Israel in Massive Push to Annex Huge Parts of the West Bank

Andrew Anglin February 13, 2025

On some level, just saying that the West Bank is a part of Israel would be more honest.

Trump clearly made a deal to do that. It’s the only way he got elected.

I feel like there isn’t really much reason to comment on current events, given that I already spent nearly a year explaining the entire Trump administration before it happened.

That’s why I’m quitting.

The Guardian:

Israeli settlers are pushing ahead with a largely unnoticed de facto annexation of large areas of rural land in the occupied West Bank that has already seen the almost total displacement of Bedouin in large areas.

While settler activity, including violence, has long been well-documented in the section of the West Bank designated by the 1993 Oslo accords as under Israeli security and administrative control – the so-called Area C of the occupied territory, including the south Hebron Hills – settlers have switched their focus to mostly rural Area B, which was designated to be under Palestinian civil control initially.

All three of the Oslo areas – Area A being the major Palestinian cities – were intended under the accords to be transferred to a future Palestinian state.

They don’t really have to get all of those people out of the cities in order to declare the West Bank a part of Israel. Inside of Israel’s internationally recognized borders, the 1967 borders, nearly a quarter are Palestinians (some of them have Israeli citizenship, some are stateless).

At a time when the US president, Donald Trump, has talked about the relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, effectively endorsing its ethnic cleansing, a process of displacement is already advancing in Area B as West Bank Palestinians come under pressure from settlers and their far-right political backers in Israel.

In one section of Area B in the arid desert hills between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea near the Israeli settlement of Tko’a all evidence of Bedouin who once lived there appears to have been erased, while in a second area those that remain are being harassed by settler violence.

In a landscape of deep wadis and dusty limestone escarpments, Bedouin shepherds until recently grazed flocks on the low-lying plants that appear in the winter months, or on seasonally cultivated forage crops in the flat valley bottoms.

Valleys that once sustained groups of Bedouin up to a few hundred are now occupied by ramshackle illegal outposts, sometimes a single house or hut, sometimes a couple of buildings, visible radiating out from Tko’a through the hills and connected to the main settlement by snaking water pipes.

People have always expanded this way, before the birth of the nation-state (which has positives and negatives, to be sure).

The difference is, people would usually marry each other, and the stronger culture would win out over time.

Cisterns used by the Bedouin for generations are now under settler control, while new settler cultivation, largely of olive trees fed by the water pipes, is replacing grazing for sheep.

According to Yoni Mizrachi, a researcher for the settlement monitoring group Peace Now, much of the emptying of this area near Tko’a took place in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, an event that supercharged settler activity on the West Bank.

With it has gone a unique culture in the hills, which until only a handful of years ago seemed inseparable from the landscape.

“You can see how empty it is except for a few outposts,” Mizrachi said, adding that while these illegal outposts framed their activity as “farming” these shacks in reality represented an effort to take control of large rural areas that had succeeded even in the absence of the Israeli military.

“In 2024 I counted 59 new illegal outposts,” said Mizrachi, referring to all of the West Bank. “It was a record year. A new one every week. Before, you might see between zero and 10 to a dozen in an average year.”

It is an effort that has been supported by the building of new illegal roads which, in the area east of Tko’a, have been bulldozed into the hills. “The Bedouin here are the weakest and most vulnerable of the Palestinian communities and they are being displaced as communities and made homeless,” Mizrachi said.

This total annexation thing is going to be a bigger project than Trump thinks.

We’re getting some serious Iraq war vibes.

Remember the Iraq war, guys?

This is going to suffocate any attempts at trying to start a war with the Chinese.

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