Israel has said it will establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government authorisation, after a security cabinet vote held in secret last week.
Israel occupied the West Bank, capturing it from Jordan, in the six-day war of 1967. Since then, successive governments have tried to permanently cement Israeli control over the land, in part by declaring swathes as “state lands”, which prevents private Palestinian ownership.
The motion was said to have been put forward by the far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who lives in the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, which is considered illegal under international law.
International laws are not real laws. Unless the countries are willing to bomb to oblivion a country that breaks international law, there’s nothing to enforce it and therefore they do not exist in practice. They only exists when the US says they exist because they are willing to bomb the country breaking the law.
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Excellent rebuttal. Well thought out.