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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war - against Israel

JL;DR SUMMARY Haviv Rettig Gur discusses the complex origins and evolution of the settler movement in Israel, emphasizing the recent extremist actions against the IDF by certain radical settler groups. 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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West BankIdfIsraeli PoliticsReligious ZionismExtremismSettler MovementSecurityJewish Settlers1967 WarHilltop Youth

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"The neighborhood of Gilo, this working class neighborhood in southern Jerusalem where I grew up part of my childhood, the neighborhood of Neve Yaakov in northern Jerusalem."
Central District, Israel
"They're part of the Jerusalem urban sprawl. And that's a lot of settlers. And you have Haredi settlers and secular settlers and even left-wing settlers. And then you have these very religiously inclined, ideologically fervent and intense settlers."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"None of the Bible takes place in Tel Aviv, which is, of course, why Tel Aviv is so much more fun than the West Bank."
Ramallah, Haifa District, Israel
"There's a battalion of infantry in the West Bank that in the last two days has rolled up a terror cell that was going to carry out a terror attack out of Ramallah."
Tel Aviv District, Israel
"I mean, can you imagine having seven, eight kids? It's absolutely crazy and insane and probably unhealthy. It's like Sound of Music level. It's crazy. Yeah. It's, yeah. Borchelle Dan household level."
Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Israel
"This north-south line begins in the city of Jenin in the north, then Nablus or Shechem in Hebrew, then Ramallah, East Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron."
Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Israel
"This north-south line begins in the city of Jenin in the north, then Nablus or Shechem in Hebrew, then Ramallah, East Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron."
Hebron, Jerusalem, Israel
"This north-south line begins in the city of Jenin in the north, then Nablus or Shechem in Hebrew, then Ramallah, East Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron."
Jericho, Jerusalem, Israel
"There's a corridor through Jericho on the border between the West Bank. And that plan, people should Google the Alon Plan, and they will understand."
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