{"id":66186,"date":"2026-02-12T14:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/the-guardian-view-on-israel-and-the-west-bank-the-other-relentless-assault-upon-palestinians-editorial\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:58:23","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-israel-and-the-west-bank-the-other-relentless-assault-upon-palestinians-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/the-guardian-view-on-israel-and-the-west-bank-the-other-relentless-assault-upon-palestinians-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank: the other relentless assault upon Palestinians | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A campaign of ethnic cleansing and \u2018tectonic\u2019 new legal measures are killing the two-state solution to which other governments pay lip service<\/p>\n<p>Protecting archaeological sites. Preventing water theft. The streamlining of land purchases. If anyone doubted the real purpose of the motley collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/10\/israel-west-bank-plans-global-backlash\">new administrative and enforcement measures for the illegally occupied West Bank<\/a>, Israel\u2019s defence minister spelt it out: \u201cWe will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state,\u201d Israel Katz said in a joint statement with the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.<\/p>\n<p>While the world\u2019s attention was fixed upon the annihilation in Gaza, settlers in the West Bank intensified their campaign of ethnic cleansing. More than 1,000 Palestinians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ohchr-press-release-17oct25\/\">have been killed there<\/a> since October 2023; a fifth of them were children. Many more have been driven from their homes by relentless harassment and the destruction of infrastructure, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/Z46G6DRAhqE\">entire Palestinian communities erased<\/a> across vast swathes of land.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/12\/the-guardian-view-on-israel-and-the-west-bank-the-other-relentless-assault-upon-palestinians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A campaign of ethnic cleansing and \u2018tectonic\u2019 new legal measures are killing the two-state solution to which other governments pay lip service Protecting archaeological sites. Preventing water theft. The streamlining of land purchases. If anyone doubted the real purpose of the motley collection of new administrative and enforcement measures for the illegally occupied West Bank, &#8230; <a title=\"The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank: the other relentless assault upon Palestinians | Editorial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/the-guardian-view-on-israel-and-the-west-bank-the-other-relentless-assault-upon-palestinians-editorial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank: the other relentless assault upon Palestinians | Editorial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}