Israel PM-elect Netanyahu's deal plans to bolster settlements

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Israel PM-elect Netanyahu's deal plans to bolster settlements

17 November 2022

By Yolande Knell
BBC News, Jerusalem

A deal between Israel's prime minister-elect and his far-right partner reveals the likely next government's highly controversial plans for settlements.

It includes moves to legalise dozens of outposts in the occupied West Bank.

If the plan becomes policy, it will set Israel on collision course with the Palestinians and its foreign allies.

Jewish settlements are widely seen by the international community as illegal, but Israel disagrees. Outposts though are illegal even under Israeli law.

Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party sent out a statement on Wednesday on what they agreed would go into the coalition agreement, which has yet to be signed.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63660566

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1. What is wrong with Israel

that this corrupt grifter is back in power??!!

[kysrsoze]

2. He's such a fucking asshole. I knew there wasn't going to be any two-state solution...

despite what the prior administration claimed. The hard right parties there are bent on eventually taking all Palestinian land.

Netanyahu should be in prison - it's been three years since he was indicted.