The West Bank is home to 2.7 million Palestinians and is considered the cornerstone of any Palestinian state and the center of the conflict in the coming phase. However, many believe that Israel has effectively and clearly annexed the West Bank, and all that remains is for it to officially announce this annexation. With each passing day, new steps and decisions are taken to consolidate the annexation of the West Bank through escalating settler violence and attacks and through new decisions by the Israeli government to build new settlement units. The latest of these decisions was Israel's approval of the establishment of 19 new settlements.
Even at the official level, in a blatant challenge to international law and U.N. resolutions affirming the illegality of settlements, the Israeli Knesset voted in a preliminary reading on a bill to annex the West Bank as well as the Ma'
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