Israel’s backdoor annexation of the occupied West Bank
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As Israel approves the largest seizure of Palestinian land in over 30 years, a leaked tape has revealed Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s covert strategy to annex the West Bank. Will the plan succeed?
In this episode:
- Nida Ibrahim (@nida_journo), Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hagit Ofran (@hagitofran), Co-Director, Settlement Watch Project at Peace Now
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili, Marcos Bartolomé, and Ashish Malhotra, with Veronique Eshaya, Duha Mosaad, Manahil Naveed, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this episode. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, the new facts on the ground and the occupied West Bank. |
| 0:15.0 | The land graphs are another way of preventing Palestinians from having a continuous future Palestinian state. |
| 0:25.3 | Between massive land grabs and a secret Israeli plot to hand control to Jewish settlers, |
| 0:30.7 | we look at what's been going on while eyes are on Gaza. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. |
| 0:46.2 | Israel has quietly approved a plan to confiscate large swaths of land in the West Bank. |
| 0:52.3 | It's set to be the largest land grab in the occupied territory |
| 0:55.6 | in more than 30 years. That's according to Peace Now, an Israeli monitoring group. They're a |
| 1:01.7 | watchdog for settlement growth. We are the ones to say that it was so big because we |
| 1:08.7 | collected the information about previous land grabs. |
| 1:13.1 | That's Hagit O'Fran from Peace Now, |
| 1:15.7 | the Israeli monitoring group |
| 1:17.2 | that released a report on land seizures. |
| 1:20.2 | It is called the Declaration on Stateland, |
| 1:22.4 | but it's actually a way for Israel |
| 1:24.5 | to confiscate land and to make it available for settlement. |
| 1:30.1 | And it's a totally different ballgame now. 2020 will mark the peak year for Palestinian land confiscation since the Oslo |
| 1:37.1 | Accords off back in 1993, with Israeli authorities set to confiscate 23.3. 23.7 square kilometers in the Jordan Valley |
| 1:47.1 | and designate it as state land. |
| 1:50.3 | The latest seizure is a long strip of land that stretches from the northern west bank |
| 1:55.2 | to the Jordan Valley in the east, Palestine's food basket. |
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