Brian Lear on WNYC. While the Iran war has been going on getting much less attention in this country

is Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank. An article in the Times of Israel

today says settler attacks take place on a near daily basis in the West Bank and have accelerated

during the war with Iran. And while there's plenty of debate about where the line is in Gaza and

Lebanon between Israel's right to defend itself against attacks from Iran-backed

insurgent groups, and how much civilian death and destruction makes its response a war crime.

The situation in the West Bank is to many people much more clearly wrong on its face.

Israelis are kicking Palestinians out of their homes and off their land, often using violence, just so Israel can have more of it.

Some headlines from just recent days, one week ago from the BBC, two Palestinians killed during settler attack on West Bank Village, officials say, last week from the times of Israel.

Israeli settlers seized a herd of sheep

belonging to Palestinian farmers. Then in the Israeli newspaper, Ha'arets, sheep theft sent

shockwaves through a Palestinian village. Then a 12-year-old boy was shot dead. We'll talk to the

writer of that article from Ha'arets in a minute.

Today in Haarets, Israeli settlers set fire to isolated West Bank Palestinian home, attack

residents after weeks of harassment. Today in the Times of Israel, which is more conservative

than Haarets, the headline, Exmosad Chief,

settler violence, and existential threat curbing it could spark civil war. An op-ed yesterday in the

Hill, center-left or centrist from Washington, settlers or invaders, are we using the wrong terms in the West Bank?

Similar in an opinion column by Edo David Cohen in Haarets, Jewish terrorism exists debate over.

The only question is, are you for it or against it? And this from the Jewish newspaper,

The Forward here in New York,

the settlers are winning now. West Bank activists aiding Palestinians are increasingly targets

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