israel is the West Bank,” Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar says, pointing to its roughly 5,000 square kilometers of land, water resources, and strategic geography. He describes Israel’s economic strangulation of Palestinians, expanding settler violence, and intensified occupation as part of a long-standing project to make Palestinian life unbearable enough to drive people out, while potentially creating the conditions for a confrontation that could be used to justify Gaza-style mass destruction. Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa
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🎥 What Is Israel’s Goal in the West Bank? “The biggest prize for Israel is the West Bank,” Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar says, pointing to its roughly 5,000 square kilometers of land, water resources, and strategic geography. He describes Israel’s economic strangulation of Palestinians, expanding settler violence, and intensified occupation as part of a long-standing project to make Palestinian life unbearable enough to drive people out, while potentially creating the conditions for a confrontation that could be used to justify Gaza-style mass destruction. Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa

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Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar says Israel’s election season is fueling a competition across the political spectrum over who can demand harsher violence and collective punishment against Palestinians. He also discusses analysis that Netanyahu could benefit from provoking a wider confrontation in the West Bank, using it to delay the vote, preserve his coalition, and avoid accountability. Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa
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Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar says Israel’s election season is fueling a competition across the political spectrum over who can demand harsher violence and collective punishment against Palestinians. He also discusses analysis that Netanyahu could benefit from provoking a wider confrontation in the West Bank, using it to delay the vote, preserve his coalition, and avoid accountability. Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa

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🎥 “Settlers can kill whoever they want, they can injure whoever they want, they can beat whoever they want, they can burn whatever they want.” Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar describes settlers as the spearhead of Israel’s land-seizure policy in the occupied West Bank, operating through a revolving door with the military and with political, financial, and legal backing from the state. The lack of prosecution, Omar argues, is not simply a failure of enforcement. It is part of the system that allows settler violence to advance Israeli territorial expansion. Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa
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🎥 “Settlers can kill whoever they want, they can injure whoever they want, they can beat whoever they want, they can burn whatever they want.” Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar describes settlers as the spearhead of Israel’s land-seizure policy in the occupied West Bank, operating through a revolving door with the military and with political, financial, and legal backing from the state. The lack of prosecution, Omar argues, is not simply a failure of enforcement. It is part of the system that allows settler violence to advance Israeli territorial expansion. Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa

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🎥 After Sheikh Faroukh Ramadan disarmed and killed in self-defense an armed settler attacking the Palestinian village of Tel, Israeli forces killed the unarmed Palestinian, arrested more than 50 Palestinians from the village, and moved to demolish homes across the village. Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar says that whether Palestinians resist or remain passive, Israel continues to seize land, destroy Palestinian life, and impose collective punishment. “Even if you die while being passive and not engaging in any form of self-defense, the Israelis are still finding ways and means through which to eradicate Palestinian life.” Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa
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🎥 After Sheikh Faroukh Ramadan disarmed and killed in self-defense an armed settler attacking the Palestinian village of Tel, Israeli forces killed the unarmed Palestinian, arrested more than 50 Palestinians from the village, and moved to demolish homes across the village. Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar says that whether Palestinians resist or remain passive, Israel continues to seize land, destroy Palestinian life, and impose collective punishment. “Even if you die while being passive and not engaging in any form of self-defense, the Israelis are still finding ways and means through which to eradicate Palestinian life.” Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa

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🇵🇸 🎥 “In many instances, you see the Israeli military actually setting a trap for Palestinians.” Ramallah-based Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar explains how the Israeli military operates during settler attacks on Palestinians. He says the military does not simply fail to protect Palestinians. In many cases, it creates the conditions for attacks, leaves Palestinians exposed to armed settlers, and then joins in the violence against those trying to defend their homes and farmland, including by firing live ammunition. Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa
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🇵🇸 🎥 “In many instances, you see the Israeli military actually setting a trap for Palestinians.” Ramallah-based Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar explains how the Israeli military operates during settler attacks on Palestinians. He says the military does not simply fail to protect Palestinians. In many cases, it creates the conditions for attacks, leaves Palestinians exposed to armed settlers, and then joins in the violence against those trying to defend their homes and farmland, including by firing live ammunition. Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa

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🎥 “This separation between the Israeli military and these settlers is just a fictitious separation. For us, they are both settlers. It’s just one is wearing the uniform.” Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar explains how Palestinian villagers and Bedouin communities, with no institution to protect them, organize popular civil defense against armed settler attacks by gathering together and placing their bodies between attackers and their homes, farmland, and trees. He says the repeated Israeli violence is slowly breaking a “barrier of fear.” Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa
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🎥 “This separation between the Israeli military and these settlers is just a fictitious separation. For us, they are both settlers. It’s just one is wearing the uniform.” Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar explains how Palestinian villagers and Bedouin communities, with no institution to protect them, organize popular civil defense against armed settler attacks by gathering together and placing their bodies between attackers and their homes, farmland, and trees. He says the repeated Israeli violence is slowly breaking a “barrier of fear.” Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa

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🎥 The State of Armed Resistance in the West Bank Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar describes a convergence of Israeli-imposed crises pushing Palestinians toward a potential breaking point: ▪️ Economic suffocation ▪️ Collapsing Palestinian Authority finances ▪️ An emerging banking crisis ▪️ Intensified movement restrictions and increasingly deadly settler attacks With organized armed resistance groups in the northern West Bank largely dismantled by Israeli forces and the Palestinian Authority, Omar does not expect an ‘intifada’ or any imminent return to large-scale armed resistance. But, he predicts more localized forms of popular civil defense, with unarmed Palestinians mobilizing to protect their villages and communities from settler attacks. He says a “barrier of fear” is slowly beginning to break, as Palestinians who adopted a largely passive posture after October 7 increasingly conclude that restraint has not protected them. Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa
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🎥 The State of Armed Resistance in the West Bank Birzeit University professor Abdaljawad Omar describes a convergence of Israeli-imposed crises pushing Palestinians toward a potential breaking point: ▪️ Economic suffocation ▪️ Collapsing Palestinian Authority finances ▪️ An emerging banking crisis ▪️ Intensified movement restrictions and increasingly deadly settler attacks With organized armed resistance groups in the northern West Bank largely dismantled by Israeli forces and the Palestinian Authority, Omar does not expect an ‘intifada’ or any imminent return to large-scale armed resistance. But, he predicts more localized forms of popular civil defense, with unarmed Palestinians mobilizing to protect their villages and communities from settler attacks. He says a “barrier of fear” is slowly beginning to break, as Palestinians who adopted a largely passive posture after October 7 increasingly conclude that restraint has not protected them. Murtaza Hussain | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar) | Maysa Mustafa

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⚡️ WATCH | The Crimson Thread: The Israeli Military Barrier Cutting Off Palestine’s Breadbasket Drop Site News reports the first 22 kilometers of a planned 500-kilometer Israeli military barrier are cutting off Palestinians from a large swathe of some of the most fertile agricultural land in the occupied West Bank. 🎥 Read the full story by Maysa Mustafa linked below. Watch the video report here or on YouTube (link in reply).
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⚡️ WATCH | The Crimson Thread: The Israeli Military Barrier Cutting Off Palestine’s Breadbasket Drop Site News reports the first 22 kilometers of a planned 500-kilometer Israeli military barrier are cutting off Palestinians from a large swathe of some of the most fertile agricultural land in the occupied West Bank. 🎥 Read the full story by Maysa Mustafa linked below. Watch the video report here or on YouTube (link in reply).

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🎥 “We’re past the point of looking at us as just victims. Palestinians are demanding — we’re talking face-to-face now.” Drop Site journalist Maysa Mustafa explains that the occupied West Bank is not a monolith. The largely Palestinian American communities Rep. Ro Khanna visited have completely different experiences from refugee camps in Tulkarem, Jenin and Nur Shams, where Palestinians face violence from both the Israeli military and the Palestinian Authority. “My dad’s generation was the generation of ‘Palestinians are human.’ We’re past that. We deserve the same rights as anybody else,” Maysa said Maysa Mustafa
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🎥 “We’re past the point of looking at us as just victims. Palestinians are demanding — we’re talking face-to-face now.” Drop Site journalist Maysa Mustafa explains that the occupied West Bank is not a monolith. The largely Palestinian American communities Rep. Ro Khanna visited have completely different experiences from refugee camps in Tulkarem, Jenin and Nur Shams, where Palestinians face violence from both the Israeli military and the Palestinian Authority. “My dad’s generation was the generation of ‘Palestinians are human.’ We’re past that. We deserve the same rights as anybody else,” Maysa said Maysa Mustafa

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🎥 WATCH: Can Israel Survive Only Through Endless War? On this week’s Drop Site livestream, Sharif Abdel Kouddous asked Jehad Abusalim and Abdaljawad Omar whether Israel’s deepening aggression signals dominance or collapse. The two Palestinian analysts offered a sweeping analysis of military overreach, internal fracture, and colonial crisis. Abusalim argues Israel is no longer pursuing legitimacy but domination. “Israel is now living by the sword,” he says, dependent on U.S. support to bomb the region into submission. Its attempts to brand itself as a liberal outpost have failed: “There’s no way Israel can rebrand after a genocide like this… They’ve lost Gen Z.” Omar warns Israel’s military campaigns—from Gaza to Lebanon to Iran—have yielded no political gains. “That’s Israel’s problem right now. They have no way to turn these operational successes into political currency.” Without the “old Zionist pragmatism,” he says, messianic zealots are steering the state into collapse: “Israel is a dependent colony,” armed by the West and governed by factions uninterested in restraint. Though amid the escalating bloodshed, Abusalim ends with a note of resilience: “I still have faith in the region. Despite all the depressing signs, I have faith in the people,” he said. Jehad Abusalim | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
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🎥 WATCH: Can Israel Survive Only Through Endless War? On this week’s Drop Site livestream, Sharif Abdel Kouddous asked Jehad Abusalim and Abdaljawad Omar whether Israel’s deepening aggression signals dominance or collapse. The two Palestinian analysts offered a sweeping analysis of military overreach, internal fracture, and colonial crisis. Abusalim argues Israel is no longer pursuing legitimacy but domination. “Israel is now living by the sword,” he says, dependent on U.S. support to bomb the region into submission. Its attempts to brand itself as a liberal outpost have failed: “There’s no way Israel can rebrand after a genocide like this… They’ve lost Gen Z.” Omar warns Israel’s military campaigns—from Gaza to Lebanon to Iran—have yielded no political gains. “That’s Israel’s problem right now. They have no way to turn these operational successes into political currency.” Without the “old Zionist pragmatism,” he says, messianic zealots are steering the state into collapse: “Israel is a dependent colony,” armed by the West and governed by factions uninterested in restraint. Though amid the escalating bloodshed, Abusalim ends with a note of resilience: “I still have faith in the region. Despite all the depressing signs, I have faith in the people,” he said. Jehad Abusalim | Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)

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In 2025, Israeli authorities demolished at least 1267 structures on the pretext of “illegal construction” throughout the West Bank. Israeli planning and building authorities exploit Israel’s control in Area C to prevent Palestinian development and drive communities off their lands, as part of a systematic policy of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. This year, Israel demolished more structures on the pretext of construction without permits than in any year since B’Tselem began documenting these demolitions in 2006. Israel refuses almost all Palestinian requests for building permits, whether for homes, public buildings or infrastructure. As a result, Palestinians are forced to build without permits on their own private land and live under constant threat of demolition, harm to their livelihoods and displacement. According to the UN, over the past year Israel demolished hundreds of structures in the West Bank on the pretext of military needs, during operations and arrest raids targeting Palestinians. According to the report, about 32,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes in 2025 following military operations in the Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur a-Shams refugee camps in the northern West Bank.
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In 2025, Israeli authorities demolished at least 1267 structures on the pretext of “illegal construction” throughout the West Bank. Israeli planning and building authorities exploit Israel’s control in Area C to prevent Palestinian development and drive communities off their lands, as part of a systematic policy of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. This year, Israel demolished more structures on the pretext of construction without permits than in any year since B’Tselem began documenting these demolitions in 2006. Israel refuses almost all Palestinian requests for building permits, whether for homes, public buildings or infrastructure. As a result, Palestinians are forced to build without permits on their own private land and live under constant threat of demolition, harm to their livelihoods and displacement. According to the UN, over the past year Israel demolished hundreds of structures in the West Bank on the pretext of military needs, during operations and arrest raids targeting Palestinians. According to the report, about 32,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes in 2025 following military operations in the Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur a-Shams refugee camps in the northern West Bank.

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🗺️ Israel has physically divided Gaza with 25 kilometers of earthen barriers, new analysis shows Israel has constructed more than 25 kilometers of earthen barriers inside Gaza since the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, physically dividing the territory and pushing its effective control from 53% to over 60% of the Strip, according to an analysis by Forensic Architecture based on satellite imagery. The berms — large raised mounds of earth running roughly along the “yellow line” agreed in the ceasefire — extend in many places west of that line, deeper into Palestinian territory. Israel has also fortified 38 military bases east of the line. In Jabaliya, the military has created a 300-meter buffer zone west of the line, destroying everything in its path. “The line is never where the line is said to be,” Abdaljawad Omar, assistant professor at Birzeit University, told Drop Site. “It is drawn not to mark a limit but to generate the next transgression of that limit.” 🔗 Read the Drop Site News / Forensic Architecture report at the link in reply.
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🗺️ Israel has physically divided Gaza with 25 kilometers of earthen barriers, new analysis shows Israel has constructed more than 25 kilometers of earthen barriers inside Gaza since the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, physically dividing the territory and pushing its effective control from 53% to over 60% of the Strip, according to an analysis by Forensic Architecture based on satellite imagery. The berms — large raised mounds of earth running roughly along the “yellow line” agreed in the ceasefire — extend in many places west of that line, deeper into Palestinian territory. Israel has also fortified 38 military bases east of the line. In Jabaliya, the military has created a 300-meter buffer zone west of the line, destroying everything in its path. “The line is never where the line is said to be,” Abdaljawad Omar, assistant professor at Birzeit University, told Drop Site. “It is drawn not to mark a limit but to generate the next transgression of that limit.” 🔗 Read the Drop Site News / Forensic Architecture report at the link in reply.

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🎥 “Piers, have you been there? Have you been there?” Piers Morgan describes Israel’s ruling coalition as “far-right headbangers” while Dave Rubin insists Israel has done “nothing wrong” in its two-year genocide of the Palestinian people. Morgan notes that Smotrich and Ben-Gvir want to “ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people.” Rubin bizarrely claims Israel “hasn’t taken an extra inch” of the West Bank and that “no aggressive expansion” has occurred. Morgan pushes back: settlement expansion and mass displacement are well documented. Human Rights Watch says Israeli forces forcibly displaced roughly 32,000 Palestinians from the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams camps in early 2025 and barred their return — the largest forced displacement in the occupied territory in decades. Meanwhile, Smotrich bragged this week that Israel has approved nearly 30,000 new settlement units in the West Bank this year — calling it an “unprecedented achievement.” On July 3, 2024, Peace Now reported Israel seized 12.7 km² of land in the Jordan Valley — the largest single land grab since the Oslo Accords. Yedioth Ahronoth says Netanyahu’s government has advanced 48,000 settlement units since 2022. And on Aug. 20, authorities approved the E1 plan, adding 3,400 units near Ma’ale Adumim.
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🎥 “Piers, have you been there? Have you been there?” Piers Morgan describes Israel’s ruling coalition as “far-right headbangers” while Dave Rubin insists Israel has done “nothing wrong” in its two-year genocide of the Palestinian people. Morgan notes that Smotrich and Ben-Gvir want to “ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people.” Rubin bizarrely claims Israel “hasn’t taken an extra inch” of the West Bank and that “no aggressive expansion” has occurred. Morgan pushes back: settlement expansion and mass displacement are well documented. Human Rights Watch says Israeli forces forcibly displaced roughly 32,000 Palestinians from the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams camps in early 2025 and barred their return — the largest forced displacement in the occupied territory in decades. Meanwhile, Smotrich bragged this week that Israel has approved nearly 30,000 new settlement units in the West Bank this year — calling it an “unprecedented achievement.” On July 3, 2024, Peace Now reported Israel seized 12.7 km² of land in the Jordan Valley — the largest single land grab since the Oslo Accords. Yedioth Ahronoth says Netanyahu’s government has advanced 48,000 settlement units since 2022. And on Aug. 20, authorities approved the E1 plan, adding 3,400 units near Ma’ale Adumim.

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🎥 Maysa Mustafa introduces Canary Mission and speaks to reporter Jacqueline Sweet about her investigation for Drop Site that found the secretive blacklist site is “entirely run” from Israel. Canary Mission compiles dossiers on students, academics, and activists it labels “antisemitic” — often targeting those outspoken on Palestine, with documented consequences for jobs and education. Sweet says the site’s impact escalated under President Trump, when the State Department and Department of Homeland Security used it to target foreign students for arrest and deportation — in some cases based largely on speech — even as officials admitted they did not know who was operating it. “The fact that our government is using a completely foreign organization to exert such influence on domestic policy is, I think, extremely significant,” Sweet says. Maysa Mustafa | Jacqueline Sweet
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🎥 Maysa Mustafa introduces Canary Mission and speaks to reporter Jacqueline Sweet about her investigation for Drop Site that found the secretive blacklist site is “entirely run” from Israel. Canary Mission compiles dossiers on students, academics, and activists it labels “antisemitic” — often targeting those outspoken on Palestine, with documented consequences for jobs and education. Sweet says the site’s impact escalated under President Trump, when the State Department and Department of Homeland Security used it to target foreign students for arrest and deportation — in some cases based largely on speech — even as officials admitted they did not know who was operating it. “The fact that our government is using a completely foreign organization to exert such influence on domestic policy is, I think, extremely significant,” Sweet says. Maysa Mustafa | Jacqueline Sweet

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⚪️ “They Want to Terrify Palestinians — Then Steal Their Land” Diana Buttu tells Drop Site the surge in settler attacks is part of a coordinated state-backed effort to seize Palestinian land. “They start going after the farmlands… then set up these outposts backed by the Israeli army. And after they set up these outposts, they’re fortified, given electricity, and from that we see an Israeli settlement go up.” She explains this is how Israel advances annexation: drive farmers away, turn their fields into military-protected outposts, then formal settlements — leaving Palestinians confined to the 18% of the West Bank (Area A) under limited Palestinian control. Diana Buttu | Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس | Murtaza Hussain
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⚪️ “They Want to Terrify Palestinians — Then Steal Their Land” Diana Buttu tells Drop Site the surge in settler attacks is part of a coordinated state-backed effort to seize Palestinian land. “They start going after the farmlands… then set up these outposts backed by the Israeli army. And after they set up these outposts, they’re fortified, given electricity, and from that we see an Israeli settlement go up.” She explains this is how Israel advances annexation: drive farmers away, turn their fields into military-protected outposts, then formal settlements — leaving Palestinians confined to the 18% of the West Bank (Area A) under limited Palestinian control. Diana Buttu | Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس | Murtaza Hussain

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(Political) Zionism is "inherently oppressive," as Peter Beinart explains: "Zionism, tragically, is inherently oppressive because it is based on the notion that the state has a higher level of obligations to Jews than it does to Palestinians... even in Israel "proper" those Palestinians who are citizens... are not treated equally. I'll give you just one quick example: 93% of the land inside Israel proper (I'm not talking about the West Bank and Gaza) is state land, much of it was taken from Palestinians when they were expelled in 1948. The Jews only lived on ~6% of the land before Israel's war of independence so much of it was land Palestinians controlled... Now it's called state land it's doled out for development in Israel by something called the Israel Land Authority. ...If you're a town or maybe even an industry & you want a chunk of land you're given a long-term lease by the Israel Land Authority so you can expand. The Israel Land Authority has 22 seats, 10 of those seats are given to the Jewish National Fund, whose explicit mission is the development of land for Jewish use. The other 12 (seats) are given to members of the cabinet... there's usually not one Palestinian on the Israel Land Authority (sometimes there's one) so that's why Palestinians are not given land for development in Israel... ...which helps to explain why Palestinian municipalities sit on 2% or 3% of the land inside Israel even though Palestinians are 20% of the population ... this helps explain why according to a study, 87% of the home demolitions inside Israel proper (I'm not talking about the West Bank) are of Palestinian homes because Palestinians are in very overcrowded, essentially ghettos, and all of the land around those Palestinian towns is controlled by Jews and Palestinians can't get access to any of that land... the state doesn't function for them.... it's a state in that essentially functions for the benefit of Jews, not for the benefit even of its own Palestinian citizens let alone the Palestinians who don't have citizenship." Full interview:
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(Political) Zionism is "inherently oppressive," as Peter Beinart explains: "Zionism, tragically, is inherently oppressive because it is based on the notion that the state has a higher level of obligations to Jews than it does to Palestinians... even in Israel "proper" those Palestinians who are citizens... are not treated equally. I'll give you just one quick example: 93% of the land inside Israel proper (I'm not talking about the West Bank and Gaza) is state land, much of it was taken from Palestinians when they were expelled in 1948. The Jews only lived on ~6% of the land before Israel's war of independence so much of it was land Palestinians controlled... Now it's called state land it's doled out for development in Israel by something called the Israel Land Authority. ...If you're a town or maybe even an industry & you want a chunk of land you're given a long-term lease by the Israel Land Authority so you can expand. The Israel Land Authority has 22 seats, 10 of those seats are given to the Jewish National Fund, whose explicit mission is the development of land for Jewish use. The other 12 (seats) are given to members of the cabinet... there's usually not one Palestinian on the Israel Land Authority (sometimes there's one) so that's why Palestinians are not given land for development in Israel... ...which helps to explain why Palestinian municipalities sit on 2% or 3% of the land inside Israel even though Palestinians are 20% of the population ... this helps explain why according to a study, 87% of the home demolitions inside Israel proper (I'm not talking about the West Bank) are of Palestinian homes because Palestinians are in very overcrowded, essentially ghettos, and all of the land around those Palestinian towns is controlled by Jews and Palestinians can't get access to any of that land... the state doesn't function for them.... it's a state in that essentially functions for the benefit of Jews, not for the benefit even of its own Palestinian citizens let alone the Palestinians who don't have citizenship." Full interview:

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"They think they're above the law. And nobody is going to stop them." Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have surged past 1,200 so far this year, at an average of six a day. Arson has become one of the most common tactics, with mosques, homes, and cars set on fire nearly daily. Drop Site's Maysa Mustafa spoke with Maisoon Ali in the village of Deir Dibwan, who has survived repeated settler attacks, including one where settlers tried to burn her home down while she and her husband were inside. Ali says she has no one to turn to. Not the Palestinian Authority, which has no jurisdiction in Area C, and not the Israeli military, which she says protects the settlers instead. Her only recourse is the country on her second passport, the U.S. — the same one whose weapons are being used against her. This week alone, at least 6 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank amid settler violence, 4 of them on Friday in a settler raid on the town of Tell near Nablus. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, that brings the toll since the start of the year to 86 Palestinians killed by Israelis across the West Bank, more than 20 of whom were shot by settlers.
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"They think they're above the law. And nobody is going to stop them." Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have surged past 1,200 so far this year, at an average of six a day. Arson has become one of the most common tactics, with mosques, homes, and cars set on fire nearly daily. Drop Site's Maysa Mustafa spoke with Maisoon Ali in the village of Deir Dibwan, who has survived repeated settler attacks, including one where settlers tried to burn her home down while she and her husband were inside. Ali says she has no one to turn to. Not the Palestinian Authority, which has no jurisdiction in Area C, and not the Israeli military, which she says protects the settlers instead. Her only recourse is the country on her second passport, the U.S. — the same one whose weapons are being used against her. This week alone, at least 6 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank amid settler violence, 4 of them on Friday in a settler raid on the town of Tell near Nablus. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, that brings the toll since the start of the year to 86 Palestinians killed by Israelis across the West Bank, more than 20 of whom were shot by settlers.

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WATCH | As Israeli forces escalate their bombing campaign across the Gaza Strip, Trump and Netanyahu are launching a public messaging push to suggest a ceasefire deal is close. But on the ground, there’s no real progress—Hamas says it has received no new proposals. In this clip, Jeremy Scahill explains that the narrative coming out of Washington and Tel Aviv is detached from reality: “There is no actual substantive development… The Palestinian side is not going to sign a surrender agreement.” Netanyahu is set to meet with Trump and top U.S. officials in D.C. this weekend. —- Watch the full discussion earlier today between Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News), Sharif Abdel Kouddous (Drop Site News), Jehad Abusalim (Executive Director, Institute for Palestine Studies-USA), and Abdaljawad Omar (Lecturer, Birzeit University in Ramallah, West Bank) at the Drop Site News with the link below.
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WATCH | As Israeli forces escalate their bombing campaign across the Gaza Strip, Trump and Netanyahu are launching a public messaging push to suggest a ceasefire deal is close. But on the ground, there’s no real progress—Hamas says it has received no new proposals. In this clip, Jeremy Scahill explains that the narrative coming out of Washington and Tel Aviv is detached from reality: “There is no actual substantive development… The Palestinian side is not going to sign a surrender agreement.” Netanyahu is set to meet with Trump and top U.S. officials in D.C. this weekend. —- Watch the full discussion earlier today between Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News), Sharif Abdel Kouddous (Drop Site News), Jehad Abusalim (Executive Director, Institute for Palestine Studies-USA), and Abdaljawad Omar (Lecturer, Birzeit University in Ramallah, West Bank) at the Drop Site News with the link below.

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🎥 “Today it’s Ahmad. Tomorrow, it could be anyone’s child.” On Sunday, four-month-old infant Ahmed Zaid from the Deir Ammar refugee camp in the occupied West Bank died after an ambulance was blocked at the checkpoint gate. Residents say soldiers refused to let the ambulance through and fired tear gas. By the time the family was allowed through, it was too late, and Ahmed passed away before they reached the hospital. Drop Site’s Maysa Mustafa spoke with the family of Ahmed Zaid, and with residents of Deir Ammar, about how the gate’s four-month closure has cut off access to dialysis, cancer treatment, and emergency care. Installed four months ago, residents switch cars at the gate just to move between towns. A commute to Ramallah, where Ahmed was headed for the hospital, should be just a 20-minute drive away, but Israeli road closures have turned that trip into more than an hour and a half. 🎥 @wahaj_bani_moufleh with Maysa Mustafa
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🎥 “Today it’s Ahmad. Tomorrow, it could be anyone’s child.” On Sunday, four-month-old infant Ahmed Zaid from the Deir Ammar refugee camp in the occupied West Bank died after an ambulance was blocked at the checkpoint gate. Residents say soldiers refused to let the ambulance through and fired tear gas. By the time the family was allowed through, it was too late, and Ahmed passed away before they reached the hospital. Drop Site’s Maysa Mustafa spoke with the family of Ahmed Zaid, and with residents of Deir Ammar, about how the gate’s four-month closure has cut off access to dialysis, cancer treatment, and emergency care. Installed four months ago, residents switch cars at the gate just to move between towns. A commute to Ramallah, where Ahmed was headed for the hospital, should be just a 20-minute drive away, but Israeli road closures have turned that trip into more than an hour and a half. 🎥 @wahaj_bani_moufleh with Maysa Mustafa

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🟠 STATE DEPT gives no clear answer on which office Palestinians—and even Palestinian Americans—should speak to if they face Israeli settler violence. Pressed on attacks in places like Masafer Yatta and the Jordan Valley, spokesperson Tammy Bruce said victims should contact the Israeli government because “Israel is an ally.” Asked who in the State Department handles such cases, Bruce named no one—only saying “thousands of people” work on the region and “care.” The question came from journalist Said Arikat, who noted even his own relatives in the West Bank have faced settler attacks with no clear place to report them. Drop Site’s latest investigation by Georgia Gee and Dikla Taylor-Sheinman documents how, as Israel waged its 12-day war with Iran, it simultaneously escalated violence across the West Bank. From field executions to mass displacement, the report tracks a coordinated campaign of military raids, settler expulsions, and moves toward annexation—all met with U.S. silence. Read the full story at the link below.
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🟠 STATE DEPT gives no clear answer on which office Palestinians—and even Palestinian Americans—should speak to if they face Israeli settler violence. Pressed on attacks in places like Masafer Yatta and the Jordan Valley, spokesperson Tammy Bruce said victims should contact the Israeli government because “Israel is an ally.” Asked who in the State Department handles such cases, Bruce named no one—only saying “thousands of people” work on the region and “care.” The question came from journalist Said Arikat, who noted even his own relatives in the West Bank have faced settler attacks with no clear place to report them. Drop Site’s latest investigation by Georgia Gee and Dikla Taylor-Sheinman documents how, as Israel waged its 12-day war with Iran, it simultaneously escalated violence across the West Bank. From field executions to mass displacement, the report tracks a coordinated campaign of military raids, settler expulsions, and moves toward annexation—all met with U.S. silence. Read the full story at the link below.

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