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Which are the illegal settlements throughout the West Bank. Unless those are dismantled, there won’t be a Palestinian state, that is actually secure, geographically contiguous and allowed to realistically function. It will continue to be a weird Swiss cheese apartheid state.

I never liked using the term, but when i compared the maps to apartheid South Africa the parallels were shocking. The checkpoints, the constant harassment, the restrictions on movement, the surveillance. And this is not even getting into Gaza, which is just a decimated wasteland now.

In the past the US (well several democratic administrations) at least acted like they cared about the settlements. Maybe dangle a few carrots and strings here and there. Now we have an ambassador that simply refers to it in biblical terms,
Judea and Samaria, just like the Israeli right.