cover image: THE WEST BANK: SETTLER COLONIAL SPILLOVER OF THE GAZA GENOCIDE - By Samia Botmeh, Basil Farraj, Fathi Nimer, and Abdaljawad Omar

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THE WEST BANK: SETTLER COLONIAL SPILLOVER OF THE GAZA GENOCIDE - By Samia Botmeh, Basil Farraj, Fathi Nimer, and Abdaljawad Omar

21 Feb 2024

the Israeli regime’s genocide campaign on Gaza, the authors delve into the false dichotomy between settler We cannot speak about the settler movement as and state, the passivity of the Palestinian Authority separate from larger state-backed colonization projects, (PA), the individual and collective imprisonment such as the Allon plan, the guidelines of which animate of Palestinians, and the dire s. [...] Parties declaring that they exist to serve action in the West Bank as a means to guarantee that the and expand the West Bank settlement movement now interests of the political elite remain unimpacted by the form an integral part of the governing coalition. [...] This rebellion wouldn’t have been possible Recent polls in the West Bank saw a staggering 60% without the loss of the PA’s ideological and social hold of respondents supporting the disintegration of the on the Palestinian people, especially among working- PA and more than 90% demanding the resignation of class communities in refugee camps and dense urban Abbas. [...] Importantly, the The abuse of Palestinian political prisoners cannot be Palestinian notion of the small and large prison is not separated from the wider treatment of the Palestinian merely metaphorical but a reality that, unless resisted, population at the hands of the Israeli regime. [...] The 1993 Oslo Accords further This dynamic has been acutely felt in the West Bank, institutionalized the colonial structures of dependency where the Israeli army has even further restricted the and decapacitated the Palestinian economy to ensure its already controlled movement of Palestinians since the continued suppression and reliance on non-endogenous start of its genocide in Gaza.
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