Israeli settlement data leak
Jan. 30th, 2009 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
samsamkaDude. So not cool.
I've been reading up on the ideological settler movement for this paper I'm writing. The behavior described in this article is not surprising at all. And when we tried to remove them by force, they fought back Waco-style. That's how crazy this shit is. They consider the current Israeli government totally illegitimate for even trying to interfere with settlement construction, so I'm not surprised that they also don't particularly respect other people's private property rights.
These people are completely insane. Imagine if we had civilian FLDS groups trying to set up compounds in Iraq and Afghanistan, on other people's property, in order to prevent us from ever pulling our army out of there, and saying that this is what God commands them to do. Also imagine that every once in a while a one of their members in good standing up and shoots a bunch of Iraqi civilians in a mosque or assassinates an American politician, and end up hailed as heroes by their community. That's how crazy this is.
Obviously, there are also Muslims who are this crazy and violent or worse. But when the country that you're supporting as the shining light of secular democracy in the middle east has this kind of problem with its own citizens, it's just depressing.
I've been reading up on the ideological settler movement for this paper I'm writing. The behavior described in this article is not surprising at all. And when we tried to remove them by force, they fought back Waco-style. That's how crazy this shit is. They consider the current Israeli government totally illegitimate for even trying to interfere with settlement construction, so I'm not surprised that they also don't particularly respect other people's private property rights.
These people are completely insane. Imagine if we had civilian FLDS groups trying to set up compounds in Iraq and Afghanistan, on other people's property, in order to prevent us from ever pulling our army out of there, and saying that this is what God commands them to do. Also imagine that every once in a while a one of their members in good standing up and shoots a bunch of Iraqi civilians in a mosque or assassinates an American politician, and end up hailed as heroes by their community. That's how crazy this is.
Obviously, there are also Muslims who are this crazy and violent or worse. But when the country that you're supporting as the shining light of secular democracy in the middle east has this kind of problem with its own citizens, it's just depressing.
