How Israel’s silent majority is letting West Bank Palestinians be driven out

A funeral in Abu Falah, where the victims of a settler attack are laid to rest, March 2026

Amira Hass writes in Haaretz on 10 March 2026:

“Residents of Beita, we recommend that you start packing,” the administrator of the Hebrew-language WhatsApp messaging group “News of the Hills” mused on Monday, after explaining that “Beita is just an example of what happens when Jews decide … to act like the landlords.” As usual, he deployed God, concluding his sermon with “There is only one solution – transfer. It will happen soon, God willing.”

The admin posted similar advice less than a day after Israeli Jews stormed the village of Khirbet Abu Falah and shot dead two of its residents: “To all the little terrorists of Abu Falah … the best recommendation you will get is simply to flee. Move to Turkey, Dubai or France. … You have no future here. The hills will defeat you.” In almost every known case, the Jewish assailants recite to the Palestinian victims the recommendation to flee to another country.

And so in broad daylight, under the surveillance cameras of the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service and in the live-streamed videos of the attacked, the Jewish terror squads continue tirelessly to shoot at Palestinians, destroy groves and water pipes, trespass fields and to beat and torment women and old people, young people and also livestock, beat to the brink of death protective-presence activists and then boast openly that the goal is to expel the Palestinians from their homeland.

There is one logical explanation for why they can continue to rampage and to brag about their rampages.

The explanation has two parts. The first is that their expulsion “solution” fits hand in glove with official plans that are no longer concealed in the present and with secret policy outlines that were implemented in the past. Moreover, their nightmarish vision answers the hopes, desires and long years of ethnocentric brainwashing of all too many Israeli Jews.

The second part is that most members of Jewish Israeli society wouldn’t care if the Palestinians completely disappeared from this land, and not only behind barbed-wire fences, separation walls, Route 6 and the restaurants of Wadi Ara.

The first part says that behind every scruffy teen or cowboy with a tzitzit and a gun is a long line of well-dressed lawyers and planners who graduated from the best universities, cabinet ministers and Jewish National Fund clerks, military commanders and heads and inspectors of the Civil Administration.

The ones who for years pretended that “security” was the sole reason for declaring firing zones and prohibitions on land cultivation. The ones who, in the name of law enforcement, ordered the destruction of water cisterns and prohibited Palestinian communities from connecting to water and electricity. The ones who drafted and are drafting laws and orders that stipulate, in crude military language or in grandiloquent legalese, that public land will be allocated only to Jews.

They are the ones who designed and authorized separation walls and highways so as to devour as much Palestinian farmland and future building lots as possible – on both sides of the Green Line, in the Negev and in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The Jewish holy terror, which reaches new heights every day, only greatly accelerates the bureaucratic violence and dispossession that the state has carried out for decades.

The hills have already won, even if the final solution they are outlining does not materialize. They are winning by virtue of the fact that only violence that result in serious injury or death crosses the threshold of news reporting. They are winning simply because the Zionist opposition did not send its thousands of supporters with combat experience to protect Palestinian communities. The hills are winning because the non-Arab opposition parties make it clear through their silence that what the pogromists are doing doesn’t disturb them. The hills are winning because Jewish communities abroad continue to support Israel, which encourages the Jewish terrorism to conquer more territory, so it can welcome more immigrants seeking a winter vacation home.

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