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Palestine is being shredded to pieces and the European Union is responding with platitudes.
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s overtly fascist finance minister, is reviving the E-1 project that will ramp up the colonization in the area linking East Jerusalem with the remainder of the West Bank. Smotrich makes no secret that his plan is to bury the prospect of a Palestinian state.
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In January 2024, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, welcomed Dani Dayan, a leading player in the settler movement, to Brussels.Using freedom of information rules, I have finally obtained the request which Israel’s embassy in Brussels sent to von der Leyen when Dayan’s visit was being arranged.
The request – see below – notes that Dayan had been chair of the Yesha Council. While the Israeli embassy did not spell out what that organization does, a quick internet search by von der Leyen’s staff would suffice to establish that the Yesha Council is an umbrella group for Israel’s main settlements in the West Bank.
In that job, Dayan argued that it was a “very important Israeli interest to develop E-1.”
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