"As
of yesterday, in response to this call, there were 55 French citizens, both men
and women, with military experience, stationed inside the illegal Israeli
settlements up and down the West Bank. Organised
into five separate groups of 11, their mandate is to "defend the settlements
against any attack from Palestinians", and to "aid" in areas where they feel
there is a lack of Israeli army personnel or police
forces." If those were Arab mercenaries, they would have been called "foreign fighters" and bombed on the spot with drones.