Israel confirms plans to create 22 new settlements in occupied West Bank

[groundloop]

Source: The Guardian

Israel has said it will establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government authorisation, after a security cabinet vote held in secret last week.

Israel occupied the West Bank, capturing it from Jordan, in the six-day war of 1967. Since then, successive governments have tried to permanently cement Israeli control over the land, in part by declaring swathes as “state lands”, which prevents private Palestinian ownership.

The motion was said to have been put forward by the far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who lives in the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, which is considered illegal under international law.

Katz said the settlement decision “strengthens our hold on Judea and Samaria”, using the biblical term for the West Bank, “anchors our historical right in the Land of Israel, and constitutes a crushing response to Palestinian terrorism”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/29/israel-new-settlements-occupied-west-bank-palestinian-state

[Goddessartist]

1. Illegal occupation and

Land theft.

[Ping Tung]

2. History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodated themselves with other people's property. Voltaire

[Martin68]

3. An other criminal, act by a rogue regime.

[Bayard]

4. "historical right"

Indigenous people the world over have had that too. Look where its gotten them.

[AloeVera]

5. Sanctions and arms embargoes by all Western nations coming up!

Just kidding. Though there might be a sternly-worded letter.

Maybe the whole two-state solution mantra was nothing but a lie.

[electric_blue68]

7. Hey, not necessarily! Remember it was Itzak Rabin's assasination that ruined it. And Bibi was in that group of...

RW Israelis against it back then!
I've never forgotten that!

[AloeVera]

8. Yes. It was the one, final chance.

It was tragic beyond words. What came after was inevitable imo.

But doesn't that kind of prove my point? There are forces in Israeli society - now very strong and gaining momentum - that will do anything to stop a two-state solution. In fact, now they've succeeded.

The left and even much of the centre is dead in Israel. And that is a reflection of what Israelis really want for Palestinians.

[electric_blue68]

6. Oh, fuck that! D-mn you Nettanyahoo for extrnding the war, and driving the Palestinians out.

[just in case those never seeing a post by me on this subject, which I've generally
stayed away from till post Oct 7, except posdibly for a few WB posts; I've d-mned Hamas, Hezbolah for their bloodthirsty attacks on Israel as well; here on DU]

[AloeVera]

9. I like your voice here. See you around!