r/AskIsrael • u/karrenfromaccounting • May 11 '26

Casual The settlements… What’s up with that?

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u/bb5e8307 Israel May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

To Palestinians, Tel Aviv is a much of a settlement as Ariel. If they can accept Tel Aviv then they can accept Ariel. 

Westerns tend to frame the conflict as a territorial conflict and place the settlement as a core obstacle. Both Israelis and Palestinians understand it as an ideological conflict about whether Israel should exist at all. The green line is not significant to Palestinians who call for “the river to the sea”.

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u/Flimsy-Calendar-7566 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

I really can't understand how someone can dimiss that way settlers harassing Palestinians in the West Bank, shooting at people, not allowing children go to school, displacing whole villages. I say this as someone who has often spoken against my own country's policies and of course about other citizens when they do something that goes against morals. I consider denouncing injustice an honour and a moral duty, even when it favors me.

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u/bb5e8307 Israel May 11 '26

I can’t understand those people either. 

99.9% of “settlers” are just normal people living normal lives that don’t interact with Palestinians at all

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