Terrorism of settler gangs... the direct threat to the Palestinian people

Since the great sin was committed in the Oslo Accord by signing it without a condition for stopping settlement activity, the number of colonial settlers in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, has increased from about 122,000 to more than 750,000, to become a decided political force, with fifteen members in the Israeli Knesset, And several ministers, most notably the terrorists Smotrich and Ben Gvir, who share control of what is happening in the West Bank, including the most dangerous and largest acceleration in settlement expansion, the allocation of unlimited financial resources to support it, control of the police and border guards, and the prisons in which Palestinian prisoners are held, in addition to Provide the protection of the army and all security agencies to protect the colonial settlers, arm them and support their attacks on the Palestinians.

Perhaps the most dangerous phenomenon of all is the planned and systematic attacks carried out by settler armed terrorist gangs against the residents of the West Bank, with the aim of expelling them from their areas of residence and destroying their agriculture and livelihood, in order to facilitate the takeover of the settlement colonies.

These terrorist gangs, including the so-called “hilltop boys,” represent an iteration, even more fascist and brutal, of Zionist terror gangs such as the Irgun, Etzel, and Haganah that were used in 1947 and 1948 to carry out ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians that included razing 520 Palestinian towns and villages from existence and committing 52 massacres. Brutalities such as the massacre of Deir Yassin and Al-Tantura, and the displacement of about 70% of the population of Palestine.

The crimes of settler gangs include a long list of terrorist acts, the simplest of which is uprooting olive trees and destroying Palestinian crops, to shooting unarmed Palestinian civilians, and attacking Palestinian cars on the roads with stones and bullets, to the most serious of which is attempting to burn and destroy entire towns, as happened in the town of Huwwara. south of Nablus, and the repeated terrorist attacks on the Palestinian community in Ein Samia, which resulted in a precedent that had not occurred since 1967 by forcing the residents of the community to leave their homes and leave for other areas.

Not a day goes by without Palestinian villages and towns, especially those adjacent to the lands confiscated by the settlements, being subjected to terrorist attacks. We have seen blatant examples of them in the burning of the Dawabsha family in the town of Duma in the Nablus region, and the burning of the Palestinian boy Muhammad Abu Khudair alive after he was kidnapped.

Last April alone, terrorist settler gangs attacked the villages of Deir Jarir, Deir Dibwan, Ras Karkar, Turmus Aya, Sinjil, al-Mughayyir, Imnizel, al-Laban al-Sharqiya, Mikhmas, al-Mazra’a al-Qibliyya, Kafr Qaddum, Hawara, Masafritta, Humsa in the Jordan Valley, Yarqa, and al-Qadisiyah. And the list goes on. This is in addition to the continuous attacks on the Old City of Hebron, where 25,000 of its residents are subject to continuous oppression and siege in favor of 500 illegal settlers in the city, and the settlement attacks supported by the occupation army against the city of Jerusalem and its surroundings, including the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque and attempts to Imposing Jewish prayers in it and dividing it temporally and spatially.

The Israeli Supreme Court did not hesitate to issue a decision to displace thousands of Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, to allocate their land to settler settlers. The website of the Israeli Human Rights Organization - B'Tselem, is filled with hundreds of videos and photos documenting settler attacks on Palestinians.

The colonial settlement expansion, along with the confiscation of lands, the demolition of Palestinian homes, and the deprivation of their right to live and build in Jerusalem and more than 62% of the area of ​​the West Bank called Area C, are parts of an integrated Zionist strategic plan that seeks, and dreams, to repeat the 1948 Nakba in The West Bank for the purpose of Judaizing it and annexing it to Israel. Israel's leaders, from Netanyahu to the fascists Smotrich and Ben Gvir, make no secret of their intentions on this matter.

However, the organization of the colonial settlers, who control about 400,000 weapons, into terrorist armed groups, and encouraging them to launch attacks on Palestinian cities and villages, under the protection and sponsorship of the occupation army, embodies a very sharp and dangerous transition to transform the idea of ​​ethnic cleansing again from a theoretical conception and plan into a practical application. tangible.

This escalation represents one of the biggest challenges facing the Palestinian national movement with all its components, in light of the continuous international silence and complicity, disgraceful double standards, and an Arab inability to effectively confront Israeli crimes.

This challenge can only be met with a unified Palestinian methodological strategy, based on the realization that we are in a stage of confrontation and escalating struggle with the Zionist movement, and we are not in a stage of compromise with it, after it renounced all agreements, threw them in the trash, and made what was called the process of “peace and negotiations.” A farce of nihilism.

Instead of continuing the internal Palestinian conflicts, bickering and divisions, and the absurd competition for positions in power under occupation, which will certainly be fertilized by settler attacks and their army in the end, the time has come to set aside all those differences and unite on a joint struggle-resistance approach to face the new threat of ethnic cleansing, as the occupation, the rulers of Israel, and the settlers The colonialists send every minute one message to the Palestinian people and the entire world, that they only understand the language of force, and they will not be deterred except by their resistance and confronting their plans. The most prominent form of deterrent force is for the Palestinian people to unite with all their components in a unified popular resistance to the settlers and their army.

History will not be merciful to those who are negligent in understanding this danger, or to those who fail to make every possible effort to address it.