{"id":74699,"date":"2025-01-11T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/what-does-donald-trumps-presidency-means-for-west-bank-settlements-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T14:43:38","slug":"what-does-donald-trumps-presidency-means-for-west-bank-settlements-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/what-does-donald-trumps-presidency-means-for-west-bank-settlements-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Donald Trump\u2019s presidency means for West Bank settlements? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s re-election as US President this month is seen by many Israeli settlers as an opportunity to press ahead <!--more--> with the annexation of the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli settlements have doubled in the last five years and are now home to more than 500,000 settlers.<\/p>\n<p>The settlements are viewed as illegal by the UN&#8217;s top court and most other countries, but Israel disputes that.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s far-right Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, publicly called for annexing the Israeli settlements in the West Bank following Trump\u2019s election victory in November, but formal annexation has so far remained a dream for settlers.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Israel #Palestine #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s re-election as US President this month is seen by many Israeli settlers as an opportunity to press ahead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}