Israel has begun rebuilding the four settlements that it evacuated in the northern West Bank in 2005. Settlers and the army are trying to expel Palestinian already living in the area by making the land “impossible to live on,” residents say.
Israel is launching a political and military assault on the West Bank. Its legalization of settlements in the north is a crucial part of the story.
The Israeli assault on Palestinians continues to intensify as Israel has arrested at least 42 people across the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the last three days and carried out a military invasion of Ramallah.
Joe Biden won’t do anything to punish Israel for breaking its word again on settlements because he needs the Israel lobby to stay with Democrats in 2024. And liberal Zionists seem to go along.
Israeli settlers established a yeshiva in the evacuated Homesh outpost two months after a Knesset bill pushing to legalize it. The Biden Administration says it is “deeply troubled” by the move.
The Zionist ethos of “maximum land, minimum Arabs” made the Nakba possible and allows the Nakba to repeat itself every time a Zionist colonist takes over Palestinian land, whether in Ein Samiya today or in Yaffa in 1948.