Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the seizure of 10 square kilometers (3.8 square miles) of Palestinian territory in the West Bank on Friday. The move marks the single largest land seizure by the Israeli government since the 1993 Oslo accords, according to Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group.
“While there are those in Israel and the world who seek to undermine our right over the Judea and Samaria area and the country in general,” Smotrich said Friday, referring to the territory by its biblical name, “we are promoting settlement through hard work and in a strategic manner all over the country.”
Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law. Still, Israel has used land orders like the one issued Friday to gain control over 16 percent of Palestinian-controlled lands in the West Bank. The newly seized area includes parcels in the Jordan Valley and between the settlements of Maale Adumim and Keidar.
I dont understand why Israel, deeply reliant on US military assistance for its defense, also routinely humiliates the US in public.
They do it because they can.
Netanyahu in particular is famous for asserting that policy control flows from him to the US, not the other was around.
He believes that Israel controls the US, and he controls Israel. And for decades, that insane belief has been shown largely accurate.
The only humiliating thing is that the US still gives Israel money.
It’s the same reason why fascist cretins like Trump and Putin humiliate their own supporters. As a display of power.
We need to cut off Israel from all aid. Obviously primarily because of the genocide, but secondarily because the main things they provide to the USA are domestic political interference, and damage to our international reputation.
Israel is in the comfortable position of having a sugar daddy who has a submission-humiliation fetish. And don’t get me started on why the US loves Saudi Arabia so much
AIPAC. We honestly need to ban foreign money in our elections at an absolute minimum, because the Netanyahu-Republican enablement allows an external power to force the hand of a President/diplomatic service. In this case it is tying us to a madman, whilst the US is trying to hold together Bretton Woods and the Pax Americana.
The ‘calculated support’ of Israel seen as necessary has isolated the US internationally and made us look like hypocrites - while the global south is watching.
Adding to what the other guy said, I’m theorizing but it could be because they want Netanyahu to fail. Israel wants Republicans in office so they can stop pretending to pretend to follow international law.