The international allies of Israel become stronger in their condemnation of its war against Gaza and its continuous construction of illegal colonies in occupied West Bank.
The United Nations experts, human rights groups and legal researchers have all declared to Tel Aviv Tribune that Israel was carrying out a genocide in Gaza and committed abuses that can constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity in the West Bank.
And yet, less than two weeks after receiving a severe warning from its Western allies, Israel approved 22 illegal colonies in the West Bank, which was described as the greatest seizure of land since Israeli and Palestinian leaders have enined the Oslo peace agreements in 1993.
“Isra-Isra-East entirely to show (the world) which calls for gunshots. They say … you can condemn us whatever you want, but in the end, you bow to us and not on the other hand,” said Diana Buttu, a legal scholar and a political analyst focused on Israel and Palestine.
The Oslo agreements were consumed ostensibly to create a Palestinian state, including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as capital.
However, in practice, Israel continued to extend the illegal colonies and to make the two -state solution impossible, analysts said in Tel Aviv Tribune.
Disturbing diagram
Israel has often announced the construction of new illegal colonies in response to the support of the Palestinian State of the UN or its allies.
In 2012, Israel went so far as to approve 3,000 houses of new settlers in the occupied West Bank after the Palestinian Authority (PA) – the entity created from Oslo agreements to govern the expanses of the West Bank – obtained the status of non -member observer at the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Last year, the Minister of Finance of Israel, Bezalel Smotrich, warned that a new illegal regulation would be built for each country which recognizes a Palestinian state.
The announcement came after Spain, Norway and Ireland crossed the symbolic measure in May 2024.
“I certainly think that there is a model where Israel responds to the pressure concerning its occupation – or anything else – announcing the expansion of the colonists,” said Omar Rahman, an expert focused on Israel and Palestine for the Middle East council for global affairs.
“We see this model repeated over and over again,” he told Tel Aviv Tribune.
As global pressure is up against the War of Israel against Gaza, Israel continued to test the patience of its allies.
On May 21, Israeli troops fired warning fire in a group of European, Asian and Arab diplomats which were on an official mission to assess the humanitarian crisis of the Jenin refugee camp, which was subjected to an attack and a seat of several months by the Israeli army since the beginning of the year.
“I don’t know where the red line is. It is clear that there is no red line,” said Buttu.
Justify inaction
After the Zionist militias has cleaned ethnically cleaned some 750,000 Palestinians to make way for the State of Israel in 1948 – an event called “Nakba” or catastrophe – Israel has increasingly annexed and occupied the little one that remains Palestinian land.
The annexation of the occupied West Bank has accelerated in recent years thanks to far -right settlers who occupy positions in the Israeli government, said Khaled Elgindy, guest researcher at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies of the University of Georgetown.
He believes that Israel still plans to approve the 22 illegal colonies, regardless of the joint declaration published by France, the United Kingdom and Canada, because it integrates into the ultimate objective of the State to widen the Jewish colony of the occupied West Bank.
“No one can really think that if these countries did not present an ad, an annexation (more in-depth) was not going to happen. Of course, this was going to happen,” he told Tel Aviv Tribune.
Rahman, from the Middle East Council, believes that Israel’s tactics to announce the expansion pre-regulating planned in the face of Western pressure simply aims to dissuade its allies from taking concrete measures.
He suspects that Canada, the United Kingdom and France will probably not slap targeted sanctions against Israeli officials, as they have threatened to do, rather using the argument that all movement against Israel will lead to a reaction against the Palestinians.
“(Canada, the United Kingdom and France) can say that they act for the preservation of the two-state solution by doing nothing to save the two-state solution,” Rahman told Tel Aviv Tribune.
Analysts believe that sanctions against Israel would be the only way to save the two -state solution and end the Israel War against Gaza, but accept that complete sanctions against the Israeli State are still unlikely at this stage.
Instead, western countries such as Canada, France and the United Kingdom can target sanctions to the far-right ministers most associated with pro-setttles policies, Smotrich and the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir.
“These men … try to make stuck in everything they can do now because they know that there is no guarantee that they will maintain their positions of power indefinitely,” Elgindy told Tel Aviv Tribune.
Buttu fears that European countries will simply use more symbolic measures such as “recognizing Palestine”, which will have little impact on the ground.
“As everyone begins to recognize Palestine, there will be no land (for the Palestinians),” she told Tel Aviv Tribune.
