Decryption – Bezalel Smotrich, the Minister of Finance, gave the green light to the construction of 3,400 dwellings in a highly strategic sector east of Jerusalem.
“This project will bury the idea of a Palestinian state » : Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli Minister of Finance, who has the upper hand on colonization in the West Bank, clearly announced the color. It gave the green light to the construction of 3,400 dwellings in the highly strategic sector nicknamed E1. This project will fracture the West Bank in two, preventing a connection between Ramallah, the current capital of the Palestinian Authority, chaired by Mahmoud Abbas, Jerusalem-Est and Bethlehem in the South. In other words, it will be practically impossible to create a Palestinian state with territorial continuity. Palestinians will not be able to move freely and must be confined to one of the two portions of the West Bank or submit to security checks of the Israeli army to switch from one region to another.
For Bezalel Smotrich, leader of an extreme right party who advocates colonization at all-go in the West Bank, it is a simple prelude to an annexation …