God I wonder why Palestinians are so upset. Oh wait:
Last October, Palestinian grandmother Ayesha Shtayyeh says a man pointed a gun at her head and told her to leave the place she had called home for 50 years.
It’s not the wilderness, why are they called settlers? English already has a word for what they are doing, even multiple: invaders, occupiers, tresspasers…
settlers also has other connotations which is probably why is was chosen.
to settle something = agree
to settle down = calm and mature
to settle for something = compromise
to settle a dispute = legal and fair
None of which is remotely close to what these people are doing when they steal.
Thieves.
And often murderers, too.
John Oliver had a piece recently about it. Quite enlightening.
I have literally no sympathy for these settlers. I hope they have a brutal, agonizing, slow, and humiliating death.
I think we should treat them as an occupying force and intervene, but what do I know.
Israel in one sentence: radical religious nuts believing in 3000 year old fairy tales commits robbery and murder.
