Adding to international criticism of Israel’s construction in the occupied West Bank, the government has approved several hundred additional homes in the settlements there, both approving plans for 284 new homes to be constructed and retroactively legalizing some 179 homes built in violation of Israeli law in the Ofarim settlement.
The new plans were criticized by Israeli watchdog Peace Now, saying that the current government is building settlements all over the West Bank, and also sending the message that illegal settlements can continue to be built and can expect to be legalized after the fact.
The US State Department issued a statement saying they were “deeply concerned” by the acceleration of settlement construction, and in particular about the growing trend toward retroactive legalization, allowing Israel to expand settlement activity in “a potentially unlimited way.”
The far-right government’s trend toward retroactive legalization as a matter of course is indeed fueling a boom in “pirate” outposts, with self-described “entrepreneurs” bragging about going hilltop to hilltop in the Palestinian territory tossing up a few trailers, and then waiting a few months for Israel to retroactively legalize the takeover of land that the settlers never had any pretense of owning in the first place.
“…US State Department issued a statement saying they were “deeply concerned”…”
Oh please…JSTFU. You don’t mean it and everyone knows.
And we will let them do it because Israel owns the US Government. Too bad we can’t cut off the money to Israel.
I don’t know about you, but I am fed up with looking around at the hunger, homelessness, joblessness, and decayed infrastructure of our nation while seeing government constantly whining about how they must take care of Israel.
I think it is time to take all the friends of Israel in government, put them on a cargo ship, and send them to this land they clearly love so much more than their own!
No government can serve two masters, and a government that serves Israel cannot, does not, and will not serve the American people. A friend of Israel is no friend of America. In these dark times America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third!
No aid period, to any country. As for Israel, aren’t there any rich joows in the world. How about Bloomberg worrying about joows instead of our guns, how about the rothchilds paying for their own armies, and how about Whoopi Goldberg just getting out of the country.
ISIS-RA-EL is an illegal State, so why would they conform to any International Laws? ISIS-RA-EL has never defined its borders, making it an illegal State, for those Zionist ass-lickers that were going to jump on me.