Israeli settlement of Tekoa in the occupied West Bank south of Bethlehem 17 November 2020
Dana Kami and Oren Liebermann – CNN May 29, 2025
Israel approved a massive expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank this week in a move described as a continuation of de facto annexation of the territory.
Peace Now, an Israeli non-governmental organization that tracks settlements, said it was the largest expansion of settlements since the signing of the Oslo Accords more than 30 years ago.
Israel will establish 22 new settlements, including deep within the West Bank and in area from which the country had previously withdrawn, as part of the new security cabinet decision, according to a joint statement from Defense Minister Israel Katz and far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
“All the new communities are being established with a long-term strategic vision, aimed at reinforcing Israeli control of the territory, preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state, and securing development reserves for settlement in the coming decades,” the statement said.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for the president of the Palestinian Authority, called the announcement a “dangerous escalation and a challenge to international legitimacy and international law.”
In a statement issued earlier in the week after reports emerged of the settlement approval, Abu Rudeineh said the move would “perpetuate regional violence and instability.”
Peace Now blasted the government for making such a decision in the midst of a war.
“The government is making clear – again and without restraint – that it prefers deepening the occupation and advancing de facto annexation over pursuing peace,” the organization said. “The Israeli government no longer pretends otherwise: the annexation of the Occupied Territories and expansion of settlements is its central goal.”
Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, as well as in East Jerusalem and the occupied Golan Heights, are considered illegal under international law.
The Oslo Accords, signed in 1993 between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), were designed to pave the way to the establishment of a Palestinian state and the realization of a two-state solution.
For months, Israel’s military has carried out a massive operation in the West Bank, deploying tanks to the territory for the first time in decades and displacing tens of thousands of Palestinians. In February, Katz ordered the military “to prepare for a prolonged presence” as the military evacuated Palestinian refugee camps. Within the last several weeks, Israeli forces have carried out multiple waves of raids and arrests across the West Bank.
Peace Now said 12 of the new settlements will be the legalization of illegal outposts. Outposts are illegally established by Jewish settlers without approval from the government with the intention to push for formal recognition and legalization. Another nine of the settlements will be entirely new, while the final one will be the conversion of an existing neighborhood to an independent settlement, according to Peace Now.
Two of the settlements in the new plan were evacuated during the disengagement from parts of the West Bank in 2005, which forbade Israelis from establishing a civilian presence in those areas. That law was overturned by the current right-wing Israeli government.
Smotrich gloated about the new settlements, making clear his goal was annexation. “The next step – sovereignty! We did not take a foreign land, but the inheritance of our ancestors,” he said in a statement.
Earlier this month, the security cabinet approved a land registration process for Area C of the West Bank, which is under Israeli civil and security control. Peace Now called the move “a mega theft of Palestinian lands.”
Numbers of UK People living on London’s streets rises by 26%
The number of UK people rough sleeping in London at the end of 2024 was 5% higher than a year earlier, according to the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (Chain).
Between October and December 2024, homeless outreach teams recorded 4,612 UK people sleeping rough in the capital.
Yet money is found to put migrants in top hotels
it is this racism which condemns Starmer and co
The cost to build a jewish holocaust memorial
in londons centre has now risen to over 150 milion pounds, this has angered UK people
who would rather is spent on its own people
or maybe a memorial to the palestinian holocaust
STARMER THE JEW IS FINISHED
BBC Radio star Lee Harris lost it with prime minister Sir Keir Starmer after his “catastrophic” press conference in North West England yesterday (May 30), in which he mentioned Nigel Farage’s name 16 separate times. The Labour leader was accused of attacking Reform UK in a “PR disaster of biblical proportions.”
Starmer had nothing to say about saving the UK
just harping on about Farage, this shows the desperation of a complete failure
Just another ‘Juice Gone Wild”… 🙄
In a similar way the Israelis (and Trump?) want to acquire Palestinian lands for their own projects, I’m beginning to think similar is happening in Britain over this fake renewables energy scam. The only possible renewable that could possibly hope to produce enough free energy, and they’re keeping very quiet about this, is tidal energy.
The four tidal estuaries in England–the Humber, Mersey, Thames and Bristol Channel–wouldn’t produce enough free power even with two tides per day, but here in East Anglia they plan to cover many square miles of land with solar panels, which are too inefficient. I suspect the plan behind this ugly blot is they want ownership of the low-lying areas of this country, to flood and then build their banks of tidal power. Such property and land would normally be too expensive to buy, but I think if they can blight the land to the point property prices crash, small businesses fold and schools become empty, they can obtain a lot of land not just cheap but for free.
These lowlands around the estuaries don’t need to be fifty feet deep if twelve or fifteen feet will do the job and produce commercial amounts of tidal energy–with back-up from the new Sizewell C nuclear plant for when tides are low, because without that back-up they can’t negotiate lucrative contracts to supply the rest of Europe with “clean” energy.
The land that will be covered by solar panels only has to be enough to crash property prices and prevent farmers from growing food crops. Once people flee the land those swathes of panels don’t have to be added to, they’d just need to be moved, like the huge formations of men in ancient and medieval battles were moved around en mass. I think in a hundred years when we and our children are gone and few of our grandchildren are still alive, England could become the profitable electricity generating power of Europe. There’s more to it like depopulation, and making the new coastlines beachside places for holiday homes for the rich, and the changing patterns of work it will bring, but maybe this is all this dump of a country has left to offer or it dies.
Slants want half the world, and so do Moslems. Britain controlled all the world, Rome tried to, Ancient Egypt did. Talking about Gaza all the time is strange, but the OT should not be celebrating the destruction of the Temple to Dagon, which was not a reflection on the Gazans. The hot-headedness of Samson is a bad example
The Palestinians profess they want their own State. That’s approved of by most of ‘humanity’, but if Whites proclaim they want to establish their own State, then most of ‘humanity’ will oppose it.
nutenyahu has promised trump and 2 others large chunks of palestine
Trump wants to build Trump towers a megga luxury hotel for visiting jews
my arse
@ Lewis Jones. I think Rome would still be in charge if it had what the British empire had, namely the magnetic compass and timepieces, gunpowder and naval cannon and fiat currency run off like wallpaper. If the next superpower China doesn’t repeat the mistakes of previous empires ie. pander their politics to the demands of the rich at the expense of everyone else, there should be no reason they won’t be top dog for the next 1,000 years or more until some natural disaster ends their run. If they forget their socio-economic model brought their success and adopt some laissez faire neoliberalism their run will end much sooner.
We are told the great plaque which decimated Europe
was through dead rats in the drinking water wells
Nostradamus tells us he could travel in the plaque areas of london in 1665 without harm because as a jew he knew which wells were poisoned
and 15 to 20-% of london died.
A well thought of muslim MP in the north of England wanted to go public that in his local hospital he had new migrants with the highly contagious Bubonic plague
He was gagged by Kier Starmer
The year after the great plaque we had the great fire of london in 1666
which began in a bakers shop, except it didnt, excavations on buildings damaged in the bombings of w w 2 revealed the fires started in several places simultaneously, this can only be deliberate.
In the area cleared by the great fire Rothschild built his bank of England
Law courts royal mint etc
Rothschild loaned the money for the Napoleonic wars, the two richest nations fought on Rothschild money, and at the end of the war Rothchild
got news by carrier pigeon and took the whole British economy
I dont think that they all will be employed in
productive work in factories . jews despise
manual labour . probably most will be 24/7
round aclock Talmud students + reserve for
international mossadagents, military + political
nonstop demonstrations . all payed by drugs,
jewish diamond, gold industry + organ trade .
@Crowley is King, the Palestinians do not want a “new state”, they want THEIR stolen country back..
Wogs in Britain get bigger “settlements”, but they are not built on desert, but good farmland or even Green Belt land