It’s good news that Israel is evacuating an illegal (under Israeli law) settlement in Hebron, but as Moran Banai points out commitment to the rule of law requires Israel to act swiftly to dismantle all illegal settlements.
A big part of the issue here, of course, is that many if not all of the “legal” settlements are going to need to go at some point. And nobody on the Palestinian side is going to have any confidence that Israel will ever do that as long as the government continues to not enforce even its own laws against settlement expansion and outpost building.
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