The Minister of Israeli Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, confirmed his desire to accelerate a key project of colonization in the West Bank
Bezalel Smotrich, president of the religious Zionist Party (extreme right) and Israeli Minister of Finance, called on Thursday to accelerate a construction project of 3,400 dwellings in the West Bank and asked Benyamin Netanyahu to annex the Palestinian territory, in response to the announcements of several countries in favor of recognition of the State of Palestine.
This strategic colonization project, called E1, would cut the West Bank in two and definitively prevent the creation of a possible Palestinian State with territorial continuity, according to its detractors. An announcement that had already been made the day before and reported by the local media.
“Those who want to recognize today a Palestinian state will receive a response from us in the field. (…) By concrete facts: houses, neighborhoods, roads and Jewish families who build their lives ”said Bezalel Smotrich. “On this important day, I call the Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, to apply Israeli sovereignty in Judea-Samaria [terme employé par Israël pour désigner la zone C de Cisjordanie]to definitively abandon the idea of a partition of the country and to ensure that by September the European hypocritical leaders have nothing to recognize ”and Lancé M. Smotrich. “If you recognize a Palestinian State in September, our response will be the application of Israeli sovereignty to all parties of Judea-Samaria. So, you will simply have nothing to imagine anymore ”he launched for states ready to recognize Palestine.
Bezalel Smotrich was expressed during an event organized locally, in the colony of Maalé Adoumim, east of Jerusalem, to take stock of the progress of the E1 project, a development of this colony.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority has “Farmly condemned” this project and “Called to international intervention and sanctions to stop their implementation”. “Colonial construction in the E1 zone is a continuation of the occupation plans aimed at destroying any possibility of carrying out the Palestinian State on its territory”denounced the Palestinian authority.
The Israeli anti -colonization NGO Peace now denounced this project on Thursday, calling it as “Fatal for the future of Israel and for any chance of a solution to two states”. According to the NGO, the final agreement of the plan will be discussed next Wednesday by a technical committee depending on the Ministry of Defense and, after all the bureaucratic stages, “Could be set up in a few months with constructions in about a year”.