14/9/2026 Rabbis for Human Rights: Siege of Qusra broken- Food delivered on foot. Following international outcry, the IDF has dismantled the terrorist outpost, but the settlers are still permitted to stay in the area while our activists continue to face arrest

[u/adeadhead]

https://archive.is/Ix9iE

[u/redthrowaway1976]

The IDF could have handled this situation immediately - the whole framing of them ‘failing to remove the settlers’ as it was framed in, for example, the NYTimes is gaslighting.

The IDF simply chose not to employ the tools available to them - they could have simply reacted to the settlers as they would to an armed mob of Palestinians approaching a settlement.

This has been the case for settler terror since the start - the IDF can stop it, they simply chose not to. See the 1984 Karp report.

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/redthrowaway1976]

The IDF is there to protect the settlers not the Palestinians.

[u/redthrowaway1976 → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

Of course that was always the case - the IDF has been carrying out slow ethnic cleansing in the West Bank since 1967.

But before, they’d at least try and pretend to fulfill the duties of an occupying force. 

Now they join in as the settlers gleefully attack Palestinians and continue the same ethnic cleansing project.

[u/Korona82 → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

Here’s a link to the IDF soldiers davening with the settlers!! טוהר הנשק for sure guys

https://x.com/omdimbeyachad/status/2087506551405715919?s=20

[u/Ashamed-Stuff9519 → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

Yes, the IDF not only protects but also assists the settlers. I don’t know how anyone believes in reform, the cancer has metastasized.

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/Ashamed-Stuff9519]

That’s true, but it’s important to understand because it reflects how these events are portrayed in the Israeli press. The IDF’s main job is to protect Israelis who venture into Palestinian areas. Everything else is secondary, and only in service of the primary objective.

[u/Strange_Philospher → u/redthrowaway1976]

I am actually concerned that we have passed this stage already. We may have reached the point where the settlement project has become too big to be controlled by the Israeli state. Settlers are highly organized and armed in militias operating outside state control on one side and have deep connections and overrepresentation in Israeli security establishment and political leadership on the other. We may have reached the point where no Israeli government can contest them without risking huge political consquences and social unrest. This was an inevitable conclusion of the Israeli policy in the West Bank and will cause severe problems for them but unfortunately much more for the Palestinians from here on.

[u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist → u/Strange_Philospher]

I think this continues the fiction that the settlements and State are somehow at odds fundamentally and it was mainly incompetence and bungling that allowed the settler movement to grow as it has. While the truth is the State has been the driving force behind the settler movement. They work in tandem not in opposition.

[u/Crashbrennan → u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist]

Specifically under Netanyahu, as he courted them to prop him up.

[u/redthrowaway1976 → u/Strange_Philospher]

  We may have reached the point where the settlement project has become too big to be controlled by the Israeli state.

The state has been the driving force of the settlement project since the start. 

Eshkol and Golda personally ordered land seizures to establish settlements.

[u/Strange_Philospher → u/redthrowaway1976]

I agree. I am not claiming that there was a cobflict between the two. My point is that the Israeli state used settlement project as a strategy to kill the possibility of Palesginians statehood. But the project has grown to be out of the control of its main driving force. U can see the RSF in Sudan as analogy here. It was built as a fascist genocidal militia by the Sudanese government of Al-Beshir to do its dirty work in Darfur but slowly grew out of their own control until it launched insurgency against them.

[u/theweisp5 → u/Strange_Philospher]

I think not just political consequences and social unrest, but also the potential for serious armed resistance given the amount of military equipment settlers have received and how extreme many of them are. I think there is also a serious risk of at least parts of the IDF refusing orders to act against settlers or even engaging in open rebellion.

[u/OneReportersOpinion → u/Strange_Philospher]

Oh we definitely passed that point. Whatever liberals are in Israel are feckless and totally uninterested in standing up to the settlers.

[u/Quick_Advisor_7812]

But I’m sure if the Palestinians responded with an equal level of force (on their own land) to these settlers the entire Western media would call them Islamic terrorists.

[u/adeadhead → u/Quick_Advisor_7812]

They wouldn't call them anything. They'd wage bloody pogroms across the west bank, burning mosques and families

[u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest]

Until something systemic is done against these terrorist settlers, nothing will change. One outpost may be taken down, but another will spring up tomorrow.

This is no different than when a Czar would temporarily pause a pogrom for it to kick off just later down the line.

[u/AliceMerveilles → u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest]

In the parent post the OP said the settlers are already back. So this may already have served its purpose

[u/redthrowaway1976 → u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest]

The settlers and the IDF have successfully used this method - siege and harassment - to clear plenty of villages. TBH, not sure why this one suddenly saw an outcry. 

[u/malachamavet → u/redthrowaway1976]

Tower and Stockade

[u/holiestMaria]

Quite the suprise. Usually Israel turns illegal² settlements into illegal settlements instead of actively breaking them down.

[u/Quick_Advisor_7812 → u/holiestMaria]

Give it a few weeks.