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"Write My Name”

By Palestinian Poet Zeina Azzam

Write my name on my leg, Mama

Use the black permanent marker

with the ink that doesn’t bleed

if it gets wet, the one that doesn’t melt

if it’s exposed to heat

Write my name on my leg, Mama

Make the lines thick and clear

Add your special flourishes

so I can take comfort in seeing

my mama’s handwriting when I go to sleep

Write my name on my leg, Mama

and on the legs of my sisters and brothers

This way we will belong together

This way we will be known

as your children

Write my name on my leg, Mama

and please write your name

and Baba’s name on your legs, too

so we will be remembered

as a family

Write my name on my leg, Mama

Don’t add any numbers

like when I was born or the address of our home

I don’t want the world to list me as a number

I have a name and I am not a number

Write my name on my leg, Mama

When the bomb hits our house

When the walls crush our skulls and bones

our legs will tell our story, how

there was nowhere for us to run

Video edit courtesy of TarynZhar on Twitter

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sits down with Jillian Superstar for the first episode of 360 With Jillian, and the conversation feels more like two people talking than a politician doing press. Mamdani gets into everything — how he and 50 Cent finally ended their online beef, the exact moment he first saw his wife’s profile on Hinge and knew he had to message her, and whether he thinks A$AP Rocky could actually beat him in a future mayoral race. They also talk about who really deserves the “King and Queen of New York” title, and how he tries to balance running the city with staying plugged into internet culture, music, and the nonstop chaos of New York life. It’s honest, funny, and shows why people end up liking him even if they don’t trust politics.

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Federal law enforcement has started labeling normal political disagreement about technology as a potential terrorism threat. This comes straight from more than 1,000 pages of internal DHS, FBI, and fusion‑center documents obtained through FOIA requests. These reports show a coordinated shift toward treating opposition to data centers, anger at Big Tech, and criticism of AI as signs of “anti‑technology extremism.”

The term itself — “anti‑tech violent extremism” — didn’t exist in any public DHS or FBI materials before these documents surfaced. It’s a new catch‑all category that lumps together a huge range of people: residents who don’t want a noisy data center in their neighborhood, workers worried about AI killing their jobs, environmental groups raising concerns about water usage, and anyone who thinks Big Tech has too much power. All of them are now being watched under the same umbrella as people who actually plan violence.

Fusion centers — the intelligence hubs that link federal agencies with state and local police — have been circulating bulletins warning that protests over AI and data centers could “devolve into civil unrest.” One New York intelligence report claims that AI adoption could trigger large‑scale protests within five years, and that these protests might turn into “anti‑tech violent extremist activity.”

The surveillance isn’t limited to people making threats. It includes photography of facilities, attending public meetings, observing construction sites, and even posting online about concerns. A Northern Virginia intelligence report lists these everyday actions as “suspicious,” treating them as possible pre‑operational steps toward attacking infrastructure.

Private contractors are involved too. SITE Intelligence Group has monitored online spaces like “neo‑Luddite” Discord servers for fusion centers. Even More Perfect Union — a journalism outlet — ended up in intelligence reporting simply for covering a local fight over a Georgia data center. That’s how wide the net is now: journalists reporting on community issues get flagged in counterterrorism documents.

The government’s logic is simple and dangerous: if people are angry about AI, Big Tech, or data centers, they might become extremists. This framing mirrors earlier surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists, where peaceful protest was treated as a precursor to violence. Civil rights lawyers warn that this is part of a long pattern — agencies treating strong opinions as security threats. Suspicious Activity Reports often flag normal behavior, and they’re notoriously unreliable.

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Meanwhile, the actual reasons people oppose data centers are usually mundane: water usage, noise, environmental strain, and the feeling that giant corporations are reshaping their towns without consent. There are hundreds of grassroots groups across 42 states organizing around these issues. These are ordinary people trying to protect their communities, not extremists plotting sabotage.

But the intelligence documents don’t draw a clear line between democratic participation and extremism. They treat criticism of AI, frustration with inequality, and anger at corporate power as potential indicators of radicalization. When attending a town hall or taking a photo of a construction site gets logged in a counterterrorism system, the government isn’t just monitoring threats — it’s policing dissent.

This shift is happening under a federal administration that is aggressively pro‑AI and pro‑data‑center expansion. Trump’s directives have pushed agencies to target people with “anti‑capitalism” beliefs, and his counterterrorism officials have elevated left‑wing dissent as a top threat category. The new “anti‑tech extremism” label fits neatly into that political agenda.

The result is a surveillance dragnet that treats criticism of powerful industries as a security problem. People worried about job loss, environmental damage, or corporate overreach are being folded into intelligence frameworks built for terrorists. The government is building a world where disagreeing with Big Tech can put you on a watchlist.

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If you’ve been anywhere near political news lately, you’ve seen Natalie Harp — the former OANN host turned Trump staffer who behaves like she’s auditioning to be the human embodiment of a MAGA shrine. Her devotion to Trump isn’t subtle. It isn’t normal. It isn’t even political. It’s something else entirely, and watching it unfold feels like watching someone fall in love with a deity they personally handcrafted.

Harp grew up in California in a conservative Christian household. She’s talked about being “saved” by Trump after a cancer diagnosis, saying his Right to Try policy gave her hope when she felt abandoned by the medical system. That’s the origin story she repeats constantly — Trump as her personal savior, Trump as the man who “gave her life back,” Trump as the reason she’s alive. She doesn’t frame him as a politician. She frames him as a miracle.

That’s how she ended up on OANN, where she basically ran a one‑woman Trump praise channel. Every segment was Trump this, Trump that, Trump is the greatest, Trump is the bravest, Trump is the only one who tells the truth. She didn’t report news. She worshipped. And Trump noticed.

He started inviting her to events. He started calling her “fantastic.” He started saying she was “one of the people who loves me the most.” Eventually he hired her to work on his media team, where she now follows him everywhere with a camera like she’s documenting the life of a prophet.

And this is where her quotes get absolutely wild. She’s said things like:

* “I owe my life to him. Not figuratively. Literally.”

* “When he walks into a room, you feel safer. You feel like the world makes sense again.”

* “God works through chosen people, and President Trump is one of them.”

* “I would follow him anywhere. Anywhere.”

* “He saved America. He saved me. I’m here because of him.”

* “There’s never been a man like him. Not in history.”

* “Serving him isn’t a job. It’s a calling.”

* “He’s the only person I trust to tell the truth.”

* “I love this president. I love what he stands for. I love who he is.”

She talks about him like a femme fatale in a noir movie who’s obsessed with the dangerous man she thinks can save her soul. It’s breathless. It’s dramatic. It’s way past political loyalty. It’s devotion with a capital D.

Trump, of course, eats it up. He’s joked — more than once — that “other than my wife and kids, nobody loves me like Natalie.” He says it with that half‑smirk he uses when he’s both bragging and testing how far someone will go for him. And Harp always goes further.

He’s said things like:

* “Natalie loves me. She really loves me.”

* “Nobody is more loyal than Natalie.”

* “She’s incredible. She’s always there. Always supporting me.”

* “She’s one of the people who loves me the most. Maybe the most.”

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Her obsession is so intense that even people inside Trump World whisper about it. They say she’s “always there,” always filming, always praising, always ready to jump in front of a camera to defend him. She’s become a kind of MAGA superfan with backstage access, and she acts like her job is to protect Trump from the world and protect the world from not loving Trump enough.

The whole thing is surreal. Trump, who thrives on loyalty, seems to enjoy having someone who treats him like a living miracle. Harp seems to enjoy being the person who does it. And the rest of us are left watching this bizarre political‑religious devotion play out in real time, wondering how a former cable host became the closest thing Trump has to a personal disciple.

It’s not normal political fandom. It’s not normal staff behavior. It’s something stranger — a mix of personal gratitude, hero worship, and full‑blown obsession. And Trump, who loves being adored, keeps feeding it. He praises her publicly. He jokes about her devotion. He lets her follow him everywhere. He treats her like a loyal knight in his personal kingdom.

So here we are: Natalie Harp, the woman who loves Trump more than Trump loves Trump. And Trump, who loves being loved, seems perfectly happy to let her keep proving it.

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Karim Khan didn’t describe “pressure.” He described threats — the kind of threats you expect from a mafia state, not a government claiming to be a democracy. According to Khan, Israeli officials threatened his wife and children because he dared to pursue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders accused of genocide. And when Israel wanted extra muscle, twelve U.S. senators jumped in and threatened his family too. That’s not diplomacy. That’s intimidation, straight up.

Khan was also smeared with bogus misconduct allegations. A 5,000‑page UN oversight report cleared him completely. Three ICC judges reviewed it and confirmed there was zero evidence he did anything wrong. But the ICC Bureau — stacked with governments that bend over backwards for Israel — refused to close the case. They kept it open because that’s how political pressure works: you don’t need evidence, you just need power.

And Israel has been playing this game for decades. Every time someone tries to investigate its actions, Israel reacts the same way: attack the investigator, threaten the institution, scream bias, and drag its allies into the fight. It’s a pattern so obvious you’d have to be blind not to see it.

Israel has threatened UN officials.

Israel has smeared human rights groups.

Israel has blocked investigators from entering Gaza.

Israel has leaned on Western governments to sabotage inquiries.

Israel has sanctioned ICC judges.

Israel has tried to dismantle the ICC’s authority entirely.

Now, according to Khan, Israel has crossed into threatening families — because it thinks it can get away with anything as long as Washington covers for it.

This isn’t about “security.” It’s not about “bias.” It’s about a state that refuses to be held accountable for what it does to Palestinians. And instead of facing the evidence, Israel tries to crush the people gathering it.

If the world lets this slide, then international justice is a joke. Because what’s the point of a court if a powerful state can threaten a prosecutor’s children and walk away untouched?

Khan said he hadn’t understood how much influence governments aligned with Israel actually have. Now he does. And now the rest of us see exactly what Israel is willing to do to stop the truth from getting out.

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Protests across Albania have exploded into a national crisis after revelations that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump secured development rights for a luxury resort on Sazan Island and in the Vjosa‑Narta Protected Landscape, one of the country’s most sensitive ecological zones. What started as an environmental fight has turned into a political scandal involving land‑status manipulation, undisclosed government contacts, and broader questions about the Trump family’s ongoing presence around diplomatic meetings despite holding no official roles.

Albanian investigative outlets — including BIRN Albania, Exit.al, Reporter.al, Faktoje, and Top Channel — have documented how the Vjosa‑Narta area, previously under strict protection, was quietly reclassified by the Albanian government. The changes were made through administrative decisions that were not publicly debated, and in some cases, documents were published after decisions were already in effect. This reclassification opened the door for the Kushner‑Ivanka project to receive “strategic investor” status, a designation that allows fast‑track approvals and exemptions from normal environmental review.

Environmental groups inside Albania — PPNEA, EcoAlbania, and the Vjosa National Park coalition — say the process violates both Albanian law and EU biodiversity standards. They argue that construction began before environmental impact assessments were completed, and that private security forces have been filmed pushing protesters and blocking access to public land. These groups have filed complaints with the European Commission, warning that Albania’s actions undermine its EU accession commitments.

The protests themselves have grown far beyond environmental activism. Albanian media outlets like Ora News, Euronews Albania, and Syri TV show thousands of people marching in Tirana, Vlora, and coastal towns. Demonstrators call it the “Flamingo Revolution,” referencing the flamingos that nest in the threatened wetlands. Protesters include students, scientists, fishermen, former military personnel familiar with Sazan’s strategic history, and ordinary citizens who see the project as a symbol of corruption and foreign exploitation.

Ivanka Trump inflamed tensions further when she described Sazan Island as something she and Kushner “discovered” while swimming from a friend’s boat. Albanians widely mocked the comment — Sazan is a well‑known former military base, ecological site, and strategic island. To many, her remark symbolized the arrogance of wealthy outsiders treating national heritage as a private playground.

The scandal widens when looking at the Trump family’s broader pattern of appearing around diplomatic or quasi‑diplomatic meetings. Middle Eastern outlets — The National, Al‑Arabiya, Gulf News, Middle East Eye — have reported on Jared Kushner’s continued meetings with Gulf leaders, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, while raising billions for his private equity fund from sovereign wealth funds. He holds no government position, yet continues to appear in contexts that overlap with U.S. diplomatic interests.

A related controversy erupted when Michael Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s husband, was seen attending a sensitive U.S.–UAE meeting. Senator Marco Rubio claimed Boulos “just happened to be there,” but Gulf and U.S. reporting (AP, Politico, Al‑Arabiya) noted that Boulos’ family has deep business ties in the region, raising questions about conflicts of interest and access.

European and Balkan outlets have also noted Ivanka Trump’s presence at international events where U.S. diplomats were present, again without any official role. Critics argue this blurs the line between private business and political influence. Can anyone scream nepotism?

In Albania, opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Edi Rama of “state capture,” claiming he is selling national assets to foreign elites and using “strategic investor” laws to bypass parliament. Exit.al published leaked documents showing meetings between Rama’s ministers and Kushner’s team months before the project was announced, including draft agreements prepared before environmental reviews were conducted.

International watchdogs — Transparency International, Balkan Insight, the European Greens — have raised alarms that the project violates EU environmental norms, lacked transparency, and raises conflict‑of‑interest concerns due to the Trump family’s involvement. Members of the European Parliament have already questioned whether Albania’s actions undermine its EU accession path.

What’s happening in Albania is no longer just a local dispute. It’s a collision of environmental protection, political power, foreign influence, and the Trump family’s ongoing entanglement in international business and diplomacy. The protests are growing, the questions are multiplying, and the government’s explanations are falling apart under scrutiny from both domestic and international sources.

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The UN flat‑out said Israel has been deliberately targeting Palestinian children, killing more than 20,000 and injuring 44,000 since October 2023. The Commission found genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity — the whole catalogue of horror — carried out against kids. We’re talking executions, torture, sexual violence, starvation, attacks on maternity wards and neonatal units, orphanages, schools, and the total erasure of childhood. And even after a supposed ceasefire, Israel kept killing children anyway.

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This interview was damn near impossible to sit through. Alex Bruesewitz walked onto Tucker’s set like a pre‑programmed propaganda bot. Every answer, every pivot, every fake “insight” was rehearsed to serve one purpose: protect Trump, attack anyone who steps out of line, and smear anti‑war voices as if they’re some foreign‑funded psy‑op.

The whole thing reeked of controlled opposition. He wasn’t there to inform anyone. He wasn’t there to debate. He wasn’t there to expose anything real. He was there to run cover.

He came in with a clear agenda:

trash Thomas Massie, trash Marjorie Taylor Greene, and defend Trump’s every move like his life depends on it. He even had the nerve to say we “don’t need more Epstein files,” and then turned around and bashed Massie for pushing for transparency.

And the way he talked down to the audience — like we’re too stupid to notice the contradictions — was insulting. He kept lumping pro‑war paid accounts together with anti‑war activists, as if the people calling for peace are somehow the ones being funded. Meanwhile, war is a trillion‑dollar business. Everyone knows the money is on the other side.

But Bruesewitz pretends otherwise because that’s his job. This barely out of puberty idiot thinking WE are the idiots.

He’s not a strategist. He’s not a thinker. He’s a social‑media mercenary who gets paid to manipulate narratives and attack whoever threatens the script. And the script right now is simple: protect Trump, smear dissent, and pretend the GOP isn’t eating itself alive.

The fake “fight” with Mark Levin? Please. That’s theater. Controlled opposition fighting controlled opposition to make it look like there’s a real ideological battle happening. There isn’t. They’re all marching in the same direction…to the same beat.

Watching this interview wasn’t enlightening — it was stomach churning. But it’s useful if you want to understand how these people operate. This is how propaganda is packaged now: young, loud, hyper‑online operatives pretending to be “truth tellers” while running the same tired manipulation playbook.

If you can tolerate the nausea, watch it.

Not to learn from him — but to see exactly how they try to play you.

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A Game of Target Practice. That’s what it feels like now. That’s what it looks like when you watch the footage, when you read the UN’s new findings, when you listen to the families who are burying pieces of their children because the bodies don’t come back whole anymore. Israel isn’t even pretending. They’re not hiding it. They’re not stumbling into “tragic mistakes.” They’re hunting kids. They’re sniping babies. They’re doing it in the open, in 4K, like a colony of depraved, despicable, disgusting baby killers who know damn well the world won’t lift a finger. And the world proves them right every single day.

The UN finally said it out loud — Israel is systematically targeting children. Not “accidentally harming.” Not “caught in crossfire.” Targeting. Intentionally. Deliberately. Repeatedly. The kind of language the UN only uses when the evidence is so overwhelming they can’t bury it anymore. And even then, the West shrugs. Governments issue their little “concerns.” Newspapers bury it under celebrity gossip. Politicians pretend they didn’t see it. The silence is so loud it’s mocking.

A 10‑day‑old baby was shot in the head while breastfeeding. Sniped. A newborn. A child who hadn’t even lived long enough to open its eyes properly. A mother holding her baby, thinking she could at least feed her child in the middle of hell, and an Israeli terrorist put a bullet straight through that infant’s skull. Tell me how that’s “self-defense.” Tell me how that’s “security.” Tell me how that’s anything but a f*****g execution. And the West still can’t bring itself to say the obvious: this is monstrous.

Then there’s the 16‑year‑old boy — shot, left bleeding, still alive, and then run over by a tank. A tank. They crushed him while he was still breathing. You don’t do that by accident. You don’t f*****g “miscalculate” with a tank. You don’t “fail to identify” a teenager you already shot. That’s not war. That’s not combat. That’s sadism. That’s the behavior of monsters who know they’ll never face consequences. Monsters who know the world will look away. Monsters who know the West will keep sending weapons and calling them “the only democracy in the Middle East.”

And if that wasn’t enough, the UN report is full of case after case that should make every government on earth choke on their own hypocrisy. 6‑year‑old, Hind Rajab, trapped in a car surrounded by the bodies of her family, begging for help on the phone for hours while Israeli terrorists closed in — and instead of rescuing her, they pumped 355 bullets into the car after was in and killed the paramedics who tried to reach her. That’s not “fog of war.” That’s f*****g cruelty.

Or the 4‑year‑old boy whose body was found with a sniper’s bullet straight through his chest, still clutching a piece of bread. Or the 13‑year‑old who was shot in the neck while waving a white cloth. Or the two brothers, 8 and 10, executed with shots to the head while trying to flee on a donkey cart. Or the dozens of kids whose bodies were found with single, precise bullet wounds — the kind of shots you only make when you’re aiming, steady, deliberate.

And then there’s the footage — the Israeli f*****g terrorist bragging on camera about “hunting teenagers,” laughing as he describes shooting a boy in the leg “just to watch him fall.” The terrorist soldiers filming themselves blowing up schools, hospitals, playgrounds, and then dancing in the rubble like it’s a f*****g festival. The videos of children with their hands zip‑tied, blindfolded, shoved into trucks like cattle. The testimonies of kids tortured in detention, electrocuted, beaten, starved. The UN documented all of it. Every last bit.

And still — silence.

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And now the UN confirms what Palestinians have been screaming for years — Israel is using children as target practice. Snipers aiming at heads, chests, legs. Kids playing. Kids running. Kids trying to get water. Kids trying to get bread. Kids standing near their homes. Kids doing nothing but existing. The UN says it plainly: that wretched demonic colony is intentionally killing children. And the world reacts like someone just announced the weather.

How the f**k is this happening? How is the world this quiet? How do you watch a baby get sniped and say nothing? How do you watch a teenager get crushed under a tank and go back to your morning coffee? How do you read a UN report that says a state is hunting children and still talk about “both sides”? What kind of moral rot do you need to have inside you to see all this and stay silent?

We’re living in a moment where genocide is livestreamed, documented, verified, confirmed by every human rights body on earth, and the people with the power to stop it are acting like it’s just another Monday. Another headline. Another thing to scroll past. Another tragedy they can pretend is “complicated.”

It’s not complicated. It’s not nuanced. It’s not a puzzle. A state armed to the teeth is killing children on purpose. A state backed by the richest governments in the world is wiping out an entire generation. A state that calls itself civilized is behaving like a f*****g death cult. And the West — the same West that lectures everyone else about human rights — is silent because the victims are Palestinian.

This isn’t neutrality. This isn’t diplomacy. This is complicity. This is cowardice. This is the world telling Palestinians their children don’t matter, their lives don’t matter, their deaths don’t matter. And the Israeli demons hear that message loud and clear. That’s why they keep doing it. That’s why they don’t stop. That’s why they don’t even bother lying anymore. They know no one will hold them accountable.

A colony of despots. A colony of depraved, despicable monsters. That’s what you called them, what else do you call demons who shoot a baby in the head while it’s breastfeeding? What else do you call soulless ghouls who run over a wounded teenager with a tank? What else do you call a military that treats children like targets in a video game?

The UN finally said it. The evidence is undeniable. The world knows. And still — silence. Still — excuses. Still — the same empty statements. Still — the same cowardly governments pretending they don’t see what’s right in front of them.

And that silence is its own kind of violence. It’s permission. It’s approval. It’s a green light.

And here’s the part that needs to be said without any f*****g sugarcoating: Western governments are not “failing” to stop this. They are choosing not to. They are bankrolling it. They are arming it. They are shielding it diplomatically. They are running interference at the UN. They are blocking ceasefires. They are sending weapons while children are being sniped. They are writing checks while babies are being blown apart. They are giving Israel political cover while teenagers are being crushed under tanks. They are not bystanders — they are participants.

The US, the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia — all of them. They stand there with their polished speeches about “human rights” and “international law,” and then they turn around and enable the slaughter of children. They lecture the world about morality while funding a f*****g child‑killing machine. They talk about “shared values” while those values apparently include shooting a 10‑day‑old baby in the head. They talk about “security” while supporting a military that treats Palestinian kids like targets in a carnival game.

They know exactly what’s happening. They’ve seen the same footage. They’ve read the same UN reports. They’ve watched the same videos of kids bleeding out in the street. And they still send weapons. They still defend Israel at every podium. They still pretend this is “complex.” It’s not complex. It’s cowardice. It’s political self‑interest. It’s racism. It’s the belief that Palestinian children are disposable. It's f*****g evil.

How much more do they need to see before they admit what’s happening? How many more children have to be sniped, crushed, starved, burned, buried under rubble? How many more UN reports have to come out before the world grows a spine?

Because right now, the message is clear: Israel can kill as many children as it wants, and the world will look away.

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Peter Oborne’s latest reporting from the West Bank confirms what human rights organizations have been documenting for years: Israel is running a coordinated campaign to depopulate Palestinian communities and entrench permanent Jewish control over the territory.

Settlers are not acting alone. They are armed, funded, and shielded by the Israeli state. They receive military‑grade rifles, agricultural machinery, surveillance drones, and new roads built specifically to expand their reach. Palestinians, meanwhile, face home demolitions, land seizures, and escalating violence.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, settler attacks have more than doubled since 2023. Entire Palestinian communities—over 1,200 people—have been forced to flee due to violence and intimidation. Israeli human rights groups like Yesh Din report that over 90% of settler attacks result in no charges at all.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also holds unprecedented authority over the West Bank’s civil administration, has used his position to funnel money into settlement expansion. While Israel’s national budget faces cuts, settlement budgets have ballooned. In February, Smotrich announced a restructuring of land registration laws to make it easier for settlers to claim Palestinian land as “state land.” He openly declared: “We will continue to kill off the idea of a Palestinian state.”

The IDF’s role is central. Soldiers routinely accompany settlers during raids on Palestinian villages. They block Palestinian ambulances, detain Palestinian farmers, and provide cover for settlers who torch homes or seize grazing land. In many cases documented by B’Tselem, the army fires on Palestinians who attempt to defend themselves or their property.

Meanwhile, new outposts—illegal even under Israeli law—are being established at record speed. Instead of dismantling them, the government connects them to infrastructure and retroactively legalizes them. Each outpost becomes a foothold for further expansion, pushing Palestinians into smaller and smaller enclaves.

This is a textbook case of ethnic cleansing: the removal of an Indigenous population through violence, coercion, and state‑backed settlement. The West Bank is being carved up in real time, and the people who have lived there for centuries are being erased from it.

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