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Israeli settler violence is not isolated — it is state‑backed terror enabled and protected by the Israeli government and military. Its goal is to instill fear in the hearts of Indigenous Palestinians so they can be driven from their land once and for all.
On March 12, 2026, an illegal Jewish Israeli settler kidnapped a Palestinian man from the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, according to local sources. The sources told WAFA, the Palestinian Information Agency, that the settler abducted Issa Maher Zayed while he was heading to his land near a new colonial outpost established just days earlier on village property. Another day in the apartheid state of Israel — and they wonder why so much of the world condemns these actions.
In the United States, democratic legitimacy has increasingly been undermined by structural distortions embedded within the electoral system itself. For decades, political influence has been shaped not only by voters, but also by lobbying networks, corporate financing, and concentrated donor power, enabling organized economic interests to exert disproportionate influence over public policy. As a result, many scholars and observers have characterized the American political system less as a fully representative democracy and more as a plutocratic or post-democratic order, in which formal democratic institutions persist while substantive political power becomes increasingly concentrated among economic elites.
Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office he has shown clear signs of megalomania.
One sign, of course, is his blatant demand for the territory of other nations. Since January 2025 alone, he has suggested annexing or seizing control of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal, Gaza, Venezuela, and Cuba. In addition, he has proclaimed the “Donroe Doctrine,” declaring that “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
The split in MAGA over Iran looms large, and Loomer says the nay-sayers are the Woke Reich. Democrat-ish leaders put their thumb on the candidate scale, and a new Florida history course says the American dream is made of gold—or, more likely, Teflon.
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On the morning of May 13, 2026, Israeli settlers and occupation soldiers carried out coordinated attacks on the Palestinian villages of Sinjil and Jaljulia, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. According to local sources, dozens of settlers, accompanied by Israeli military personnel, entered the western area of Sinjil, where they chased Palestinian shepherds, assaulted them, and seized 400 hundreds of sheep and two donkeys according to IMEMC News. Residents intervened to stop the theft, but the settlers continued their raids.
Palestinian teen killed in West Bank village during settler attack Video credit: cnn.com
In Jaljulia, another group of settlers attacked homes on the outskirts, stealing additional sheep and agricultural equipment from local farmers and shot dead a 15 y.o. Witnesses reported that the settlers moved freely under the protection of the occupation army, which prevented Palestinians from approaching their own land during the assaults according IMEMC News.
The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and society that has been conditioned to see the 'other' as subhuman.
Yet, this was not the typical viral video that emerges almost daily from occupied Palestine. The victim, this time, was not a Palestinian. She was an elderly French nun.
On May 1, footage surfaced from Jerusalem showing a 36-year-old Israeli man running behind a French nun—a researcher at the French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research—and shoving her violently to the ground.
In a chilling display of cruelty, the assailant did not simply hit and run. He walked away a few paces, then returned to the fallen woman to kick her repeatedly and mercilessly as she lay helpless.
