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Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion
Story by Associated Press ^ | • 12h Ago

Posted on 07/04/2024 9:08:46 AM PDT by dennisw

JERUSALEM — Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, a settlement tracking group said Wednesday, a move that is likely to worsen already soaring tensions linked to the war in Gaza.

Israel’s aggressive expansion in the West Bank reflects the settler community’s strong influence in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the most religious and nationalist in the country’s history. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a settler himself, has turbocharged the policy of expansion, seizing new authorities over settlement development and saying he aims to solidify Israel’s hold on the territory and prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. Authorities recently approved the appropriation of 12.7 square kilometers (nearly 5 square miles) of land in the Jordan Valley, according to a copy of the order obtained by The Associated Press. Data from Peace Now, the tracking group, indicate it was the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo accords at the start of the peace process.

Settlement monitors said the land grab connects Israeli settlements along a key corridor bordering Jordan, a move they said undermines the prospect of a contiguous Palestinian state.

U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric called it “a step in the wrong direction,” adding that “the direction we want to be heading is to find a negotiated two-state solution.”

The newly seized land is in an area of the West Bank where, even before the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, settler violence was displacing communities of Palestinians. That violence has only surged since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack ignited the war in Gaza. Settlers have carried out more than 1,000 attacks on Palestinians since October in the West Bank, causing deaths and damaging property, according to the U.N.

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1 posted on 07/04/2024 9:08:46 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

To the victors go the spoils.


2 posted on 07/04/2024 9:11:36 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: dennisw

Good! The Land belongs to Israel. In fact Title and Deed to that effect has been recorded in the only Book that matters:

Genesis 15:18-21
King James Version

18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

Soon and very soon, her borders will actually be enlarged. But first, Israel will suffer greatly before that time comes to pass.

Then this Scripture shall also come to pass...

Zechariah 13:6
King James Version

6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.


3 posted on 07/04/2024 9:15:38 AM PDT by patriot torch (..)
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To: dennisw

How about the 40-50 million Muslim settlers in Europe? Who invade Europe via immigration. Then get on welfare - state benefits to support their outsized families. At least Israelis have the cojones who take land from Muslims. For 1400 years Islam has been invading, killing other peoples. They have been the foremost colonizers and imperialists.

(The Middle East was Christian and pagan before Muhammed and his Jihad wars)

They are swamping the native Europeans via high Muslim birthrates. They don’t work unless it is crime. They rape the native European girls and women. There is no upside to allowing Muslims to enter your nation.


4 posted on 07/04/2024 9:16:34 AM PDT by dennisw (Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.)
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To: grobdriver

Agreed.


5 posted on 07/04/2024 9:17:39 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: dennisw

build, build, build!
build well, build good quality homes and communities for your people

something you should have done years ago!


6 posted on 07/04/2024 9:18:23 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: dennisw
Gaza declared war on Israel on 10/7.

If there was going to be an independent country, it would have happened in 2000 under Camp David Accords.

7 posted on 07/04/2024 9:19:03 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: patriot torch

I support Israel’s West Bank expansion, but you can’t use a biblical “deed” for justification.


8 posted on 07/04/2024 9:19:22 AM PDT by bwest
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To: bwest

You are obviously a non-believer. It is declared part of Jewish Israel in the Torah, good enough for me.


9 posted on 07/04/2024 9:35:53 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: dennisw

Judea and Samaria should always be a part of Israel.
MSM should stop using the Jordanian name for it.
Clinton obviously thought they said “two steak solution”


10 posted on 07/04/2024 9:37:49 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: dennisw

Frankly, I think it’s time that they put their “no more land for peace” policy on steroids and simply annex once and for all Gaza and the West Bank.


11 posted on 07/04/2024 9:42:10 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: dennisw

Securing a buffer is what you do after you’ve been attacked by a neighbor. Even insects know this.


12 posted on 07/04/2024 9:49:48 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: dennisw; grobdriver; patriot torch; MinorityRepublican
After losing the War of Independence to Israel the Arab countries threw out more Jews than Arabs displaced by that war. They also confiscated five times the size of Israel in land from the Jewish owners. Israel should get the same amount of land in compensation and with a choice of militarily defensible boundaries.

13 posted on 07/04/2024 11:21:15 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: dennisw; grobdriver; patriot torch; MinorityRepublican

AP is being sued by survivors and families of victims of the Hamas October 7 Massacre for having its employees participate in the massacre. Not just report, but they were active belligerents in the violence.

The AP cannot be trusted in the slightest in its reporting related to Hamas and the Palestinians.


14 posted on 07/04/2024 11:29:33 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: cuban leaf

I think this will be the plan going forward.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=baWsilpb_Ko&si=yEw5A5lLFOXgG1Vv


15 posted on 07/04/2024 1:36:39 PM PDT by Lake Living
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To: magooey

800,000 Jews were booted from Arab nations in the years after the 1948 war. 600000 ended up in Israel. Iraq had 250000 Jews.

All this Jewish displacement balances out Arabs displacement from Israel in 1948 war.


16 posted on 07/04/2024 3:33:16 PM PDT by dennisw (Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.)
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To: EinNYC

I am a true believer. Do you own your home if the “deed” is not referenced in the Bible?


17 posted on 07/06/2024 2:27:58 PM PDT by bwest
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