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Perspective Shift

You read this story from where you sit.
Want to read it from somewhere else?

We'll re-present the same story as a thoughtful proponent of the settler-extremism frame would. Not to convince you. To let you actually meet the argument.

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Retold from the other vantage
Steelman · slot A
The mask is off
A Palestinian human-rights advocate would argue —
When a sitting Knesset member tours the Gaza perimeter and publicly demands "conquest, expulsion, and settlement" — the textbook elements of ethnic cleansing — and faces no sanction from her coalition, we are no longer dealing with fringe rhetoric. Limor Son Har-Melech sits in Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit, a governing party. She has previously praised a man convicted of murdering a Palestinian family and defended officers accused of raping detainees. Her Knesset has already hosted conferences mapping out Jewish settlements in a depopulated Gaza. The expulsionist program isn't a slip; it is policy advocacy from inside the state, and pretending otherwise is what allows it to keep advancing.

If this read like a fair rendering of the argument — even when you disagree — it's doing its job. Steelmen aren't aimed at persuading you; they're aimed at what the other side actually believes when they're thinking clearly.