Israel has said it will establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government authorisation, after a security cabinet vote held in secret last week.
Israel occupied the West Bank, capturing it from Jordan, in the six-day war of 1967. Since then, successive governments have tried to permanently cement Israeli control over the land, in part by declaring swathes as “state lands”, which prevents private Palestinian ownership.
The motion was said to have been put forward by the far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who lives in the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, which is considered illegal under international law.
*illegal settlements
They’re making it legal. But law != morality.
They are illegal under international law.
Bombing hospitals and use civilians as human shield is also illegal under international law
Like Israel does?
That may be true. But that’s also just an appeal to authority. What’s more relevant is that they’re unethical. What if international law said they were ok, would you also think they’re ok?
Your point is? These are ILLEGAL settlements and it is important to call them that.
International laws are not real laws. Unless the countries are willing to bomb to oblivion a country that breaks international law, there’s nothing to enforce it and therefore they do not exist in practice. They only exists when the US says they exist because they are willing to bomb the country breaking the law.
International laws are not real laws. (…) They only exists when the US says they exist
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Excellent rebuttal. Well thought out.
israel as a state is itself illegal. its entire nation state existence is batshit illegal.
What Israel is doing is among the most heartbreaking things I have ever witnessed—not only because of the actions themselves, but because of the world’s response. From now on, no one will be able to speak of an international order based on law, of mutual respect between states, or of universal principles without a deep sense of hypocrisy. Only the rule of the strongest seems to matter, and this makes it painfully clear. Israel does not act with any right—nor does it even pretend to—it simply acts with power, and the world appears content to look the other way. The level of cynicism this will leave in anyone with eyes to see and a conscience to feel is truly terrifying.
From now on, no one will be able to speak of an international order based on law, of mutual respect between states, or of universal principles without a deep sense of hypocrisy.
Always has been; the West is simply waking up to it. There’s a reason most people convicted by the ICC are African.
Those of us whose ancestors were on The Trail of Tears have known this for a long time.
I think an international order based on law, or at least with less hypocrisy, is still possible.
But for that, the law has to be backed by the majority of players, who can together make big enough a fist against the largest or smallest.
So, if Israel does not bend, we will have to step in.
Fucking ghouls. How can they say they love their family but also do this.
These fuckers aren’t even pretending to be human.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. When the time comes to dismantle the Jewish character of Israel to establish the successor post-apartheid democratic “State of Israel and Palestine”, I hope the zionists remember that it was they who killed the Two State Solution.
Quite literally, an Israeli right wing extremist assassinated Yitzhak Rabin to prevent the two state solution 30 years ago.
Settlement in Mars and the Moon not on top of Palestinians farms and villages… These called illegal and land grab
They should really start using the word “colonies”.
Israel needs its lebensraum.
Israel is a “democratic” Nazi country.
