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
"This year, all the people came together because when there are just a few people working alone at the edge of the village, the settlers attack. So all the families are working together today."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
CNN journalists won both the television prize and video image award for their report on Israeli soldiers serving settlers in the West Bank.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 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
He sided with British settlers who wanted land in the Ohio Country.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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