One of the hypotheses is that it was a response to Israeli provocations related to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Temple Mount and in the background also to the growing wave of violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank93. A similar scenario, although not on this scale, occurred twice in...
Were these names merely a reflection of the settlers’ paradise desires in line with their plantation names, such as Morgenstond (‘dawn, early morning hour’) and Goudmijn (Goldmine), which also happen to be adopted family names, or were the freedmen who acquired these names also happy or...