There's no way, and there won't be one, to justify or defend what Israel is doing in the West Bank. Under the cover of the war in Gaza and with the full backing of the IDF, Israel's settlement enterprise, from government officials to the youngest member of the radical, often violent "hilltop youth," has been given free rein. They are driving out Palestinian residents and seizing more and more of their land.
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