settlers
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The Palestinians had approached the settlers with their hands behind their backs to make plain they posed no threat.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
One day after Levine's beating, settlers attacked a convoy of European diplomats including the French and Belgian consuls general in Jerusalem as they went through the town of Taybeh in the West Bank on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Video footage from the scene showed masked settlers confronting the convoy.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
In the 1770s, Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza led an expedition of settlers into what would later become California, bringing donkeys and horses with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
In 1775 the Mohawk Nation allied with the British against the separatist settlers.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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