Israel’s West Bank settlement expansion has rendered the two-state solution “dead in everything but name,” with more than 730,000 settlers entrenched and 70% of Gaza under Israeli control.
Settlement approvals have nearly doubled under Israel’s current government, with 103 new settlements and more than 300 additional outposts in legalization stages since 2023.
Strategic settlement placement aims to fragment Palestinian land, with seven new settlements located in military firing zones closed to Palestinians.
$6.6 billion in Israeli government funding has fueled infrastructure and housing for settlements, with analysts deeming reversal increasingly unlikely.
U.S. military aid and policy integration continue to support Israel’s expansion, despite Netanyahu’s public criticism of American “welfare.”
Israel’s West Bank settlement expansion since 2023 provides jarring evidence that the “two-state solution” the world’s diplomats keep invoking is dead in everything but name. Writer Norman Solomon of Antiwar.com argues the phrase has become a political placebo that lets American politicians dodge an uncomfortable reality: with 730,000 Israeli settlers now entrenched in the West Bank and Israel’s military controlling roughly 70% of a devastated Gaza, there is no remaining territory for a viable Palestinian state to occupy.
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