Field Dossier: Judea's Settlers

Originally published on Substack on 2025-11-20.

title: "Field Dossier: Judea's Settlers" publication: "Israel Brief" format: longform date: 2025-11-20 url: "https://mitzpe.org/brief/the-long-brief-judeas-settlers" threads: [judea_samaria, western_institutions, coalition_dynamics, iran] theses_invoked: [settler_violence_as_construction, sovereignty_by_accumulation, paper_vs_operational_architectures, jenin_template, legitimacy_laundering] theses_advanced: [settler_violence_as_construction] frames_invoked: [designed_system_not_chaos, western_institutional_euphemism, pressure_instrument] people_named: [] probabilities_logged: [] canonical_lines: [settlers_hold_the_ridge, thirty_to_one_asymmetry, pa_rewards_israel_condemns, iran_forward_base_west_of_jordan, west_bank_severs_the_connection] status: published ingested: 2026-04-30

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