• Séimhe (sé / é)@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Yeah. The word settlers is outrageous. It sounds passive and uneventful. It frustrates me so much that it gets used. I get that when a situation is contested and unclear it’s important to mainly describe what is unquestionable, but that’s not the case here.

  • daannii@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Can we call them “interlopers”. Or just “Israeli invaders”.

    Though to be fair the word “settler” has historically been used to refer to invading white people taking over someone else’s home.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      I fucking hate the term ‘settler’ too. So fucking sanitized for the brutality these maniacs wreak on good people.

      I wonder if one of them were to kill a high-level European or American diplomat, if the world would actually even do anything.

      • bedwyr@piefed.ca
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        20 minutes ago

        They are more like Paramilitaries, as they work hand in glove with the politicians, and the bureaucrats, and army under them.