Jewish settlers and their supporters clash with Israeli troops and police, as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah, Wednesday Feb. 1, 2006. Thousands of troops in riot gear and on horseback clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing Jewish settlers holed up behind barbed wire and on rooftops in this illegal West Bank settlement outpost Wednesday, after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the demolition of nine homes at the site.(AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
Israeli policemen clash with Jewish settlers in the unauthorized outpost of Amona, close to the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ofra, February 1, 2006. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)
Why are these people called "settlers"? Isn't Colonizer, Bandits, Robbers.... a more appropriate name?
What does "unauthorized outpost" mean? Who authorizes the authorized outposts?
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The settler movement is a form of terrorism, for which Jack Abramoff was a weapons supplier.
The Israelis seem to have borrowed the language of the Boer and and US manifest destiny to describe ethnic cleansing and territorial theft.
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