Palestine land grab.

IF all goes according to plan, Israel will initiate the latest phase of its colonial land grab of Palestinian territory today by annexing West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley. While international opinion has roundly condemned this blatant illegality, the Israelis have little to fear as they have American support to back them up in this crime. In fact, were it not for Donald Trump's widely panned 'deal of the century' - a euphemism for complete Palestinian surrender and an Israeli declaration of victory that spells the end of the two-state solution - those ruling Tel Aviv may not have attempted such a bold affront to international law. UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet did not mince her words when she said that 'annexation is illegal. Period,' while adding that the move would be 'disastrous for the Palestinians'.

Ever since the Nakba - the great Palestinian catastrophe, dislocation and mass exodus that accompanied the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 - Zionists have been gnawing away at Arab land. This expropriation gained considerable speed after the humiliating...