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In reply to the discussion: Israel settlement bid a 'fatal blow' to peace: Ban [View all]Xolodno
(6,311 posts)...this is only going to make Israel look worse. Abbas played his hand well in the PR battle. This will make the suffering of Palestinians worse...which will again make Israel look bad. And any violence by the Palestinians...which will be even more "justified" due to the increased suffering from Israel will have to be handled differently as Abbas could now go to the ICC.
Sooner or later, the Likud branch will now have to deal with the Palestinian Authority instead of kicking the issue down the road while building settlements. If they do build in the "forbidden zone" and destroy the two state solution...they will eventually be forced to a one state solution. Effectively destroying the "Jewish State" which would be some interesting poetic justice, trying to take all the land for a Jewish State they end up taking all the land and having an Jewish-Islamic state.