Settlement Plan

 Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said would “permanently bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” To the delight of the Israeli settler movement, but horror of Palestinians and settlement watchdogs, Smotrich …

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