Speaking in the West Bank Thursday, Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, confirmed work on the long-delayed Israeli settlement in Maale Adumim will continue after half a decade. If constructed, the “Mevasseret Adumim” site would divide the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem – a concept Smotrich says “buries the idea of a Palestinian state.”
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Israel revives plan to split West Bank with settlement that ‘buries’ idea of Palestinian state
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