NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military was about to launch a nighttime strike on a group of men in southern Syria when the soldiers noticed the long curls dangling from the temples of their targets. The troops held their fire.

These were not Syrian militants attempting to breach Israel’s border but religious Jews who had slipped into Syria and were on their way back.

The episode, first reported last week by Israel’s public broadcaster and confirmed to The Associated Press by the Israeli military, has helped raise the profile of a fringe group of Israeli settlers that has staged numerous incursions into Syria, where they hope to establish Jewish settlements.

Israel’s military has occupied the area in southern Syria for more than a year, but the forays by civilian settler groups into the region only became a regular occurrence recently.

The groups, with members numbering in the dozens, have attempted to cross from Israel to Syria every few days in recent weeks. The military is tasked with reining them in and, while most Israelis regard them as fringe, the wider settlement movement in Israel has strong backers in the country’s far-right government.

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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If I just started going full on Israel, flying an Israeli flag, calling myself the American IDF or whatever could I just start settling a nicer house in my neighborhood?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "fringe" - naw dog this is pretty common behavior for Israel if we're being honest.

    "Settler" - yeah no, those are state sponsored terrorists.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago*

    Borders haven't meant anything to zionist for decades. They are militarily present in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Why are people still shocked when it turns out that indeed zionist don't care about state borders. For them Israel exists from the Nile to the Euphrates. They will never give back the Golan heights, because according to them it was Jewish to begin with.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Can’t wait to hear what the german Greens have to say about this.

    “Jaw of 14 year old scratches fist of Israeli in violent antisemitic attack.”

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    damn, I wonder what the american backed Syrian regime will do

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Fringe? No. This is just standard IOF genocide formula.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    I can't even start to imagine the hate everyone around holds about Israel.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    This is exactly what right wing lunatics in my country think Islam is doing. But it's always israel

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm still amazed by the amount of available homeless Jews that settles illegally everywhere in Palestine and Syria.

    Why won't the nazi regime of pissrael help all those poor souls instead of exporting them

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    Fringe? Seems that's pretty mainline Israeli

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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    They’re more akin to molesters. They see someone else’s private affairs and they feel entitled to stick their fingers in it like Epstein and friends laughing about it all in the emails. It’s an entitlement sickness they have. The ugliest of human attitudes.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    They used to say the difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist is whether the CIA bought their guns. What they are is squatters and criminals, and the media framing them as "settlers" is an atrocity in its own right.

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