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Israel Has an Extremism Problem

JL;DR SUMMARY Haviv Rettig Gur discusses the growing problem of extremism among Israeli settlers in the West Bank, emphasizing the complexity and diversity within the settler movement. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ZionismWest BankIdfJewish StatePalestiniansIsraeli SettlersIsraeli GovernmentViolenceExtremismWest Bank Outposts

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Jerusalem, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Many settlers live in Jerusalem, in neighborhoods that are technically beyond the borders established after the Six-Day War in 1967, but are very much attached to Jerusalemjust part of the urban sprawl and a cheaper place to live than the rest of the city."
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