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@EpshtainItay
May 8, 2023 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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BREAKING: #Israel's 2023 (top up)-2024 "special budget allocation" (beyond the regular state budget): 75 million ILS (20 million USD) to forcibly transfer #Palestinians from Area C of the West Bank (e.g., by destroying humanitarian aid), and 404 million ILS (111 million USD)… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Furthering the annexation of occupied #Palestinian territory on February 23' with the transfer of powers to Israel's civil government, the allocations are to the Ministry of National Missions, headed by Orit Strook (Religion Zionism - Jewish Power). Image
In practice, #Israeli settlers - through regional and local councils - will be tasked and equipped to "search and destroy" #Palestinian property and humanitarian assistance they accepted. Image
To fully understand how the current #Israeli government weaponizes settlement councils to forcibly transfer #Palestinians from Area C () we must go back to their inception, beginning with the 1970 Allon Plan, outlining parts of the West Bank to be annexed… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
In 1978, Matityahu Drobless gave the settlement cluster approach effect in his plan, which to this day serves as the "master plan" for the establishment - in breach of peremptory norms of international law - settlements, settlements outpost, and satellite neighborhoods, within a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
42 years later, in July 2020, the Israeli military commander addressed the Israeli parliament and reflected on the priorities for the destruction of Palestinian property and humanitarian aid provided to them in Area C, and their eventual forcible transfer following the Drobless… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
The 6 settlement regional councils, whose representatives are seen here in a recent picture with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Minister of Justice Levin, have extended their powers beyond Area C to control the entirety of the West Bank including those areas allocated to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImage
Their political vision goes well beyond the proliferation of settlements, toward the annexation in full of the West Bank to Israel. Image
And it does not stop there, the "area separated and closed to Jewish settlement" - which today forms Jordan - is within sight of future acquisition. Image

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Nov 18
What should the UN Security Council #UNSC do to ensure human security and peace in #Palestine before the Trump inauguration, mid-January? A short thread about how the agenda can be shaped for the next four years: Image
1/6 The International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ called on the Security Council to "consider what further action is required to put an end to the illegal presence of Israel, taking into account the present Advisory Opinion." Image
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2/6 Article 29 of the UN Charter provides that the Security Council may establish such subsidiary organs as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions, complemented by Rule 28 of the Provisional Rules of Procedure which allows the Security Council to appoint a commission or committee or a rapporteur for a specified question.
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Nov 4
BREAKING: Member of #Israel's parliament Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism, with Smotrich as party leader) tables a draft bill to formalize (circa) 140 settlement outposts across the unlawfully occupied West Bank. A thread: Image
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1/4 The draft bill, tabled this morning, calls for the formalization of settlement outposts - at the vanguard of settler violence and the corrolary forcible transfer of #Palestinians - within two years, doubling the number of Israeli settlements in the oPt to 280.
2/4 In that two year period, settlement outposts will be accorded the full gamut of municipal services and social infrastructure development that would make them a permanent fixture in occupied Palestinian territory.
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Nov 1
BREAKING: #Israel's government adopts the 25'-26' State Budget, with an upsurge of military spending indicative of a protracted, high-intensity, armed conflict in #Gaza, the West Bank and beyond. A thread: Image
1/3 In 22', Israel allocated 90 billion ILS (24 billion USD) to military and security-related spending, which includes the cost of its belligerent occupation of #Palestinian territory (determined to be unlawful by the @CIJ_ICJ in July 24'). Image
2/3 For the fiscal years 25'-26', Israel has allocated 147 billion ILS (39 billion ILS) per year to military spending, an unprecedented 63 percent increase, with the highest proportion of military spending as part of the state budget in Israel's history. Image
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Oct 3
BREAKING: UK government to complete the decolonization of the Chagos Archipelago and reverse sovereignty to Mauritius. A short thread on how international law, and the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ, in particular, managed the resolution of conflict, and a timely lesson for the decolonization of occupied Palestinian territory.Image
1/3 In February 2019 the #ICJ rendered an Advisory Opinion on the legal consequences of the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, asserting that the UK was under an obligation to bring its presence to an end "as rapidly as possible," and that all States are under an obligation to cooperate in accomplishing that. Similar language was used in the July 2024 Advisory on Israeli practices in occupied Palestinian territory, calling for Israel to end its unlawful presence.Image
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2/3 In May 2019, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 73/95 by a vote of 116 in favour, to 6 against (Australia, Hungary, Israel, Maldives, United Kingdom, United States), with 56 abstentions. The resolution set a timeframe of 6 months for the UK to complete its withdrawal from the Chagos Archipelago. In September 2024 the UNGA adopted Resolution ES-10/24 by a vote of 124 in favor, 14 against, and 43 abstentions. The resolution, giving effect to the July 2024 Advisory Opinion set a timeframe of 12 months for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza.Image
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Sep 27
There is a cynical political calculus behind #Israeli rejection of ceasefire arrangements in #Gaza and #Lebanon. A short thread on how the adoption of Israel's State Budget and #USElection2024 fate these efforts to deescalate: Image
1/5 Israeli constitutional law provides that a State Budget is tabled by 31 October 24', and approved by 31 March 25', or else the government defaults to general elections. Netanyahu and his coalition partners push for a biannual budget to ensure long-term political survival.
2/5 The lynchpins of budget approval are Bezalel Smotirch (Religious Zionism) and Itamar Ben-Gvir (Jewish Power). The budget that they would approve would grant financial support to an open-ended war in Gaza and Lebanon and the colonization of occupied #Palestinian territory. Image
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Sep 12
BREAKING: The Government of #Israel submits to the High Court of Justice that after 11 months of - debilitating and atrocious war in #Gaza - it has not accomplished 'effective control' in any part of Gaza, has not displaced any of Hamas's governmental functions, and is therefore not the occupying power (with commensurate obligations under #IHL).Image
Facts described are either an admission of a colossal military failure that has cost the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the wanton destruction of Gaza, or entirely false. As the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ ruled in July: before October 23' and even more so since, Israel had effective control of Gaza.Image
Israel, according to the ICJ decision, has obligations as the occupant of Gaza commensurate with its effective control. Irrespective of any decision by the Israeli constitutional court, it cannot invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform its obligations under international humanitarian law.Image
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