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Guns, God, and Grabbed Land: How Ben Gvir Armed the Apocalypse in the West Bank

 


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đź“ŤBy Malik Mukhtar | ainnbeen.blogspot.com
đź—“️ June 29, 2025

They’re not soldiers.
They’re not police.
But they carry rifles, wear flak jackets, and burn villages—under a government badge.

This is not fiction.
This is not wartime Gaza.
This is the West Bank in 2025—where settlers have become a state-backed militia, and Palestinians are being pushed off their ancestral land at gunpoint.

🔥 A State-Sanctioned Militia Disguised as “Self-Defense”

Under the directive of Israel’s far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, more than 9,000 semi-automatic rifles, assault weapons, and tactical gear have been distributed to Jewish settlers across the occupied West Bank since October 2023.

Let that sink in.
Nine thousand rifles.
To civilians.
Settlers.
Vigilantes.

In a region under military occupation, this is not security—it’s a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.

Ben Gvir calls them “Civilian Security Squads.”
But these are not “squads.” These are armed cells, spread across more than 400 illegal settlements and outposts, armed and emboldened by state policy.

🧷 What Are They Armed With?

According to Israeli press (Haaretz, +972 Mag) and verified reports:

  • M16 and M4 assault rifles
  • Semi-automatic Ruger rifles
  • Beretta and Glock handguns
  • Body armor, helmets, radios, drones
  • Tactical gear supplied by Ben Gvir’s ministry and settler-aligned NGOs

And yes—all with state approval.

⚠️ The Numbers That Haunt

  • Over 950 “civil defense squads” have been formally established or reactivated.
  • More than 6,000 settlers were fast-tracked for gun licenses in just 6 months.
  • The majority of weapons went to settlers in flashpoint areas: Huwara, Hebron Hills, Nablus, and Silwad, among others.
  • Some units were even trained by former IDF commandos.

This is not law and order.
This is a civilian militia, tailored for one purpose:
Intimidate. Expel. Replace.

🏚️ The Aftermath: Villages Burn, Families Flee

Since early 2024, more than 16 Palestinian communities in Area C have been completely emptied due to settler violence and threats.

Entire hamlets—Ras al-Tin, Ein Samiya, Wadi al-Siq—have been erased from the land without a single tank rolling in.
Just settlers.
Guns.
And silence.

In some cases, settlers opened fire while IDF troops looked on—or stood beside them.
Ben Gvir defended it all: “They’re protecting Jewish lives.”

But who protects the Palestinian child shot in the chest while grazing sheep?
Who shelters the grandmother whose house was burned while soldiers laughed?

đź—ş️ A Map Redrawn in Blood

This is not random violence.
It is a system.
Backed by laws.
Fueled by racism.
Executed with state-issued rifles.

Palestinians are not just being oppressed.
They are being erased—village by village, tree by tree, name by name.

✊🏽 Resistance Isn’t Terrorism—It’s Survival

If your home was torched…
If your child was hunted by men with M16s on stolen hills…
If your very existence was a target…

Would you not resist?

Let it be clear:
This is not a “conflict.”
This is settler colonialism, militarized by a fanatical ideology and funded with impunity.

đź•Ż️ A Final Word

The world’s gaze may be fixed on Gaza, but the West Bank is bleeding quietly, methodically—beneath a fog of bureaucracy, barbed wire, and Ben Gvir’s rifles.

In the words of one displaced father from Ein Samiya:

“They didn’t come with tanks. They came with paper, guns, and smiles. And they told us to leave—or die.”

This isn’t security.
This isn’t defense.
This is a war on existence—and the weapons are already in their hands.

📢 Read. Share. Resist. Silence is complicity.
✍️ Malik Mukhtar
đź”— ainnbeen.blogspot.com

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