Israel approves settlement plan to erase
idea of Palestinian state
Posted By: sunset, 8/20/2025 3:59:45 PM
A widely condemned Israeli settlement plan that would cut across land which the Palestinians seek for a state received final approval on Wednesday, according to a statement from Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. The approval of the E1 project, which would bisect the occupied West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, was announced last week by Smotrich and received final go-ahead from a defence ministry planning commission on Wednesday, he said. Restarting the project could further isolate Israel, which has watched some Western allies announce they may recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
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A widely condemned Israeli settlement plan that would cut across land which the Palestinians seek for a state received final approval on Wednesday, according to a statement from Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. The approval of the E1 project, which would bisect the occupied West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, was announced last week by Smotrich and received final go-ahead from a defence ministry planning commission on Wednesday, he said. Restarting the project could further isolate Israel, which has watched some Western allies announce they may recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
The US has reached bilateral deportation agreements with Honduras and Uganda as part of its crackdown on illegal immigration, according documents obtained by the BBC's US partner CBS. Uganda has agreed to take an unclear number of African and Asian migrants who had claimed asylum on the US-Mexico border, while Honduras will receive several hundred deported people from Spanish-speaking countries, CBS reports.
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What he saw changed his view of faith
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There is no nation of Palestine. Israel, like any other nation, has the right to develop its country as it sees fit. International consortiums with ideas of legislating away another nation's territory can go pound sand.