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"The Guardian reporter Matthew Cassel interviewed a Palestinian farmer from Tulkarm, cut off from his land by the Apartheid Wall, and a privileged Israeli Jew living in Bat Hefer, right on the other side of the wall. Observe the different attitudes and read the rest after you watch. Bat Hefer is what's called a "community settlement", a form of Jewish-only settlement invented in the late 70s, first implemented in the West Bank and then "imported" to 48-Palestine as part of the plan to "Judaize the Galilee". Such settlements are basically wealthy commuter villages, located at strategic points in order to "Judaize" areas and block the expansion of Palestinian towns and villages (like in the Galilee) or to serve as a human shield near the Green Line, as is the case with Bat Hefer. Bat Hefer was built in the 90s as part of a plan by Ariel Sharon which aimed to create a sort of wall of settlements in the so-called "seam zone". Although similar in many ways to West Bank settlements, their residents tend to lean, historically, towards the "center-left" Zionist politics. Most are quite wealthy, bourgeois, Ashkenazi, and educated. As in West Bank settlements, as well as moshavim and kibbutzim within 48-Palestine, they have "acceptance committees" who decide who is "fit" to live in the settlements. Arabs are automatically rejected, but so is anyone else who doesn't fit the "master race" model of community settlements. For example, if he has a mental illness, or is "too Mizrahi" for their liking. In the last elections, only 25% in Bat Hefer voted for the current coalition parties. Yair Lapid's "moderate" Yesh Atid party received 40.88% of the votes. So no. It is not about Netanyahu." - Source

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