Israel’s government has approved a plan to expand settlements in the occupied Golan Heights, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday.
The statement said that Netanyahu acted “in light of the war and the new front facing Syria”, as well as a desire to double the population of the Golan Heights.
Actually, I’m not so sure of this. Part of the drive for the revolution was to allow colonists to ‘settle’ (steal) land that Britain had signed treaties over.
The British empire was evil beyond description. The one thing they were good at that wasn’t fully evil was environmental stewardship where that was required for profit. And the British empire viewed the unsettled lands as being a great source of beaver pelts.