ABSTRACT
Yesterday I left Bethlehem and continued south past Hebron to the village of At-Tawani, which had appealed to IWPS for help with an action. Like Yanoun, At-Tawani has been repeatedly threatened and attacked by violent ideological settlers. Villagers’ tractors have been ruined, their olives stolen, their wells poisoned with dead chickens, their sheep stabbed, and their children stoned. The Israeli government silently supports the settlers by subsidizing their towns and by not condemning their illegal attacks on villagers. But the people of At-Tawani remain, in silent but determined resistance.
