Israel’s Theft Business Against the Palestinians Is as Thriving as Ever
Reports about Jewish serial rapists are bearing fruit. More victims are daring to testify and the police are investigating. Another wall of silence is collapsing. The phallocracy isn’t what it used to be.
Reports of Jewish thugs attacking Palestinians are also bearing fruit – more funding and land are allocated for settlements and outposts. The police aren’t investigating, while the army is hunting for parrots it says were stolen. The colonialism is exactly what it used to be, except it’s more sophisticated.
There’s no need to report every incident of sexual assault or harassment. The public mood and social media make it clear to harassers and rapists that they won’t escape punishment and shaming.
In contrast, the expellers and land thieves know that nothing bad will happen to them. They’re the privatized arm of a successful state-owned robbery business and a full partner in it. In short, Zionism, to use their term for it.
The symbiosis between the “unknowns” who attacked Said Awwad’s family on Saturday on their own land, the police who won’t bother to find the assailants and the army that protects them is clear on the ground at any given moment. This is violence in broad daylight, not in secret. And this violence is carrying out policy while continuing to shape and steer it.
Last Thursday afternoon, I once again witnessed this symbiosis in all its routine, unreported aggressiveness. We were sitting in the village of Umm Lasafa and hearing from boys who had gone out to pick akkoub (Gundelia, a wild green) about how soldiers had chased them. Suddenly, a WhatsApp message arrived: Settlers had shot at two boys, shepherds, from the village of Imnezl.
We raced over there; it was just a few kilometers to the south. Soft green hills with pastureland slung between them, sheep whose tranquility sparked envy and a well-cultivated olive orchard. And on a rock sat two boys with frozen faces, with their grandmother beside them.
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“They went up the hill a little,” she recounted. “On the road above” – which leads to the Lucifer outpost or Talia Farm – “an Israeli car appeared. A man got out and shot at them. They ran back. When they got back, their hands were still shaking with fear.”
Their father called the police, who did show up, in a jeep. But the boys were never asked to give a statement.
The goal of the shooting was clear – to deter and frighten the two so they would stop pasturing their flocks there, so other people wouldn’t go there to pick plants or harvest olives. Thanks to this cumulative terrorism, one outpost or another will grab more “abandoned” land. And allow me to speculate: Nobody will look for the gunman.
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