{"id":14242,"date":"2013-01-16T13:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T10:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?p=14242&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2017-04-18T22:55:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T19:55:05","slug":"settlements-and-the-netanyahu-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/settlements-and-the-netanyahu-government","title":{"rendered":"Settlements and the Netanyahu Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A Deliberate Policy of Undermining the Two State Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The current government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, took office on March 31, 2009.\u00a0 In the period since, its policies and actions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem disclose a clear intention to use settlements to systematically undermine and render impossible a realistic, viable two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These policies and actions include:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\">Construction, tenders, approval of future construction, and planning for future construction in settlements located deep inside the West Bank, east of the approved route of Israel\u2019s separation barrier;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\">A record level of tenders, approval of future construction, and planning for future construction in settlements in East Jerusalem;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\">Construction, tenders, approval of future construction, and planning for future construction in settlements in both the West Bank and East Jerusalem whose location renders their expansion especially problematic if not devastating to a future peace agreement;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\">Adopting a formal policy that favors \u201clegalizing\u201d illegal settlement construction \u2013 leading both to additional illegal construction and new illegal outposts, and to the establishment of new settlements for the first time in decades.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\">Preferential funding for settlers and settlements, including funding projects intended to build support among Israelis for keeping settlements \u2013 including settlements deep inside the West Bank \u2013 as a permanent part of Israel.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For the full report and data <a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/summary-of-4-years-of-netanyahu-government.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/settlementwatcheastjerusalem.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/construction_map_netanyahu_gov.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14246\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/constructionmapnetanyahu.jpg\" alt=\"constructionmapnetanyahu\" width=\"2953\" height=\"4134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/constructionmapnetanyahu.jpg 2953w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/constructionmapnetanyahu-115x161.jpg 115w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/constructionmapnetanyahu-330x462.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2953px) 100vw, 2953px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Deliberate Policy of Undermining the Two State Solution The current government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, took office on March 31, 2009.\u00a0 In the period since, its policies and actions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem disclose a clear intention to use settlements to systematically undermine and render impossible a realistic, viable two-state solution&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/settlements-and-the-netanyahu-government\" title=\"Read Settlements and the Netanyahu Government\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2511,16],"tags":[1323,2523,1353],"class_list":["post-14242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports-en","category-settlement-watch","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-construction","tag-israeli-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28477,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions\/28477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}