As the brutal war in Gaza continues, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister, is waging a messianic campaign to make annexation of large portions of the West Bank inevitable through demographic engineering.
Cementing control of Area C of the West Bank and preventing the creation of a Palestinian state is at the heart of Smotrich’s plan. The Biden administration must act decisively to halt this flagrant abuse of international law.
It’s one thing to consider these issues in the abstract. It’s another matter when I wake up one morning to frantic WhatsApp messages from June 26 that the IDF’s bulldozers just demolished several homes, including the home of my friend, Eid Suleiman, and his family. The devastating result is that 38 of his family members now live in the desert with no shelter in the heat of summer.
Eid is an artist and activist who uses his camera as a nonviolent tool to fight the occupation. He has fought valiantly to preserve his village for over two decades. ….more
