{"id":8133,"date":"2025-11-01T17:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/?p=8133"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:16:56","slug":"burying-the-idea-of-a-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2025\/11\/01\/burying-the-idea-of-a-palestinian-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Burying the Idea of a Palestinian State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/11\/01\/erdogans-move-toward-an-islamic-caliphate\/eye-on-the-middle-east-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7281\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Israeli government recently announced plans to implement a long-delayed building project that would split the West Bank into north and south and \u201cbury the idea of a Palestinian state.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Burying the Idea of a Palestinian State<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/israelmyglory.org\/article\/burying-the-idea-of-a-palestinian-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel My Glory<\/a> | November 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/published-works\/img-novdec2025\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8192\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8192\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img-novdec2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Israeli government recently announced plans to implement a long-delayed building project that would split the West Bank into north and south and \u201cbury the idea of a Palestinian state.\u201d Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the move constitutes a response to the growing number of Western countries declaring that they intend to recognize a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called E1 project between Jerusalem and Ma\u2019ale Adumim, a Jewish suburb located seven kilometers (four miles) east of Israel\u2019s capital, envisions the construction of more than 3,000 housing units that will connect the two municipalities from east to west. The project has been frozen for decades due to opposition from Western leaders who fear the new neighborhood would horizontally bisect the West Bank and preclude the establishment of a territorially contiguous Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/israelmyglory.org\/article\/burying-the-idea-of-a-palestinian-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli government recently announced plans to implement a long-delayed building project that would split the West Bank into north and south and \u201cbury the idea of a Palestinian state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,233],"tags":[129,52,234,65,177],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-middle-east","tag-european-union-2","tag-france","tag-friends-of-israel","tag-israel","tag-spain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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