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.

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          Some off them are illegal under Israeli law as well, but it’s obviously but enforced.

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          That may be true. But that’s also just an appeal to authority. What’s more relevant is that they’re unethical. What if international law said they were ok, would you also think they’re ok?

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          International laws are not real laws. Unless the countries are willing to bomb to oblivion a country that breaks international law, there’s nothing to enforce it and therefore they do not exist in practice. They only exists when the US says they exist because they are willing to bomb the country breaking the law.

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        israel as a state is itself illegal. its entire nation state existence is batshit illegal.

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    How people still thinking a two state solution is possible is beyond me. All the western world would start condemning palestinians if the two state solution will result the mass displacement of those illegal settlers

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      Yep most “Two state” proposals are just a bunch of bantustans surrounded by Israeli military checkpoints and mention things like allowing Israel essentially unlimited power to invade these enclaves for “security concerns” just a complete joke of a proposal.

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      Oslo was from the outset a scam to silence the Palestinian resistance while entrenching land grabs and creating a puppet regime called the Palestinian Authority to subcontract the management of colonialism.

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      There shouldn’t be a need for a two state solution in the first place, Israel was created in 1948 as a response to the Holocaust under the guise of the need for a “Zionist State” in response to the horrors of the Holocaust, when in reality it was just a power play to insert a friendly puppet government to act as a seat of power to exert influence over the middle east using the Jewish people as a scapegoat to call any westerners who opposed it “antisemitic”.

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    What Israel is doing is among the most heartbreaking things I have ever witnessed—not only because of the actions themselves, but because of the world’s response. From now on, no one will be able to speak of an international order based on law, of mutual respect between states, or of universal principles without a deep sense of hypocrisy. Only the rule of the strongest seems to matter, and this makes it painfully clear. Israel does not act with any right—nor does it even pretend to—it simply acts with power, and the world appears content to look the other way. The level of cynicism this will leave in anyone with eyes to see and a conscience to feel is truly terrifying.

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      I think an international order based on law, or at least with less hypocrisy, is still possible.

      But for that, the law has to be backed by the majority of players, who can together make big enough a fist against the largest or smallest.

      So, if Israel does not bend, we will have to step in.

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        In fairness, the international rules based order was a result of World War 2, despite it being generally a farce.

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      From now on, no one will be able to speak of an international order based on law, of mutual respect between states, or of universal principles without a deep sense of hypocrisy.

      Always has been; the West is simply waking up to it. There’s a reason most people convicted by the ICC are African.

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      The west ended occupation of orher countries but never abondonned the ideology behind it. The west never respected their own rules when it come to other countries

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    Fucking ghouls. How can they say they love their family but also do this.

    These fuckers aren’t even pretending to be human.

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    The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. When the time comes to dismantle the Jewish character of Israel to establish the successor post-apartheid democratic “State of Israel and Palestine”, I hope the zionists remember that it was they who killed the Two State Solution.

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      Quite literally, an Israeli right wing extremist assassinated Yitzhak Rabin to prevent the two state solution 30 years ago.

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    Settlement in Mars and the Moon not on top of Palestinians farms and villages… These called illegal and land grab

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    Israel threatened to do this is retaliation if several European followed through on plans to recognize Palestine. So if Israel’s doing it regardless…