How American citizens are leading rise of ‘settler violence’ on Palestinian lands

The Biden administration instituted a travel ban on extremist Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians but there is a glaring loophole for US citizens
Washington’s ban on travel to the US by extremist Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians in the West Bank has one gaping loophole.

American citizens have been at the forefront of the rise of settler violence in the occupied territories, and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land, but as US passport holders they cannot be barred from their own country.

Many of the estimated 60,000 Americans living in the West Bank outside of occupied East Jerusalem moved to settlements for the lifestyle and have little to do with the Palestinians on whose land they live. But a core of ideologically driven US citizens were at the forefront of building religious settlements on land expropriated from Palestinians while others have led the rise of what has been described as “settler terrorism”.

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I was reading this and thought instantly of ADVISOR's thread about the CIA report on the export of homegrown terrorists.

Anyway, I haven't finished reading the article yet so a bit of a premature share. No further comments from me yet.

They'd still be open for prosecution if they returned to the US though as the setters are in violation of international law and Geneva convention (article 4).

originally posted by: bastion
They'd still be open for prosecution if they returned to the US though as the setters are in violation of international law and Geneva convention (article 4).

WHAT!

originally posted by: bastion
They'd still be open for prosecution if they returned to the US though as the setters are in violation of international law and Geneva convention (article 4).

There is a lot to digest in what is a relatively short article. Left-wing, hippy types wanting an alternative lifestyle and a delusion that seemingly refuses to die despite all evidence to the contrary.

Hirschhorn said the bulk of American Jews arrived in the decade or so after the 1967 war and the start of the occupation of the West Bank. They were founders of settlements such as Efrat and Tekoa built on confiscated Palestinian land. She said many were Democrats who regarded the settlement project as enlightened.

“They brought with them a set of progressive values and tactics that they didn’t see themselves as leaving behind when they came to Israel. Rather they saw themselves applying the toolkit of the left in the United States, of the social movements of the 60s and 70s. They hoped that these settlements really would be a city on a hill as a shining beacon to the rest of the world. This is really the way Americans saw their project in the occupied territories,” she said.

originally posted by: bastion
They'd still be open for prosecution if they returned to the US though as the setters are in violation of international law and Geneva convention (article 4).

No they wouldnt. for one, US law Trumps International law where our citizens are concerned in the US.

I love to see how some want to push international laws over Americans constitutional laws in the US.

I will like to see who will arrest these Americans in the US and try to push international laws on them.

It is no going to happen.

No wonder the UN wants the US constitution shredded once and for all, they will love to dictate our laws.

With terrorist sponsoring countries as the ones in charge or US laws.

peachy again, is not going to happen.

US constitution cannot be superseded by any other laws, it is after all the law of the land and the only powers of the international laws are the ones our US constitution grants them.

originally posted by: yuppa

originally posted by: bastion
They'd still be open for prosecution if they returned to the US though as the setters are in violation of international law and Geneva convention (article 4).

No they wouldnt. for one, US law Trumps International law where our citizens are concerned in the US.

The settlements are still illegal under US law but I thought they had to abide by the geneva conventions they rastified and various international treaties on the issue?

originally posted by: marg6043
US constitution cannot be superseded by any other laws, it is after all the law of the land and the only powers of the international laws are the ones our US constitution grants them.

This year was already the deadliest in at least 15 years for West Bank residents, with some 200 Palestinians and 26 Israelis killed, according to UN data. Earlier this month, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, blamed the violence on “a tiny handful of people [among the settlers] who take the law into their own hands”.

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I agree. Israel should label them as terrorists and have them deported back to the US.