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.
How people still thinking a two state solution is possible is beyond me. All the western world would start condemning palestinians if the two state solution will result the mass displacement of those illegal settlers
Yep most “Two state” proposals are just a bunch of bantustans surrounded by Israeli military checkpoints and mention things like allowing Israel essentially unlimited power to invade these enclaves for “security concerns” just a complete joke of a proposal.
There shouldn’t be a need for a two state solution in the first place, Israel was created in 1948 as a response to the Holocaust under the guise of the need for a “Zionist State” in response to the horrors of the Holocaust, when in reality it was just a power play to insert a friendly puppet government to act as a seat of power to exert influence over the middle east using the Jewish people as a scapegoat to call any westerners who opposed it “antisemitic”.
Oslo was from the outset a scam to silence the Palestinian resistance while entrenching land grabs and creating a puppet regime called the Palestinian Authority to subcontract the management of colonialism.
Well said
Two state solution? Why have two Palestines?
Oi. None of that.