Lior Amihai, director of Israeli NGO Peace Now: 'The coalition in power wants to annex the territories in the West Bank and establish a racist state based on Jewish supremacy'
Lior Amihai, the director of the Israeli NGO Peace Now, discusses the current government's approach to the West Bank. He highlights a significant shift in policy since Benjamin Netanyahu's sixth government took office in December 2022, particularly regarding annexation efforts. Amihai emphasizes the long-standing nature of Israeli settlement activity and the implications of international law on these actions.
- ▪Lior Amihai is the executive director of Peace Now, which documents Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank.
- ▪Since December 2022, there has been a significant change in the Israeli government's approach to annexing West Bank territories.
- ▪International law prohibits the occupying power from establishing new settlements except for immediate security needs or local population necessities.
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Lior Amihai is executive director of Peace Now, an Israeli non-governmental organization that has been documenting Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank for decades. Regularly attacked by settlers, the organization has tracked both on-the-ground operations and the workings of political and bureaucratic mechanisms. The colonization of the West Bank has been a long-standing policy of the State of Israel. What have been the major changes since the arrival of Benjamin Netanyahu's sixth government in December 2022? There has been a huge change since 2022. This story was slightly less told due to the other dramas that happened in Israel. First, the judicial changes that the government tried to make when it was first formed in December 2022.
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