Israel announces major expansion of West Bank settlements despite sanctions threat

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1. Submission statement: The article describes some provocative new settlements by Israel on the Palestinian-dominated West Bank. It gives some background on the history of settlements. It also describes the reasoning for settlements and describes some potential reactions by other countries. Seems like a balanced and straightforward article.

2. All European nations do is make empty promises / threats. All the shaking fists in the world from Europe mean nothing when they do nothing. They are also distracted by Russia. The US is Israel’s ally. Middle Eastern nations use Israel as a propaganda tool and do nothing to present a peace option. Russia and China have okay relations with Israel. Everyone else is geopolitically irrelevant.

   The most surprising thing about them expanding settlements is that they aren’t just outright annexing the West Bank. At this point I think they could get away with it without much resistance (besides more US leftists not voting I guess).

   In the long run annexing the West Bank makes the Palestinians living there into Israelis which might actually give them benefits and opportunities that they wouldn’t have otherwise so I guess it might work out.

3. Makes sense, Israel needs more housing for all the diaspora Jews who no longer feel safe. 

   Did they offer any pre-construction pricing/deals? 

4. If you are a Palestinian and want to prevent your country disappearing you have the following options.

   1. Peacefull protest & international appeal. This is what the people in the Westbank do, there are occasional protests and the people appeal international trough media. Such as movies/documentaries such as no other land.

   This doesn’t really do anything, even if you win an Oscar you will still be attacked and detained while the West-Bank is salami sliced 1 settlement at a time.

   2. Violent protest. You will get shot and die

   3. Terrorism. Your city block will get shot and you and your family and friends all die.

   Let’s face it, all the Palestinian options are a dead end. Israel isn’t really interested in any kind of peaceful 2 state options and their policy is slowly annex or bomb if you resist.

    This clearly doesn’t work and suffering of ordinary people keeps continuing. Sometimes I feel the world should just make the Israeli’s buy the Palestinians out 200k per person and be done with it. If every Palestinian owned 200K resettlement fee, it probably would be a lot easier as well for the settlement countries.

5. Israel is not interested in peace with the Palestinians, the US and Europe need to understand that Israel has always lied to them. They want the Palestinians to live in a state of purgatory while Israeli settlers steal more land in the West Bank.

   This is a land grab at the very least, but more of a creeping genocide that’s being allowed to happen by Europe and the US. They still have an idealistic view of the Israeli people, underestimating their cruelty and hatred for the Palestinians.

6. EVIL needs to be called out. Of course this will be censored.

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