Israeli NGO Peace Now has announced that the government has approved plans for another 3,736 settlement units across the occupied West Bank. Details are still emerging on where they are located, but they include expansions in settlements deep in Palestinian territory.
Though Israel’s far-right government has been building at a rapid pace, previous announcements have centered primarily on the major settlement blocs, which Israel expects to annex in any peace deal. They present this as less controversial than expanding outposts near major Palestinian cities, or those built simply to cut off parts of Palestine to undermine a Palestinian state.
Peace Now warned that the current rate of expansion means Israel risks a “record year” of settlement expansion. They said this was in no small part because President Trump is seen as very accommodating to the construction.
Trump has at times criticized the expansions, and the US and Israel were briefly in talks earlier this year on an understanding on the settlement. Israel rejected all such proposals, however, and just went back to building.
Israel tells US president and the government what to do, not the other way around,Egypt is siding with Israel against Hamas and looks like the Saudi’s flowing suit not naming other Arabic country’s, Palestinians hope for a country of their own is demoting little bit at the time.
The USA has become mad – allowing the Israelis to just spit in the UN’s face regarding its resolutions and even the honored Geneva Conventions. This will end very badly for Israel – the Palestinians are not just “hoping” for something, they are demanding justice. And people treated unjustly always punch way over their weight class. Who will fight harder – the thief or the victim?
Why not? Netanyaho has his best goy in the White House. As soon as the Reichstag fire happens, the US can clear the way for the final solution to the Palestinian question.
I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning!!
And a short memo the US government; the American people have gotten sick and tired of US aid, both financial and military, “never being enough” for this wretchedly apartheid, self-declared theocracy with nuclear weapons which is what Israel has become in the 21st century.
As you are aware (or should be aware) all aid to Israel is completely illegal under the Symington Amendment, which prohibits any aid from going to a nuclear armed country which refuses to become signatory to the NNPT, and refuses to have its nuclear facilities inspected.
Israel comes in at a big fat zero-compliance on both issues, so what is the deal here, please?!?
The victim card has been played once too often by an Israeli government which spits in the face of US officials, and tells them it’s raining.
And did I mention serial genocide against the Palestinians, coupled with brisk annexations of property in the West Bank and East Jerusalem? The Israeli government will not listen to anything approaching a two state solution; it wants territory, and to get rid of as many Palestinians as it thinks it can, and by any means necessary.
It is high time for all US aid, both military and financial, to stop now, because this is the only language the Israeli government understands.
No more wars for the crap hole state of Israel. And, that is PRECISELY what this greasy neocon obsession to drag the US military into Syria is all about.
No more wars FOR ISRAEL. Instead, let’s wage war ON ISRAEL and wipe these evil snakes off the face of the planet.
“let’s wage war ON ISRAEL”
I doubt you’ll get much buy-in here. We’re Antiwar.com, not LetsWageWarOnIsrael.com. But feel free to pick up a rifle and go to work yourself.
Israeli society is sick. Maybe irreparably so. It’s simply unsustainable for one. Secondly, Zionism has poisoned the idea of Israel to the point where it’s just a grotesque caricature. Ordinary people on the streets advocate genocide. They hold street demonstrations protesting the presence of colored people. In the USA, when there’s an unjustified police shooting, people demonstrate to hold the police accountable. In Israel, they demonstrate if the police are held accountable, even just a symbolic slap on the wrist to avoid international embarrassment. It’s just a whole different mindset. It’s like everyone is a one-eyed right winger. “Left” is an insult and will impede you in society and paint a target on your back,
It just might be too far gone to save. Palestine giving up on the two state, rubber stamped apartheid, and demanding one equal secular state will be the end of it.
Israel Approves THE THEFT OF Thousands More Settlement Homes in the West Bank