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Fearing the loathing of Settlers in Bi'lin

Palestine :: Ramallah | Mar 31, 9:49 AM | Rating: 0 | Viewed: 308 times Posted by jesse.rosenfeld PM
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At 10:00 p.m. last Sunday, in the middle of discussing whether Tel Aviv radical circles are a connecting point between current Western Anarchist thought and Third World liberation, ‘Yossi' - a radical Israeli activist called, suggesting I go with him to the Bil'in ‘outpost.' Unlike traditional understandings of outposts as land grabs by Jewish settlers, the Bil'in outpost is a Palestinian claim to land cut off by Israel's vaunted separation wall that sits on the edge of the expanding settlement of Modi'in Illit.

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Fearing the loathing of settlers in Bi’lin
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| Ramallah :: Palestine

There's something beautifully surreal about pissing next to an olive tree, looking onto an encroaching settlement under a starry West Bank sky. The experience had an element of absurdity to it as just hours before I had been drinking and smoking joints with a friend, talking through the finer points of Marxist Palestinian liberation theory in a hip Tel Aviv café off King George Street. At 10pm last Sunday, as we discussed whether Tel Aviv radical circles are a connecting point ...

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