AsiaNews: Legalizing theft, handing over the nation’s political life to the settlers, permanently shelving the birth of a Palestinian state, ignoring the provisions of international law and the decisions of the same Israeli courts. Contacted by AsiaNews Israeli activists and Palestinian political leaders voice their concern in the aftermath of the Knesset vote [Preliminary] that, in fact, legalizes the seizure of private Palestinian citizens’ lands and puts an end to the two-state solution. And they attack the government of Benjamin Netanyahu which, in order to hold onto stay in power, violates “the rule of law.”
Yesterday, Israel’s parliament gave the preliminary green light to the approval of a law that would legalize thousands of settlements in the West Bank, compared with a compensation for the Palestinians. The norm, which has recently received the green light from a ministerial committee on behalf of the government, shows the power and the influence exercised by the settler lobby in its full extent. Full report is here.
