03.09.2014 - 15:56 [ Mondo Weiss ]

‘It’s 120 years that the world has opposed our construction, and we’ll continue to do it’: Naftali Bennett defends Israeli settlement expansion

Finance Minister Yair Lapid warned Tuesday that Israel was eroding its international support, as criticism abroad mounted of its biggest grab of Palestinian land since the 1980s. Lapid complained the security cabinet had not been consulted about Sunday’s announcement of the confiscation of 400 hectares (988 acres) of land in the occupied West Bank to pave the way for further settlement building.