This factsheet focuses on American Zionist organizations that support settlements in the Jordan Valley. More precisely, it examines how these organizations normalize and legitimize illegal settlement activity through improving living conditions for settlers and promoting the settler and Zionist cause in the international sphere. These organizations use a variety of strategies and language to convey a righteous and moral image of settlers and settlements throughout the West Bank, but especially those in the Jordan Valley, through emphasizing their vulnerability and precariousness. In supporting and funding infrastructure, security, agriculture and welfare projects and promoting migration to the Jordan Valley and through its choice of rhetoric, these organizations create facts on the ground and help to recreate the Jordan Valley as an indivisible part of Israel thus blocking any claims Palestine has to the area.
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