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cbabe

(4,158 posts)
Sat Oct 21, 2023, 10:57 AM Oct 2023

Most successful land-grab strategy since 1967' as settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territory

https://www.inkl.com/news/the-most-successful-land-grab-strategy-since-1967-as-settlers-push-bedouins-off-west-bank-territory

(Also posted in the Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/21/the-most-successful-land-grab-strategy-since-1967-as-settlers-push-bedouins-off-west-bank-territory

Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Ein Rashash

Oct 20, 2023, 10:00 PM

‘The most successful land-grab strategy since 1967’ as settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territory

QUIQUE KIERSZENBAUM
WEST BANK
THE WEST BANK
UNITED NATIONS
Sliman al-Zawahri, 52, prays in the empty village of Ein Rashash in Area C of the West Bank. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

The tiny settlement overlooking the Bedouin village of Ein Rashash is named “Angels of Peace”, but, says Sliman al-Zawahri, its residents have visited only violence, fear and despair on his family.

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Most successful land-grab strategy since 1967' as settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territory (Original Post) cbabe Oct 2023 OP
The Guardian, and much of the MSM, conveniently leave out that in 1967 Israel offered to return JohnSJ Oct 2023 #1
Not me. The Guardian is commonly cited on du as a trusted source. To lodge a correction: cbabe Oct 2023 #2
Thank-you, and I apologize for the way I worded that, and will correct and edit it. I definitely did not JohnSJ Oct 2023 #3
Okey doke. Thanks. cbabe Oct 2023 #4

JohnSJ

(96,523 posts)
1. The Guardian, and much of the MSM, conveniently leave out that in 1967 Israel offered to return
Sat Oct 21, 2023, 11:06 AM
Oct 2023

essentially ALL the territory it captured in the 6 day war, Judea and Samaria, Gaza and the Golan Heights IF the Arabs would only agree to peace. Instead, The Arab League summit In Khartoum responded with its famous Khartoum Resolution, known as the "three No's. No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Arab_League_summit#:~:text=The%201967%20Arab%20League%20summit,Israel%2C%20no%20negotiations%20with%20Israel.

The distortion and ignorance of history, by members of the media is astounding

JohnSJ

(96,523 posts)
3. Thank-you, and I apologize for the way I worded that, and will correct and edit it. I definitely did not
Sat Oct 21, 2023, 11:15 AM
Oct 2023

mean to personally attribute that to you.

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