Brian Reeves, Director of External Relations at Shalom Achshav (Peace Now), APN’s Israeli sister-organization, talks about the new West Bank settlement scandal: a plan to build another settlement near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, which would complete a ring around Bethlehem and severely threaten a two-state solution. Brian also talks about broader trends in settlement activity in 2018 and about what Peace Now’s Settlement Watch Project is focusing on going into 2019.

Links:

• Haaretz’s story on the planned settlement near Bethlehem: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-pushing-to-expand-efrat-settlement-until-it-surrounds-bethlehem-1.6822476
• Peace Now’s chart documenting record settlement activity in 2017-2018: http://peacenow.org.il/en/tenders-for-641-units-published-in-record-year
• APN’s new map app: https://peacenow.org/page.php?name=facts-on-the-ground-the-apn-settlements-map-project#.XDULEFxKiUk
• APN’s resource page on “leaping” annexation: https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=28660#.XDULcFxKiUl