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Summary

Israeli settlers in the West Bank, emboldened by Trump’s return and a far-right Israeli government, are pushing for formal sovereignty over the territory.

Settlement activity has surged to record levels under Prime Minister Netanyahu, with nearly 6,000 acres designated as state land in 2024 and dozens of new outposts established.

While settlers see this as fulfilling Biblical claims, Palestinians view it as erasing hopes for a future state.

Critics warn annexation could jeopardize regional stability and U.S.-brokered normalization efforts, such as those with Saudi Arabia.

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 94 points 3 weeks ago

We did it, Patrick! We saved Palestine!

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 52 points 3 weeks ago

Yay, no more genocide! I knew both sides were the same.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 weeks ago

Technically, a successful genocide stops. If the goal was specifically that the genocide would end more quickly, then I suppose they got what they wanted.

Easy to end war forever. Just nuke everyone.

🤓

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I hate that I'm upvoting this.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry, I'm hard of hearing. I think you asked for extra genocide? That’s our new chef’s speciality!

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 65 points 3 weeks ago

Good thing we didn't vote for those democratic genocidists

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

“I don’t want basic Genocide, I want to evolve to stage 2 Genocidonite”

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago

Instead of genocide, we now have genocide 2: Electric Boogaloo

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

"think global! genocide local"

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

The "a vote for Kamala is a vote for genocide" people were literally saying before the election that Palestinian genocide cannot get worse because genocide is genocide.

So I guess this isn't worse?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

i don't understand that crowd at all. how do you look at kamala's promise to stay the course, and donald trumps promise to send even more aid, and not understand it is possible to send more. there is not a ceiling to more. our military industrial complexeis very capable of delivering more.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I don't either, but more than one person told me that. I even heard it after she lost.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

absolutely. i even ran into someone who thought that in meatspace and it's like… how do you fall for this obvious bullshit so easy?

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[-] The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

This is from June 2020.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is planning to effectively annex parts of the occupied West Bank in what would be a major - and highly controversial - act.

This is from July 2023.

Israel Is Officially Annexing the West Bank

A quiet bureaucratic maneuver by Netanyahu’s government has begun transferring control over the occupied territory from military to civilian leadership—violating international law.

Here's an entire wiki page about all they've been doing in the West Bank since 1967.

This is nothing new, it's just a next step that would have been taken regardless.

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[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago

"Revive" suggests that this goal was ever dead. Israel has been progressively seizing Palestinian land in the West Bank for half a century.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

they're communicating something about their timeframe… they're announcing they're about to accelerate again…

[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Accelerationists are begining to see seeing acceleration...

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[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

The “I did this” sticker is getting pretty wide what with Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, Xi, and the American voter all on it.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 3 weeks ago

Seems like the point, no? Diffuse the responsibility such that the worst atrocities are "everyone's fault".

Kinda reminds me of climate change inaction

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

Revive? When was it dead exactly? They seemed to be going Full Tilt for the last couple years. Nothing was stopping them.

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[-] The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net 26 points 3 weeks ago

This is from June 2020.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is planning to effectively annex parts of the occupied West Bank in what would be a major - and highly controversial - act.

This is from July 2023.

Israel Is Officially Annexing the West Bank

A quiet bureaucratic maneuver by Netanyahu’s government has begun transferring control over the occupied territory from military to civilian leadership—violating international law.

Here's an entire wiki page about all they've been doing in the West Bank since 1967.

If you think this is new and is only happening because of Trump, you haven't been paying attention and are falling for propaganda.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

Israeli settlers never killed the idea.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 weeks ago

Cool, so we can finally dispose the myth of Israel being a democracy, get over chasing the chimera of a two state solution, and crystallize the struggle to the simple, unambiguous goal of ending Jewish supremacy and the apartheid and establishing a democratic republic with equality and rights for everyone from the river to the sea. Cool.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

Yes I'm sure the 4 settlers Biden sanctioned for 3 weeks, definitely threw a wrench into Israel's plan of overtaking the west bank.

It'll totally be because Trump takes office and not because settlers didn't just get 14 months of free land grabbing with zero repercussions on top of their yearly land stealing antics ever since Israel's inception.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They were calling for annexation of the west bank a month ago, gaza violence never stopped, and they are doing the same now in Lebanon. Are we now pretending that Biden was holding them back? He clearly wasnt.

[-] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 weeks ago

He even came out to stop Bernie’s proposal to stop arms shipments to Israel, and called the ICC arrest warrant of Netanyahu and Gallant “outrageous” just to drive home the point.

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[-] BruceAlrighty@lemmy.nz 7 points 3 weeks ago

Settlement activity has surged to record levels under Prime Minister Netanyahu, with nearly 6,000 acres designated as state land in 2024 and dozens of new outposts established.

Okay, but this was all done under Biden not Trump?

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