Daniel Kurtzer says legalised settlements are ‘a significant violation of a commitment the Israeli government made to the American government’
A former US ambassador to Israel has accused Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government of breaking a written agreement with Washington by legalising a group of hardline nationalist and religious settlements in the West Bank.
“Now you’ve come full circle. Not only are they not dismantling these illegal outposts, but they’re trying to legalise them ex post facto. And there have been many that have been built since that time, so that the number is really quite significant.” “I hope the Biden administration reminds Israel that this is a commitment in writing that the both of us have in our files,” he said.
Shortly before Kurtzer spoke, Netanyahu gave sweeping authority to the leader of the far right Religious Zionist Party, his finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, over governance of the West Bank. Peace groups in Israel condemned the move away from military administration as de jure annexation of occupied territories.
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