After a 30-year wait E1 construction gets the green light
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says plans to build more than 3,000 homes close to Ma'ale Adumim will "bury the idea of a Palestinian state".
The so-called E1 project between Jerusalem and the large West Bank settlement city has been frozen for decades amid fierce opposition internationally. Building there would effectively cut off the West Bank from East Jerusalem and significantly obstruct the possibility of Palestinian territorial contiguity.
Smotrich said it would thwart the idea of a Palestinian state "because there is nothing to recognize and no one to recognize".
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