Peloni: The true motive of using the fake news story of “Settler Violence” to delegitimize Israel is exposed as this falsehood is used to support the “River to the Sea” campaign of displacing all Israelis from the land of their forefathers. As Douglas Altabef explains, this targets all Israelis as settlers, and such a brand should be worn with unabashed pride, and should be defended with the knowledge that claims of “Settler Violence” are being used to target the very existence of the nation, the ties between the our people and the land, and the international support of those allies in the West which have supported Israel over the years. This is literally the hill on which they mean to see the Jewish State to fall, and so we must embrace this reality and defend it with the simple truth that the campaign being erected on the claim of “Settler Violence” is altogether manufactured for this purpose.
In response to the accusation of us all being settlers, the only answer is “guilty as charged.” Do you know that settlers of different nationalities and locales succeeded in transforming much of the world?
Douglas Altabef | May 19, 2026
Israeli settlers planting trees at Maaleh Rechavam. 2006. Photo by Anna Antopolsky – Flickr, also published at http://mesto.org.il, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia
Sometimes the incessant braying of ill or uninformed demonizers counterintuitively contains and conveys a certain “wisdom:” That wisdom might be summed up as the realization that there is no judgment, no discernment coming from the haters, and therefore no explanation, let alone apology is needed.
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