“There will be no Palestinian state,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared last Thursday, attending a ceremony in the heart of the West Bank held at the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim.
Fast forward to the following Tuesday, September 16. Just a few meters away from Maale Adumim’s entrance, Israeli forces installed large metal gates at the entrance of the Palestinian town of al-Aizariyah, just a stone’s throw away from the Israeli settlement. It was a direct result of Netanyahu’s visit last week.
The Israeli PM had come to formally approve the E1 plan, a wide-ranging settlement project that would be built over a strategic tract of land separating the northern half of the West Bank from the south. It would effectively split the West Bank in two. ….more
