the zionists reinforce every stereotype about joos i can imagine;

The Israeli government is accelerating facts on the ground to annex the occupied West Bank.

Israel’s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich dubbed 2025 the “year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria” – the pseudo-biblical name Israel uses for the West Bank in order to give its occupation and illegal colonization a veneer of legitimacy.

Coupled with accelerating settler violence that surged by 30 percent compared to the same period last year, the Israeli government has been implementing a series of changes to policy and administration in the West Bank that is fundamentally changing the territory’s character while evading international scrutiny.

This is helping to realize longtime Israeli ambitions to tighten Palestinian bantustans while enhancing continuity between Jewish settlements and present-day Israel.

In the first three months of the year, more Israeli settlement units have been approved than in all of 2024 combined.

Israel’s so-called Higher Planning Council, which manages settlement activity, approved over 14,000 housing units in less than three months, surpassing the nearly 10,000 units approved during all of last year.

This is in part due to the “dramatic” change in policy under the current Israeli government that reinvented the process in favor of accelerating settlement building and expansion, according to settlement watchdog group Peace Now.

This policy direction, as well as “the detailed blueprint for annexing the West Bank was outlined in the coalition agreements signed at the government’s inception,” The Jerusalem Post reported...............more.........