Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades and advanced plans to build thousands of new settlement homes, according to Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group.
  • reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml
    26·
    6 months ago

    “The international community considers the settlements illegal or illegitimate, and the Palestinians say they are the main barrier to a lasting peace agreement. But with more than 500,000 Israeli settlers living in the West Bank, it will be difficult – some say impossible – to partition the territory as part of a two-state solution.”

    So fucking kick them out, they are there illegally by international law. Settler ass holes.

    • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      6 months ago

      They did it in gaza, they could do it again in the west bank. It might cost a few thousand settlers and/or soldiers their lives but it would be worth it if it means lasting peace.

    • bartolomeoOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      more than 500,000 Israeli settlers living in the West Bank

      I didn’t know that over 5% of the population lives in illegal settlements.

  • hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    I feel like it should be noted that the western pressure campaign to get rid of Netanyahu forced him to rely even more on people like Ben Gvir and other Hadreem, which allowed them to extract concessions in regards to expanding the settlements.

    Like just from a place of pure competency it was an awful strategy. If Schumer has said something like “Israel has a right to defend itself, but the US refuses to help the IDF so long as they violate court orders and refuse to draft Hadreem” Bibi would have been gone.

    I just don’t get the sense that the US State Department has a fundamental understanding of Israeli Politics, or the internal politics of most middle eastern nations. Without that knowledge projecting soft power becomes so much harder.

      • sunzu@kbin.run
        211·
        6 months ago

        and the west is supporting Israelis getting their living space…

        WW2 legacy go turned into a shiti joke…

    • macniel@feddit.org
      71·
      6 months ago

      Those illegal settlements have absolutely nothing to do with the right of self defense.

    • bartolomeoOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW!

      (I guess those downvoting you haven’t seen you around yet, they didn’t catch the sarcasm lol)

      • sunzu@kbin.run
        21·
        6 months ago

        TBH it is hard to pick on without context considering we do have this “opinion” thrown around regularly esp early on when the entire ethnic cleansing campaign was hinged on this brain dead take.