The architecture of deceptions in the West Bank

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : And for the Board of Peace, the message is clear: when negotiated orders can be undone silently, the responsibility to defend the principles that hold peace together becomes shared -- or they erode one regulation at a time.
54% : The new measures go further: they extend Israeli civil enforcement into Areas A and B, including land, water, environmental and archaeological regulation -- areas previously reserved for the Palestinian Authority.
50% : Israel's founding narrative, shaped by displacement and statelessness, once anchored its claim to international legitimacy.
48% : For the Board of Peace -- of which Israel is also a member -- this moment is a reminder that history doesn't always shift through conflict; sometimes it changes quietly, through administrative decisions that reshape the future without ever announcing themselves.
47% : The United Nations Secretary-General warned that the steps would further erode the prospects of a two-state solution.
42% : The public release of West Bank land registries and the removal of barriers on Jewish land purchases across all areas collapses the last remaining legal distinction between sovereign Israel and the occupied territory.
42% : The public release of West Bank land registries and the removal of barriers on Jewish land purchases across all areas collapses the last remaining legal distinction between sovereign Israel and the occupied territory.
40% : By lifting long-standing restrictions on land purchases, dissolving permit systems, extending Israeli civil enforcement into Palestinian-administered areas, and assuming unilateral authority over key religious sites, Israel has not merely revised policy.
29% : The European Union described them as another move "in the wrong direction".

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