Can you look at this map and say Israel does not systemically appropriate land?

I've written this before,

a democracy doesn't have armed guards on the roads to restrict any culture, religion or race to have a different colored license plate

to restrict the use of all roads in the country like Israel.

In the West Bank, Palestinians and Israelis use different colored license plates. Palestinian vehicles have green or white plates; Israeli vehicles have yellow plates.

InfraBlue wrote:

It's unfortunate that it takes violence to achieve these concessions.

It doesn't take violence.

The Palestinians would achieve far far more by going to the negotiation table and peacefully accepting Israel's existence as a Jewish state.

Violence is what it took, and has taken, to achieve these concessions.

The issue of the negotiating table is the larger problem. The Zionists expect the Palestinians to surrender their rights in order to indulge the Zionists' ethnocentrically prejudiced ends. It's not going to happen.

The situation is untenable.

The Zionists' oppressive bigotry will be the ruin of everyone involved.

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie has said Madonna will “do anything for money”, over her decision to perform during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.

Speaking to Newsnight ahead of the release of a new greatest hits album, the rock band's lead singer called Madonna a “total prostitute” adding, “Primal Scream would never perform in Israel".

“I think the whole thing is set up to normalise the State of Israel and its disgraceful treatment of the Palestinian people. By going to perform in Israel I think what you do is you normalise that," he said.

Facebook has removed hundreds of social media accounts and banned an Israeli firm due to "co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour" mainly targeting Africa.

The fake accounts often posted on political news, including on elections in various countries, the firm said.

Facebook has faced rising criticism for failing to stamp out misinformation on its platform.

It launched a fact-checking programme in 2016 shortly after Donald Trump became US president.

In a blog post, Facebook said it had removed 265 social media accounts that originated in Israel and focused on Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia, along with "some activity" in Latin America and South East Asia.

"The people behind this network used fake accounts to run pages, disseminate their content and artificially increase engagement.

"They also represented themselves as locals, including local news organisations, and published allegedly leaked information about politicians," Nathaniel Gleicher, head of cybersecurity policy at Facebook, wrote in the post.

An investigation found that some of the activity was linked to Israeli company Archimedes Group, Mr Gleicher said.

"This organisation and all its subsidiaries are now banned from Facebook, and it has been issued a cease and desist letter," he said.

Lapid warns of “Civil War” as Netanyahu Accuses Courts of Conspiracy and Pledges to Steal 1/3 of Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s i24 reports that Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed his Likud Party on Monday and said that he will move forward with the annexation of one third of the Palestinian West Bank in July “with wisdom” and with the “unity of all forces.”

On Sunday, the Israeli courts began their trial of Netanyahu for corruption, bribery and influence-peddling. Before the proceedings, the prime minister delivered an unhinged rant in which he accused the prosecutor, the police, and the courts of having mounted a conspiracy to get him and remove him from office, thereby thwarting what he called the will of the people. Netanyahu’s far right Likud Part only got about a fourth of the seats in Parliament and even with his electoral allies fell short of a majority.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid responded to Netanyahu’s screed by accusing the prime minister of attempting to undermine the rule of law and to drag Israel into a “civil war.” He said that Netanyahu knew very well that his charges would foment violence [on the part of the Israeli far right], but that he did not care.

Addressing the Likud a day later, Netanyahu said, “There is a historic opportunity that has never existed since 1948. It is a huge opportunity that we must not miss.” Netanyahu was referring to the Trump White House, which could not care less if Netanyahu steals Palestinian land. Previous administrations have at least paid lip service to a two-state solution. Trump’s and Pompeo’s dependence on US evangelicals and on elements of the Israel lobbies, however, makes this administration the most one-sided in history in backing the expansionist dreams of the Israeli far right.

International law, as in the UN Charter, forbids the acquisition of neighbors’ territory by military force. Israel grabbed the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 even though the Palestinian people were not independent and therefore not a belligerent in the Six-Day War. Although the initial occupation was not illegal per se, for Israel to keep the territories for many decades and flood hundreds of thousands of its own citizens into it is highly illegal and contravenes the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on the treatment of populations in Occupied Territories.

Netanyahu also pledged to ready Israel for another global wave of the coronavirus.

He denounced moves at the International Criminal Court in the Hague to consider charges against Israeli officials and military personnel of committing war crimes against the Palestinians. The Rome Statute of 2002 that governs the ICC considers the crime of Apartheid a crime against humanity, and Israel is strengthening its Apartheid (i.e. Jim Crow) regime in the West Bank.

Between permanently applying Israeli sovereignty to much of the Palestinian West Bank and his assault on the entire Israeli legal system, Netanyahu is refashioning Israel as an illiberal semi-dictatorship with a racialist hierarchy.

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nternational law, as in the UN Charter, forbids the acquisition of neighbors’ territory by military force. Israel grabbed the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 even though the Palestinian people were not independent and therefore not a belligerent in the Six-Day War. Although the initial occupation was not illegal per se, for Israel to keep the territories for many decades and flood hundreds of thousands of its own citizens into it is highly illegal and contravenes the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on the treatment of populations in Occupied Territories.

rev is right. you are not.

israel has spent 70 years saying it's my way or the highway, rather than seriously trying t deal with Palestinians on mutually acceptable terms