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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Nahal Oz (Hebrew: נַחַ"ל עֹז, lit. "Mighty Stream" or "Mighty Nahal") is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located in the northwestern part of the Negev desert close to the border with the Gaza Strip

Ok what’s Nahal mean?

Nahal (Hebrew: נח"ל) (acronym of Noar Halutzi Lohem, lit. Fighting Pioneer Youth[1]) is a program that combines military service with mostly social welfare and informal education projects such as youth movement activities... Prior to the 1990s it was a paramilitary Israel Defense Forces program that combined military service and the establishment of agricultural settlements, often in peripheral areas.

The Nahal group (Hebrew: גרעין נחל) is a form of community service developed in Israel, which combines social volunteerism, agriculture and military service. The service is divided into several parts:

The national mission period lasts a year, in which all the core group stays together, under the command of the Education and Youth Corps. During the establishment of the state, the national mission was mostly the establishment of new settlements in periphery areas (by means of Nahal settlements)

What’s a Nahal settlement?

The goal for every Nahal settlement was to become a civilian settlement and serve as a first line of defense against potential future Arab invasions while providing a base of operations and resources for military forces operating in peripheral regions.

The first Nahal settlement was Nahal Oz located in the northwestern Negev desert close to the border with the Gaza Strip.

So these settlements near to Gaza that were targeted are explicitly hybrid military-civilian installations. Militarized communes of military trained populations with the explicit purpose of being the front line of Israeli colonial expansion.

Soldier settlements.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

This us how settler colonialism works. Settlers aren't civilians.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

periphery areas

jesus-christ

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How many of these Nahal settlements are there?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Less than there were this time last month. troll

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This list contains 79 entries but I have no idea if it’s exhaustive

https://m.famousfix.com/list/nahal-settlements

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

This all really paints a picture of a national israeli character, and it's not an impressive one. Where are all the brave Zionist warriors? Are they exclusively up in the sky dropping bombs now? The soldier settlements hid in their safe rooms until the IOF killed them and their captors. The IOF themselves run away from people throwing rocks in a panic. The people of Israel in general scream and cry at the sight of Hamas sugar rockets in the air while their countrymen drop 2,000lb bombs on hospitals.

The entire reputation of Israel - the warrior nation, the brave defenders of Zionism - is nothing but a PR story. I guess it's nothing new for fascism.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Nahal (Hebrew: נח"ל) (acronym of Noar Halutzi Lohem, lit. Fighting Pioneer Youth[1]) is a program that combines military service with mostly social welfare and informal education projects such as youth movement activities

What if we did Soviet-style youth organisations but for evil?

Soldier settlements

I am reminded of somebody attempting to do something similar a few decades earlier. Wehrbauern they were called. I'm sure they were very nice and civilised people.