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Annexation That Hides in Plain Sight
West Bank settlement Har Homa, viewed from Herodian ruins. Har Homa (Jabal Abu Ghneim) is an Israeli settlement neighborhood built on occupied West Bank land between East Jerusalem and Bethlehem, established in the late 1990s despite international opposition. Its location on the southern edge of Jerusalem made it strategically central to expanding Israeli control deeper into the West Bank. “Har Homa” by Alan Kotok, CC BY 2.0

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Annexation That Hides in Plain Sight

Israel is not annexing the West Bank in a ceremony. It is annexing it in permits, bypass roads, settlement expansion and legal reclassification. The process is deliberate, incremental and designed to be complete before anyone formally objects. The annexation hides in plain sight.

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