29 April 2024

US Issues Stark Warning to Israel Over 'Reckless' Plan

David Brennan

Advocates of further Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank are again risking U.S. ire, as Israel's multifront war against Hamas and other regional militant groups—plus Iran—continues.

Channel 12 News reported this weekend that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich—the leader of the far-right National Religious Party–Religious Zionism and a longtime advocate of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which are considered illegal under international law—is pushing to legalize 68 outposts in the West Bank that were set up in contravention of Israeli law.

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