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Of the 598 claims in Politics with evidence either way, 85% held up.
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West Bank is undergoing transformation Gaza Strip future is in limbo
Israeli settlement would reduce link between two halves of West Bank to roads bridges land corridor
Construction in E1 will end any near-term prospect of formal diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia and other countries in region and increase Israel’s international isolation coming as Israeli government plans to expand its military occupation of Gaza
He has described each new settlement and housing unit as a nail in the coffin of that dangerous idea
E1 is a very minor detail hardly worth looking at Zakaria al-Qaq said
Significance of E1 appears to have shrunk
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin included E1 within jurisdiction of Maale Adumim in 1994
Prime ministers tried to advance construction plans but bowed to American objections
Only building there is Israeli police station
Netanyahu went to E1 to kick off campaign to regain leadership of Likud party
Netanyahu delivered landmark speech endorsing two-state solution in 2009
Israel has fought wars with Iran Hezbollah in Lebanon Syria
Netanyahu is on mission to re-engineer and redesign geography demography history ideology of entire region
Building would take months to start Shaul Arieli said
Approval came ahead of elections scheduled for next year
Support for a two-state solution dwindled among Israeli public after spate of deadly Palestinian suicide bombings in early 2000s and even more so since Oct 7 attack
Even left-leaning Israeli politicians avoid mentioning old land-for-peace formula speaking only of leaving open a pathway for a future separation from Palestinians
Establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel is widely viewed as only practical possible solution to century-old conflict and foreign and domestic peace builders have long held that building in E1 would complicate prospects of a viable contiguous Palestinian heartland
Netanyahu also appears to have given up on his vision of forging relations with an outer circle of moderate Arab states which he used to argue would help squeeze Palestinians into territorial compromise
He is etching contours of indefinite dominance over lands Israel conquered in Arab-Israeli war of 1967 including West Bank Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem dismantling scaffolding of a future Palestinian state
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