Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Israeli girl stabbed to death by Palestinian inside bedroom [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)I don't know the breakdown or percentages of decent orthodox to the absolute hilltop youth nutters, but constantly dehumanizing all orthodox settlers as if they're all drooling fanatics is something Hamas, Abbas, and their bigoted BDS fans do when they incite constantly against all - and I mean all settlers. Sure, the ultra religious fanatic messianic hilltop nutter settlers are a cancer, no doubt....but not all orthodox settlers are like that, and there are many (maybe most?) settlers who are secular.
I don't think the nutters are there only for Messianic purposes either. I can see where both religious and non-religious Jews would choose to live there because their ancestors lived on that land for thousands of years and that's their home too. They have a right to live where they want in their indigenous historic homeland, like any Native American of North America. We'd never label Native Americans nutter extremists for wanting to live somewhere their ancestors lived. We wouldn't do that to anyone else in the world.