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Summary

Israeli settlers in the West Bank, emboldened by Trump’s return and a far-right Israeli government, are pushing for formal sovereignty over the territory.

Settlement activity has surged to record levels under Prime Minister Netanyahu, with nearly 6,000 acres designated as state land in 2024 and dozens of new outposts established.

While settlers see this as fulfilling Biblical claims, Palestinians view it as erasing hopes for a future state.

Critics warn annexation could jeopardize regional stability and U.S.-brokered normalization efforts, such as those with Saudi Arabia.

  • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    This is from June 2020.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is planning to effectively annex parts of the occupied West Bank in what would be a major - and highly controversial - act.

    This is from July 2023.

    Israel Is Officially Annexing the West Bank

    A quiet bureaucratic maneuver by Netanyahu’s government has begun transferring control over the occupied territory from military to civilian leadership—violating international law.

    Here’s an entire wiki page about all they’ve been doing in the West Bank since 1967.

    This is nothing new, it’s just a next step that would have been taken regardless.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      23·
      5 hours ago

      Then I guess it would have been a better idea to vote for Harris to avoid all the stuff that will be new. You know, like the new concentration camps in the U.S.

      • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Ok? I don’t disagree, but that’s not what this conversation is about. We are talking about Palestinian genocide and specifically the occupation of the West Bank. And either way, I haven’t heard anyone on Lemmy say Trump isn’t worse for the US.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          23·
          5 hours ago

          Then you haven’t talked to too many people here. And no, this conversation was about those people since I was talking about those people and you replied to me. If you didn’t want to talk about what I was talking about, you shouldn’t have replied to me.

          • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            5 hours ago

            The topic is about the genocide happening in Palestine. You said:

            The “a vote for Kamala is a vote for genocide” people were literally saying before the election that Palestinian genocide cannot get worse because genocide is genocide.

            So I guess this isn’t worse?

            Also about Palestine.

            I simply pointed out to you that this is nothing new and was happening under the Dems, and has been happening for decades, and then you decided to bring up “concentration camps in the U.S.”.

            The conversation was not about that.

            Why are you shifting goal posts so much and being so antagonizing? Are you just embarrassed that you fell for propaganda and don’t want to admit it? Or are you consciously trying to help spread propaganda and make people forget the Dems supported Genocide?

            Either way you are certainly not helping the image that internet forum mods are insufferable people. I’m moving on from this conversation.