Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the seizure of 10 square kilometers (3.8 square miles) of Palestinian territory in the West Bank on Friday. The move marks the single largest land seizure by the Israeli government since the 1993 Oslo accords, according to Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group.
“While there are those in Israel and the world who seek to undermine our right over the Judea and Samaria area and the country in general,” Smotrich said Friday, referring to the territory by its biblical name, “we are promoting settlement through hard work and in a strategic manner all over the country.”
Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law. Still, Israel has used land orders like the one issued Friday to gain control over 16 percent of Palestinian-controlled lands in the West Bank. The newly seized area includes parcels in the Jordan Valley and between the settlements of Maale Adumim and Keidar.
I hope that the international community refuses to acknowledge the seized land or borders having changed.
If it’s not ok for Putin to do, it shouldn’t be ok for Bibi.
The difference is, Israel has the US and EU’s backing. Might makes right.
Not the EU.
At most Germany (whose elites still seem to believe some races are superior and thus entitled to expand their lebensraum by taking from lesser races) plus a lot of neutral(ish) countries who are subservient to US interests, but Spain and the Republic Of Ireland have been demanding sanctions against Israel since it quickly became clear that they were mass murdering civilians in Gaza.
In practice the EU as a community is divided in this hence you don’t see the EU acting on this and all that you see is some countries of the EU being Genocide-enablers, others being anti-Genocide and most just being silent about the whole thing.
They don’t, haven’t since 1967. But that doesn’t faze Israel because there are no real consequences.