BAROUD, Ramzy. Eminent ME writer: Israeli post-UNSC Resolution 2334 settlement law "leaving Palestinians with one option: Equal citizenship in one state or a horrific apartheid"
Dr Ramzy Baroud ( internationally syndicated columnist, a media consultant, founder of PalestineChronicle.com and an author of “ Searching Jenin”, “The Second Palestinian Intifada”, and “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story”) on new Israeli Apartheid laws after UNSC Resolution 2334 (2017): “The so-called "Regulation Bill" will retroactively validate 4,000 illegal structures built on private Palestinian land. In the occupied Palestinian territories, all Jewish settlements are considered illegal under international law, as further indicated in UNSC Resolution 2334. There are also 97 illegal Jewish settlement outposts - a modest estimation - that are now set to be legalised and, naturally, expanded at the expense of Palestine. The price of these settlements has been paid mostly by US taxpayers' money, but also the blood and tears of Palestinians, generation after generation.It is important, though, that we realise that Israel's latest push to legalise illegal outposts and annex large swaths of the West Bank is the norm, not the exception. Indeed, the entire Zionist vision for Israel was achieved based on the illegal appropriation of Palestinian land. Wasn't so-called "Israel proper" - as in land obtained by force from 1948 to 1967 - originally Palestinian land?...