Israel continues to extend in the diminished Palestinian lands

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, promised that if he wins the next election, he will annex 1/3 of the nominally Palestinian lands of the West Bank. This promise is likely to be effective.

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian National Authority, who has very partial control over the Cisjordania territory (West Bank of the Jordan River), announces that if this happens, this will be the end of the peace agreements with Israel. These agreements, to which the ANP joined due to its extreme political weakness, gave the Palestinians very little control over their lives and territories that were suppressed whenever Israel felt like it.

In the face of this outrage, of course, neither Abbas nor the Palestinian National Authority can do much. Its political force is practically nexistent.

Israel makes the political decisions it wants, even if they violate all the agreements (1). For this, it has the economic and military support of the US and the complicit indifference of European countries and a large part of Arab governments (eg Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Egypt, etc.).

One wonders: when is Israel going to stop advancing on the Palestinian territories? When will it stop moving on the West Bank?

Of the original Palestine (26,600 km2) only 5,655 km2 remain under partial control of the Palestinian Nal Authority, which corresponds to what is usually referred the West Bank or Cisjordania.

Today Cisjordania is divided into 3: sector A (18%) is under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, sector B (22% of the territory) under civilian control of the PNA, but under military control of Israel; and sector C (60% of the territory) is totally controlled by Israel.

To the above it is added that in the territory of the West Bank a policy of “colonization” was made effective by which there are already almost 600,000 “settlers” established in many Jewish enclaves throughout this supposedly Palestinian territory.

On the other hand, the routes that cross the West Bank communicate the Jewish "colonies" with each other but are barriers that hinder or impede the transit of Palestinians between their own villages. These routes are tightly controlled by the Israeli army.

The economic situation of the Palestinians in the West Bank is desperate, they suffer daily checks to go to study or work (when they have work). Most of those who work in Israeli areas are economically and laborally discriminated against.

The territorial and demographic situation

3,400,000 inhabitants live in the 5,655 km2 area of the West Bank. Netanyahu proposes to annex to Israel another 1,900 km2, with which only 3,700 km2 would remain (theoretically) under Palestinian control.

Adding the Palestinians of Gaza, Palestinians citizens of Israel and Palestinians of the West Bank there are 7 million Palestinians in territory occupied and / or controlled by Israel.

Today, Palestine is the largest concentration camp in history. An apartheid much more durable and effective than there was in South Africa. This happens with the support of the greatest military power in the world (USA), the indifference of the European powers and the complicity of several Arab countries.

It is paradoxical that with the dramatic experience that Jews had in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, the Israelis are doing the same with the Palestinian people who were previously the original occupants of the territory.

(1) Not all Jewish communities in the world agree with Israel's policies but for now their effective influence on the decisions of the Israeli government is minimal.