The analysts told Xinhua in separate interviews that building and expanding Israeli settlements at strategic spots in the West Bank and East Jerusalem “would undermine the principle of establishing a geographically contiguous Palestinian state on the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.”
Israel’s settlement operations undermine chances of reaching two-state solution, violate international legitimacy and international law
The United States’ abstention from voting on the UN security council’s anti-settlement resolution is a serious blow to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy of annexation in the West Bank. The bureau of Israel’s prime minister said that “Israel rejects the contemptible, anti-Israel UN resolution and will not subordinate itself to it.” The decision to abstain from voting is the …
