Israel/Palestine

muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts) Wed Mar 6, 2024, 10:28 AM Mar 6

Israel approves plans for 3,400 new homes in West Bank settlements

Israel's government has advanced plans for more than 3,400 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank.

About 70% of the homes will be built in Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, with the rest in nearby Kedar and Efrat, south of Bethlehem.

A minister has said the construction is a response to a deadly Palestinian attack near Maale Adumim two weeks ago.
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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right politician who oversees the Civil Administration, said following the meeting that a total of 18,515 homes in West Bank settlements had now been approved over the past year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68490034

The settlements are the fundamental problem. Building more of them is a signal that the Israeli right wing never intends Palestinians to have full human rights, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. They are just people to oppress and steal from.

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Israel approves plans for 3,400 new homes in West Bank settlements (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Mar 6 OP

Well the dead won't be complaining. But Israel has found the best way to radicalize more Palestinians. Autumn Mar 6 #1

Aptly put. Goddessartist Mar 6 #3

Building homes radicalize people? Mosby Mar 6 #6

Israel is not building those settlements for Palestinians. Cause and effect, Netanyahoo knows what he's doing Autumn Mar 6 #7

Do you agree that terrorist attacks in Israel radicalized Israelis? Mosby Mar 6 #8

Just as the Palestinians have been radicalized by attacks on them. Autumn Mar 6 #9

Real Estate Opportunity!!! no_hypocrisy Mar 6 #2

Build the homes. Gazans need them. sanatanadharma Mar 6 #4

They are not building new settlements, it's in your excerpt Mosby Mar 6 #5

Autumn

(45,096 posts)

1. Well the dead won't be complaining. But Israel has found the best way to radicalize more Palestinians.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2024, 10:35 AM

Mar 6

What a disgusting mess Israel is creating. The US must step back from this evil.

Goddessartist

(1,800 posts)

3. Aptly put.

Reply to Autumn (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 6, 2024, 10:43 AM

Mar 6

Disgusting.

Mosby

(16,317 posts)

6. Building homes radicalize people?

Reply to Autumn (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 6, 2024, 11:10 AM

Mar 6

What a world we live in.

Autumn

(45,096 posts)

7. Israel is not building those settlements for Palestinians. Cause and effect, Netanyahoo knows what he's doing

Reply to Mosby (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 6, 2024, 11:14 AM

Mar 6

"unprecedented surge in settlement activities" across the West Bank since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip". The West Bank has also experienced a spike in violence over the same period.