Israel’s use of so-called “shepherding outposts” to seize Palestinian land through settler herders is now being exported to Syria, as an Israeli settler, supported by the state, occupies Syrian pastureland in Wadi Toemm with a herd of 140 cattle.

Israeli forces move Palestinian shepherds off their land to make way for Jewish Israeli settlers to farm the land near the Israeli settlement of Maaon, just south of the Palestinian village of Yatta, in the southern West Bank, April 21, 2012. (Photo: Mamoun Wazwaz/APA Images)Israel’s use of so-called “shepherding outposts” to seize Palestinian land through settler herders is now being exported to Syria, as an Israeli settler, supported by the state, occupies Syrian pastureland in Wadi Toemm with a herd of 140 cattle.

From Mondoweiss via This RSS Feed.