LEGALIZING LAND THEFT WILL NEVER CREATE PEACE - 12.15.2025

The Israeli Security Cabinet’s decision to formally recognize 19 settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank is not a step toward security or stability—it is a deliberate escalation of injustice. These outposts, long considered illegal even under Israeli law, were built on seized Palestinian land through force, intimidation, and displacement. Granting them official status does not change that truth; it only attempts to normalize it.

This move further shatters any remaining credibility of claims that Israel seeks a just or negotiated peace. By expanding and legalizing settlements, the government is entrenching occupation, fragmenting Palestinian communities, and making a viable Palestinian state increasingly impossible. No amount of bureaucratic approval can erase the daily reality of land confiscation, restricted movement, home demolitions, and settler violence faced by Palestinians.

Security built on dispossession is not security—it is domination. History has shown again and again that peace cannot be achieved through unilateral acts that violate international law and deny an entire people their rights and dignity. Recognizing illegal outposts rewards lawlessness and deepens resentment, ensuring more instability, not less.
If peace is truly the goal, the path forward lies in ending occupation, halting settlement expansion, and upholding equal rights under international law—not in legalizing injustice.