LE FIGARO.
- Reacting to an attack that killed two of them, several hundred settlers descended on the Palestinian village of Huwara eight days ago and ransacked it.
By its magnitude and violence, this event is a first.
How do you analyze it?
David Khalfa.
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The settlements where these young people come from are part of the "iron triangle" and are among the toughest in the West Bank.
During my stays in these settlements, two things struck me: the deep religiosity, marked by “new age” spirituality, of these young people and their anti-legalist and anti-statist nationalism.
The assassination of two young Israelis by a Palestinian is the trigger for this punitive expedition, but these acts of revenge are also the consequence of a process of radicalization which has its origins in the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005 This withdrawal was experienced as a catastrophe of historic dimensions…
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