Dean Obeidallah: The Biden admin. needs to do more than condemn Israeli FM Smotrich's words. Settler violence has dangerously been on the rise. The U.S. can’t look away.
. The goal of this violence is explicitly to drive the Palestinian Christians and Muslims from the land so these extremists can have it all.
My family in the West Bank is not immune to settler violence. My cousin’s home in Ramallah has bullet holes in it from when settlers shot down at them from their hilltop settlement. In Battir, a small West Bank Palestinian village where my father was born, about 15 miles from Bethlehem,a new outpost in 2022 on Palestinian-owned land that prevented the owners from being able to utilize their own property given that settlers tend to be heavily armed.
Will these settlers' next target for violence be Battir, where many of my relatives live — some of whom are U.S. citizens? It’s very possible, given the extremists such as Smotrich that Netanyahu has invited to his governing coalition. The United States must leverage the billions ofwe provide on an annual basis to Israel to press them to protect the religious minorities under their control.
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