Wed. Mar 12th, 2025

An invitation to pay attention … the path of annexing and displacing the West Bank has started policy


The approval of the Israeli Knesset- with a preliminary reading- has passed a draft law that allows the Israelis to own lands in the West Bank without the approval of the army, without many noticing it or taking its right from discussion and analysis, it was absent amid the many events that accompanied it, coinciding with the third wave of the exchange of prisoners according to The ceasefire deal in Gaza, and with the announcement of the Al -Qassam Brigades, the martyrdom of its general chief of staff, Muhammad Al -Dhaif, and other related events.

Indeed, this project, which awaits the three stages of approval, is considered one of the most dangerous bills that the Israeli government approved today through its settlement arm of the religious Zionism Party led by Finance Minister Smotrich.

This is because the law, if approved, will have great repercussions on the legal status of the West Bank lands in a way that paves the way for the announcement of its entire inclusion, as happened previously with the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and with the east of the city of Jerusalem.

To understand the equation and its dimensions, we should return to the era of Jordanian rule of the West Bank areas before its occupation in 1967. The lands are for non -Jordanians and Arabs, with the aim of protecting the lands of the state, which at that time included the West Bank areas, including eastern Jerusalem.

After the Israeli occupation of these areas in 1967, the military occupation law was applied to the West Bank except for the east of Jerusalem, which Israel declared annexation at that time without a real Arab or Islamic reaction, and the Israeli army became the one that rules the West Bank area as lands that are subject to the military occupation and not part From the State of Israel according to international law, where the world has not recognized any right for Israel in those areas, not even today.

Accordingly, the current status law was applied in the occupied areas, and the work of the aforementioned Jordanian law remained there, and after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994, the work of that Jordanian law kept to prevent the sale of the West Bank lands to the settlers, and Israel did not object to this, given that the Oslo agreement gave the authority Palestinian is the authority of managing the “A” regions and areas “B” in the West Bank, and Israel has not decided anything regarding the “C” regions that fall under its administrative and security authority under the Oslo Agreement, because Israel has always presented itself before the world as a state of law, and that it is it Do not exceed international laws.

Accordingly, and with Israel’s desire to build settlements in the West Bank while preserving its “legal” image in front of the world, she resorted to circumventing Jordanian law at times to announce some lands military areas belonging to the army for security purposes, then the settlements are built as military areas, and sometimes by declaring some Public lands are “state -owned” under the auspices of the Israeli army.

Israel has established a civilian administration of the Israeli army responsible for allowing settlement and ownership of settlement units of institutions and companies registered with this administration, and the construction process in settlements has become proceeding accordingly, stipulating the approval of the Israeli army.

Let us note here that the presence of the Israeli army in the picture has always been an inevitable necessity; Considering these lands as a military occupy and not part of the state’s lands, even if Israel applies civil laws to what is within the settlements, as they deal here with their citizens and not with the lands that remain areas under occupation!

All of these complications came to Israel to continue to show its image in front of global public opinion as being committed to international law, and that it respects the laws of the United Nations in dealing with the military occupied lands.

Here comes the new draft law, as this law eliminates the work of Jordanian Law No. 40 of 1953, that is, it eliminates the prohibition of selling lands in the West Bank directly to the settlers, and cancels the settlers ’need to establish companies or institutions accredited to the Israeli army in order to register those lands and real estate in their names. And it makes the settlers to buy and record any lands they want in the West Bank just as one of them buys a land or a property in Tel Aviv, Haifa or other lands that were occupied in 1948, which the world recognizes as the State of Israel.

Thus, the Israeli occupation army authority has been withdrawn from supervising the West Bank lands, and dealing with them as part of the lands of Israel just like the lands of the 1948 regions.

Here lies the seriousness of this law, it means that Israel is simply no longer packed with international law or its image in front of the world, and this constitutes a shift in Israel’s strategy in dealing with the institutions of the international community, a step added to prior steps taken by the Israeli occupation government during the war on Gaza in This context, such as the cancellation of UNRWA recognition.

Israel has become a “muscular” state, not a state of law, and it no longer cares about any image to the world, which means that it can do whatever it wants without an account of international law after it secured accounting as it seems under the new Trump administration allied with the religious Zionism stream.

This opens the door for the occupation government to exceed all the red lines in and around the Palestinian territories, and the first and most important and most dangerous of these lines in the West Bank is the process of annexing the West Bank to Israel, and trying to apply the idea of ​​a transistor and ethnic cleansing to the inhabitants of the West Bank that was calling for the former Minister of Tourism, Rahbam Zeevi Which was assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a Jerusalem hotel in 2001.

In fact, the first condemnation of the fire of this process will be Jordan, which will find itself in the face of an unprecedented storm that can destabilize its entire stability. This is not far from Trump’s demands for Jordan and Egypt to receive the Gazans after “moving them”, he said (which is the diluted formula from the phrase “ethnic cleansing”) to these two countries.

In fact, the involvement of Jordan in this case, despite the distance of the geographical distance between it and the Gaza Strip, could be understood as a balloon as an introductory test for Jordan to accept the displacement of the Palestinians of the West Bank to it, in an effort to end the entire Palestinian issue, according to Trump’s vision that is completely equal with the vision of the Israeli extremist right, Specifically, the religious Zionism stream, in which he found a trusted ally.

Approving this law can only be understood in the context of liquidating the Palestinian issue. The occupation government withdrew the powers of overseeing the occupied areas in the West Bank from the hands of the Israeli army, a clear indication of an Israeli intention that is no longer hidden to declare the inclusion of the West Bank.

It is obligatory for the Palestinian people first, and the Arab peoples in the countries of the collar second, and the official Arab and Islamic systems, led by Jordan third, to pay attention to the danger of this frantic movement. The actual, and its aspirations and theses are no longer limited to it only, because it is now enjoying the support of a real ally who believes in what this current believes in ideas, which is the mother administrationY.New Rakia.

It is not permissible in any way within the display of the nature of this new administration, nor to deal with the aspirations of the Israeli and American right as just dreams that can be prevented by international law. Republican Lindsay Graham during his visit to Jerusalem last November 27: “The main Rome system does not apply to Israel, the United States, France, Germany or Great Britain, because we did not put it until we target us.”

Thus, simply announce that they are above international law, for nothing but because they “did not put it until they target them,” according to Graham’s words.

Therefore, it is necessary to anticipate the expected annexation process with real, deterrent political measures that go beyond denunciation and rejection to actual fusion with the peoples of the region and a change in the way the Palestinian issue is approached by the entire Arab official institution, it is no longer a secret that the Israeli project does not want to swallow the Palestinian territories, but also sees himself The right to expand at everyone’s expense.

The opinions in the article do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of Al -Jazeera.

(Tagstotranslate) Politics (T) Israel (T) Arabic (T) Palestine


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