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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.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What Israel is doing is among the most heartbreaking things I have ever witnessed—not only because of the actions themselves, but because of the world’s response. From now on, no one will be able to speak of an international order based on law, of mutual respect between states, or of universal principles without a deep sense of hypocrisy. Only the rule of the strongest seems to matter, and this makes it painfully clear. Israel does not act with any right—nor does it even pretend to—it simply acts with power, and the world appears content to look the other way. The level of cynicism this will leave in anyone with eyes to see and a conscience to feel is truly terrifying.

[–] atomicbocks 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Those of us whose ancestors were on The Trail of Tears have known this for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

In fairness, the international rules based order was a result of World War 2, despite it being generally a farce.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

From now on, no one will be able to speak of an international order based on law, of mutual respect between states, or of universal principles without a deep sense of hypocrisy.

Always has been; the West is simply waking up to it. There's a reason most people convicted by the ICC are African.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Israel threatened to do this is retaliation if several European followed through on plans to recognize Palestine. So if Israel's doing it regardless...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. When the time comes to dismantle the Jewish character of Israel to establish the successor post-apartheid democratic "State of Israel and Palestine", I hope the zionists remember that it was they who killed the Two State Solution.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Quite literally, an Israeli right wing extremist assassinated Yitzhak Rabin to prevent the two state solution 30 years ago.

[–] kruhmaster 11 points 3 days ago

Fucking ghouls. How can they say they love their family but also do this.

These fuckers aren't even pretending to be human.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Settlement in Mars and the Moon not on top of Palestinians farms and villages... These called illegal and land grab

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

They should really start using the word "colonies".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Israel needs its lebensraum.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Israel is a "democratic" Nazi country.