Right? I mean who doesn't like being dispossessed?!
Not to mention that in the last decades, Israel has been claiming more and more territory, building settlements in areas that were supposed to be off limits to them, and increasing the pressure they put on Palestinians, making their territory more like an open air prison than anything else. It's disgracecful what they have done and are doing.
Israel has established Jewish neighborhoods in
and in the Israeli-occupied portion of the
, both of which Israel has effectively annexed, and as such Israel does not consider the developments there to be settlements. The international community regards both territories as held under Israeli occupation and the localities established there to be illegal settlements. The
found the settlements to be illegal in its 2004
.
In the West Bank, Israel continues to expand its remaining settlements as well as settling new areas,
despite pressure from the international community to desist.
The transfer by an occupying power of its civilian population into the territory it occupies is a
,
although Israel disputes that this applies to the West Bank.
