Late on Tuesday, Smotrich announced the approval of a new settlement called Mishmar Yehuda, in Gush Etzion, a cluster of Jewish settlements located south of Jerusalem, and said work would continue on authorizing further settlements, Reuters reported.
"We will continue the momentum of settlement throughout the country," he said in a statement.
The move comes just days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington considered Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be inconsistent with international law, reverting to a longstanding US position that was overturned by the administration of former President Donald Trump.
https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/4882336-israel-presses-settlement-plans
xiden is an antisemite
trump stands for jews

Phatbob said:

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Imagine thinking you have the authority to say whether or not another country can start a town within its own borders.

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Well, it's a Democrat politician. I can't decided whether they're all narcissistic sociopaths or sociopathic narcissists.

Phatbob said:

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Imagine thinking you have the authority to say whether or not another country can start a town within its own borders.

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The West Bank is not within Israel's borders.

Slicer97 said:

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Phatbob said:

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Imagine thinking you have the authority to say whether or not another country can start a town within its own borders.

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Well, it's a Democrat politician. I can't decided whether they're all narcissistic sociopaths or sociopathic narcissists.

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How bout both!

So nice to see a serious country for a change. Go Isreal!

is international law antisemitic?

The Kraken said:

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Phatbob said:

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Imagine thinking you have the authority to say whether or not another country can start a town within its own borders.

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The West Bank is not within Israel's borders.

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Well, maybe not officially. Yet.

Ag87H2O said:

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I am glad to see Israel asserting itself in the West Bank and giving the middle finger to Biden.

The U.S. or any other country does not have the right to tell another country where it is and isn't ok to locate cities within its own borders.

Hamas opened up Pandora's Box. Thankfully Israel remembers how to fight a real war and isn't going to back down.

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Hamas does not operate in the West Bank. Saying these settlements are retaliation against Hamas makes no sense.

Also, the West Bank is not Israeli land. Ergo, these settlements are illegal.

The West Bank is part of Israel. Israel has allowed the territory to be run by the Palestinian authority. They can take away that authority whenever they want

Judea is much of the West Bank. Long the homeland of the Hebrews.

It is certainly Israel.

Gaw617 said:

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The West Bank is part of Israel.

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Umm...no. Not the current borders of the Israeli state.

The Kraken said:

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Gaw617 said:

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The West Bank is part of Israel.

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Umm...no. Not the current borders of the Israeli state.

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Brother do I have news for you!

Gaw617 said:

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The West Bank is part of Israel. Israel has allowed the territory to be run by the Palestinian authority. They can take away that authority whenever they want

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I believe you are correct.
Israel's borders explained in maps
quote from the article

• One of Israel's land borders was formalised for the first time in 1979, when Egypt became the first Arab country to recognise the Jewish state. Under the treaty, Israel's border with Egypt was set and Israel withdrew all its forces and settlers from the Sinai, a process which was completed in 1982.
  That left Israel in occupation of the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, with its frontiers (excluding that of Egypt) still delineated by the 1949 armistice lines.
  In 1994, Jordan became the second Arab state to recognise Israel, formalising its long border with the Jewish state in the process. While there has not yet been a peace treaty between Israel and Lebanon, the two countries' 1949 armistice line serves as Israel's de facto northern border, while Israel's border with Syria remains unsettled.
  Similarly, Israel has had a de facto border with Gaza since it pulled its troops and settlers out in 2005, but Gaza and the West Bank are considered a single occupied entity by the UN, and the official borders have not yet been determined.
  The final status and contours of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are meant to be decided in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians living there under Israeli occupation, but decades of on-off talks have so far proved fruitless.

Tom Kazansky 2012 said:

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The Kraken said:

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Gaw617 said:

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The West Bank is part of Israel.

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Umm...no. Not the current borders of the Israeli state.

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Brother do I have news for you!

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What is this news?

DarkBrandon01 said:

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is international law antisemitic?

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If by "international law", you mean the UN and ICC, then yes.

Palestine needs to face the same fate as Germans east of the Oder-Neisse Line. Annexation and mass deportation.