• tortillaPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, meanwhile, called for immediate punishment for the Palestinian Authority and expanded settlement construction in the Occupied West Bank as a response.

    This is unhinged, wanting to punish the PA for other countries recognizing Palestine.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      They were gonna do that anyway; they’re just seizing upon what Norway/Ireland/Spain did as a fig leaf of an excuse.