August 12, 2019
REALIZING THE CHARTER:
Liberal Zionists, Face the Facts: There's Already Only One State From the River to the Sea (Joshua Shanes, Aug 12, 2019, Ha'aretz)
Israel last week advanced plans to build over 2,000 more homes for Jews throughout the West Bank, many well beyond the current settlement blocks. Some of them will be in outposts even Israel considered illegal, which - in a familiar pattern - will now be rendered retroactively "legal."The government has reaffirmed that every settlement scattered throughout the entire occupied West Bank are part of Israel. "We will deepen our roots in our homeland, in all of its parts," Netanyahu recently stated. "No settlement or settler will be uprooted...That is over...What you're doing here is forever."In short, the West Bank is effectively annexed for Jews, even as there remains a military occupation for Palestinians.The government has openly disavowed any two-state solution, declared its ever-growing settlements to be an integrated part of Israel, allowed polling stations throughout the West Bank (for decades), appropriated public and private Palestinian land for access roads that effectively erase the Green Line for Jews, and much more.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 12, 2019 4:00 AM