Published on Nov 1, 2016 by Activist-News
Israeli officials plan to annexx the West Bank, after being ordered to leave their illegal outpost in the West Bank by the UN. In September of this year Mahmoud Abbas (President of the state of Palestine) insisted that Palestine would renew its plan to pass a UN Security Council resolution declaring Jewish “settlements” illegal, despite Israeli condemnation and threats. Palestinian leaders have initiated several unilateral resolutions at the UN Security Council over the years, with little success. Zionists and right wing Israeli officials have responded to this by rallying up supporters at demonstrations, calling for the complete annexation of the west bank.
As debates in the Security Council continue, Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett demanded that Israelis get ready to annex proposed settlement areas, if the UN Security Council votes on any resolutions on the matter. Despite this being completely illegal, the Minister is not alone on this view, many proposals are currently under consideration by Israeli officials.
“There is a discussion that in the coming months the UN Security Council will force a resolution on Israel. If that happens, we need to have an appropriate Zionist response, immediate sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, including Maaleh Adumim, Gush Etzion, Ariel, Ofra and Beit El,” (Naftali Bennett)
“The UNSC council [sic] resolution should be a trigger to put this plan into action,” said Bennet. “Gentlemen, it is time to extend our sovereignty in the land of Israel. “There are those who talk and those who act. We’re on the side of those who act… Why do I say this? The entire story of settling [the land] and Zionism is a story of a great vision and the determination to see that vision through,” the minister said.
Right-wing Israeli politicians plan to produce a new bill to annex the third largest West Bank settlement, Ma’aleh Adumim, home to around 38,000 people, despite the UN ordering Israel to abandon its military post in the West Bank. Israeli State Attorney’s Office asked the UN for a delay of seven months from the Dec. 25 deadline ordered by the Supreme Court to evacuate Amona, saying it could not arrange alternative housing for the residents before the target date. The Amona outpost was built on private Palestinian land. Since 1997, the Supreme Court has issued several demolition orders for the settlement, all of which have been ignored by Israel. The crimes committed by Israel usually don’t get reported on by the mainstream media, in fact Palestinian journalists have recently revealed that the number of Palestinian homes demolished by Israeli authorities, in the largest division of the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the current year, stands at more than 700. Israeli officials who call for the annexation of these West Bank settlements are showing no regard for international law and are promoting more war crimes, by attempting to justify their inability to agree to any state solution other than the greater state of Israel, as proposed by many political Zionists.